Have you ever tried vigorously shaking an egg before hard-boiling it to see if it comes out hard-scramble-boiled?
It doesn’t work.
When Animals Attack (but of course)
As tiger-trainer Roy Horn continues his recovery, a short clip has been released of the tiger attacking him.
When Coworkers IM
[17:26] sf1: is it sunny?
[17:28] pau: The sun has set.
[17:28] sf1: on your days of youth and care-free living
[17:29] pau: I’m blogging that.
(Names altered to protect innocent virgin buddy lists.)
When the Soviets Attack
Town of Lawrence, after a nuclear war. As it did with Reagan, The Day After left a significant impression on me. I was eight years old, and knew nothing about the Soviet Union, nuclear weapons, or John Lithgow. (Although I recognized him later as the bad guy in Santa Claus: The Movie.) Watching it with my parents, however (with running commentary from my mom about atom bombs, radiation, fallout, and hair falling out) signaled the start of my fascination with things like nuclear explosion photos and hydrogen bombs. With those images in my head, I joined the rest of the world in morbid awareness of just how close we were to utter destruction in the days of the Cold War.
(Aside: So The Day After was directed by Nicholas “Wrath of Khan” Meyer! I did not know that.)
When Atheists Attack
Ex-Atheist. There’s an important message on entering debate or college. (via tertius.)
When Spammers Attack
When Amazon Reviewers Attack
Star Wars – Amazon ratings stars, that is. Why can’t more Amazon reviewers be like Henry Raddick or John Fracisco? (For that last one, scroll down to his review for The Story of Ping.)
(Link via Kottke, who, in the middle of a redesign, will no doubt inspire thousands of other bloggers to start on their own incremental redesigns, following suit in this latest trend of reintegrating all blog content — sidebar blogs, review blogs, photoblogs, metablogs, metametablogs, etc — back into a single column. Heh. Good luck.)
Precioussss
Tolkien, thou shalt roll in thy grave: there is a Middle Earth subway ride in New York. “Next stop, Mount Doom, Mordor. Doors opening on the left. Please watch your fingers.” News is that the promo didn’t work out too well.
T9 Pain
Weather forecast of hail and pain...
That was supposed to be “rain.” This is why I don’t like T9 Predictive Input for my text messaging.
scroll(DC)
If you like Washington, DC, and don’t mind an 800KB download and a few frames and popups, try the Flyby Tour of Downtown DC. In truth it’s really just an isometric pixel-art map in PNG format, scrolled through javascript. If you prefer, you can just view the raw map PNG here. (Found while hunting for a map of Maryland.)
