May 2006 Archives

The Rose Garden is really planning into the future! Their calendar goes up to November 9999. “On June 14 at 4 p.m., we expect an epidemic of unexplained illness to appear in Ukraine,” Prime Minister Yury Yekhanurov said Wednesday. Carb justice! Remember when bread-makers were all sad? Now it's time for meat to worry! A very fun video of an amazing radio-controlled airplane routine. (so many good links are video clips these days!) Friday is National Doughnut Day. Mariah Carey has 16-foot high legs worth $1 billion. Creepy: baby born with three arms. Is Tina Fey leaving SNL? I hope not. Animal Superstars: Where Are They Now? Three Words: Neanderthal Cave Rave Forty-eight million American adults have contributed some form of user-generated content on the Internet. The nerdiest site ever is going to be redesigned with CSS. Apple Launches Free Computer Take-Back Program. Is advertising coming to Flickr? Mark my words, someday I too will live in a shipping container building. Wave Energy Parks Could Be Coming To Oregon. Pretty cool floor. Katamari creator Keita Takahashi on Playgrounds, Haircuts, and Space Aliens. City Commissioner Randy Leonard "found" this tape of an FBI agent recruiting a city staffer. Most intense liveblogging: Shots Fired In D.C. Office Building. A former muffin baker writes about big brother bugging Portland The king of Jamaican music (even before Marley), Desmond Dekker, passes away at 64. $200 buys you 10,000 sheep. The best romance is nerd romance. Fancy-pants New York Times food reviewer Frank Bruni travelled around the country ordering from the drive-thru window. Kids are smarter than old people. An update on Borat (click the picture!). Apple and Nike made running really cool. (In Portland!) Souvenirs are important cultural objects which can store and communicate memories, emotions and desires. An argument for The $6 Gallon Of Gas. California thinks we don't like them. Video of the Trojan cooling tower implosion. Thanks. No. They redesigned the Sun Maid Raisin lady. (login required: shove@it.com/shoveit) Al Gore is getting heat from Big Oil. 70,000 beer cans on the wall... McDonald's is selling off their stake in Chipotle. Joey Chestnut eats 50 (!) hot dogs in Nathan's qualifier in Vegas. American record is broken! There is a unique dialect region in the Pacific Northwest, and Portland may be the center of it. In case you didn't get enough E3 reporting from John and Mike, here is Cabel's E3 Wrap-Up. Benkay gives us a photo tour of the construction of the Aerial Tram! Flickr is out of beta! Now it's in Gamma. David Blaine announces next stunt! Experimental Omaha local news has former MTV VJ as "host" and starts with funny bits. First it was cigarettes, alcohol, fatty foods and sugary sodas... is coffee next? The new MacBooks are here! The new MacBooks are here! Hershey's promotion for Take 5 includes a virtual crane game. The LAPD now has a blog and a flickr stream as encouraged by Sean Bonner. The possible death of crack! Be afraid of the sun, but not the tanning bed. I guess. New HBO documentary about Iraq can trigger anxiety and stress disorders says Army. Beat the heat PDX homies, but it's not river swimming time yet (bottom on this alert)! Olive and Sage Arches? McDonald's tricky makeover. Create your own subliminal self-help CDs. Version 7 out now! Glass bridge over the Grand Canyon. Say What? Why didn't my college have classes about Lil' Kim? The semi brilliant domain name of .xxx is turned down. Grolar (half grizzly - half polar) bear found (er... shot) in Canada. Men, lost at sea for 3 weeks, rescued after txting for help. New book, "Bad Twin", written by a passenger on Oceanic Flight 815 is bashed in newspapers (USA Today, Chicago Tribune) by an ad from the The Hanso Foundation. Dudes! Mother's Day is Sunday. Time to slip something in the mailbox. Who is the right man to lead the CIA at this critical moment in our nation's history? It's the day you've been waiting for! It's the Wall Street Journal Online Open House! The entire electronic edition of the WSJ is free, one day only. The rumors stop here and now!! Brit spills beans about baby 2.0 to Dirty Old Dave. OMG, I heard that Disney and Mickey D's totes broke up. No Photoshop? No problem! Edit pictures online with pixoh. Playstation 3: Officially expensive, $599 or $499. ScanR lets you turn your cameraphone spy pics of top-secret documents into proper-looking .pdf files. Get America back on track! Christopher Walken for President in 2008. More Freakonomics: How to get really good at stuff. Terrifying video of avian bird flu Wal*Mart spreading across the US. Carefully photographed airline spoons. Apple Wins Trademark Case With Beatles Nice looking clothes so nerdy you can never wear them. Little Tip: Self-watering Flower Pots Ed Levine is going to blog the shit out of the James Beard Awards tonight. Josh's photos from the Timbers vs. Whitecaps game. Why Popular Stocks Are a Sucker's Bet. By proclamation of the Governor of Panictown... Rip-Off Express FYI: Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day (Mexico declared its independence from Spain on Sept. 16). Who is in your Top 8? (skip registration) Sorta flashy but very informative, Youthink! but do you know? has the facts on a wide array of world issues. Everyone knows that Apple CEO Steve Jobs wears New Balance. Today we find that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi also appreciates the functional sneaker: Al-Zarqawi is seen walking toward a white pickup truck in "New Balance tennis shoes". "The president can speak Spanish but not that well," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "He's not that good with his Spanish." The invasion of Best Buy. An interview with Godsmack. You need to read this. You will like it. I promise. Orange County, China is a gated community modeled on the posh neighborhood south of Los Angeles of the same name. A pixellated illustration of nerdspace. More David Blaine: How to hold your breath for nine minutes. The LA Times movie column The Focus Group is better than Ebert. I want to work out my lungs. Nerd alert: The original theatrical versions of the Star Wars Trilogy are finally being released on DVD September 12. What, no Blu-Ray? Sketches from a trip are better than photos. What has Al Gore been up to? Being a rad dude.. Cute new Apple ads. The Army made San Francisco gay. Sometimes guns can be cool. Want to see the future of pinball? Kelly Ripa visits David Blaine in his aqua-bowl. Wolfgang Puck's self-heating latte cans are a failure. :( David Blaine: Drowned Alive on Flickr. Play-doh cologne. All the Threadless shirts are just $10. More video: Parts 1, 2, and 3 of Steven Colbert speaking at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Wal-Mart goes organic.