Speed Racer

New movie from the Wachowski brothers (the guys that did the matrix).
Looks like Tron and Anime collided...

See trailer, here

Human Tetris

Google Search Tricks

A bunch of them are detialed on this page.

Zombie story

Told from the perspective of a zombie, by Isaac Marion

Giant UFO

Real of not? Still impressive...

United State of Pop

A mashup of the top 25 songs of 2007 by DJ Earworm

I didn't really enjoy most of the songs that came out in 2007,but this mashup isn't bad...

Not Always Right

Funny site

Sample:

(This conversation between a Returns Employee and a customer was overheard by me and others.)

Employee: “Hello, how may I help you?”

Customer: “Yes, I would like to return this.” (Heaves a large propane tank, the kind used for barbecue grills onto the counter.)

Employee: “Why?”

Customer: “It’s leaking.”

(At this point me, 4 managers, the employee, 2 other customers, and 3 other employees all within earshot, slowly turn their heads towards the leaking tank careful not to make any sudden movements.)

Know Your Meme: One Take

A bunch of videos on youtube doing an analyses of internet culture, quite fascinating to watch really...

The Chosen (Assassin's Creed)

Is this really a song, I mean I know that this appears on the soundtrack of assassin's creed but is it also an actual radio song. And is this the clip for it?

The Movie Trailer Guy

See the movie here.
(If I embed it, it starts playing automaticly)

Winter War

You can read about the Winter War on wikipedia. That's what I did when I saw this

Things to say at work

1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.
6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?
8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
13. No, my powers can only be used for good.
14. How about never? Is never good for you?
15. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
16. You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication.
17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
18. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
20. Who me? I just wander from room to room.
21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
23. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.
24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
25. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

- Steve Meredith (?)

50 things we know now (that we didn't know last year)

Interesting read

The Answer

Another short story:

Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

(Fredric Brown, "Answer")

Firefly Comics

A news post, not often that I do one of these...
I'm a big fan of the series firefly and actually bought the first comic book.

Now the second comic, Serenity: Better Days seems to be coming out in March 2008. It seems to still be in a three parter, but they probably bring it out as one book later like they did with the last one.

And for the future, there's probably going to be a Shepard's Tale comic. That should be interesting...