Robocop Anti-Drug PSA (via OctaneDose)
Seriously, WTF? It’s like they knew kids were going to watch this. 10 minutes into the movie he gets his ARM SHOTGUNNED OFF!
RoboCop Marvel Cartoon (via rcarchive)
Robocop: Clearly not for kids.
But the Robocop cartoon? Go nuts!
Robocop - Only a Glitch scene (via houseofICE)
I probably shouldn’t have seen this as a child.
Macho Man is Insane (via spekkioxlv)
Thanks for the tip.
Et tu, Facebook? Making Sense of The Social Network | Little Gold Men | Vanity Fair
Go see it, asshole!
by paperumbrellaforapapergirl
This is pretty much the only reason I use Facebook
Turns out that the Starcraft II notepad comes in handy.
via Josh Millard
Jurassic Park the Musical Part 1 (by Mark Hennings)
Love it.
Alien vs. Predator
Never say no to Panda! (via Reddit)
Gamasutra - Features - Boss Battle Design and Structure
What Improvisation Can Teach Us About Design
A talk by Hannah Donavan from DConstruct. You should listen to this if you’re into music, design, and/or development.
Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup
These are just pretty good guidelines whether you’re at a startup or not.
The health inspectors say we’re among the B(EST)!
Halo Reach is what’s wrong with the gaming industry today
The author dreams of the 1990s, back when game companies were interested in developing unique titles year after year and weren’t just trying to turn a quick buck on big names. You know, names like:
Even Startropics got a sequel.
I’M READY FOR SATURDAY NIGHT!!!
WTF America?
If you’ve ever had a sponge bath in a hospital you know that they’re not as sexy as they’re reputed to be.
Back when thematic elements were less than 8 seconds long.
Gamehandler (by Subtonic12)
The Gamehandler was a one-handed controller for the NES. The commercials featured a bunch of kids having fun, playing games with one hand and eating popcorn with the other.
10-year-old me thought this was an incredible invention.
Big Alcohol Donates Money To Fight Legalization Of Pot
Why only $10,000?
Cibo Matto - Birthday Cake (Live) (via o0crumblepie0o)
From Viva Variety. Remember that?!
Everything Is Terrible!: PSALTY!
http://chrisroslund.bandcamp.com/
If you like free music, which I guess is all the rage these days, you should check out my buddy Chris’s new album Out In The Open.
Favorite tracks for me were:
I’m interested to see how Bandcamp works out for him. Totally free. He doesn’t even want your email address.
HEY EVERYONE! Today I went to the moon! Look who I ran into there.
gillette face fuckerupperer
Grown men don’t know how to shave. What’s up with that?
Couple turn love of gourmet pickles into new business
I had some of them today. They’re pretty good pickles.
Also love this:
But the Goldmans say their pickles have a health advantage because they are free from dyes and preservatives and come with naturally occurring “pro-biotics” similar to those found in yogurt.
I like how probiotics is quoted, like it’s some kind of CRAZY WEEEEIRD THING!
More Evidence That Jay Leno is for Old Fogeys
In which Bill Maher states that he’s against a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
To which Leno’s audience replies “WOO YAY YES!”
To which Maher specifies that he’s actually against all houses of worship.
To which those previous audience members are suddenly quiet and a different, smaller subset of said audience cheers.
Maher also acknowledges that Leno warned his audience that he may be offensive to some audience members.
The price of love? Losing two of your closest friends via The Guardian
Falling in love comes at the cost of losing close friends, because romantic partners absorb time that would otherwise be invested in platonic relationships, researchers say.
A new partner pushes out two close friends on average, leaving lovers with a smaller inner circle of people they can turn to in times of crisis, a study found.
The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed that men and women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship.
Previous research by Dunbar’s group has shown that people typically have five very close relationships – that is, people whom they would turn to if they were in emotional or financial trouble.
“If you go into a romantic relationship, it costs you two friends. Those who have romantic relationships, instead of having the typical five ‘core set’ of relationships only have four. And of those, one is the new person who’s come into their life,” said Dunbar.
This explains every year of college when somebody used to hang out with you during September/October, then disappear, and without warning they’re back in your life around April.
Jimmy Edgar - Turn You Inside Out (via aureleuh1)
Let’s Dminor the shit outta this!
Well this is certainly a great surprise for all Mac loving folks. For those that may not know, Reader is one of the best RSS apps for iOS4 devices with a plethora of options including extensive support for social media sharing.
Good luck to them. Reeder is so good on the iPad that I actually prefer going through my feeds that way instead of my desktop.
wallpaper. - “I Got Soul, I’m So Wasted” Official Video (via eeniemeenierecords)
Wallpaper. released a full length when I wasn’t looking.
I know. I know. The singer uses autotune.
See? I told you kissing is gross.
The Misconception: Kissing is only an expression of love.
The Truth: Kissing transmits germs from the male to the female to bolster the female immune system before and during pregnancy.
Your response will be kept anonymous?
I’m Ron Burgundy?
Hannibal Buress Didn’t Cry Watching the Movie “Up” (via ComixNY)
This option makes everything sound like crap. If you like music all you’ll be focused on are the drums, because they’ll sound like:
Kick Snare Kick Kick Snare Kick Snare Kick Kick Snare Kick Snare Kick Kick Snare Kick Snare Kick Kick Snare
Edit: By the way, you can’t turn it off.
It’s pretty weird that there’s no keyboard shortcut to activate the currently playing track in iTunes Genius.
I don’t understand why these kinds of coffee makers drip like this, but I think it has something to do with getting plastic in your bloodstream.
This word. Stop using it so much.
gimme back ma son - Swede Mason (via swedemason)
This is the reason I wear neck ties. You have to be super smart to be able to tie Bowtie.
This was a catch phrase among my college friends for about a week.
Jason on the Arsenio Hall Show promoting Friday the 13th Part 8.
Jason Voorhees on talk show (via miscvids818)
via i.imgur.com
If you have credit in your AmieStreet.com account, please make sure you spend your remaining balance before September 22, 2010 as it will not transfer over to Amazon.com.
Shit.
EDIT: Turns out Amazon was an investor in Amie Street. Also turns out that they’re probably not a big fan of unsustainable demand-driven prices of digital goods. [/speculation]
You can use iOS devices as a music source in iTunes 10
But you can’t do stuff like browse by genre or shuffle by album.
Doug HIll Playing XTC’s Church of Women (via Dugrhill)
Changing the Default Audio Quality for Bluetooth Headphones on a Mac
So, I grew tired of dealing with wires when listening to music at my desk and purchased these Sony bluetooth headphones. It turns out, however, that OS X defaults to low-quality audio for bluetooth headsets and headphones. But that’s simply a default, and it can be changed.
To increase the quality, it’s as easy as entering this in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "Apple Bitpool Min (editable)" 50or
defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "Apple Bitpool Min (editable)" 40I entered the second of the two. Sound quality is excellent now. Even better, they also pair well with my iPhone—no audio fix needed, as the iPhone defaults to higher quality A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) settings. Has a built-in mic for phone calls, too.
(You can also change the OS X defaults with this fix. But I, for the life of me, cannot find the Bluetooth Explorer on my machine.)
I’ve been wondering why Bluetooth audio from my iPhone sounds so much better than from my Mac.
If you can’t find the Bluetooth Explorer make sure you option click the Bluetooth icon in your menu bar.
Why was 'Draw Muhammad Day' a great thing but 'Burn the Quran Day' a bad thing?
…yeah? Wait a sec!
…
I think one was to prod at religious intolerance while another is a demonstration of religious intolerance.
You know this is all you can see in the iTunes store right now.
Early man 'butchered and ate the brains of children as part of everyday diet'
A new study of fossil bones in Spain shows that cannibalism was a normal part of daily life around 800,000 years ago among Europe’s first humans.
I tried and decided there’s no good way to make this funny.
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie opening credits.
The bully in this movie is named Juice.
This movie destroyed my childhood. Or made it better. I still don’t know which. I was afraid of wearing flip-flops for a while because of the Alligator who eats toes.
Orgy A Logistical Nightmare | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
CANTON, OH—Despite his excitement about the upcoming sexual free-for-all, first-time orgy organizer Jerry Belsner, 33, admitted Monday that planning the event has been a logistical nightmare.
(via hewhocannotbenamed)
Ghostbusters II Vigo the Carpathian’s two favorite things? Stealing babies and cleaning.
He will be sweeper to you and Carpathian to me.
The world’s most creative CEO looks a lot like Dexter Morgan.
Uh, yeah. Turns out that any general iTunes search will now bring up people on Ping.
For example, Paul Rudd.
On Ping? Search for your own name in iTunes and you’ll come up.
“Jungle Rat Rob” is a shitty nickname.
Jiminy.
I’ve been looking for that safe everywhere!
This teaser from the upcoming Squarepusher release (Shoeblader One - d’Demonstrator) looks pretty cool.
Sometimes I read things like “Ok Tom, you’re really good at playing bass. We get it.” WTF’s up with the Squarepusher hate? Do you hate the children for laughing? The sun for shining? The fish for swimming?
Squarepusher presents - Shobaleader One - d’Demonstrator (via WarpRecords)
The Rise of the Anti-Facebooks
This article is about Facebook replacements, but they already exist in some way.
The reason Facebook works for most people, besides the social draw, is that it’s all under one roof. Even then that’s still too difficult to understand, especially when Facebook users try to login to Facebook on ReadWriteWeb.
Jared Anderson of Lincoln, Nebraska owns over 1,600 Nintendo games and accessories.
Impressive Nintendo Collection (via itsmattc)
The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing | Xconomy
I don’t think iTunes is that bad, but maybe i’m just used to it. I had a little disappointment at seeing it was still a Carbon app, but if anything Apple has shown how flexible Carbon actually is. Plus I still can’t think of a better way to browse and organize my music collection.
My, unlikely, hypothesis about the future of iTunes is that the complete overhaul will come when music streaming is the norm. At that point there will be no choice but to examine how to best access music from the cloud. And if you’re doing that you may as well start from scratch. Maybe they’re already working on it, but throwing out a few updates to make things feel fresh.
Could it be that Ping, as underwhelming as it is, is their first step into their vision of the next generation of iTunes?
Until then, why overhaul it just for the sake of overhauling it?
I think I might have liked Starcraft before these story altering choices, but I’m not sure yet.
What's your best troll dad story?
When I was in 1st or 2nd grade I had to write an essay on my parents. I asked my dad how he ended up marrying my mom. His story was:
You see…I had a large group of women that were after me and my good looks. I couldn’t choose which one I wanted to marry so I came up with an idea; a race! I had all the girls go to the top of the hill and whichever one made it down first won the best prize, me. Your mother proceeded to cheat and push all the other girls down in order to win. We’ve been together ever since.
Yes I believed him, and yes I wrote it as my essay.
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Remember when you were a kid and your father would play tricks on you? Now that I’m older I could see myself doing the same sort of things if I had kids.
Frank Chimero - There is a Horse in the Apple Store
There is a horse in the Apple Store and no one sees it but me.
That’s right. They *punched* him.
In defense of the iTunes 10 UI changes.
via reddit
Disregard females. Acquire currency.
I think this is a mistake. They should let you like music while in your own iTunes library, not just in the store.
Cherry Suede - Q&A Ep.2 - Have Concert Promoters Ruined the Concert Industry? (via CherrySuede)
These guys aren’t happy with SPAC. Long story short: lawn seats suck.
Maintenance Part 2 : Python —-> bathtub (by 8E)
Fuck. That.
WTF is this vertical shit?
RIAA sales certifications between 2008 and now sorted by certification date.
1. Alicia Keys
2. Willie Nelso
3. Dwight Yoakam
4. Eagles
5. Rascal Flatts
6. Chris Tomlin
7. George Strait
I think the lesson here is that if you’re in the music business to sell albums you should appeal to a fanbase that hasn’t discovered MP3s yet: children, house wives, country music listeners, and people who send you those “obama is a muslim” emails.
