Archive for the 'Weirdness' Category

Do Not Shout In The Datacenter

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Who knew that shouting could cause disk problems.

Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheddar

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Wow, as Tom McMahon put it, “my heart attack just had another heart attack“.

Telescopic Text

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Joe Davis has an excellent exercise in exploration and expansion of concepts. You must check out Telescopic Text.

Those Crazy Japanese

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Over at TV-In-Japan, aside from a crappy web layout, they have a clip from youtube that is an example of everything that is right and wrong with Japanese TV and culture. According to the comments, the user kazuhima has several more of the same available on his youtube account.

Drive Through Lube

Monday, July 10th, 2006

A delightfully suggestive advertisement by a lubricant company. Hell, it’s more than suggestive, it’s downright dirty.

Impure Mathematics

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Found, unfortunately un-attributed, on the internet.

To prove once and for all that math can be fun, we present: Wherein it is related how that paragon of womanly virtue, young Polly Nomial (our heroine) is accosted by that notorious villain Curly Pi, and factored (oh horror!!!)
Once [...]

419 Eaters scam awesome carvings

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

419eater is a site dedicated to people who turn the tables on Nigerian 419 scammers. The usual bag is to get them to write something dumb on a sign and send in a picture of themselves. One of them, however, inspires them with great riches in exchange for a sample of carved [...]

Stone Golem Suit

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

This video of a LARP group’s stone golem suit is absolutely awesome. If LARPers weren’t a half-step above Furries, one would almost want to go play with them.
This would be an incredible halloween costume though. If I only had the time, I would make one and dress up for the first time in [...]

Turning the other Cheek

Friday, March 24th, 2006

The congregation of the Church of the Nazarene finally tired of the ‘turn the other cheek’ attitude promoted by Jesus and took matters into their own hands. The whole TTOC method was simply allowing repeated burgularies of their church and so they decided to bring forth their Bats of Blessing and show Ralph Thomas [...]

Good Samaritan Loses His Top

Friday, February 24th, 2006

The Jaguar X Type pictured at right was put up for auction as a salvage vehicle this past month. The posting from the auction tells the tale of a good samaritan whose efforts went quite vigorously punished. You gotta feel for the guy. I can only imagine the scene as he jumped [...]