Adam Fields (weblog) » Weird / Funny http://www.aquick.org/blog entertaining hundreds of millions of eyeball atoms every day Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How I came to love Jamie Zawinski http://www.aquick.org/blog/2011/11/29/how-i-came-to-love-jamie-zawinski/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2011/11/29/how-i-came-to-love-jamie-zawinski/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:22:39 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/?p=1384 I now feel compelled to share this, since many people have now discovered Jamie’s writing due to that whole thing. But for me, it started long ago with just a single link. Time melts away in an instant when viewing web pages meant to be rendered in Netscape, and now it’s hard to believe that was 16 years ago. It’s a real gem, and for me it was one of my first exposures to both effective use of hypertext (as opposed to theoretical academic use) and internet oversharing.

Start here. Click click click.

 

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2011/11/29/how-i-came-to-love-jamie-zawinski/feed/ 0 My Huck Finn edit http://www.aquick.org/blog/2011/01/08/my-huck-finn-edit/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2011/01/08/my-huck-finn-edit/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:17:15 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2011/01/08/my-huck-finn-edit/ “Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn’t hardly notice the other dudes. Dudes would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any dude in that country. Strange dudes would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder. Dudes is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but whenever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, Jim would happen in and say, ‘Hm! What you know ’bout witches?’ and that dude was corked up and had to take a back seat.”

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2011/01/08/my-huck-finn-edit/feed/ 0 Something interesting about scarcity http://www.aquick.org/blog/2009/07/22/something-interesting-about-scarcity/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2009/07/22/something-interesting-about-scarcity/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:07:13 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/?p=1282 We used to have a 6-at-a-time Netflix plan. We’d get 6 movies, but then sometimes we’d go months before watching them, or even just deciding that enough was enough and sending them back. And frequently, even among those 6 movies, there would be nothing we wanted to watch on any given night. And then an interesting thing happened. As part of a general cost trimming in our house, we dropped down to a 3-at-a-time plan. And suddenly we started watching a lot more Netflix movies. With 6 movies to choose from, there was always “something else” to watch, and we didn’t have to worry about clearing out all of the cruft to make room for something we really wanted to watch. As a result, we didn’t think as carefully about whether we’d really want to watch a new movie, because just renting something wouldn’t really block something else that we wanted to see more if it came along. But when we introduced a little artificial scarcity into the mix, a slot became something worth protecting from something we didn’t really want to see, and we started thinking more about which movies to put to the top of the queue, and then actually being more aggressive about watching them and sending them back.

This seems like a strange effect to me – we’re paying less, we’re technically using less (3 out instead of 6 out), but we’re turning over more, so the net effect is probably that we’re heavier users now than at 6-out. Because the pricing is only on the number out instead of the turnover, we’re unarguably paying less and using more, even though we’re technically on a “lower usage” plan. At this point, even if we wanted to spend the extra money, I have no desire to go back to a 6-out plan, because I like the extra sense of urgency that comes from having the out slots be a scarce resource, and it makes me want to use the service more.

I don’t know if this makes me a better Netflix customer or not, from their perspective. Obviously I’m paying less money to them per month and using more in mailing fees, but I’m also holding onto premium movies for a lot less time than I used to, freeing them up to be sent to other customers.

Anyone notice the same thing?

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2009/07/22/something-interesting-about-scarcity/feed/ 2 Cool photo roundup http://www.aquick.org/blog/2008/08/04/cool-photo-roundup/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2008/08/04/cool-photo-roundup/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:39:07 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/?p=1229 Nasa:

http://www.nasaimages.org/index.html

Museum of Natural History:

http://images.library.amnh.org/photos/index.html

400+ forms used by the NSA:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/over-400-nsa-forms/

London Bananas:

http://www.londonbananas.com/

How to make an inkjet print that will last 10000 years:

http://blog.longnow.org/2008/07/24/edward-burtynsky-the-10000-year-gallery/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2008/08/04/cool-photo-roundup/feed/ 0 Dear Netflix http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/10/04/dear-netflix/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/10/04/dear-netflix/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:32:03 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/10/04/dear-netflix/ Dear Netflix:

I would very much like your website to stop redirecting me to a page that tells me that Im using an unsupported browser. I know I use Opera. I like it. I understand if you dont want to support it, but at least set a cookie so I can just tell you once that I dont care, instead of making me click through your tedious “only browsers we like are supported” splash page every time I want to check my queue.

Thanks. Have a wonderful day.

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/10/04/dear-netflix/feed/ 0 Brilliant DMCA side effect http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/05/10/brilliant-dmca-side-effect/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/05/10/brilliant-dmca-side-effect/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 03:23:00 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/05/10/brilliant-dmca-side-effect/ Crappy DRM company says the DMCA forces you to buy their technology instead of building your own because not buying their technology is a circumvention of an effective copyright tool.

The thing is, I think they’re right. I mean, it’s stupid, but then so is the DMCA.

There are some other provisions (which seem to not apply), but the crux of it is:

“No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that–

`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of
circumventing a technological measure that effectively
controls access to a work protected under this title;”

It explicitly does NOT say “copy the work”, it says “circumvent the technology”. “Circumvent” is not the word they were looking for.

In fact, now that I think about it, convincing someone that DRM is bad is also a violation, as that may be interpreted as offering a service that is primarily design for the purpose of circumventing technological protection. Crap.

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/05/10/afx3708595.html

(via boingboing.)

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/05/10/brilliant-dmca-side-effect/feed/ 0 Well that’s just about the strangest thing I’ve seen all day http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/16/well-thats-just-about-the-strangest-thing-ive-seen-all-day/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/16/well-thats-just-about-the-strangest-thing-ive-seen-all-day/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:14:30 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/16/well-thats-just-about-the-strangest-thing-ive-seen-all-day/ “This work began on the day when we had made a extra big candy like a bowling ball by ourselves.
Since that day, we had been licking the candy day after day for about six months.’

http://homepage.mac.com/m_plus_n/candy.html

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/16/well-thats-just-about-the-strangest-thing-ive-seen-all-day/feed/ 0 Cadbury got busted for reducing the size of the Creme Egg and then lying about it http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/13/cadbury-got-busted-for-reducing-the-size-of-the-creme-egg-and-then-lying-about-it/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/13/cadbury-got-busted-for-reducing-the-size-of-the-creme-egg-and-then-lying-about-it/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:31:28 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/13/cadbury-got-busted-for-reducing-the-size-of-the-creme-egg-and-then-lying-about-it/ I used to get a Cadbury Creme Egg a year about the same time I had my annual McRib. Since I’ve realized over the course of the past few years that you’re only supposed to eat food, I didn’t know that Cadbury reduced the size of the Creme Egg this year. And then they lied about it! And they blamed it on the increasing size of their consumers (possibly from eating too many Creme Eggs)! And then they got busted on National TV! At least they could have had the dignity to release the “New Creme Egg”, and then release the “Creme Egg Classic” in the smaller form factor when people complained about the new formula.

http://consumerist.com/consumer/cadbury/cadbury-our-eggs-arent-smaller-you-are-bigger-250559.php

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/04/13/cadbury-got-busted-for-reducing-the-size-of-the-creme-egg-and-then-lying-about-it/feed/ 0 Don’t look at the Fnords http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/01/12/dont-look-at-the-fnords/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/01/12/dont-look-at-the-fnords/#comments Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:50:44 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/01/12/dont-look-at-the-fnords/ Robert Anton Wilson is dead.

http://robertantonwilson.blogspot.com/2007/01/raw-essence.html

I can’t say enough about the importance of his writing to our national culture of weirdness. He will be missed.

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/01/12/dont-look-at-the-fnords/feed/ 1 http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/08/03/1142/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/08/03/1142/#comments Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:02:46 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/08/03/1142/ This is a great video of the ZDNet Executive Editor explaining what’s wrong with DRM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKI_w_VBoTQ&search=d.r.m.%20crap

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/08/03/1142/feed/ 0 Coffee cups with stamps in the bottom http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/22/coffee-cups-with-stamps-in-the-bottom/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/22/coffee-cups-with-stamps-in-the-bottom/#comments Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:09:16 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/22/coffee-cups-with-stamps-in-the-bottom/ Instead of corporate logos, they leave behind pretty floral patterns.

http://www.gnr8.biz/product_info.php?products_id=182

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/22/coffee-cups-with-stamps-in-the-bottom/feed/ 0 Paul McCartney is 64 today http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/18/paul-mccartney-is-64-today/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/18/paul-mccartney-is-64-today/#comments Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:19:18 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/18/paul-mccartney-is-64-today/ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/arts/music/17paul.html?ex=1308196800&en=51c8ced2d4c73b63&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/06/18/paul-mccartney-is-64-today/feed/ 0 Oh, the hairmanity. http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/24/oh-the-hairmanity/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/24/oh-the-hairmanity/#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 22:01:04 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/24/oh-the-hairmanity/ Some sort of canonical list of bad 80s videos on YouTube.

http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/24/oh-the-hairmanity/feed/ 1 Pink something http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/23/pink-something/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/23/pink-something/#comments Tue, 23 May 2006 18:43:42 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/23/pink-something/ I have no idea what this is about, but it is… pink.

http://www.r243g197b208.net/video/pink_adicolor_large.mov

(Via Doc)

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/05/23/pink-something/feed/ 0 Watch out for the, uh, oven door scam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/04/06/watch-out-for-the-uh-oven-door-scam/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/04/06/watch-out-for-the-uh-oven-door-scam/#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:42:45 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/04/06/watch-out-for-the-uh-oven-door-scam/ OVEN DOORS]]> Apparently, crooks have been breaking into vacation homes, stealing the >OVEN DOORS<, repackaging them in real flat screen TV boxes, and selling them to dupes on the street.

Words fail me.

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/consumer-alert/dont-take-any-wooden-flat-screens-165345.php
http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/scam/update-dont-take-any-wooden-flat-screens-165526.php

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/04/06/watch-out-for-the-uh-oven-door-scam/feed/ 0 Retiring to a perpetual cruise http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/02/21/retiring-to-a-perpetual-cruise/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/02/21/retiring-to-a-perpetual-cruise/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:11:41 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/02/21/retiring-to-a-perpetual-cruise/ Interesting tidbit from Snopes, via (Kottke).

Apparently, it’s about the same price to take a perpetual cruise as it is to live in a nursing home, and at least a few people have been doing this for years.

http://www.snopes.com/travel/trap/retire.asp

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2006/02/21/retiring-to-a-perpetual-cruise/feed/ 0 All cute, all the time http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/12/16/all-cute-all-the-time/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/12/16/all-cute-all-the-time/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:52:56 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/12/16/all-cute-all-the-time/ http://cuteoverload.com/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/12/16/all-cute-all-the-time/feed/ 0 USPTO apparently grants patent for warp drive http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/16/uspto-apparently-grants-patent-for-warp-drive/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/16/uspto-apparently-grants-patent-for-warp-drive/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:38:18 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/16/uspto-apparently-grants-patent-for-warp-drive/ I don’t remember who originally sent this to me, but I got it a few times. This is apparently a patent for a warp drive.

” A cooled hollow superconductive shield is energized by an electromagnetic field resulting in the quantized vortices of lattice ions projecting a gravitomagnetic field that forms a spacetime curvature anomaly outside the space vehicle. The spacetime curvature imbalance, the spacetime curvature being the same as gravity, provides for the space vehicle’s propulsion. The space vehicle, surrounded by the spacetime anomaly, may move at a speed approaching the light-speed characteristic for the modified locale.”

They’re off their rocker.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,960,975.WKU.&OS=PN/6,960,975&RS=PN/6,960,975

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/16/uspto-apparently-grants-patent-for-warp-drive/feed/ 0 MIT students study tinfoil hats http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/11/mit-students-study-tinfoil-hats/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/11/mit-students-study-tinfoil-hats/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:51:47 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/11/mit-students-study-tinfoil-hats/ Conclusion: tinfoil hat makes it easier for the gummint to read your brain. It’s a conspiracy!

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/11/mit-students-study-tinfoil-hats/feed/ 0 Using Sony’s rootkit to defeat Blizzard’s spyware http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/04/using-sonys-rootkit-to-defeat-blizzards-spyware/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/04/using-sonys-rootkit-to-defeat-blizzards-spyware/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:08:34 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/04/using-sonys-rootkit-to-defeat-blizzards-spyware/ Well that’s just cute. Apparently, Sony’s DRM rootkit process hider can be used to circumvent Blizzard’s cheating spyware.

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/34

And, yet again, I feel the need to say that everything I said here still applies:

http://www.aquick.org/blog/2004/12/23/the-eff-backs-tor/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/04/using-sonys-rootkit-to-defeat-blizzards-spyware/feed/ 0 On World of Warcraft’s spyware http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/01/on-world-of-warcrafts-spyware/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/01/on-world-of-warcrafts-spyware/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:10:53 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/01/on-world-of-warcrafts-spyware/ World of Warcraft was recently revealed to have a piece of spyware hidden in it called Warden, that tracks a large amount of information about other things running simultaneously on the machine, in order to prevent cheating.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004076.php

There’s been some commentary on Dave Farber’s IP list that Warden was found by someone trying to hack the game, implying that that somehow justifies its existence.

I wrote the following in response to that:

And SO WHAT?

The fact that this piece of spyware was found by someone trying hack the game is totally irrelevant to what it is, and the fact that there are people in an arms race over hacking the game doesn’t justify Blizzard’s raising the bar on that race to trample the privacy of legitimate users who are probably unaware that this is even going on.

As has been previously stated, Blizzard’s assertion that it’s not doing anything with the information is little comfort. What if the next round of arms race escalation is to hack Warden and release all of that information? How long will it be before Blizzard can properly respond? How much data will get out, because of the infrastructure that Blizzard has constructed?

The fact that this is justified by text buried in a long EULA is deplorable. The fact is, few people read EULAs at all, and even fewer read them for >games< . There ought to be full disclosure right up front in large capital letters - "If you want to play this game, you have to agree to let us spy on you, because we assume everyone's a cheater. YOU'VE BEEN ADEQUATELY WARNED. To agree, and be allowed to play the game, type: 'I UNDERSTAND THAT BLIZZARD IS SPYING ON ME TO CATCH CHEATERS'." Let's have no more of this "Press OK to continue" crap.

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/11/01/on-world-of-warcrafts-spyware/feed/ 0 The ELF invades Sears http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/the-elf-invades-sears/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/the-elf-invades-sears/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:42:39 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/the-elf-invades-sears/ All this talk about plays written in the dark ages made me reread the skit I wrote in high school with my friend Tristan.

I give you The ELF invades Sears.

It still makes me laugh.

http://www.hedge.net/fields/elf.html

(It’s an homage. Read a book!)

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/the-elf-invades-sears/feed/ 0 Republic Dogs http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/republic-dogs/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/republic-dogs/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:45:20 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/republic-dogs/ Hah.

My friend Nat’s screenplay “Republic Dogs”, a Plato/Tarantino mashup, is making the blog rounds:

http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/r/dryfoo/www/Funny-pages/republic-dogs.html
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/perhaps_the_ult.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/28/platos_republic_meet.html
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006952.html#006952
http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2005/10/republic_dogs.html
http://blog.org/archives/001337.html1/
http://tjic.com/blog/2005/10/29/boats-boats-boats-boats-boats-boats-boats-hence-the-trojan-war/

There seems to be some contention over when it was actually written. I can personally attest to being present around the time of the original writing and presentation, at or near Columbia’s Philolexian Society (Columbia’s oldest student organization, founded in 1802), sometime between 1992 and 1996. Nat says 1994, and I believe him.

In fact, I made a poster for its theatrical (okay, in the basement of River) performance as part of a series of one-act plays, Onion Days and Starry Nights in the Zero-Sum Republic:

Republic Dogs

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/29/republic-dogs/feed/ 0 Katamari Damacy text adventure! http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/26/katamari-damacy-text-adventure/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/26/katamari-damacy-text-adventure/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:44:26 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/26/katamari-damacy-text-adventure/ N There is a PAPER CLIP here. > ROLL CLIP I do not know what a CLIP is. > ROLL PAPER CLIP You roll up the PAPER CLIP. You are standing on the floor of a bedroom. > LOOK KATAMARI Your Katamari is 10.2cm. And so forth. http://www.livejournal.com/community/katamari_damacy/262676.html ]]> Hah!

> N

There is a PAPER CLIP here.

> ROLL CLIP

I do not know what a CLIP is.

> ROLL PAPER CLIP

You roll up the PAPER CLIP.

You are standing on the floor of a bedroom.

> LOOK KATAMARI

Your Katamari is 10.2cm.

And so forth.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/katamari_damacy/262676.html

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/26/katamari-damacy-text-adventure/feed/ 0 Tracking stock spam results http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/11/tracking-stock-spam-results/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/11/tracking-stock-spam-results/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:35:15 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/11/tracking-stock-spam-results/ A project to determine just how much money you’d lose if you bought every penny stock you got spam about.

http://www.spamstocktracker.com/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/11/tracking-stock-spam-results/feed/ 0 Quicktime VR view from inside a water bottle http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/10/quicktime-vr-view-from-inside-a-water-bottle/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/10/quicktime-vr-view-from-inside-a-water-bottle/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:10:34 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/10/quicktime-vr-view-from-inside-a-water-bottle/ That’s pretty funny.

http://www.vrway.com/vrmag_issue_22_hotlist_fullscreen/fullscreen/VR000007222.html

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/10/10/quicktime-vr-view-from-inside-a-water-bottle/feed/ 0 Sharks with frickin laser beams http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/09/27/sharks-with-frickin-laser-beams/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/09/27/sharks-with-frickin-laser-beams/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:43:07 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/09/27/sharks-with-frickin-laser-beams/ “Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.”

Booyah.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577753,00.html?gusrc=rss

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/09/27/sharks-with-frickin-laser-beams/feed/ 0 This is stupid. http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/09/07/this-is-stupid/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/09/07/this-is-stupid/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:40:17 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/09/07/this-is-stupid/ Kottke has a post about how to make microwave popcorn without a microwave. Letting aside the possibility that this is just a sick joke of some kind, it’s wrong for a number of reasons.

  1. Microwave popcorn is, itself, the hack.
  2. Microwave popcorn is a sticky glumpy mess because it’s full of all kinds of things you shouldn’t eat. Also, it’s far more expensive than just buying even really high quality popcorn, which it isn’t.
  3. This AskMe thread has some great suggestions for how to make stovetop popcorn, including how to make regular popcorn in a microwave without buying “microwave popcorn”.

http://www.kottke.org/05/09/popcorn-hacks

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/25/ny-eye-and-ear-infirmary/feed/ 0 Release your inner (outer) hipster asshole http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/23/release-your-inner-outer-hipster-asshole/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/23/release-your-inner-outer-hipster-asshole/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:58:34 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/23/release-your-inner-outer-hipster-asshole/ On a mailing list I’m on, someone pointed out the ipodmyphoto site, which I won’t link to out of common decency. Someone else followed up with ‘I want an ipodded shirt that says “hipster asshole”. Orange and Black please. ;) ’.

I just couldn’t resist, and you shouldn’t either.

http://www.cafepress.com/adamf.29467430

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“Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down,” said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/18/intelligent-falling/feed/ 0 Scientists named Steve for evolution http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/05/scientists-named-steve-for-evolution/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/05/scientists-named-steve-for-evolution/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:17:33 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/05/scientists-named-steve-for-evolution/ Project Steve is a collection of scientists named Steve who support evolution, to demonstrate the stupitidy of compiling lists of scientists who don’t. 580 so far!

http://www.ncseweb.org/article.asp?category=18

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]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/04/assless-panties/feed/ 0 Cam and Damien are auditioning for reality shows and blogging it http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/04/cam-and-damien-are-auditioning-for-reality-shows-and-blogging-it/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/04/cam-and-damien-are-auditioning-for-reality-shows-and-blogging-it/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:20:57 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/04/cam-and-damien-are-auditioning-for-reality-shows-and-blogging-it/ Cam Barrett (one of the first bloggers) and his twin brother Damien are auditioning for The Amazing Race, some kind of reality show on that other medium. To boost their chances, they’re blogging the whole thing.

http://www.bloggertwins.com/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/08/04/cam-and-damien-are-auditioning-for-reality-shows-and-blogging-it/feed/ 0 Sometimes I think Spamusement is written by me in my sleep http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/28/sometimes-i-think-spamusement-is-written-by-me-in-my-sleep/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/28/sometimes-i-think-spamusement-is-written-by-me-in-my-sleep/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:48:04 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/28/sometimes-i-think-spamusement-is-written-by-me-in-my-sleep/ http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/266

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/28/sometimes-i-think-spamusement-is-written-by-me-in-my-sleep/feed/ 0 Family Guy “Take on Me” spoof http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/26/family-guy-take-on-me-spoof/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/26/family-guy-take-on-me-spoof/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:25:05 +0000 adam http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/26/family-guy-take-on-me-spoof/ http://waxy.org/random/video/family_guy_-_take_on_me.avi

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/26/family-guy-take-on-me-spoof/feed/ 0 The things people do to their pets http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/06/the-things-people-do-to-their-pets/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/06/the-things-people-do-to-their-pets/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:04:45 +0000 adam /?p=849 They missed a huge naming opportunity here – it should have been called Cat-amari Damacy.

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/07/06/the-things-people-do-to-their-pets/feed/ 0 Flying Spaghetti Monster created the Earth http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/22/flying-spaghetti-monster-created-the-earth/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/22/flying-spaghetti-monster-created-the-earth/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:29:51 +0000 adam /?p=825 “Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.”

http://www.venganza.org/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/22/flying-spaghetti-monster-created-the-earth/feed/ 1 One-page PDF for sale for $1500 on Amazon http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/19/one-page-pdf-for-sale-for-1500-on-amazon/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/19/one-page-pdf-for-sale-for-1500-on-amazon/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:54:35 +0000 adam /?p=823 This PDF entitled “Sony to Include Blu-ray in PS3: HD-DVD Green with Envy” is $1500 on Amazon. It’s one page.

Really!

I’m not sure if the one page is the pictured cover page, or there’s another page after that.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002XWAGW/buyadam-20

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/19/one-page-pdf-for-sale-for-1500-on-amazon/feed/ 0 Spermcube! http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/14/spermcube/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/14/spermcube/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:19:37 +0000 adam /?p=814 Um.

No, this doesn’t seem like a good idea at all.

http://www.spermcube.org/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/14/spermcube/feed/ 0 The Dark Side is the Best Sauce http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/14/the-dark-side-is-the-best-sauce/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/14/the-dark-side-is-the-best-sauce/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:09:57 +0000 adam /?p=811 Funny little livejournal blog with cartoons mocking the Prequels. How can you go wrong?

This one’s my favorite so far:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/iharthdarth/2867.html#cutid1

http://www.livejournal.com/users/iharthdarth/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/14/the-dark-side-is-the-best-sauce/feed/ 0 Google will eat itself http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/13/google-will-eat-itself/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/13/google-will-eat-itself/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:58:23 +0000 adam /?p=808 Uhhhh…

“We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on our website GWEI.org. With this money we automatically buy Google shares via our Swiss e-banking account. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end we will own it!”

http://www.gwei.org/gwei/

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/13/google-will-eat-itself/feed/ 0 Dalek kidnapped, disarmed http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/10/dalek-kidnapped-disarmed/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/10/dalek-kidnapped-disarmed/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:25:54 +0000 adam /?p=803 Awaiting further instructions from the Doctor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/4077698.stm

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/10/dalek-kidnapped-disarmed/feed/ 0 Maybe I’m just feeling a little childish today http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/07/maybe-im-just-feeling-a-little-childish-today/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/07/maybe-im-just-feeling-a-little-childish-today/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:57:52 +0000 adam /?p=796 There’s something deeply wrong with this product image.

Memory foam

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/06/07/maybe-im-just-feeling-a-little-childish-today/feed/ 0 Spamusement made me laugh AGAIN today http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/27/spamusement-made-me-laugh-again-today/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/27/spamusement-made-me-laugh-again-today/#comments Fri, 27 May 2005 15:01:41 +0000 adam /?p=769 That’s just too funny.

http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/245

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/27/spamusement-made-me-laugh-again-today/feed/ 0 This homemade Prozac needs more ice cream http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/24/this-homemade-prozac-needs-more-ice-cream/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/24/this-homemade-prozac-needs-more-ice-cream/#comments Tue, 24 May 2005 17:22:57 +0000 adam /?p=757 “Two Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after duelling with lightsabres made by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/showbiz/tm_objectid=15552841&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=light-sabre-duel-puts-two-in-hospital-name_page.html%5B/url%5D

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/24/this-homemade-prozac-needs-more-ice-cream/feed/ 0 Moisturewear http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/23/moisturewear/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/23/moisturewear/#comments Mon, 23 May 2005 15:27:04 +0000 adam /?p=752 Underwear that moisturizes your skin while you wear it.

http://www.popgadget.net/2005/05/moisturizing-underwear.html

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/23/moisturewear/feed/ 0 That cat looks like it’s wearing pajamas. http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/06/that-cat-looks-like-its-wearing-pajamas/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/06/that-cat-looks-like-its-wearing-pajamas/#comments Fri, 06 May 2005 20:06:22 +0000 adam /?p=719 Oh no.

http://imagebank.ipcmedia.com/imageBank/s/shaved%20cat.jpg

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/05/06/that-cat-looks-like-its-wearing-pajamas/feed/ 0 Spamusement tweaks my early adolescence wasted on chasing that devious bitch http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/04/28/spamusement-tweaks-my-early-adolescence-wasted-on-chasing-that-devious-bitch/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/04/28/spamusement-tweaks-my-early-adolescence-wasted-on-chasing-that-devious-bitch/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:05:07 +0000 adam /?p=708 http://spamusement.com/view.php?id=234

]]> http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/04/28/spamusement-tweaks-my-early-adolescence-wasted-on-chasing-that-devious-bitch/feed/ 0 Rent a Dildo http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/04/18/rent-a-dildo/ http://www.aquick.org/blog/2005/04/18/rent-a-dildo/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:03:45 +0000 adam /?p=695 Yick.

http://www.rent-a-dildo.com/howitworks.htm

(Given their rental model, I’d have gone with something like “NetPrix” instead of the name they chose.)

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