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a fun new game

posted on April 30, 2006 3:18 PM

i am going to start getting list of random aim and instant messanger names together, from people i don't know. then, i am going to im those people with the message, 'ARE YOU LOOKING AT PORN?!?!?!?'. i figure the odds...


hdr photography on flickr, wikipedia and elsewhere

posted on April 27, 2006 8:53 AM

hdr is an acronym of the words high dynamic range. in photography, it is a post-processing technique in which multiple exposures of the same image are merged into a single image that contains detail and information from all of...


boingboing is not known for saying anything positive related to anything religious, so i was surprised to see a post featuring these two beautiful photo sets of young christians at church. maybe they thought there was something funny about it....


this would make tea preparation so much easier

posted on April 25, 2006 8:11 AM

from gizmodo: While the Zip Hydrotap may look like an ordinary water faucet, don't be so easily mistaken. What sets the Hydrotap apart from other faucets is that it can dispense boiling water at the touch of a [child-proof]...


pronunciation and dialect from around the world

posted on April 25, 2006 8:09 AM

the speech accent archive has audio files of english speakers, native and learned, from around the globe reading a single paragraph* aloud. the site's methodology allows you to hear the same words being read in every accent you can imagine,...


use flickr pics to spell words

posted on April 24, 2006 6:58 AM

http://metaatem.net/words/ type the words you want to spell in the box, hit the spell button, and then click the upper version of the letters to change until you reach a version you like. as an example, here is jay's blog...


on plans and the shattering thereof

posted on April 20, 2006 2:33 PM

i got up this morning thinking about whether or not to go walking or to try jogging again. due to illness, i hadn't done my morning walk since sunday morning, so i decided that, in spite of my conversation with...


a timeline of fictitious events from movies…

posted on April 20, 2006 7:45 AM

from boingboing: The Movie Timeline is a timeline of all the events that occurred in many, many films, from 4,000,000 BC to 865,427,810 AD: 1703 Gulliver discovers Brobdingnag (Gulliver's Travels) 1704 October 10: Bouvet Island, Antarctica - Predators arrive for...


it’s a little known fact about the AIDS disease…

posted on April 18, 2006 7:33 AM

...but originally the disease was referred to as GRID, an acronym for gay-related immune deficiency. later, when doctors and researchers realized that over half of the people who had been diagnosed with the disease were not gay, the CDC changed...


tbs begins running remixed trailers

posted on April 17, 2006 7:14 AM

i have posted before about the remixed trailers that have shown up on the internet over the past few months. now, tbs is beginning to run remixed trailers of their own for their showings of 'the lord of the rings'....


according to cinematical, the film version of 'harry potter and the order of the phoenix' has been given an official release date of 13 july 2007, six days after the official release date of 07 july 2007 for the final...


child-like innocence

posted on April 15, 2006 2:31 AM

when i was just under 4 years old, my mother became pregnant with my sister, lori. my parents being the people that they are decided that, rather than lie or invent some phony method of explaining how my sister came...


heaven and hell

posted on April 13, 2006 7:20 PM

Heaven is when you have a British salary, an American home, Chinese food, a German car and a South African wife. Hell is when you have an American car, a British wife, a Chinese home, German food and a South...


create your own comic strip

posted on April 13, 2006 1:57 PM

http://www.quicktoons.com/create a very limited selection of backgrounds and characters, but this might be a fun little site to mess around with. or you can go with this site http://www.stripgenerator.com/ a greater selection of characters and objects, but the design strategy...


skyscrapers

posted on April 11, 2006 7:45 AM

skyscraperpage is an interesting little site, if you happen to be into really tall buildings like i am. it features diagrams and descriptions of the buildings sorted by city, state, country, or even by total size. birmingham, al [my home...


another overheard in new york gem…

posted on April 6, 2006 2:15 AM

Professor guy: So if I expose a robot to pornography and martial arts and he becomes a ninja rapist, is that my fault or his? --Polytechnic University from overheard in new york...


dear weather,

posted on April 5, 2006 2:08 PM

please make up your frikkin' mind. that is all, thank you. j....


ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

posted on April 1, 2006 6:19 AM

i am officially changing the name of the movie theater at the summit. now, rather than being referred to as the 'carmike summit 16', it will be refered to as 'pedo-central'. seriously, there are so many dolled-up, barely teen girls...


i have a crazy theory…

posted on April 1, 2006 6:09 AM

after seeing several couples at the movie theater that match the description of the situation below, i have formulated this crazy theory to explain the phenomenon. i believe that every now and then, a skinny, attractive girl will go out...