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Make It a Wario Party
Make It a Wario Party04/13/2004 04:42 AM Nintendo reaches back into its long history in the game business to
deliver WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games, a madcap blast from the
past that everyone who remembers the good old days can enjoy together.
By Chris Kohler.
-Anita Borg , Cofounder,
Institute for Women and Technology
Chris Ware on French TV
Chris Ware on French TV03/14/2005 05:28 PM Mark Frauenfelder:
Chris Ware is one of the best cartoonists around, and a French TV
channel has produced a documentary about him. You can get a torrent to
download a 100MB file of the documentary from Kempa. Link(via Drawn!)
Whether we want to admit it or not, our iPods hold a special place
in our life. We proudly show it off when we're jogging or at the park,
on a bus or at school. I keep mine in a special protective case and
even have a protective cupholder for it in the car. Face it, you love
your iPod. So where do you go when you want something very special to
show off that greatest of all gadgets? Without a doubt, I've found the
ultimate homage to pay to your iPod. The iDockCovers from Westshore
Craftworks.
They call it a "Ride with Style" The iPod Dock has substance. It
works just fine. The iPod Dock plus an iDockCover gives you substance
and style. Put it this way-- you can get to where you're going with a
Ford Pinto. But you can get to where you're going with style in a
Porsche. And that's what we offer you-- a ride with style. If you're
satisfied with the look of your unadorned Dock, that's cool. But for
many, our new iPod accessory is a welcome addition. We have
iDockCovers to fit the 3G (third generation), 4G (forth generation--
now called the White iPod, offered by both Apple and HP), U2, Mini,
and the iPod Photo. We offer units that span the spectrum from natural
wood finishes to "electric guitar" finishes in a variety of glossy
colors, to our new low-cost, stone texture models. From conservative
and classy, to bold and brash, we have you covered. We think you'll
agree-- this is truly a unique iPod accessory.
Google's Homage to Mac OS X Vanishes
Google's Homage to Mac OS X Vanishes03/17/2005 03:23 AM Updated: Google X, a labs project that
offered an alternative way to access search services, appears to be
unavailable a day after being unveiled.
'Painkiller' Is Homage to Shooting Games (AP)05/19/2004 12:04 AM AP - Simple yet unnerving, "Painkiller" is a splendidly horrific
homage to classic first-person shooters like "Quake" and "Doom."
Coca-Cola just released a great Bollywood-inspired ad in Spain,
Portugal and Italy (thanks, GG). The ad retraces The Party,
The
Guru and Russell
Peters’ wisecrack that the only thing a desi accent is good
for is cutting tension.
In the ad, a desi waiter livens up a dreary Spanish party by
bursting into a Bollywood song. Here’s the really cool part: it
pays homage to Absolut Vodka’s unforgettable Mulit
parody — pink shirt, shiny belt buckle and all. Watch the clip.
Millions Pay Homage to Pope John Paul II (washingtonpost.com)
Millions Pay Homage to Pope John Paul II (washingtonpost.com)04/03/2005 08:06 PM washingtonpost.com - VATICAN CITY, April 3 -- Pope John Paul II, who
in life attracted millions of worshipers and admirers to gatherings
around the world, in death received an immense homage Sunday from
close to 150,000 pilgrims who gathered for an open-air Requiem in St.
Peter's Square.
Homage to Pope Continues as Officials Try to Manage Crowd
That Was Weird...07/17/2004 04:40 PM I just posted a new item, and suddenly there were 22 comments under it
-- all from another posting from more than a week ago. I deleted them,
but this is just bizarre.
Reading about it being 71
degrees for the NYC Marathon, I was about to go running today (I
did the LA marathon in 1997 and was hoping to do one next year) but
was surprised to find the rain just turned to snow and is piling up on
the roof and streets. New York? 70 and partly sunny. Oregon?
snowing.
Weird science
Weird science12/31/2004 04:43 PM It didn't take long for politicized debate to get roiling over the
nature of the tsunami disaster -- some of it rather murky. Steven Milloy of the Cato Institute and Junk Science.com is
now blasting environmentalists for "shameless exploitation" as they
"surf the tsunami tragedy" in order to bring attention to the problem
of global warming. Milloy wants to give the impression that he's
navigating through truer waters, but clearly he's looking to ride the
wave in a direction of his own:
Recently (but I just noticed it today) I started getting HTTP
referers that are a variation of the following:
"XXXX:+++++++++++++++++++++++" (the number of plus signs varies). A google search with
appropriate terms quickly turned up discussions like this one
that suggest that the referer is someone using an anonymizer or
internet security product of some kind. Without that information it
smells like an attempt at an exploit of some kind... but of what kind
(and if so, I've never heard of it)?
Anyone knows about this? Has anyone else seen it? I'm curious.
:)
Weird-o SMS behaviour
Weird-o SMS behaviour02/05/2005 09:13 PM Outi sent me yesterday a sweet text message about mice. True to the
nature of these beasts, that SMS started multiplying: for some reason,
T-Mobile (yes, I'm in Germany) has decided to deliver that message to
me eleven times within the past 24 hours. Even though it has been
sent only once.
It seems that every SMS sent from Finland is replaced by this same
SMS message - so if you've tried to contact me, I have only seen a
message about a mouse from Outi. Sorry. You gotta try and resend, if
you had anything to say (or just email me).
Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the
same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the
geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only
without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after
a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with
buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less
dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall
aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into
opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka
for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts,
but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine
him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually
disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the
spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to
goofy music. So far.
While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up
something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I
was informed that it was a group called Eläkeläiset [the
pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well,
everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just
thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't
describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al
Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Peljätty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are
covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a
disco version of No
Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's
so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I
must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band,
Kumikameli, but I can't
really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and
the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :)
The lyrics are
very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the
polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa
connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird
Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with
Eläkeläiset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There
went another neuron.
Weird Swing Bug
Weird Swing Bug06/22/2004 11:54 PM We ran into a weird issue with Swing today at work. The small class
below reproduces this. 1 import javax.swing.*; 2 import
javax.swing.event.TreeModelEvent; 3 import
javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener; 4 import
javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; 5 import
javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; 6 7 public class Blah extends
JFrame implements TreeModelListener { 8 9 private JTree tree; 10 11
public Blah() { 12 setSize(150, 150); 13
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 14
DefaultMutableTreeNode root... (294 words)
News of the Weird... NOT!
News of the Weird... NOT!01/02/2005 09:23 PM
Though not the web institution of Jim Romenesko's Obscure Store
or as overexposed as Dave Barry's
Blog, Chuck Shepherd's NEWS of the WEIRD
is a fairly good source for news stories that are... well... WEIRD.
And Chuck's the only one who has collected a list of stories that
"now occur with such frequency" that they are NO LONGER
WEIRD. Quite a resource for judging how our society has changed in
the last umpteen years.
Weird Cats05/20/2004 01:13 AM Feline medical
curiosities. Polydactyly, conjoined-kitty-fu, "freaks of
face," cleft palates, and plain old huge. (Not safe for after
lunch).
Found, one weird buoy
Found, one weird buoy01/05/2005 06:31 AM David Pescovitz:
This giant
buoy washed ashore in Cocoa Beach, Florida and nobody has any clue
where it came from or who it belongs to. From Florida Today:
"There's no identifying marks on it, so I don't know where
it came from," said Jeff Galliher, petty officer with the U.S. Coast
Guard at Port Canaveral. "It's just a buoy base with a tower coming
out of it."
Weird Financial News01/16/2004 11:05 AM Did you know West Virginia was auctioned off? Grok Description matches for Altoids' weird Wario Ware homage GrokA matches for Altoids' weird Wario Ware homage
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Chris Ware is one of the best cartoonists around, and a French TV
channel has produced a documentary about him. You can get a torrent to
download a 100MB file of the documentary from Kempa. 
Coca-Cola just released a great Bollywood-inspired ad in Spain,
Portugal and Italy (thanks, GG). The ad retraces 
This giant
buoy washed ashore in Cocoa Beach, Florida and nobody has any clue
where it came from or who it belongs to. From Florida Today: