OK, this is it. This is the new hotness (mirror, via MetaFilter). If this doesn’t warm your heart, you need to get the funk off my planet, fool.
The dancing scene is my favorite part of the original as well. Don’t miss the poor balding kid in the orange shirt, or the kid in green in back, or the twins, or Pigpen, or any of them. Goddamn it’s funky.
evan :: Jan.23.2004 :: NetBits :: 1 Comment »
I haven’t been able to get out from under the burden of international superstardom long enough to do any proper pontificating or introspecting, but I wanted to make sure everyone at least gave this a look.
Now that you never want to eat again, let’s go look at the results of Link-Fu 2.0. People who spend waaay too much time on the internet spend a lot of it reading these people’s blogs, so they turned around and asked those people to submit the zaniest, wackiest and perhaps disturbing links, which will show the uninitiated the true wonders of the Internet. Now, being a member of the ‘Digerati’ (read: International Loser Brigade), I am already familiar with both the sweater and xylophone links, but if you haven’t seen them, they’re precious. Go forth, enjoy, and I apologize for the tumor.
evan :: Jan.20.2004 :: NetBits :: 3 Comments »
In honor of the impending New Year’s Eve, when people of all faiths and beliefs can get soused and shit-faced with any and all of the strangers in this merry town, I would like to provide you with 73 other terms for the common effects of an excess of imbibed spirits. May you employ them in the best of health (or at least without puking in your neighbor’s lap).
evan :: Dec.29.2003 :: NetBits :: 1 Comment »
OK, I have no intention of turning this blog into “Hot Dealz fo’ the Holidayz”, but this is just free money: Amazon is selling the Sony Ericsson T616 for -$150 after rebates. Not a typo, no. They want to give you an excellent phone and 150 bills to be an AT&T customer. Admittedly, it’s with a 2-year contract. Even with a 1-year contract, though, you’d still get $75 back. I’ve just ordered one. If you are free of contract and prone to liking $150 I suggest you do the same.
You’ll also get a free Bluetooth headset, which would be six ways to super if it wasn’t bar none the most ridiculous looking appendage a man can buy in these modern times. One might graciously refer to it as a ‘technoslug’. It accomplishes the highly difficult task of making your EAR look fat, and unpleasantly asymmetrical to your other ear to boot. It is a gift from the future, where everyone tools about in Bluetooth-enabled fattycarts and thinks nothing of it. In the here and now, though, it makes you look ridiculous. I know it’s free, but just keep it indoors. Use it outside on peril of getting the stupid smacked out of you.
evan :: Dec.08.2003 :: NetBits :: 1 Comment »
I know McSweeney’s can be seen as an oppressively hip and elitist entity, but these features are lovely regardless:
Inaugural Speeches from our Action Heroes.
Face it; we’ve never had a leader with such brazen confidence under fire as Lion-O.
The Dick and Jane Reader for Advanced Students
Contemporary instructional fiction just ain’t got that home-cooked flavor anymore.
Words and Expressions Commonly Misused by Insipid Brothers-in-Law
I will hereby be adding “callous shitwheel” to my library of invective. I believe it has a bright future with me.
evan :: Nov.26.2003 :: NetBits :: 2 Comments »
Time for the daily Via Metafilter link, boys and girls! Today it’s music reviews by small children. I prefer the opinions of kindergarteners, but fifth graders have some insight, too.
evan :: Nov.13.2003 :: NetBits :: 1 Comment »
My nominee for dumbest business idea ever. I mean, c’mon people. Seriously.
If you can’t see the problem, if this sounds like a ‘cute gift’ to you, it’s too late for you. Report for pre-emptive sterilization tomorrow, after which I will bash your head in for being such a blight on humanity.
evan :: Nov.12.2003 :: NetBits :: 24 Comments »
Somebody tell me how this is OK (via MetaFilter). Time magazine publishes an essay by George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft entitled “Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam”, and then, years later, selectively remove it from their site, ostensibly because they didn’t have the publisher’s permission to sell that article on their site. Yet Time routinely excerpts books in its issues. I’m not sure I believe that online reprint rights aren’t part of that contract, but if they are, fine. Then it’s Alfred A. Knopf who needs to be shitted upon. They are the publishers of the book excerpted, and strong-arming Time into pulling the story from its archive AND the table of contents for that issue is pure crap. To imagine that the online excerpt did not help the sales of Bush and Scowcroft’s book doesn’t make any sense, and depriving the public at large of an important piece of reasoning about the US invading/not invading Iraq is a miserable moral failure on their part.
What annoys me the most is that the article was probably squelched because of the Junior/Senior relationship, when the real issue is that a recent American President who was on the brink of invading Iraq enumerated all the (excellent) reasons why he turned back.
evan :: Nov.12.2003 :: NetBits :: 6 Comments »
I promise, soon I will stop using exclamation points in my entry titles. This deserves them, though (via MetaFilter, really only worth it if you’ve got a fast connection).
Yes, it’s Japanese. No, I don’t know what the hell it’s about, or why someone obviously spent days of their life on it. It is however, most certainly Japanese.
evan :: Nov.03.2003 :: NetBits :: 3 Comments »
It’s nice to see that Google has a sense of humor beyond its cutesy holiday logo changes (via Neil Gaiman). For better or worse, those buggers are the fauna of my native land, and I love them.
evan :: Oct.27.2003 :: NetBits :: 1 Comment »
