Thursday, April 28, 2005

New Batman Begins Trailer

New Batman Begins Trailer

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Kris Kross

Remember the 90s? Remember Kris Kross, and how they wore their jeans backwards?

What if sonymusic.com had a page on Kris Kross that was last updated in 1997?

Oops, they do!

Jokes with realistic punchlines

I don't know why, but I found these hilarious. They are similar in form to the jokes we've heard all our lives, but instead they feature a realistic ending.

My favorite one is this:

A man and a woman are crossing the desert. They find a lamp in the sand. The man rubs the lamp and nothing happens. Afterward, he feels a bit foolish.


Jokes with realistic punchlines

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Guess-the-google

This game is awesome! It gives you 20 thumbnails from a random Google image search and have to guess the search term.

Quite fun.

Guess-the-google

Monday, April 25, 2005

Vader's Blog

While you're looking for ways to kill time until Episode III's opening, check out The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster.

It's Darth Vader's blog.

What's WRONG with her?

I suppose some people might think the whole "
"deer in the headlights" look is hot, but not I. Check out this chick, and how she has the exact same lifeless face In. Every. Single. Picture.

I can only come up with these possibilities:

  • It's the same headshot superimposed into all those pictures
  • She paralyzed from the neck up
  • Her mom told her that is what would happen if she made that face but she wouldn't listen
  • The girl is actually a wax figure
  • Weekend at Bernice's?
  • Every picture was taken at gunpoint
  • She's a robot

  • Sunday, April 24, 2005

    Typedrawing

    Typedrawing is a pretty cool site that actually allows you to draw using fonts.

    Play with it. It's fun.

    Xbox 360 Exposed

    Xbox 360 Exposed

    Leaked images of the Xbox 360; supposedly this is indeed the design that will be shown next month at E3. That doesn’t mean it will be the final design that will ship later this year but you can bet it won’t be much different.

    What On Earth Is A Trebuchet?

    The Trebuchet

    It's a big catapult (well sling shot to be technically correct) and you can throw really heavy things a long way with it. All sorts of things...

    Pictures of a piano, a 40 gallon petrol bomb and a cow launched (separately) from a three-ton trebuchet.

    Thursday, April 21, 2005

    Law Strips

    Law Strips are these comic strips made by the Arizona State Police Deparment that I assume are supposed to make kids scared of wrongdoing or somesuch. When I tell you that they fail in this regard, I'm not talking about failure as in an Olympic athelete only got the bronze, I'm talking about Waco-style failure here.

    The comics are so lame, they quite literally seem like they were made by people poking fun at what a police comic strip might be, only they're real.

    Seriously, some are so bad that I don't even know what the supposed crimes are. This strip in particular springs to mind. What was the crime here? Riding with a black person?

    Wednesday, April 20, 2005

    The unfeasible adventures of Beaver and Steve!

    This is the funniest webcomic I've come across since Penny Arcade. A completely different type of humor, but I promise that if you give it a chance you won't be disappointed.

    Beaver and Steve

    The unfeasible adventures of Beaver and Steve!

    The color strips start at #10.

    Tuesday, April 19, 2005

    Episode III TV Spots

    As my buddy rampy over at the Drivel pointed out, there are some new Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith TV Spots available.

    Sneaky direct download links:
    First one

    Second one

    Third one

    Friday, April 15, 2005

    Cave Hunter

    As you may already be aware, I love a good web game. Thus I was quite happy when I discovered a space flight game called Cave Hunter.

    In a word: awesome.

    Cave HunterCave Hunter is a simple game, all you have to do is make it to the other side of the cave without crashing your ship. The catch? "Not crashing your ship" is very, very hard.

    You use your arrow keys to maneuver, and your shift key controls your afterburner if you're daring enough to actually go faster through the cave. Normally, I only boost at the beginning or during a long straightaway.

    It is important to note that your ship can sustain minimal damage, i.e. if you scrape a cave wall or nick a nearby asteroid. However, the first time you pilot smack into a piece of space rock, you can kiss your ship goodbye. Another interesting deterrent not to take damage is that the only light source in the cave is your thrusters, and so when you take damage it gets really dark, and it's much harder to navigate.

    I like to pretend I'm flying the Millennium Falcon into the second DEATH STAR, but a more appropriate Star Wars reference would probably be pod racing because, as Anakin point out in Episode I, not many humans have the reflexes necessary to survive the sport (perhaps none without force sensitivity), and Cave Hunter claims that "only a few men master this journey."

    At this point, I certainly haven't mastered it. After you crash, it tells you how far you made it through the cave. So far I've only been able to make it 77% of the way through, but I assure you I will prevail in the end.

    Thursday, April 14, 2005

    Apostasy - Issue #1

    Apostasy is a stunning Half-Life 2 comic that is made from in-game screenshots.

    Apostasy - Issue #1

    I liked this so much I saved the images, printed them out on a color laser printer, and put them into a spiral notpad:







    Lecture Musical

    From the famous prank group "Prangstgrüp" comes an interesting day at class for student of Music Theory 101.

    Lecture Musical

    Tuesday, April 12, 2005

    Heads of State

    President George Bush seems to have a predilection for caressing bald pates. See the photo evidence here.

    YouSendIt

    This site is for Bill. YouSendIt.com allows you to e-mail large files quickly, securely, and easily. How big is "large" you ask? How about up to a FREAKING GIG!

    The way it works is this, you put in the desired email address, then you select any file on your hard drive up to one gigabyte, and hit send. When the file is done uploading, the other person doesn't get a upteen-meg attachment, instead they just get a link to download it from YouSendIt's servers.

    Art of the Saber

    Archival post:Art of the Saber is the best Star Wars fan film I've ever seen.

    It features better light-saber battle choreography than the real films!!

    Thundercats Outtakes

    Archival post:

    Thundercats Outtakes Harsh language in this one, but very funny.

    Read my lips

    Read my lips: George W Bush and Tony Blair sing "Endless Love."

    If you've never seen this, welcome to the Internet! Be sure to check out The Web Challenge.

    The Sith Rejects

    Archival post:

    The Sith Rejects

    Monday, April 11, 2005

    Goodbye Terri

    I had been meaning to write a few words regarding Terri Schiavo, but with the Holy Father passing away, I guess I just got distracted.

    Some people have believe that Michael Shaivo had his wife starved to death because she wanted it that way (despite the fact that she was a devout Catholic and undoubtedly knew the Church's stance on such an issue). Certainly Michael must have, to fight so long and hard for her death these 15 years, right?

    But he didn't, did he? Somehow the proposition that "she wanted it this way" only occurred to him seven years after the incident.

    There are those would undoubdtedly respond that he was waiting to see if she could be revived and restored, but he didn't wait, did he? He's been living with another woman for 14 years and has two kids by her.

    Some have suggested that he went to nursing school so he could take care of Terri, and yet 15 years later she went through 14 separate institutions and has been taken care of by an untold number of nurses, none of whoem were Michael Schiavo.

    Some have also suggested that the Schindlers were just upset that Michael woudln't split the malpractice money witht them, only they never asked for it. The only thing they asked was to be allowed to take care of their daughter at their own expense until she stopped living.

    Not good enough. Not good enough for Michael. Not good enough for our courts. If Mr. Schiavo had gone to law school instead of nursing school he might have had hearsay explained to him, and understood that it did not matter what Terri supposedly said to him 15 years ago because he couldn't prove it. Proof withstanding, it turns out that his word was good enough for the courts. A man's word was good enough to have someone put to death by starvation.

    I love when people cite studies "proving" that starvation is a humane method of killing, I wonder if those conduction the survey have ever been starved against their will.

    Big Red Button

    Whatever you do, DO NOT PRESS

    Sunday, April 10, 2005

    Nevashut

    Remember Subserviant Chicken? Well Pringles has decided to follow suit with their own viral for everyone's favorite chips.

    Nevashut is a fun, albiet short, flash game in which you try to talk the Indian clerk into giving you the 5 special Pringles cans.

    Also, for fun, try these additional phrases for kicks:

    joke
    jump around
    dance
    this is a stick up
    poison
    loser
    laugh
    sing
    socks
    coke

    Dub Selector

    Well, I have found an amazing Flash site that I wanted to share. It's called "Infinite Wheel," and it contains "The Dub Selector," one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

    Dub, for those of you who may not know about it, is defined by All-Music Guide as follows: "Dub derives its name from the practice of dubbing instrumental, rhythm-oriented versions of reggae songs onto the B-sides of 45 rpm singles, which evolved into a legitimate and accepted style of its own as those re-recordings became forums for engineers to experiment with the possibilities of their mixing consoles. ... The downtempo atmospherics and bass- and rhythm-heavy textures of dub had a lasting influence outside of reggae, ...; during the '90s, dub was frequently incorporated into the melting-pot eclecticism of underground avant-garde rock, and Britain's thriving electronica/drum'n'bass scene owed a great deal to dub's mixing and production techniques." (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=C616)

    Now that you know what Dub is, go check out The Dub Selector. Basically, it enables you create and mix your own Dub tracks by manipulating comical little characters & widgets. You've got to see it to understand it, so check it out. I think you'll find it impressive.

    Saturday, April 09, 2005

    The Old Negro Space Program

    The Old Negro Space Program: The Shocking-But-False Story of America's Blackstronauts.

    Really funny video of the fictional the Old Negro Space Program, even though there is very harsh language.

    The Lonely Astronaut

    Archival post:

    The Lonely Astronaut is one of the funniest things ever.

    Se7en Redux

    Se7en Redux is the ending to the movie "Se7en" re-acted with puppets. Quicktime format.

    This reminded me of the MTV Movie Awards' skit parodying Se7en with one Bill Shatner playing all three roles.

    Friday, April 08, 2005

    Hitatchi must be really excited about their new hard drives ...

    Remember the post about Hitatchi coming up with much bigger hard drives? I admit, I'm thrilled about larger storage mediums, but I think they've gotten a little *too* excited about their idea.

    Tell you what, watch this little flash animation on their site which explains the new technology, and then you tell me.

    Thursday, April 07, 2005

    Strategy Guide to Metal Gear 2

    This is classic. Slowbeef has played through the entire Metal Gear 2 game on an emulator (note that this is NOT Metal Gear Solid 2, but Metal Gear 2).

    After doing this he decided to write a Strategy Guide for it, although it is actually closer to a parody.

    He goes through the whole game, making fun of the poor translations starting from the intro scene:


    Konami presents: 1990.

    Thanks so much, Konami! That was a great year for all of us!


    Be warned: There is some foul language in the guide, but not so much that it's real distracting.

    eBay: Michael Jackson w/ Boy Scouts of America Rare Poster

    I couldn't even make something like this up: eBay - Michael Jackson w/ Boy Scouts of America Rare Poster

    Wednesday, April 06, 2005

    Superman is a jerk

    And here is the proof.

    Lil Jon

    If you've ever known anyone who thinks Lil Jon is cool, please show them his senior picture.

    Tuesday, April 05, 2005

    GI Joe PSAs

    Archival post:

    GI Joe Public Service Announcements

    Every OS Sucks

    Archival post:

    Awesome (and quite true) song in which we are told precisely why ever OS sucks.

    Emotion Eric

    Archival post:

    Eric Conveys an Emotion

    Beach Bummer

    Archival post (originally posted by Steve on 4/21/2003):

    Allow me to relay my weekend to you. On Saturday I went to the beach. Beautiful day and all that, water was warm, and there was free entertainment. Permit me to continue.

    As I'm exiting the water for the first time and walking back towards my vehicle, I notice a bright blue Dodge Ram 1500 parked much farther (not further, as further relates to degree and farther to distance) than I had up on the beach. As a matter of fact, this inspiring young chap had, after much consideration and due process I sure, parked his truck as close to the dunes as possible. For those of you who don't live in Florida, I will briefly explain why this would summarily fall into the "bad idea" category. You see, the closer you get to the dunes, the softer the sand gets, until the point where in the worst spots when you walk on it your feet sink in to the middle of your calf.

    To boot, this veritable Einstein had manageed to park on top of a huge log.

    It gets better.

    Needless to say when our little genius went to back his truck up, he started sinking quite quickly. It got deeper, and deeper, and eventually he realized he was only worsening things, so he quit. Along comes truck #2, a very nice black Durango, who (playing the role of the good Samaritan) offers to pull truck #1 out. The attach a rope between the two, and proceed to sink truck #1 all the way down to the axle in the back, with the front of the truck resting comfortably on the log. Now I'm starting to chuckle.

    Truck #3 arrives, a black Ford F150 if you're interested, and out pops a mouthy little southerner who is certain he can solve this problem singlehandedly. With some shovels (I'm not sure where they came from) the guys eventually dig out the log (which turned out to be a fallen palm tree) from the front of the truck, and the little redneck hops in and, to my completely amazment, actually gets truck #1 out of the pit it was in rather quickly. With what looked like ease and grace, he rocked it back, then forth only once time, and out the truck came, as if coaxed by some imaginary figure. The southerner, quite pleased with himself, takes off in truck #3.

    Backtrack a little. While the guys were attempting to move the tree from beneath truck #1, they notice a plethora of smoke billowing out from under the hood of truck #2. It seems that the Durango was none too keen about being used to try to pull a stuck Dodge Ram out, and then sitting in the hot sun with the engine idling. Now the thing won't start.

    The owner of the now defunct truck #2 comes over to ask me if I had any jumper cable. This poor sap was clearly in denial, hoping that the smoke had been in his imagination or something, I'm not quite sure. But he continues his quest for the cables, hoping against hope that it is just a dead battery. Enter truck #4, a small, beat-up Ford Ranger, who delivers the much sought-after cables, but being in my mind the smartest guy of the group decides not to drive his truck into the quicksand of death. No problem, we've still got our original idiot here. He hops in truck #1, and drives it over to face truck #2 to give it a jump with the cables from truck #4. At this point, I'm just waiting for truck #1 to get stuck again, as this would certainly make my day.

    After letting the battery charge for a while, they try to start truck #2 up, and it just makes a loud *click*. Shocker. So truck #4 exits with cables in hand. Owner of truck #2 decides he wants to get someone to pull him to a mechanic, but truck #1 is out because he snapped something underneath the front on that palm tree, and consequently the truck isn't running so great. What to do? You guessed it.

    Truck #5 was a white Z71. After hooking the rope between the stationary truck #2 and our new friend truck #5, they begin the useless spinning of tires. Well, I guess I shouldn't say useless, as they did manage to get truck #5 stuck too.

    At this point, I'm just flat-out staring, mouth slightly open, head cocked quizzically sideways like a dog who hears a high-pitched noise.

    They remove the rope between truck #5 and truck #2, and place it between truck #5, and our origial badboy in truck #1 and get truck #5 out, who gets the heck out of dodge. Finally, truck #1 gives the owner of truck #2 a ride somewhere, leaving me with no more entertainment. That's ok, the whole ordeal lasted over 2 hours.

    Actual Mike Tyson quotes

    Archival post

    My Favorite Mike Tyson Quote

    "[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse."


    On Lennox Lewis

    'Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!'

    'My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.'

    'I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.'


    On Evander Holyfield

    'You got nothing coming, man. I'm going to enjoy this fight.'
    After biting Holyfield he said, 'This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.'

    'I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.'


    On Razor Ruddock

    'You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.'


    Miscellaneous Quotes

    I really dig Hannibal. Hannibal had real guts. He rode elephants into Cartilage.'

    'I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.'

    'I like the British bikes. I like British people. They're real mellow.'

    'I just want to conquer people and their souls.'"

    Airplane

    Archival post (originally written by Steve on 6/05/2003)


    You know how you always hear stories about the airplane ride from H E double hockeysticks? I always thought such talk was embellishment on the part of the storyteller; mostly hype with a bit of truth it was based upon. I can't express how wrong I was.

    As I boarded the small aircraft destined to transport me home from the artic hinterland that is D.C., I observed with great interest a young gentleman sitting in the aisle seat next to my seat. Fair enough. I make the appropriate hand gesture, and he lets me in.

    At this point, I still think everything is cool.

    About thirty seconds after I get as comfortable as you can in coach airplane seats (which is to say really freaking uncomfortable), he starts with the questions in an extremely thick French accent.
    "Are you going to Jacksonveel?" Yeah pal, that's where the plane is headed.
    Right about now I notice that the air emitting from his mouth is nothing shy of rancid. I'm not just talking about your typical case of "bad breath," I'm talking about him spewing the most fearsome odor from his oral cavity that I've ever had that displeasure to smell. Here come more questions.
    "How many keelometers is eet to Jacksonveel?" I don't know man, I guess about a million. This is America, and we don't deal well with the metric system. We tried, we're stupid, we can't.
    At this point, every time he turns his head to ask me a question I'm actually turning my head the opposite direction to aviod the veritable flames leaping forth from his lips. Then I'll pause for a moment to let the air dissipate a bit, then I'll turn back to answer his question. At one point he questioned this method and I had to tell him I was hard of hearing so I needed to turn my head to listen to him.

    "How much does eet cost to make a call?"

    Thirty-five cents.

    Now the questions start rolling out faster than I can turn my head back and forth.

    "Do I have to dial 011 first? How long can I talk? What is this dime? Where is San Jose blvd? What time is eet? Where can I make poopie?"

    Somewhere amidst this verbal barrage I begin to detect a different odor, one that is assuredly not eminating from his mouth. "No no," I think to myself, "pleae Lord let this be anything but what I think it is."

    Well you can pretty much guess that it was what I feared it was. And you can pretty much guess that what I feared it was, was the absolute worst cast of BO in the history of mankind, to this day.

    Let me tell you this is one freaking stench, and it's getting worse by the minute, and I'm only ten minutes into a two hour flight. Joy.

    This stench was unlike any other aroma I've ever detected. It was overwhelming, everywhere I tried to put my nose was contamined with his fragrance. I got the idea to turn on the little air conditioning thing. While this seems like a good idea, it actually only served to worsen my dilemma. His reek had floated all the way up there, and so now I had this BO, new BO if you will, being push directly inside my nostrils.

    At some point, I passed out and the flight attendant woke me up after everyone else had debaorded. The air hadn't yet cleared though, so I made world record time getting off that plane into fresh, fresh airspace.

    Engrish

    Archival post:

    I'm fairly certain that this is one of those sites that everyone else knew about for a long time and just never thought to let me know. Thanks for that, by the way. Anyhoo, it's really funny to browse through the various categories over on Engrish.com. I'm particulary fond of "thank you for you," and "I will always be there for you. I promise you with these five words."

    I've made my own Engrish before. If you haven't you should try it because it's quite fun. Here's how:

    Find a block of English text to translate, or write your own if you're so inclined.
    Go to Babelfish and paste in your text.
    Translate the text to Japanese.
    Translate the text back to English.
    Laugh at the results.
    Let me give you an example with today's daily dose. Here's your joke in English:

    Some friends were playing Trivial Pursuit when it became the blonde's turn. She rolled the dice and got a Science and Nature question: "If you're in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?" The blonde thought a moment and asked, "Is it on or off?"

    Here's the Engrish version:

    When that becomes revolution of the blonde, the friend who is takes had done the pursuit which is not enough. She rolled the dies, obtained the question of science and character: If " there is so a vacuum and someone calls your name, as for you who can inquire about that?" The time, thought of the blonde to be being asked, " or, that?"

    See? Comedy gold!

    The origins of Spider-Man

    Archival post:

    The best part about this is after it's over, and you get to see the "Director's cut." It's pretty funny.

    The origins of Spider-Man

    An online guide to hand signals

    Archival post:

    If you're into the increasingly popular squad-based shooters such as Rainbow Six 3 and the like, you would do well to go over some common hand signals your teammates might use.

    Fake lyrics to a System of a Down song

    Yeah, I know I posted this on the old Steve's Exodus, but I'm reposting it for anyone who missed it, and for archival purposes.

    Fake lyrics to a System of a Down song

    Puki - The Swarm

    Puki - The Swarm is a flash game which combines a first person shooter with a typical rail-shooter game.

    Basically you are walking down a hall and these little, gremlin-like creatures, Puki, are trying to kill you so you have to blast them with your laser.

    Batman: New Times

    BATMAN: NEW TIMES is an exceptionally well done CGI short film.

    Packed with a great sense of humor, good action, and a celebrity voice cast that includes Adam West, Mark Hamill, and Dick van Dyke, this film is sure to impress you.

    Numa Numa

    Ok, this is actually several months old. Somehow I thought I posted it, but when I went back to find it again, I hadn't.

    So, here, in the great tradition of The Star Wars Kid, and Aicha, I give you: Numa Numa.

    Monday, April 04, 2005

    Hitachi Engineers New Hard Drive Storage Method

    Well, we have bigger drives on the way. Looks like by the end of the year we might have standard hard drives up to 1TB. That's Terabyte. As in 1000 Gigabytes. Currently, the highest IDE drive is 400GB.

    Read all about it

    Calling all nerds

    Someone has discovered the number to a pay phone next to the famous Chinese Movie Theater in LA. What makes this so funny is that currently there is like 50 people in front of there waiting in line for Star Wars for the next 6 weeks.

    They answer the phone. CALL THEM/TALK WITH THEM!!!!

    1-323-462-9609


    I called and talked to a kid named Eliott. He was nice, we chatted about the weather. He's been there since Saturday.

    Sunday, April 03, 2005

    Black Knight

    Decent little flash game: those pesky peasants refuse to pay their taxes to the king. You are the valiant Black Knight and must travel the realm hitting people to get their money.

    Saturday, April 02, 2005

    Sede Vacante

    Pope John Paul II

    There is no question that Karol Wojtyla — the second pope to take the name John Paul, the recently deceased Vicar of Christ, the most recent Roman Pontiff — was a great man. The impact of his life will be felt long after he is gone. The length of his stride will likely not soon be matched by his successors. A radical choice for pope in 1978, he revolutionized the role of the Bishop of Rome, putting the "universal" back in the Catholic Church through his evangelical voyages and media savvy.

    I can’t claim to have a unique perspective on John Paul II. Like everyone my age, he’s the only pope I’ve ever known. I grew up in John Paul II’s world. His clear benevolence and joyful embrace of his position is, no doubt, a large part of what attracted me back to my faith in the late 1990s.

    There have been many great popes, but to three only has posterity awarded the title of the Great: St. Leo I, St. Gregory I, and St. Nicholas I. My prediction is that within a hundred years from now, he will no longer be reffered to as "John Paul the second" but instead by "John Paul the Great."

    John Paul II’s legacy was mostly one of great advancement and change. As a bishop, Karol Wojtyla was one of the great reformers who helped drive through the changes of Vatican II. As the pontiff, John Paul II set out a new form of Catholicism which made Vatican II manifest. If the goal of Vatican II was, as it has been claimed, to air out the Church and let some more light in, it was John Paul II who opened the windows to do so.

    Under his papacy, John Paul II oversaw the final implementations of the Novus Ordo Mass, including revisions to the Vatican II-approved English-language liturgy. Under this pope, Church architecture was changed from the standard designs of old, and encouraged to seek out new forms for a new era. Some of the new churches may be a tad grotesque, but the freedom which made them possible certainly is not.

    Traveling widely, John Paul II truly embraced the pontiff’s role as a universal shepherd of the Catholic faithful, making the pope manifestly real to Catholics everywhere. No longer was the pope just an old man occasionally seen in a photograph from Rome. John Paul II’s humble disposition gave him a great appeal among the young, and even among non-Catholics; certainly he is one of the main reasons that conversions to Catholicism in the United States have been at record levels for the last few years.

    The papacy is now a dynamic, moving institution. John Paul II has made it so. Even in his infirmity, he travelled. Even in his dying days, he wheeled himself to his window to bless the crowds. Of all the pope’s titles, to John Paul II “Servant of the Servants of God” was the most precious. Like any good servant, he came himself to those he sought to serve. He brought them the Gospel, he brought them his warmth. And to many, he brought freedom.

    Were it not for John Paul II, the Cold War would have ended quite differently. Whereas Reagan and Thatcher pressed the USSR up against the wall militarily, it was John Paul II who brought to bare the moral weight which finally toppled the Communist system. It is, perhaps, exactly this reason that the God chose him. A faithful, engaging pope able to bring to the world the plight of those oppressed in Soviet Poland undermined the USSR in ways that the threat of tanks and missiles could not. And that’s not even considering his funding of Solidarity and other anti-communist Eastern European movements. The pope rightly identified the evil that was at the core of the Soviet system — the abuse of the dignity of man — and condemned it literally and figuratively.

    Many try to paint the pope as a conservative, but if one is using an American lexicon, that term does not apply. John Paul II’s politics were not Republican, nor were they Democrat. His politics were instead consistently Catholic.

    Within the next few weeks, new white robes will be sewn. A new miter and ring will be prepared. White smoke will float above the Vatican, and a new pope will emerge. This new pope will emerge into a world changed by his predecessor.

    When a new pope is elected, there isn’t time to properly tailor his white robes to his figure before his first appearance before the masses in St. Peter’s Square. Instead, the robes are pinned into place, and folded to hide excess cloth. They don’t look quite right. They don’t quite fit. And in the minds of many, those of us who grew up with his face, were converted by his warmth, were affirmed by his faith, and moved by his compassion, those robes may never fit anyone but Pope John Paul II.

    Friday, April 01, 2005

    Gmail turns 1

    So what does the leader in e-mail decide to do on Gmail's first birthday? Gmail ups the storage capacity to 2GBs. Click that link to watch a cool little counter going up and up and up, constantly increasing my already vast e-mail storage capacity. Hahahahaha!

    Just to give you an idea how much of a leader Google really is, just last week, Yahoo said it would offer 1 gigabyte of storage to their users. But a year ago today, when Google introduced Gmail, Yahoo was providing just 4 megabytes of storage. Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail now offers 250 megabytes, up from 2 megabytes at Gmail's launch.

    Oddly enough, my favorite thing about Gmail isn't the virtually unlimited email storage space, it's the lack of spam. Other people sometimes remark about how they hate spam and I always calmly reply, "Spam? What's spam?"

    Evil Josh and Billy

    Evil Josh and Billy is a series that follows two young villains in their everyday lives of growing to be supervillains. Evil Josh is a seventeen-year-old with high aspirations of world domination and Billy is his ten-year-old brother who wishes to grow up to be the world's maddest scientist.

    Amusing little flash series. Give it a chance.

    Episode 1
    Episode 2
    Episode 3
    Episode 4

    The Disc

    The Disc

    Read about the disc. It'll only take you about 4 minutes and you'll be saying, my lord he's right!

    Spongebong Hemppants

    Tired of Spongebob Squarepants? Try out his alter-ego, Spongebong Hemppants.

    Spongebong Hemppants Episode 1

    Spongebong Hemppants Episode 2: Another Hashbrick in the Wall

    Spongebong Hemppants Episode 3: Crystal Meth