Mildly funny zombie skit.
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Genius Meet Disaster Meet Despair
Um, yea, so, I did it. I washed my ipod shuffle. And the headphones. The headphones still work great. Sadly, I’m not having much luck with the ipod. It’s just so damn small that it fits in your pocket without you even knowing. And it was a Christmas present from my mom no less. Sorry, mom. 
Getting in Shape using the Software Development Life Cycle
Most of the time, my degree in computer science only gets used as resume stuffing. Recently, all that nonsense has crept into the most mundane of my activities. My workout process is following the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and I think just about anyone could benefit from a little SDLC too.
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The single movie that I’m most anticipating at this moment is Wall-E.
A great dissection of the parts of an URL by a Googler. (Via Blogoscoped)
“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. – from an article about interrogation techniques used by the US in WWII. (via Digg)
WTF? Youtube video from CSPAN talking about pesticide testing on infants … here in the US … right now. (Via Digg) I thought it was a hoax until I watched the video.
Don’t you hate those crappy color pickers that don’t follow the Adobe model seen in Photoshop? I do. John Dyer has put together a javascript version of the Adobe color picker that you can use on the web. It rocks. (Via Ajaxian)
A giant moon-shaped night light. I need one; I’m not sure what for though.
Mixing two great things Guitar Hero + Hiro from Heroes = Guitar Hiro T-Shirt. I love it.
Hulk Hogan Finalizing Deal to Host NBC’s ‘American Gladiators.’ Is there anything else to say?
Letterman does a hilarious interview with Paris Hilton. Must watch. (Via A Welsh View)
If it weren’t for the $40,000 to $90,000 price tag, I bet my wife would want one of these dragon BBQ grills. (Via Gizmodo)
In time for Halloween, here’s a video tutorial showing how to make gruesome gashes made out of bubblegum. Finally, a good use for bubblegum.
There’s a new image resizing technology out there that blows my mind. It’s called seam carving. Here’s a working web tool that lets you give seam carving a try (via Photojojo). I can’t stress how unbelievable it is. Did I mention it’s amazing? Probably the biggest innovation in digital photo retouching in years. I can’t be the only one who wants a Photoshop plugin for this.
These carnie pics are incredible. (Via A Welsh View)
Review: Bionic Woman
Bionic Woman was my first big disappointment of this fall season. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t have high expectations. I just couldn’t see how the show could get screwed up. It’s a simple premise, a woman with super powers doing awesome stuff. In a world of Heroes, Alias, and the like, it should be TV equivalent of a box cake: easy to bake but delicious none the less. Yet, through a series of bad decisions resulting with the show being taken way too seriously, they manage to screw up a good premise so bad that it’s not really watchable.
Super Strength Sucks
Early on, when the heroine has her bionic powers thrust on her without her consent, it’s pretty obvious what the writers are setting up, a bad rationale for heroine angst. If you told me that loosing my arm meant I could get a super bionic one, I’d be hard pressed not to grab the electric chainsaw sitting in the garage. If I awoke from a car crash to have super strength, I would be ready to take up extreme sports and be thankful that I’m not a triple amputee. The writers of this show decided to skip the exuberance of a new found super power and instead focus on moral lessons like how unfair it is to have all that thrust upon you. The result is no less boring than the college course on bioethicity in the opening scene of the show.
Emotional Detachment
If the moral lessons on body modifications weren’t bad enough, the acting and writing manage to be so bad that they suck all emotional attachment from the characters. For instance when the boyfriend/secret-genius-doctor is shot, our super-angst super-heroine forgoes helping him to run off and fight the rogue bionic woman that shot him.That’s only slightly unfair considering that when she lost both legs in a car crash, he jeopardized his top secret program to replace them.
The unfairness really begins when after the fight, she neglects to ask after his condition as the paramedics (who got there without any help from her) drive away. Not even a simple, “Will he make it?” The emotional detachment must have worked, because I found myself not caring at all whether he survived to the next episode. Or if anyone else did for that matter.