Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Camel Cigarette Commercial
(Requires RealPlayer, but get RealAlternative instead from CleanSoftware.org)
This is great! Wouldn't be so funny if the actors weren't so damn serious....
Light Up,
-C
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This is great! Wouldn't be so funny if the actors weren't so damn serious....
Light Up,
-C
Labels: consumerism, Videos
The Four Noble Truths
Buddhism, the short version, for when the version on Wikipedia is too long to read...
-C
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-C
Labels: Philosophy, Religion
Monday, June 28, 2004
Solresol
The language of music. Looks like their marketing department could use a couple bucks, but it is an interesting idea.
Blog On,
-C
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Blog On,
-C
Friday, June 25, 2004
E-Mail Poetry
So I get this e-mail today, most likely a virus, but it contains the following text:
"behind gonad laughs out loud, but grain of sand inside spider confess midwife living with.When related to demon flies into a rage, rattlesnake living with recliner reads a magazine.related to deficit operate a small fruit stand with behind asteroid, because over cashier go deep sea fishing with for sandwich.A few alchemists, and behind hydrogen atom) to arrive at a state of briar patch
concision sanitarium avocate lacquer culver fungal "
For those who don't know, this is randomly generated by a computer to throw off the SPAM filtering. But, for some reason I actually found this pretty good; it's no Robert Frost, but it is better in fact, than anything I have ever read in the American Poetry Journal.
Blog on,
-C
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"behind gonad laughs out loud, but grain of sand inside spider confess midwife living with.When related to demon flies into a rage, rattlesnake living with recliner reads a magazine.related to deficit operate a small fruit stand with behind asteroid, because over cashier go deep sea fishing with for sandwich.A few alchemists, and behind hydrogen atom) to arrive at a state of briar patch
concision sanitarium avocate lacquer culver fungal "
For those who don't know, this is randomly generated by a computer to throw off the SPAM filtering. But, for some reason I actually found this pretty good; it's no Robert Frost, but it is better in fact, than anything I have ever read in the American Poetry Journal.
Blog on,
-C
Labels: Writing
Thursday, June 24, 2004
A Flipping Flip Phone
Again, I say: about freaking time. My cell phone junked out on me, and I replaced it with a Motorola flip-phone, and I am completely Underwhelmed. You can mistake these things for the cheap plastic shit you get out of the coin-operating vending machines at the entrance of grocery stores. They can engineer the phones as small as a book of matches, but never think to change the format (remember the tiny flip phone in Zoolander?). Millions of dollars on marketing research for useless information like "Brushed Nickel is the New Black" and "People on their cell phones cause lots of motor vehicle accidents" but they never tried to hold a flip phone up to their ear with their shoulder to free up their hands while driving and eating a salad with chopsticks. That's real-world design research, pal. So, years later, some engineer sees an episode of Star Trek, and thinks, "Hey, what a great idea! A cell phone you can wear! Well, you could use that without your hands!"
NO SHIT, Sherlock.
On and on,
-C
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NO SHIT, Sherlock.
On and on,
-C
Labels: Technology, Uncool Products
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
I-Tunes Review
I just downloaded ITunes for Windows, to see how it works. The Player is OK, but Ugly as sin, like it fell out of the Ugly Process() and hit every node on the way down. I-Tunes should take a style tip from Windows Media Player or Winamp. I was more excited about the online storage portion to replace the one I lost when the old mp3.com went under (I had over 200 CDs set up online to stream...)
I WAS excited that is, until the registration asked me for my credit card number. Ick. Isn't it possible to try this service out, and decide if I actually want to use it before forking over my credit card number?
Also, all the music offered through the i-Tunes site is infected with DRM, which is reason enough to stick with...well, Anything else.
Meanwhile, ITunes player only supports IPOD hardware (Which is pronounced backwards as "dopey")
Guess it's back to Media Player / Winamp...
Tune out,
-C
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I WAS excited that is, until the registration asked me for my credit card number. Ick. Isn't it possible to try this service out, and decide if I actually want to use it before forking over my credit card number?
Also, all the music offered through the i-Tunes site is infected with DRM, which is reason enough to stick with...well, Anything else.
Meanwhile, ITunes player only supports IPOD hardware (Which is pronounced backwards as "dopey")
Guess it's back to Media Player / Winamp...
Tune out,
-C
Friday, June 18, 2004
G-mail Hoopla
Agreed. This article from LockerGnome's Matt Hartley questions the buzz surrounding gmail, the new e-mail service from Google. I picked one up, but it wasn't easy to get, but here is a hint: having an account at Blogger helps! ;)
I think what Matt forgot to mention is that Google has good PR and a good corporate image; and for good reason.
First of all, their service works.
Second, their work is tastefully done. They don't flash advertisements or pop-ups at you. If Joe-Internet-User were to be asked how he/she wanted to see ads displayed, they would say: "Well, if we just HAVE to have them, there's some space off to the right, and keep the font size the same as the rest, and NO FLASHING and NO POPUPS!" Well, that's what Google did. Their site is simple, and easy on the eyes. Want to see how NOT to do it? How to be hard on the eyes How to look cluttered
Third, reading about the company, its hard not to like them. They are a bunch of real people who would be happy wearing jeans and working out of the garage. They don't take themselves too seriously. They don't think they are as great as they really are. (In an interview with the founder of Google, he rated the company a three on a scale of one to ten with ten being the best.) Also, they are up front about what they are doing. They also know that another group of 'nice folks wearing jeans and working out of the garage' could come along with better service and blow them right out of the virtual water.
Fourth, they are intelligently integrating their existing search engine service into the new e-mail service. Unlike places that have some spare server space and start selling e-mail accounts. G-mail takes full advantage of their search capabilities. Advertisements you see are searched out and filtered based on the content of the e-mail, which means they are much more likely to be releavant and useful to you.
These things add up to a company I would trust to provide e-mail service correctly. No doubt the current hype surrounding Gmail was meticulously planned by marketing, and designed through its 'exclusive invitation only' subscription method to have "a country club feel" as Matt puts it. In the end, Gmail is still a service that will make money for Google, but it doesn't seem like these people have sold their souls to Satan just yet.
Google on,
C
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I think what Matt forgot to mention is that Google has good PR and a good corporate image; and for good reason.
First of all, their service works.
Second, their work is tastefully done. They don't flash advertisements or pop-ups at you. If Joe-Internet-User were to be asked how he/she wanted to see ads displayed, they would say: "Well, if we just HAVE to have them, there's some space off to the right, and keep the font size the same as the rest, and NO FLASHING and NO POPUPS!" Well, that's what Google did. Their site is simple, and easy on the eyes. Want to see how NOT to do it? How to be hard on the eyes How to look cluttered
Third, reading about the company, its hard not to like them. They are a bunch of real people who would be happy wearing jeans and working out of the garage. They don't take themselves too seriously. They don't think they are as great as they really are. (In an interview with the founder of Google, he rated the company a three on a scale of one to ten with ten being the best.) Also, they are up front about what they are doing. They also know that another group of 'nice folks wearing jeans and working out of the garage' could come along with better service and blow them right out of the virtual water.
Fourth, they are intelligently integrating their existing search engine service into the new e-mail service. Unlike places that have some spare server space and start selling e-mail accounts. G-mail takes full advantage of their search capabilities. Advertisements you see are searched out and filtered based on the content of the e-mail, which means they are much more likely to be releavant and useful to you.
These things add up to a company I would trust to provide e-mail service correctly. No doubt the current hype surrounding Gmail was meticulously planned by marketing, and designed through its 'exclusive invitation only' subscription method to have "a country club feel" as Matt puts it. In the end, Gmail is still a service that will make money for Google, but it doesn't seem like these people have sold their souls to Satan just yet.
Google on,
C
Labels: Cool Website, Praise
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
This Wonderful Life
Wow. Amazing movie, requires quicktime and about 20 min. (If prompted, use "bugmenot" as username and password.)
-C
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-C
Labels: Cool Website, Praise, Ubercool, Videos
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Nickelback Hacks
I don't hate Nickelback, but I don't care for any band that changes the lyrics to a song and sells it, 'hey, here is our new hit'. Nickelback is the "Flock of Seagulls" of the 2000's, a Three-Quarter-Hit-Wonder who successfully turned one mediocre song into two. Check out the download here if you don't believe me.
http://www.riserock.com/xmas/nickelbacksucks.mp3
Oh, and before you shower me with e-mail saying how great nickelback is, read this.
Do yourself a favor, download all the talentless, self-absorbed shit Nickelback/POD/LinkinPark/Staind/PuddleOfMudd pump out off the Internet for free, and save your money for for something good, like the new Velvet Revolver CD (just out today, by the way)...
-C
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http://www.riserock.com/xmas/nickelbacksucks.mp3
Oh, and before you shower me with e-mail saying how great nickelback is, read this.
Do yourself a favor, download all the talentless, self-absorbed shit Nickelback/POD/LinkinPark/Staind/PuddleOfMudd pump out off the Internet for free, and save your money for for something good, like the new Velvet Revolver CD (just out today, by the way)...
-C
Labels: Funny, music, music reviews
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Pseudo-Coke
All you fucking idiots who are buying into this "Carbs are the Devil" nonsense should be gunned down in the street, followed by the marketing people who are despirately pandering to you with "Atkins friendly" products like this one from Coke, called "C2". (Give the people what they want, right?)
I will try C2 for the novelty of it, and buy one to keep on the shelf, (right next to the bottle of Crystal Pepsi) so I can point to it a couple years from now when you are still overweight and running around yelling "Fat is the Devil". I have an idea! How about instead of reading books on dieting and weight loss, you read a book on Nutrition!
"The Devil is the Devil",
-C
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I will try C2 for the novelty of it, and buy one to keep on the shelf, (right next to the bottle of Crystal Pepsi) so I can point to it a couple years from now when you are still overweight and running around yelling "Fat is the Devil". I have an idea! How about instead of reading books on dieting and weight loss, you read a book on Nutrition!
"The Devil is the Devil",
-C
Labels: americans, Caffeine, consumerism, Uncool Products
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
RATE MY MULLET
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