Makes me wish I was living in Portland.

In other news, Boo still hasn't come home.

*sigh*

... guh.....

For all you Arthur C. Clarke fans like me...

This is the kind of thing that the Internet should be about. What's it for? This is what it's for.

For all of you Gen-X'ers like me who grew up waiting with baited breath for the Psychedelic Pinball Numbers and the "One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others" song...

The Yip Yips meet the Telephone



... or, xenolinguistics for toddlers....

SPOILER ALERT!!!

DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T YET SEEN "TRANSFORMERS" AND WISH TO REMAIN IGNORANT!!!

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Things to like about the new "Transformers" movie...

Bumblebee turns out to be a shameless romantic.

Ratchet is a good medic, but could be a trifle more tactful when using words like "pheromones" and "mating" with regards to teenage humans.

Prime manages to be entirely himself and yet at times a bit of a big clumsy ditz.

Why Jazz? Just, why? *sigh*

I don't remember Ironhide being that impatient with humans.

Remember when Unicron changed Megatron into that other guy? Megatron in this movie looked a lot like him.

Notable minor characters include: a hacker kid who really completely shatters the stereotype; a smarmy Sooper Sekrit Agent Guy who seriously is disgustingly full of himself; a Secretary of Defense actually worth the title; a hot Australian chick who of course figures it all out and all the men of course tell her to shut up.

Questions I'd like answered: Why was there a 1930's vintage shortwave transmitter set-up in the same room with a bunch of computers, and if all the power was out why did those computers even work? And I'm sorry, but you couldn't hook the computers up to that shortwave without several hours of work with a soldering iron and a hell of a lot of luck, if at all. And double I'm sorry, but the only one in that group who MIGHT have known Morse code was the Secretary of Defense. The rest of them were too young. Learning Morse is no longer required to get a ham operator's license and no one else uses it anymore. Nice idea, but really guys, the hacker kid would have had a much better time of it running a cable directly to a satellite dish and uplinking to a satellite.

Prime could have shown a bit more angst about all the humans getting trampled in the Big Fight, but I guess he was concentrating on the bigger picture.

Autobots hiding from nosy parents is the funniest thing you'll see all day. Maybe for many days to come.

The Magic of YouTube Presents:

The Brothers McLeod

Check out the Spamland Series for serious surreality brought to you by spam e-mails.

Check out "Fists of Fuggy" for serious ear-wormery.

But Spamland... that's some seriously weird stuff.

Going to watch more now!

Cute lil' dancing robot Peep (hit the "Keepon dancing to Spoon" for the really cute vid, "Keepon dancing to Drum" is just a demo)

Makes you want to go "aaaaawwww..."

Hmmm....

I was thinking today that things like YouTube, blogs, Flikr, are so popular because they allow people to create things. Fan media culture is all about creating stuff with other people's toys. It's fun because you're participating in it and using it for your own ends. Making stuff up is just fun.

Spew Warning! Do NOT eat or drink while watching this video!

Monty Trek

I laughed so hard I scared my cats.

I got my copyright certificate back for Aquaria.


If you're hankering for more Google Video, go Search "The Hero's Journey". It's a 1-hour bio of Joseph Campbell. A younger and considerably skinnier George Lucas makes an appearance. His hair was still black. Seriously.

Go to Google Video and put in "Lord of the Halo" and watch "Fellowship of the Halo" and "The Two Betrayals". They're both around 3 minutes long and are two of the Lord of the Rings trailers done in Halo machinima. (There will also be a third called "The Return of the Arbiter" but apparently it hasn't been completed yet.) These things are incredible. They're fragging perfect. Go. Go now. Watch and be awed.