Archive for May, 2007

Badvertising 3: Spice Edition

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Somehow, “Same great taste for over 60 years” seems to connote something different for me than for the designers of this label.

Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than ‘Hogzilla’

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The really scary bit here is that eleven year olds are wandering around with .50 caliber revolvers. Although that is a preposterously large animal.

Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than ‘Hogzilla’

So, poor children in foreign countries shouldn’t be given writing implements?

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The gist of this post seems to be that photographers traveling in Nepal should find ways to get children to pose for pictures without being given pens or candies or money. Instead, the children should be encouraged to have fun with the shoot itself while the pens should be given to local schools.

Maybe there’s some [...]

May Fauna

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I’ve moved most off my photography stuff to Plentiful Ventilation, but I’ve had some rather oddly good look in the last couple of days with the birds and such near work, and I thought it was worth posting here:

This, I believe, is a tern of some sort. I was on my way to BART when [...]

Student who planned to attend Rev. Jerry Falwell’s funeral arrested after homemade bombs found in car - Wikinews

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Wow. So, a guy was going to Falwell’s funeral with bombs. Bombs which were meant for people who were going to protest Falwell. Why? Because he wasn’t a big enough bigot.

I find this deeply disconcerting.

Police do not believe that Uhl was going to target the funeral directly. Instead they believe he was going to target [...]

Clips from the Sarah Connor Chornicles - VIDEO - TV Squad

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Come with Summer Glau if you want to live!

Excellent. I prefer her when she’s being vaguely inhuman and kicking preposterous amounts of ass, as opposed to when she’s being an ass on The Unit.

Clips from the Sarah Connor Chornicles – VIDEO - TV Squad

Hue and cry over color-constrained MacBook displays - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Monday, May 21st, 2007

This is unfortunate. I miss the days when I couldn’t care less about such things.

Hue and cry over color-constrained MacBook displays – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)