What happens when you mix kids toys, grandma’s recipes, and a 20,000 V power supply? Well, you guessed right if you guessed either Cooking with High Voltage, High-Voltage Stress Testing of Computer Equipment, or my personal favorite, Furby Stress Testing.

Whew! That’s a lot of voltage, and a lot of charred remains. The greatest thing are the Quicktime movies of the carnage! (Check out the Jacob’s Ladder Shish-kabobs).

Well, this was originally plucked from TheForce.net, and no one was *really* sure if it was a fan trailer or the real thing. Well, upon some serious scrutiny, it turns out to be fake, but DAMN if it doesn’t look real. More Braveheart footage with the lightsabers and all, but this is a fine testament to the LUDICROUS amounts of time fanboys put into their obsession.

Check out the pseudo-teaser here

A King puts it “My friends, we have a chance to become Big Publishing’s worst nightmare. Not only are we going glueless, look Ma, no e-Book! No tiresome encryption! Want to print it and show it to a friend? Go ahead!”.

This is absolutely wonderful. I’m glad someone, especially someone of the caliber of Stephen King has the bollocks to pull this off. Another truly COOL thing is that all of this is on the “honor system” as King puts it. To quote him more directly “Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy!”.

This is the first part of the story, and it is only $1. That’s it. However, if King doesn’t receive 75% of payments for the first part, the second part will not be released. This could set a precedent for future downloads of literature and/or music on the web. Frankly, i think this is GREAT. Absolutely wonderful. Kudos to King on this one.

Consider this “Hit the Road… Part Deux”. Gary and Hunter have posted more photos from their trip (now viewable in BOTH browsers! hehe), including them building sandcastles on the beach, and taking moon-lit strolls, too!

What do you want to bet that they both re-enacted Senator Kelly (freshly-mutantized) popping out of the water as jelly-fish man? If i were a bettin’ man.

Anywho, go here to check it out.

Well, the journey begins! Hunter and Gary have set off on their summer tour. (Leg 1 for Gary, Leg 2 is in Japan). Some hilarious posts so far. Pictures are forthcoming. The site, at Gary’s BlandPlanet is here. WARNING: if you go to the BlandPlanet site, wait for the background to load.

Hey all, i just finished another round of site updates. Which include the following:

- user accounts. click here to get one
- posting by users only. you’ve now GOT TO BE A USER to post a reply. this isn’t completely rolled out yet. tomorrow!
- new comments style, and the ability to modify the reply depth at which you browse the replies!

Questions or comments? eMail me.

Haha! I do believe I have thwarthed the “menace” of not being able to put quotes “” ” into replies! It was a pain in the ass, so i best be seein’ some quote usin’ replies!

Wow! This is pretty cool… Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 “contemporary classic” RAN is going to be back in theatres starting on my birthday, August 18th. They also have quite a wicked website up and running (you need the Flash plugin, and well you should, it’s REALLY good Flash).

Yippee!

I never really cared for the Macintoshes so much. They were expensive, proprietary, but DAMN if they didn’t LOOK good.

Well, I think they have topped themselves, in all their G4 glory with the G4 PowerMac Cube. They have crammed a G4 into an 8″ cube, and DAMN. It looks sweet! I can’t wait for the PC-clones to come out.

The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, has an interview with MC Paul Barman, my favorite Brown-education Jewish rapper. Go there now! To give you a little taste of his rhyme, “No one left for the restrooms when I got onstage / I can rock the mic to ‘Silence’ by John Cage”. Now do you see Eminem dropping rhymes about pretentious art-foo performance pieces? No.