The amount of time, energy, and money spent on the graphics, set design, and costuming for an Internet video that’s just 3 minutes and 48 seconds long is impressive. The Onion must be rolling in dough.
Author: Brett
Bill Frawley Sings The Old Ones
Found at Dartman’s World of Wonder, this album is a post-Lucy recording of Bill Frawley’s pre-Lucy vaudeville hits. It’s not particularly good, but it’s not horrible either. Just close your eyes and imagine Fred Mertz serenading you “By The Light of the Silvery Moon” and you’ve got the idea.
HTML email is hard
If you thought browser support for web standards was tough, try getting HTML email to look the same in every mail client. You can’t. Not even close. The best you can hope for is to have your design degrade gracefully in less-able clients. You can’t just save and hit F5 to reload and view your…
Sprint is about to get rich
I have unlimited data, 200 text messages, and 450 minutes of talkin’ with AT&T. That costs me $80 a month and I’ve always considered it to be highway robbery…especially since I don’t send very many texts and I only use about 200 minutes a month. Sprint (under their Virgin Mobile brand) is about to unveil…
Oh for Christ’s Sake!
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If it had not been for 15 minutes…
Thomas Wagner managed to escape from East Germany in 1979. His incredible story is online. It’s a true story full of dead drops, secret passages, forged documents, and encrypted shortwave radio transmissions. Werner opened the small latch and pulled a small bundle from the wooden plank. Tightly wrapped in plastic, to protect it form the…
I love this show.
Two minutes of funny- Season 6 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres September 16th. That gives you a little under five months to watch the first five if you haven’t already – easy!
PowerCost Monitor
The BlueLine PowerCost Monitor is a simple device that you snap on to the glass dome of your home’s energy meter. It wirelessly transmits information about your current electricity usage to a handheld display that you can carry around your home to see exactly how much money it’s costing you to run certain appliances. It’s…
Don’t be gay in Mississippi
Here’s a quick summary of something outrageous: A lesbian girl at a Mississippi high school, Constance McMillen, wanted to bring her girlfriend to her prom as her date. The school district said no. The ACLU took up her case and a judge ruled the school had to let them attend. So the school district canceled…
I like my mayor
There’s a lot to like about Anaheim’s mayor, Curt Pringle. Here are my top three reasons! He opposed that crazy re-zoning thing they tried to pull around Disneyland and the convention center a few years back. He’s chairman of the board for the California High-Speed Rail Authority and wants to see a three-hour train route…