For a mere $19.95, you can have a real live actor give a phone call to one of your friends just to say hello or whatever. The actor actually makes the call and has a little conversation with whoever they’re calling. These are not pre-recorded messages. Hollywood Is Calling

Pal Jeff just purchased and moved into his new house! Sounds like he’s got his hands full what with the painting and wiring and whatnot. I wish that we could have done all the fix-ups that he’s doing now when we bought our house, but the wedding pretty much sucked away any spare cash that…

That was quick. Warp Pipe Beta 0.3 is now available for download.

Stanley Gold just left the Disney board this morning. Today the front page of MiceAge is all over it. Roy Disney’s resignation letter is an awesome slam on Eisner. So many of us theme park lovers have waited for someone to publically say something like this to Michael Eisner, and now it is done: “3….

Roy Disney resigns from the board, requests Eisner do the same. Things are a changin’! From Anaheim to Burbank to Orlando! The next few years will be interesting to say the least.

Christmas is right around the corner, folks! If you’re tired of listening to of Christmas Cocktails volumes One and Two over and over, Basic Hip is where you need to be right now. Starting today through Christmas, they’ll be posting new (old) Christmas albums for your listening pleasure. The guy usually rotates the featured downloadable…

The full text of Cal-OSHA’s report on the Big Thunder Mountain fatality is now online. (PDF)

The Warp Pipe project aims to let you play multiplayer networkable GameCube games online. They claim to have Mario Kart: Double Dash working nearly perfectly. A beta is forthcoming.

What ever happened to Kai Krause? He was the internet celebrity who came up with the infamous set of PhotoShop plugins known as “Kai’s Power Tools.” That guy used to be mentioned everywhere. People wrote articles about him and he would do all these interviews. It was crazy. He worked on a couple of other…

PhotoShop contests can be pretty funny. This one at SomethingAwful.com had me “LOL”ing for a while. This particular contest made use of a Flash-based custom tapestry maker.