Merry Giftmas Everyone!

On this very day in the year 272 was the first official public celebration of Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, a pagan Roman holiday that was later co-opted by Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Turning the holiday into "Christmas" (in 336 AD) was part of a pattern of the church "borrowing" various pagan festivals and feast days.

Since we're on the topic here's a quiz on Christmas Specials, covering everything from the classic standards to the you never saw them or shouldn't have ever seen them obscure ones. I cranked out a score of 24/36 myself.

And since we're coming up on the end of the year, everyone is breaking out their year in review stuff and here's Time's Year in Pictures for 2006. There are some really awesome photos in there, but what else would you expect from TIME? I wonder if National Geographic has something similar? I should check into that, their photography is always amazing. Here's another collection of 99 amazing photos from the past year, but I don't think they match up to the ones from Time, and not all are amazing, but it would be hard to sell papers if they called them "99 not bad photos from 2006".

I hate to end this post on a downer, but early this morning the Godfather of Soul, Mr. Please Please Please, James Brown, died at the age of 73.

Also the past month and half have been rough on the world of cartoons. On November 20 Chris Hayward writer of the flat out hilarious Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons died and on December 18 Joe Barbera, one half of the Hanna-Barbera team, died.

Tis the season for gift giving

And it seems that a NJ high school got an early giftmas present from their wrestling team. What you ask? Well they closed the school for Christmas holidays early.

Why you ask? Well because the wrestling team came down with a strain of herpes, aka the gift that keeps on giving.

And what's crimbo without a carol or two? Well here's Peter Griffin, of Family Guy fame, singing some of his favourites.

Since we've got a bit of giftmas flavour going on today here are some Decemberween Short Shorts from the good people over at Homestarrunner.com. If you haven't checked out the Strong Bad emails, you really should. They're awesome, in fact this one might be the most awesome one of all..

And I promise that these are the last giftmas item for today, but here's a Christmas movie quiz (I cranked out 7/10) and in case you want to study up some here are 101 Christmas movies/specials/videos on line for your entertainment.

And now we need some thing decidedly different, so it's time to talk about boobs . . . it's no secret that your love for wooden shoes, tulips, windmills and dikes borders on fetish, but just in case you were looking for another reason to visit Holland, apparentlly Dutch women's boobies are getting bigger, but apparently still aren't as big as English or Danish boobs. How's that for news you can use . . . well wish you could use?

Speaking of news, and boobs, how about a picture of Amy Poehler from SNL's Weekend Update doing some topless tanning (click the censored pic to have an uncensored one pop up)? Why, oh why couldn't it have been Tina Fey?

That didn't do it for you? How about Melanie Griffiths in Playboy in 1976? Still not satisfied? How about some pictures of Beyonce's oddly shaped breast implants? I'm just hoping she doesn't have ass implants too.

And I will leave you with some photographic evidence that Miss USA is a whole lot more awesome than she used to be. Truly she's a role model for all.

That's enough for now, more later

I see a happy birthday in your future

Okay maybe not you, but did you know that on this day in 1503 Michel de Nostredame aka Nostradamus was born into this world? Nostradamus was a doctor, a mystic and liked to inhale vapours and see the future. I've read some of his quatrains and they are vague riddles so they could be this or could be that . . . but I'm sure if I wrote a bunch of vague shit down in 300 years you could look back at history and find a few events to fit my ramblings.

Maybe that's what this will be come?

And now somethign the geekiest of the geeks, did you know that there's a Dragon Lance movie in the works? Neither did I until I saw the website, and even then I only looked at the main page, because well no one cool plays Dragon Lance, Forgotten Realms all the way! Although it's been a long long time since I did any die-chucking.

Since we're rocking it D&D style, how about this sweet TV commercial for the game that aired way back in 1983 . . . or how about the cartoon that ran for a few years back in the mid 80's? Man those were some good times for Saturday morning cartoons.

Not that I'd trade it for the access to cartoons that I have now - or the Friday night F-Night line up on teletoon or Sugar from YTV's the Zone.

And here's some good news for the fans of cartoons not quite directed at kids, seems that in 2008 Comedy Central will be airing new episodes of Futurama, which I think is great, I just hope that one of the Canadian networks picks it up as well. Personally I think that this is great news, as when FOX pulled Futurama I thought that they made a big mistake and should have shit canned the Simpsons instead because Futurama was every bit as smart funny and envelope-pushy as the Simpsons ever was, or more so at a time when the Simpsons was pretty flat. In fact I haven't been a regular Simpsons viewer in several years, but I must be the only one because it's still on the air. Or maybe all the people who watch Survivor are watching the Simpsons every week too?

And now for something completely different, here are the complete unexpurgated scripts of the original Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series, except for the animated bits. With Python it's either love or hate and I do love, nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more, but not quite to level of some of the fans. But don't worry I'm working on it.

And now for something completely different again, it's not secret that I like to see a trunk with some junk in it, and J'Lo seems to be a good example of that, although not unique as the Peurto Rican "ghetto bootie" isn't rare in some parts of the world. But no matter here's a pic of Ms. Lopez wearing some low rise pants and no underpants at all.

So whatcha gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside yo' trunk? Not looking to bad eh? Well that begs the question, what does she look like in the morning. Well wonder no longer, here's some pics.

And one last thing - Ghostrider movie trailer, looks awesome. Must see. Now to put you properly in the mood I suggest you commence to rocking out to Henry Rollins' song "Ghostrider" which was featured on the soundtrack for the movie the Crow, which I believe the best movie soundtrack ever.

Well that's it, that's all I'm outta here.

Mission Accomplished

I've post poned my trip to go up North for a lter date, probably next Wednesday. Let's hope things look better then, eh?

Well folks it's that time again . . .

I'm supposed to go up north again today, but this time it's Kingfisher Lake with a Contractor and the weather still isn't looking very promising for going AND returning today, although it is looking better than yesterday. Right now my plan is to postpone this trip.

Anyway, here's something I thought was kinda interesting, apparenlty without knowing it the US army has recruited gang members, and I don't mean cute Vaudeville show putting on gang members like the Little Rascals, and deployed them in Iraq to fight the war and now they are putting up US gang graffitti over there.

And I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person who feels this way, but according to the article three out of four workers would rather have an afternoon off than be at a staff Christmas party, even the ones with free booze.

And since it's the Giftmas season, here are the 50 Greatest Commercials of the 80's, complete with videos of the commercials, so you don't just have to reimagine Max Headroom telling you catch catch catch the wave, coke, you can relive in wondrous webstreaming realism.

And for some more of the giftmas spirit how about a trip in the way back machine to look at a few scanned pages from the 1988 Radio Shack catalog? Me I can't wait for my big as a log $1500 mobile phone or my $2600 home computer with an amazing four megabytes of memory and a screaming 16 mHz processor.

Ah geek humour at it's finest eh folks?

And it's not specifically giftmas related, but here are the trailers for the Simpsons movie set to debut on July 27, 2007. Now I haven't been a regular Simpsons watching in a few years now, but I will go see this movie for sure. Why? Just 'cause.

We'll I think it's time to shove off or at least try to make a phone call.

Later

I loves me some trivia

And that's no secret so for that reason here's a list of Names of 33 Things you Didn't Know had Names and here's a list of 23 Obscure and Obsolete Words. I have to admit that the entire latter list was news to me, but I've had my share of meupareuniac experiences, and some of them even with another person. Oh ho zing!

As for the 33 names list, well maybe it's my love for trivia but I knew some of them, and I'm sure most of you know at least one of them too, after all why do you think they call it a ball-peen hammer?

And since we're rocking trivia lists, how about this one, 20 Things You Didn't Know About Rats. A good list for sure, but one thing it was missing was the Rat King. A Rat King isn't just a character from the Nutcracker story, in this case its a mythological beast said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at the tails, and additionally stuck to each other with blood, dirt, and excrement. Consequently, the animals grow together, joined at the tails, which are often broken. The phenomenon is particularly associated with Germany, where the majority of instances have been reported. I for one think that the Rat King is about as real as PT Barnum's Fiji Mermaid.

Got time for one more? Of course you do or you wouldn't be here. So here's 40 things you didn't know about sleep. Personally I found this one to be interesting "The extra-hour of sleep received when clocks are put back at the start of daylight in Canada has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents." And here I thought it was just good for another hour's boozing at the bar?

And now it's time for Bond, James Bond trivia in the form of a list of 70 Things You Didn't Know About James Bond. I haven't seen the new Bond movie yet, but I hear that Daniel Craig is a top shelf 007, even if he doesn't look much like a proper James Bond, but more like the James Bond that BBC would cast if they were making their own Bond film, but of course that's just my opinion and what do I know of such things? Admittedly I'm not a huge Bond fan, but I've read that Mr. Craig is good enough to be compared to Sean Connery, who again in my humble opinion is the best Bond ever. And really there aren't too many scenes in a film hotter than Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder coming out of the water in the white bikini in Dr. No, now is there?

Holy fanboy much? Well for those of you with even greater fanboy tendencies, here's literally the hottest search engine on the net. I don't know how well it works because my computer really doesn't like it, so I'll stick to my Google Toolbar, thanks.

By the way since I know there are some Bond fans out there, here are the opening sequences for every Bond film up to Die Another Day. You're welcome.

To shift gears a bit, did you you know that on this very day in 1957 rock-a-billy superstar and Sun Records recording artist, and Million Dollar Quartet member (here's the famous picture of the group, recognise anyone?) Jerry Lee Lewis marries his jailbait 13 year old cousin, Myra Gail Brown. Myra's parents are not told of their coupling until the story was broken by the press the following year. Lewis neglects to divorce his wife Jane Mitcham until April 1958. Here's a picture of lovely incestuous statuatorily raping couple.

Well I think that's enough awesome for Monday morning, see you later.

Hold Fast!

Now it's not something that I'd ever do but man if I didn't like looking through this website, the Knuckle Tattoo Project. Although HOLD FAST is a classic sailor tat, for some reason I'm partial to this one, even if it's fake. By the way if you want the classic HOLD FAST knuckle tattoo without the permanancy perhaps these gloves from Sailor Jerry are for you.

One of my Granddad's drinking buddies has, well he still has them but he doesn't drink with my Granddad anymore, a sweet set of knuckle tats that read "LETS FUCK" when he laces his fingers together like he's going to pray. How awesome is that?

I know it's a month old, but since we're on the topic of tattoos did you know that Utah's Public Enemy #1 was captured? I wonder how they picked this dood out of a crowd.

Now it's time to jump from skinheads to the Nazis. Did you know that the children of Nazi racial engineering had a convention in Germany last month? The practice of controlled breeding of people to create the perfect Aryan race was called Lebensborn (Fountain of Life, in German) and was the brainchild of Nazi leader and SS Commander Heinrich Himmler. Herr Himmler also became a leading organiser of the Holocaust and was the founder of the death squads along with the concentration camps.

From knuckle tattoos to tattooed skinhead knuckleheads to Nazi super kids, what a post eh?

If you haven't read Maus yet you really should, it's the Author's (Art Spiegelman) father's story of being Jew win Nazi Germany, told in graphic novel format with the Jews as Mice, Nazis as Cats, French as Frogs, Poles as Pigs, as well as a very honest look at Art's relationship with his Dad. It's a really good powerful book, or pair of books to be more accurate and totally worth the read. I'd offer to loan you mine but my boss has them at the moment.

Now onto to a couple things that will appeal tot he fan boys out there - the 20 Hottest Sci-Fi Babes and the hint of Hot Cylon on Cylon action. The 200 hottest list has some good picks in it but I can't say as I whole heartedly agree with his picks, but it's all subjective ain't it? All I can say is where are Dana Scully, T'Pol, Barbarella, and didn't Trillian score higher and why did Boomer score so high?

As for the hot cylon on cylon action read down under #5 - the Tricia Helfer write up. Seems that the producers of Battlestar Galactica finally announce what every fanboy has been dreaming of; Geeks, you may now commence your fapping.

Now that you all have written confirmation of the depths of my fanboydom, how about I end it off with a little Saved By the Bell action? As you may or may not have heard Dustin Diamond, aka Screech, has his very own sex tape for you to watch, complete with a fisheye and a dirty sanchez . . . although I don't think it was a very good one. If you're at all curious about what this would look like here's a short clip to check out and if that tickled your fancy, and I know you like to have your fancy tickled, this link here is supposed to be the full length tape, but I haven't checked it out. Let me know how it is, after all it can't be worse than the Pam Anderson/Tommy Lee sextape.

I think that's enough for now, later days.

Back in Black

Once again there's been a significant gap in my posts, but I've been busy with work, travelling for work, helping friends with their new to them house and rocking out. I also got stuck up north my last trip (the one mentioned in my last post) but at least it was for one night only this time (does everyone want to spend one night in Kasabonika?) and I had brought enough extra gitch this time.

Since tis the season for the Christmas specials on the telly, here's a quiz to test your knowledge of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and one for the Charlie Brown Christmas special. I cranked out a perfect score on the Grinch one but really sucked hind tit on the Charlie Brown quiz managing to pull down a record four correct answers out of ten.

And now time for some whacky trivia; did you know that on this day in 1930 the Vatican accepted the rhythm method as an approved method of birth control. According to that article they've since resinded this stance for more effective methods, which I didn't think was the case as I thought that good Catholics were only supposed to have sex for procreation. But I did recently read that the Catholic Church in Spain said it was okay to use condoms to help prevent the spread of HIV or AIDS. Which is a far cry from the church's stance from four years ago telling people not to use condoms for this purpose because they were full of tiny holes that permited the HIV virus to pass through despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

But the Catholic Church has had issues with science for a long long time, just ask Gallileo.

Another bit of stange trivia, did you know that a study finds six in ten doctors admit using Google to diagnose strange illnesses. "Still no cure for cancer" garnered 1,230,000 hits. Good to know I'm not the only one who uses the interweb for work related info. No more Doctors for me, just Google and prescription medication commericals on TV. Self diagnosis has reached a whole new level.

In case you're into this kinda thing it appears that Britney Spears has been going about in short skirts with no underpants on, and of course thanks to the internet the photographic evidence is everywhere, or at least here and here. Who knew that hanging out (hanging out, get it?). Oh man I'm hilarious) with Paris Hilton would ever be a bad idea? Maybe this means that the rumours of the Britney Spears sex tape are real and one day soon we'll be able to download a green skinned black eyed Britney answering her cell phone mid-shag. Those are references to Paris' sex tape, One Night in Paris, which if you haven't seen is no doubt still all over the internet. After all who doesn't want to spend one night in Paris?

Onto other embarassing things caught on video, here's Micheal Richards' (aka Kramer aka Stanley Spadowski) racist tirade directed at a couple of comedy club hecklers. This is old news now, and I haven't heard anything about it in a couple days so I guess it's been relagated to the who gives a fuck department. I'm sure not many have or would say this but I think if it at least would have been funny it wouldn't have been as big a scandal, or he'd been say Chris Rock (who can call call Honkeys Crackahs all day long).

One final piece of entertainment for you this morning, a video for Electronik Supersonic. If you're interested in more work from the artist Zlad check this out or his wiki entry and after all why wouldn't you? He is more stronger than your Darth Vapour.

Well that's it for now, now you kids get off my lawn.

Wish me luck . . .

I've got to go to Kasabonika this morning for work and as you can see the forecast doesn't look good for coming home this evening as planned.

Since I know you all worry, it wasn't me that fell over the rail at the Grey Cup game this past Sunday, nor did I have anything to do with the breaking of the Grey Cup.

Now because I know we're all fans of the new NBC series Heroes (Save the Cheerleader, save the world) and Dr. Who it's great news, well rumour I suppose, that the most recent, not current, Dr Chris Eccleston is going to be getting a role on Heroes. Maybe.

Here's some news that supposed to be verified and true - George Takei, aka Mr Sulu from the crew of the original Enterprise, will be joining the cast of Heroes in the new year as Hiro's dad. I've got to say that I think Hiro is my favourite character on the show, I think it's because I can relate to him, what with me being a Japanese business man and all . . . or maybe we're both geeks. It's one or the other.

And one last bit for the curious, here's a website devoted to what happens if you put something in the microwave. Complete with video goodness. I hope you don't think less of me but once when I was a kid I put a live grasshopper in the microwave. When it was done "cooking" it smelled similar to Chinese food. I don't mean to imply that Chinese food has grasshoppers in it, or anything like that, just an observation that was made.

Well I'm outta here, off into the wild blue younder

I got to take myself a permanent vacation

There's a little Aerosmith for you from the last album they released that was worth listening to. Okay maybe that was a little harsh, after all about half of Pump was good . . . but that's as far as I'm going to go.

As you may've heard I'm trying to figure what to do for a vacation this winter/next year. Well I'm not saying that I'm going to do it this year, but thanks to this article I think I've got at least ten more cities around the world visit. Although this one does make a rather good argument for returning to the UK, don't you think? Although any place where you can fish for sharks from your apartment balcony can't be all bad either. Well unless you want to go in the water. Then it's all bad, yo.

And just in case you're looking for other interesting things to check out around the globe, how about this collection of strange and amazing statues?

Anyone been watching the new Dr Who series? I have to admit the new Doctor (David Tennant), is good have to say that I thought that Chris Eccleston was an exceptionally good Doctor. Tom Baker good in fact. Speaking of Tom Baker, I have to admit I've always wanted a Tom Baker Dr Who scarf. Don't know why. Oh wait I know why, I'm a geek. Apparently I'm a total geek. I rule.

Anyway back to the Doctor, or his current travelling companion Rose Tyler, player by Billie Piper who prior to being an actress was a Brit bubble gum pop starlet cranking out such great tunes as this one and apparently she'll be leaving the show to persue her singing career with her new found fame to help her along. Someone should have told her that geek fan boys don't buy pop records or tickets to their shows. Downloading clips and photos from the net, yes . . . buying records, no.

Anyway Billie's replacement on the show is going to be Freema Agyeman. I don't know anything about her other than she will be the Doctor's first black female travelling companion, but here's her imdb page. Huh, they don't seem to know much about her either.

It's no secret that I'm not so big on Crimbo, but here's something that I couldn't not pass along - Urban Outfitters is selling replica Charlie Brown Christmas trees. Good grief.

And one last thing to leave you with, did you know that one this very day in 1805 Johann Georg Lehner invents the hot dog. Here's a little more hotdog history and some hotdog trivia for you.

Once more that's it, that's all.

Say What?

The Speech Bubble Experiment; I thought that this was a pretty interesting idea, print out speech bubble stickers slap them on ads/posters or whatever around town and leave them for passers by to fill in, then go back later and photograph the results.

There's even a spot on the site to print your own bubbles to stick around your neighbourhood, you subversive little scallywags. If anyone does give this a go, I'd like to see the results.

Since we're on the topic of speech, how about checking out the online accent archive? This site has 100's of different accents archived for you to listen to. They've had people from all over the world read out the same phrase/speech and then put the clips on line. You can select the accent you want to hear from a map of the world. I thought it was interesting anyway. Now you don't have to wonder any longer how someone from Iceland would say "Six Spoons of Snow Peas" among other things.

Now this is what I call a political ad. I'm assuming that after seeing this you're not supposed to want to vote this guy, but damn if it didn't make me want to vote for the guy, because like the one cat in the commercial said, who hasn't taken money from porn directors. I wonder if it's too late to make one of these for Adam?

This link seems a little busticated at the moment but on November 8 Mercury is supposed to be visible passing in front of the sun and according to this map it looks like it will be visible at sunset for most of North America.

Now you know things are getting too PC out there when British Airlines is being sued for religious discrimination by a former employee who was fired for refusing to remove a piece of religious jewelry while other coworkers got to wear their's. Care to guess this ex-employee's controversial religion of choice? Christianity. Read more about it here. It's fairly well established fact that I'm not a religious man, although I am an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church, I figure if you're going to make a rule like that then apply it equally and universally, if no one can sport religious jewelry then no one can, if one can then all can. It's only fair right?

And finally a little more Borat for you - he was left in charge of the Sun's bizzare page for a day, Wawaweewa! Check it out.

Well that's all for now, later

A Penny for the Guy?

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see of no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

For those of you who may not know today is Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire night, a British celebration commorating the failed Catholic Gunpowder Plot to kill King James I and most of the Protestant Aristocracy (the Orange bastards . . . I kid I kid, I don't care about such things, but amusing to sometimes gauge reactions) during the opening of Parliament in 1605 by stashing 30 some barrels of gunpowder below Parliament and making the whole works go boom. Hence the bonfires and fireworks on this night.

The "A penny for the Guy" line is something that kids say to people on the street while carrying an effige of Fawkes ("The Guy"), which is later burnt, to raise some dosh to buy fireworks. The bit of poemetry at the start is not just lines from the movie V for Vendetta (based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore, the same guy responsible for the graphic novels the Watchmen, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell, I haven't read any of them but I'd like to) but the opening to a popular song/poem for the event. Check out the Guy Fawkes Day wikipedia entry for the now dropped by scathingly anti-Catholic second verse.

In the something not so related department last night I ordered myself a 6 month subscription to this magazine. It's something I've been wanting to do for most of the year but seems that whenever I'd stop by their online store it wouldn't be working, but low and behold last night it was. I can't wait for that first issue to get stuffed into my mail box all wrinkled and creased. I don't think I've looked this forward to getting something in post since my sister's room mate worked reviewing porn for the government.

Here are Modern Drunkards 86 rules for Boozing to get a little taste of what this publication will be like. It's also available in poster form . . . maybe some day I can build a bar in the unused end of the living room and put on up there.

I know I've been flogging the Borat movie a fair bit lately, but damn I'm looking forward to seeing it, and apparently I'm not the only one. Although it was only in 837 theaters, Borat took in almost as much as Santa Clause 3 and Flushed Away added together - and they were in a combined 7100 theaters. Borat took in an incredible $10,800 per theater. To give you some idea of that that means, Revenge of the Sith took in only $9,200 per theater on its opening Friday.

And apparently Kazakhs are still angry over Borat, or at least that's what this article claims . . . and unless that article is faked I can't understand why because alot of what is said reads and aweful like a Borat bit . . . I guess it hits too close to home or something? But don't fret the Sun (I wonder if they ever cover any real news? do check out the Page 3 Girls BTW) sent a South London plumber to Kazakhstan to see if Borat was right. Check out the article here, but I gotta admit best line in it is last one:

"But, most of all, we are delighted to report that the country is not as bad as Borat would have you believe.

“It’s far, far worse,” said Dave."

And lastly here's a link for Borat being interviewed by Jon Stewart of the Daily Show (wait until he finds out Jon's a Jew) and here's Borat on the Conan O'Brian show, although I couldn't get the video play for me.

How much effective advertising are you exposed to? Here's a link to a cool little logo guessing game. In the box below the logo enter what company/organization you think it belongs to, hit enter or click the check box at the bottom and see if you're right. Personally I only got 16 of them. How'd you do?

Well that's all for now cool cats & kittens.

Careful what you wish for

Well it's only been a day but remember when I said an injectable male contraceptive that would last for a year would be better than a pill everyday . . . . well here it is, although I don't know about how long it lasts, I don't think that the article said.

I guess I should have said something about how it would have been better if a car load of attractive ladies would come cruising around looking to whisk me away for a weekend of debauchery. Maybe next time.

I know I've mentioned this movie before but I think that it's going to be awesome and in case you still aren't sure check out the first four minutes of it on YouTube. And because I know you want more Borat, here's an interview with him and here are his top ten tips for sexytime.

Now that you have some topshelf tips for sexytime you need a partner and if you're thinking about using a personal ad, check out these fine examples. They might give you some ideas as to what to or not to do.

I know I've mentioned it before, but I love top whatever lists of whatever and heres' one that's right up my alley, the Top 50 sci-fi fantasy books 1953-2002. It looks like a good list and why wouldn't it be it's brought to us by the fine people at the Sci-Fi book club, and of course they have no alterior motives in getting you to their website. Anyway I've read 17 books form that list . . . is that more or less geeky than you would have thought?

Now this is probably what the inventors of the interweb thought that it would be used for instead of stealing music and watching streaming strip shows (not that there's anything wrong with either of those pursuits, well except for the stealing music one, that's kinda illegal), but the complete works of Charles Darwin are being posted on-line here and the British government has put the Doomsday Book online here. If you're not familiar with the Doomsday Book it is the record of a huge nation wide survey done at the direction of William the Conqueror to basically see who own how much of what so he could lay down some taxes and evne though it was completed in 1086 it's still occasionally used as government reference today. Now that's cool.

And now something that is unrelated to pretty much everything else I post here, but I'm looking for some help with a photo project that I've been thinking about. I'd like to compile as many photos as possible all taken on the same on the same day. I know it's still a couple months away but I figure I'd gauge interest and give people a chance to recruit others to my cause.

If you're interested in helping I'd like to put together as many shots (landscapes, city scapes, seascapes, whatever and from where ever you are at the time) taken at noon (your local time) on New Year's Day. If you're interested if you could email the pic to me as soon as possible afterward, and make it at least 1200 x 1600 pixels and at least 72 dpi, thanks. If you'd like to pass the request along to others in other places that would be awesome. If it works out I'll make sure that all who contribute get copies of the file for their printing out.

And oh yeah one last thing - the pic of Donald Duck and Christina Aguilera I posted a link to yesterday is a fake made by this guy here. Here's the original photo if you care to see, but why spoil the fantasy, eh?

Don't worry baby, I'm on the pill . . .

Now I can't wait to say that . . . and it looks like it might not be that far off. Turns out that according to this article modern science being the wonderful thing it is has developed a male contraceptive pill that has no side effects (who knew that was possible?) and temporarily lowers or inhibits sperm production so as to make the taker effectively infertile.

I don't like needles but I think that one shot that would last a year or something similar would be better than pills everyday, but hey ain't science grand?

And now from birth control to a group that thinks it's a sin, it's time for some whacky Catholic Church facts. Did you know that on October 28, 1922 in return for his signing the Lateran Treaty, which restored Papal sovereignty over the Vatican, the Catholic Church helped fascist dictator Benito Mussolini seize power in Italy by having Pope Pius XI declare "Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence."

And to go a little forward in the way back machine Mr. Peabodies on October 28, 1965 Pope Paul VI issues Nostra Aetate in which he absolves the Jews of killing Jesus, thus reversing 760 years of official Vatican policy. Innocent III had declared in 1205 that ". . . the Jews, by their own guilt, are consigned to perpetual servitude because they crucified the Lord."

Whodda thunk it eh?

Oh the Humanity, mate! Turns out that the US government has banned Vegemite. I can't blame them for that, I tried it as well and it's truly horrible stuff. I think it's another one of the jokes that Aussies play on foreigners. But it truly is a part of the Aussie culture . . . and if anyone is interested in trying it I still have single serving sized packets here at the house.

I'm not sure what you'll take away from this article but it sounds like they're saying I've got a reason piss everywhere and not wear deodorant anymore. Although I might not want to try in Calgary because soon pissing in public in Cowtown will cost $300.

Onto crimes other than public urination as those of you how like find music, movies or software on the interwebs you no doubt know that the Torrent sites are good source (Torrent Spy for example) for material. Well it turns out that the 23 year old Administrator from Elitetorrents has been sent to jail for five months, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.

Onto some cheerier news, the cure for cancer may be in your jeans. Yep you read that right.

And finally I leave with this photo showing just what kind of duck Donald is. Still doesn't explain the no pants thing.

BOOOOOOOOOOOO! Happy Hallowe'en

In honour of today I thought everyone might be curious to know which slasher flick killer has the most similar personality to theirs'. Well wait no longer, just go here, take the quiz and find out. Feel free to share.

Turns out that I'm Captain Spaulding, played by the great Sid Haig from the Rob Zombie films House of 1000 Corpses and the Devil's Rejects. Both are must sees for horror fans, although they are both very different films (House of 1000 corpses is more like a shlock horror film from the 70's and the Devil's Rejects is more along the lines of something like Natural Born Killers . . . Maybe??).

And they both feature the incredibly hot (and incredibly married to Mr. Zombie) Sheri Moon. I don't think that I'd like a crazy girl for myself, but for some reason her playing the batshit crazy Baby Firefly in these films she was even hotter than normal. I think that's part of the reason why Angelina Jolie is so attractive, that crazy I might stab you look in her eyes . . . the lips help too.

Another bit of information for the horror fans, but according to this article Clive Barker is going to be re-writting Hellraiser for a remake and re-release. This could be a very good thing because special effects have come a long way since the first Hellraiser was made, and Barker did write the novella (The Hellbound Heart) that the movie was based upon. I'll definitely watch it when/if it gets released. This does leave the question, will Doug Bradley reprise the role of pinhead in the remake? As far as I know he's been pinhead in every other Hellraiser film made, and trust me there's been a lot of them.

And in case you are looking for some Hallowe'en trivia check out this page from our good friends over at Snopes.

And since Hallowe'en and the Apocalypse go hand in hand, here's A Brief History of the Apocalypse.

And since some people don't have kids get pets instead and treat them as pseudo children here's a link for some costumes for your aminals, you know in case you haven't got one for Fido yet. But I do have to admit I'd rather see a dog dressed up as a pirate at my house tonight than another kid dressed up as kid like the last couple of years.

And since nothing says Hallowe'en like Zombies here's a list from RetroCrush of the 20 Greatest Zombie Movies of all time . . . I've only seen 8 of them, how disapointing. But I have seen Zombies vs Vampires and let me tell you what a disapointing piece of shit that was. It would have been better if it would have had some vampires battling zombies, but for some reason that was strangely left out of the film. I mean with a title like that how can you go wrong?

And finally the good people over at M&M's have made a little picture puzzle game with the titles of 50 dark/horror films pictorially hidden in a large painting. It's a cool game, check it out here. And because I know you're all wondering the last time I gave it a go I didn't come close to getting all fifty, but I didn't spend a lot of time on it either. I know excuses excuses.

I think that's enough for now, I gotta get going.

For the metal fans

Here's a Youtube video (I know what isn't on Youtube? The video Insurgents Chillin' for one) of a couple kids rocking a little Refuse Resist by Sepultura. I wasn't this cool when I was a kid that's for sure.

For those of you who like to screw with your pizza delivery guy, don't. You just might end up on this website immortalized in jackassery as only the internet can . . . so best give the guy a tip and wait until he's out of ear shot to make fun of him. I can't vouch the amusingness of anything on that site as I only briefly looked at and enjoyed the idea of it. I think there are similar websites for/by waiters/waitresses and women who've dated bad boyfriends. I'm sure there's one for every service industry job out there so be careful . . . imagine what your hotel housekeeper has to say about you?

For some reason when I saw these pictures it reminded me of work. Can't figure out exactly why though.

I guess Clutch was right, judging from this post at the Smoking Gun Willie Nelson really does only smokes the killer weed. If you're not familiar with Clutch's work I like them a lot, but there sound is hard to pigeon hole into one category, each album although does sound like Clutch each sounds a little different. Perhaps a southern rock base? But not like Fireball Ministry (although they're probably more Stoner Camaro Rock like Fu Manchu), Nashville Pussy or Artimus Pyledriver . . . so maybe not a southern rock influence . . . maybe more stoner rock? You listen and let me know what you think.

Welcome to the insane world of Japanese vending machines. If you can imagine it you can get it from a vending machine in Japan, everything from hot noodles to cold beer to soiled school girl underpants. Yep you read that last one right, crazy eh? You can read more about this particular industry in this write up from Snopes.com. Snopes is a great source of information for those seeking some urban legend busting information or similar.

Again that's enough for now. Later.

Not shaken or stirred

Well it looks like the world has gone all topsy turvy. If you're a Bond fan (which I'm not really, most of the Bond films are pretty bad in my opinion, although I like the Connery ones the best) and/or have some serious issues with product placement in movies (personally I think that movie Minority Report had one of the worst uses of product placement in a film and Josie and the Pussycats probably the best (and it's a great film with an awesome soundtrack - Josie's vocals were provided by Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo, in my opinion an underappreciated band from the early 90's)) you're going to hate this.

According to this article the people behind the franchise have reportedly signed a large deal with Heineken and will be featured heavily in the new Bond film. Let's hope that there will just be adds for it all over and everyone else drinking it because for some reason things just wouldn't be the same without 007's martinis.

But enough of the cinematic dreck, time for a note from the whodda thunk it files; apparently porn star the Legendary Ron Jeremy aka The Hedgehog (who BTW was in the first porno I watched, in case you were curious. oh wait you weren't? too late) played an uncreditted role as a costumed monster on the Disney saturday morning kids show Bone Chillers. Or at least that's what this article told me.

Now you may be suprised to read that I've never seen RJ's work in Bone Chillers, but I've seen him plenty of other times on screen (Mr. Jeremy is creditted with appearing in 1600 porno films and directing over 100 others), but if you haven't seen it I have to reccomend the documentary peek inside Ron Jeremy's life Porn Star - The Legend of Ron Jeremy. It's a really good movie and an interesting view into his life. After watching the movie I got the feeling that the beloved Hedgehog is a pretty sad and lonely guy.

And finally because there is no better teacher than television here are a list of 8 important lessons learned from 80's cartoons, because like my good friend GI Joe said, knowing is half the battle.

You'll shoot your eye out with that thing kid!

According to this article Ralphie's house from one of the greatest Christmas movies ever A Christmas Story is being renovated to look just like it did in the movie and turned into a tourist stop in Cleveland, complete with the house over the road being turned into the ticket buying place and gift shop.

How awesome is that? Finally something to do in Cleveland besides watching an Indians game and re-enacting the opening sequence from the Drew Carey Show.

I haven't done much poking around on this site yet but I was sent a couple links from it and they seem topshelf so I'm sure the rest of the site is pretty good too. I'm sure that this one was meant to be a scathing review of humans (or monkeys as they keep referring to them in the video) and what we do, but I enjoyed it. Probably for the constant monkey references and the choice in photos. This one is pictures of walls or I guess more precisely the graffiti on walls.

And since it is October 14 here's a bit of history for you - on this day in 1959 actor and Nazi sympathizer Errol Flynn, dubbed "the most despicable human being yet born", dies of a heart attack in Vancouver's west end. Flynn slept with both Truman Capote and Howard Hughes. How's that for accomplishments?

I'm sure you've seen it before but this website Human for Sale is an interesting little game. Basically you go in, run through a questionaire and it tells you your worth. Apparently I'm worth $1,653,260.00. I guess if I weren't going bald and were packing more it'd be a little higher, but not like it matters I don't think I can use myself as colateral at the bank for a loan . . . or can I?

So how much are you worth?

For those with a similar sense of humour I've linked to items about the Borat movie before and here's a Youtube link with several deleted scenes from the movie along with some trailers. Well worth checking out, Borat (Sascha Baron Cohen) is a comedic genius.

Now for something horrifically amazing - here's a video of wrestler Big Van Vader getting his eye punched out of its socket and continuing to work the match. I don't know about you but if I get my eye knocked out I'm not oging to finish the letter I'm working on let alone everything else I have to do that day, but maybe I'm just a big pussy. And here's another video of a blown spot - this time a botched shooting star press. And you thought that Brock Lesnar's blown SSP from Wrestlemania was bad? Okay that one was bad too.

I think that's enough for now. Later

I know it's a couple days late . . .

But did you know how big a day October 9 is/was? Not only was it Canadian Thanksgiving (Which by the way did you know was started as a holiday for wealthy Protestants and was meant to exclude Catholics, minorities and others deemed unworthy by the WASP's (so probably Stryper & Ratt as well)? Well neither did I until I read this article with some truths about the holiday) but on that day in 1951 RKO Pictures asked Marilyn Monroe to wear panties while working and in 1967 after being debriefed by CIA field agent Felix Rodriguez, Che Guevara is executed in a schoolhouse in La Higuera, Bolivia. Guevara had been captured by the Bolivian 2nd Ranger Battalion, which was specifically trained by U.S. Army Special Forces to catch him.

Speaking of not wearing underpants, according to this article from the Sun not wearing them can kill you. Now that's something that I never would have thought.

Onto something completely different after reading this article I think I'm going to have to do some serious practicing and go on holiday in Ireland. Okay maybe not completely unrelated, combine this link with the last one and you've got a damned good start on one helluva a Saturday night.

And one last link, think you know the difference between a vagina and piece of raw meat? Well take this test and find out. Beforewarned, obviously there are pictures of meat and genitalia in that quiz, so excersize from discretion when taking said test.

In case you're wondering I scored 14/15 and got this great little card to post, but I'm just going to post the link.

That's more than enough for now.

So it's been a while again . . .

Where have I been? Out and about and a week in Niagara Falls (I'll get pics up sometime soon-ish). I have to say that if you are ever in Niagara Falls you've got to check out a restarant called the Copacabana. It was awesome - it's Brazillian food, all sorts of fire roasted meats on skewers (that look like swords) that the servers bring to your table and if you want to try some, they cut you off a chunk. I think there was a place where you could get vegetables and sides too but that's not meat. For dessert they brought around pineapples that were roasted with cinnamon. Soooo-oh good.

And now on with trivial news and links that we all enjoy.

First off here are collections of the 50 best Marvel & DC comic book covers of 2006. The Catwoman #51 cover is my current Windows wall paper . . . . geek fan boy much? For those who think that things were better back in the day, here are some classic comic covers from the WWII era. Although when I looked last some of the links were broke and pictures missing.

Since this post is taking on a bit of comic book flavour here's an article announcing Marvel's plans for their own MMORPG (Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game).

I think it's fair to say that when I could afford to buy comics (I can remember when i couldn't ask my mum for $1 to buy a comic book anymore because it wasn't enough, sad times) I was more a Marvel than DC fan, although Batman has always been my favourite (probably started from watching Adam West era Batman re-runs on TV when I was a kid), well here's an article confirming that the title of the Batman Begins sequel will be The Dark Knight and that Heath Ledger (aka Mel Gibson 2K) will be playing the Joker and Christian Bale (a great actor, if you haven't checked out Equilibrium or The Machinist do yourself a favour and go rent them) will be reprising his role as Bruce Wayne/the Batman. Batman Begins was great so I can't wait for the sequel, but I have to admit it did have the least cool Batmobile ever, but nothing can be perfect can it?

If you've ever discussed comic books with me, or listened to me rant about them you've no doubt heard me say that Batman is way cooler than Superman. Well check this video clip out for more evidence of that. Just try to find me a clip of some groovy late 60's birds dancing to the theme song from Superman. Can't do it can you? Hah, in your face.

And now for a final couple comic related bits - here's a not bad/not great list of the 9 reasons why it's great to be a Super Villain and since you're hyped about being a supervillian now here are some great inspirational posters to hang up around your secret hollow volcano or undersea liar.

Is there any one of them truer than this one?

Okay I swear this is the last comic related link in this post - for some reason this pic appealed to my comic book geek fan boy pervo side. If you're anything like me you'll like it too.

It also seems that I'm a fan of lists, I like to go through lists of top whatevers and see how my opinion compares to that of the author. In fact I can remember discussing with at least one person how awesome a Top 10 List of Top 10 Lists would be. Well this isn't that, but here's a list of the 50 Greatest 1 Hit Wonders. Admit it, everyone loves a One Hit Wonder, although as a music snob I can appreciate the fact that you can't admit that you like it at the time, but have to wait at least 5 years to do so, a decade even if the song was espescially radio friendly. A little Chumbawamba anyone? Or how about a bit of Detachable Penis by King Missile - although I don't know if that one was ever popular enough to be a one hit wonder, but still amusing.

And something that actually has some merit to it to end this post. According to this article biofuel may not be the best solution for our energy crisis. In fact here's a direct quote lifted from the article:

"The grain required to fill the petrol tank of a Range Rover with ethanol is sufficient to feed one person per year. Assuming the petrol tank is refilled every two weeks, the amount of grain required would feed a hungry African village for a year"

Which begs the question - how many african villages would a barrel of crude oil feed?

And with that I disapear.

Lakehead Uni Mocks Geo W Bush in New Campaign

This is a direct quote from this article "As well as rolling out a series of posters, Lakehead University also took the campaign to its website, where readers are informed that "graduating from an Ivy League university doesn't necessarily mean you're smart."

Personally I think prefer their former, although unofficial, slogan/campaign "Lakehead, it's better than no head at all".

Check out this cool pic taken in London, England sometime in the late 40's. I was in this part of the city (Piccadilly Circus) but this was before my digital camera take a million pictures of everything phase.

Because we all need a little boost in the cube farm now and again here are some sweet Star Trek inspiration posters. Personally I'm partial to this one, and no not just because it's the first one there . . . maybe I'll make it my desktop at work for a while.

And one last link for the day that will surely be of interest to the geek set, 8 Ways Pirates of the Caribean Deadman's Chest Steals from Return of the Jedi. I thought it was an interesting read, but I'm definitely one of the geek set.

That's enough for now, later.

Gotta go back in time . . . .

Suprisingly this one has nothing to do with the Back to the Future franchise, well almost nothing. A time capsule was discovered while knocking down a Jr High School in Charleston. I should start to figure out a way to put them into buildings, eh? If only I had the secrets, powers and skills of the Free Masons. Just as an FYI Google Masons and get tons of hits and there's no shortage of formerly secret Masonic gear for sale on eBay at any given time, including sweet Masonic Fezes.

I'm thinking about getting one, or maybe one of these would more suit my sense of style?

Since I'm handing out rotten info on secret societies here's some on every other celebrity's religion of choice, Scientology. Googling scientology will get you loads of hits as well.

Actually there's loads of interesting information in the http://www.rotten.com library.

Because we're all Veruca Salt fans (both the Roald Dahl/movie character & the 90's Band) here's a link to Nina Gordon's (1/2 of the important part of the band (who are releasing a new record and going on tour (without Nina??) apparently)) website where she has some cool covers posted. Enjoy plaid wearing, Doc Marten lacing Gen X'ers.

Since I flogged Wikipedia a whole lot there here's a link to the most popular Wikipedia pages. Might make for some interesting reading.

In honour of my upcoming trip to Niagara Falls here's a link to a pic of the Falls (the American side I believe) froze solid. I'm sure there are better quality or larger pics of it online but that was the first one I found.

Anyone who's been up too late with the TV on knows the names Ron Popeil (set it and forget it) & RONCO all to well, and here for your reading/viewing pleasure is an article on Mr. Popeil and his top ten inventions. You may or may not have to skip over a Forbes.com welcome screen. I wonder if there's a pocket fisherman or two in the basement?

Finally, let's end this on an edutaining point and answer the age old question:

Homeless . . . or Jesus?

Well wonder no longer! Take the test at the link below and see if you can tell the difference between a homeless person and some people's lord and saviour Jesus Christ

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/games/homeless_jesus.asp

I scored 670 points myself - and one of them literally made me LOL to use the cool interweb hipster shorthand.

That's it, that's all.