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the bill gates makeover "He is the father of the future, the symbol of a new generation, and he really needs a makeover. Bill Gates as you've never seen him before; it's almost as if he were an entirely different person."
posted by palegirl at 8:32 PM PST - 5 comments

perhaps i would have read more in high school...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Nurse Ratched: I destroy my patients psychologically so I can have power and control.
Randall P. McMurphy: But freedom and happiness are good things.
Nurse Ratched: Lobotomy time for you, buster.
(McMurphy DIES but inspires HOPE so OTHERS may LIVE.)
posted by bluishorange at 2:04 PM PST - 4 comments

It's a DVD Player, it's a CD player, it's an mp3 player, it's a karaoke machine! ... okay, so I probably won't use the karaoke part, but at $179.95, I had to grab the APEX AD600A DVD player. It's even got a supersecret menu so that you can change region settings... not that I would *do* that, but... you know... if you've got friends visiting from Taiwan or something... You'll note I didn't post the link until my order was confirmed. I'm all about sharing the love, but not at the risk of having the love backordered.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 1:29 PM PST - 9 comments

Jet-Li...as Boba Fett? How weird. I really don't think he's going to take it though. It would be interesting if he did.
posted by Cavatica at 1:28 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Apparently, the digitization of all words ever spoken by human beings would take up 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. Or, 5 exabytes. How long will it be before my laptop has that much space?
posted by sandor at 11:16 AM PST - 3 comments

Steve Champeon, one of my personal favorite Web-type people, has a good article over at Webmonkey called RTFM: A Guide to Online Research. The gist of it is "look it up on the Web before you ask a stupid question on a mailing list", but it goes far beyond that in providing sources one can use to find answers to all sorts of questions.
posted by jkottke at 10:33 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Darva the gold-digger wants out is anyone surprised? It was a matter of time...
posted by palegirl at 10:17 AM PST - 13 comments

Sex in Space Boldly going where etc. I have a new mission in life.
posted by lbergstr at 9:57 AM PST - 4 comments

All Warburton, All the Time! Apparently, Patrick Warburton is a multifaceted hero. He's also shot something like 60 episodes of The Adventures of Buzz Lightyear for Disney. He's one busy superhero!
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 9:53 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Space Ghost is old news. Brak is the new king. His variety show "Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak" on The Cartoon Network the other night was the surreal highlight of my TV year. Another episode comes along March 16th--miss it if you dare! And please, please, please let the mentioned CD of songs be real. My girlfriend called me at work today and played Brak's rendition of "Highway 40" to cheer me up!
posted by austinspace at 9:05 AM PST - 2 comments

Buyer's Guide to Alternadomains. Can't secure a .com/.org/.net domain? As we know, a host of small nations are selling their domainspace, but the requirements have always been a bit confusing. So I did my research and compiled all the basic information on one page. Now you can comparison-shop among .cc, .gg, and .nu!
posted by joeclark at 6:43 AM PST - 5 comments

Calista Flockhart Is an Idoru. Because she is.
posted by joeclark at 6:41 AM PST - 3 comments