i've moved

hi boys and girls,
I've migrated over here.
Nothing substantial yet but hopefully that'll change soon.
See you on the other side.

Google Talk

Ok, boys and girls; i've just setup Google Talk, Google's newest app and the newest IM client available.
really impressed with the totally painless install, absolutely elegant interface, seamless integration with gmail and i haven't even talked with anyone yet!
looks and feels like a desktop app, looks like the WebOS or maybe GoogleOS that's the current buzzword isn't all hype.
wanna try to VOIP services, now that i've broken out my previously retired microphone.
so someone please download it, if you don't have a gmail account, let me know and i'll invite you.

Fight For Your Right To Copy

The Beastie Boys are posting acapella tracks here, along with BPM info -- from their songs and encouraging their fans to make noncommercial remixes of them.
They upload a new one every Friday.
C'mon, willy, you know you gotta.

hanging in the 'bu, y'all...

The Lonely Island are 3 dudes who're into ninjas, castaways and are the awesomest comedians right now. Their best friends are Eliot from Scrubs and this big Chinese guy whose mostly either half-naked or in a wig.
go here and download everything you see, especially all 8 episodes of "The 'Bu".
EXPLODING HIGH 5!!!

i've got me a case of crabs

the only thing gayer than my expression is the size of the crab i'm holding.
head over to moby's (smirk) for more on the sordid goings-on during our recent crabbing expedition.
he forgot to mention my vicious maiming by a later catch though.
i've healed nicely now, thanks.

Making of A Brick

here's a cool flash animation about the manufacture and packaging of lego bricks.
everyone loves lego, but i'm wondering if they have some kind of recycling program to offset the sheer amount of plastic being produced.
then again, lego mecha should never be taken apart or thrown away.

south park

cute flash app that lets you make a south park version of yourself. that's me, btw. with a better haircut, i might add.
thanks to willy.

GlobalGiving

in light of all the charity-related news in recent weeks, both NKF (NationKenaFuck) and Live8, here's an interesting article on how to better distribute your donation money.

On its Web site, GlobalGiving provided brief descriptions of 112 development projects, asking site visitors to rank them on a scale of 1 to 10. About 50,000 individuals generated 200,000 evaluations. Simultaneously, a much smaller group of several hundred aid experts was asked to perform the same task. Of the 12 projects chosen by the experts, nine were also chosen by popular vote.

the article posits the Internet as the best way of distributing this decision-making process, that "the decentralised data networks will flatten the present system of status entirely, making us all equal, and wiser for it".

along with the tenuous theory of crowds always making the right decision, but he's also forgetting to address the digital divide. developing nations aren't going to have much say in this process if they don't even have a phone line much less broadband connection.
so now one of the greatest barriers standing between equality among all men is the unavailability of hardware, and dickwads in the US are doing this?!
not a great segue, i know, but i just had to mention it.
needless waste of resources like this just really gets on my tits.

broken flowers

the incomparable bill murray will be starring in jim jarmusch's broken flowers.
i've only seen ghost dog, which is one of the weirdest as well as most heartfelt movies i've ever seen.
just a quickie: black hitman in US operates by the samurai's bushido code, speaks in translated japanese sonnets and has an ice cream man for a best friend.
bill murray was recently in jarmusch's previous film, coffee and cigarettes, which i've yet to catch.

Night of the Crusher

Even at my most exhausted, i still avoid taking afternoon naps, because almost surely, i will awaken, start to push off my bed before realising my hands are not pushing down, i'm not really sitting up and most horrifyingly, my lungs are not moving.
my mind is up and awake, my synapses are firing full blast, but my body's not responding and my bed's become my prison.
panic sets in almost immediately, and i'll be concentrating all my energies into moving something, anything, from my little toe to opening my eyelids.
at some point, probably just seconds (that feel like minutes), i'll sit up gasping and trembling but be none the worse for wear.
i guess i'm lucky, because that is the extent of horror from my episodes, while many people suffer greater terror, as you can find out from this article.
nice to finally have a name to what i've been experiencing.

my mum says its cos i'm heaty.