| Sunday, May 24, 2009 |
18:27 - The Shat Hits the Fan
http://www.amazon.com/Shatnerquake-Jeff-Burk/dp/1933929820
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Shatnerquake!
(Shatnerquake?)
Shatnerquake.
William Shatner? William Shatner. WILLIAM SHATNER!!! It's the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.
Featuring: Captain Kirk, TJ Hooker, Denny Crane, Rescue 911 Shatner, Singer Shatner, Shakespearean Shatner, Twilight Zone Shatner, Cartoon Kirk, Esperanto Shatner, Priceline Shatner, SNL Shatner, and - of course - William Shatner!
That's some genius right there.
I also love the also-recommendeds. The Faggiest Vampire!
On another note, how come everyone's setting off fireworks? I'm hearing that they're doing it at a friend's place in North Carolina as I type. I don't remember fireworks being a Memorial Day tradition before...
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| Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
08:47 - It tastes like burning
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Whoa. Tacos at Midnight flavored Doritos.
All hail Western Civilization.
They even taste very authentically of the advertised flavor. Though I'm sure that's an effect of some psychological need for confirmation. "Oh yeah! I can totally taste the baked-on crust on the grill and the 23-hour-old fryer oil!"
What I find amusing is thinking through the thought process of who would buy these. Drunken frat-boys on their way back to the dorm late at night? No—my feeling is that these kinds of characters would, you know, actually get tacos at midnight. It's not like they'd wake up at 9:30, splash away their hangover, and think, Damn, I could sure go for some more of those tacos we had last night. Too bad they just don't taste the same early in the day!
And then his buddy bursts in: Dude! You'll never guess what I just picked up at the student union! We'll never have to go out at night again!
Mm... no. There's probably a different target market in mind.
Like, say, tech nerds who will buy them with lunch because it's just so damn weird, y'know, and maybe I can write a blog post about it.
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| Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
10:11 - Logoi
http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/hidden-logos-in-graphic-designing/
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JMH sends this—a roundup of clever corporate logos. By no means is it exhaustive (I've seen lists like this before), but aside from the perennial favorites, like the FedEx arrow, there's quite a number of other ones I'd never have bumped into in my daily life. And I hadn't realize that the Amazon.com smile/arrow/swoosh thing was meant to be an arrow pointing from "A" to "Z". I'd only recently gotten the "smile" connotation; but now I have to winder how intentional that other aspect of it was, especially since the logo sometimes appears just as the arrow without any text...
It's always intrigued me, incidentally, how "Canada" has an official logotype—with the Canadian flag where the accent would go if you're French. (Or perhaps just if you're Spanish. For whatever sense that makes.) Kinda like what Canadian Airlines did: have to decide between an "a" or an "e"? Well, just don't!
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| Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
21:15 - Calculators, generators, matching salt and pepper shakers
http://stanacapella.ytmnd.com/
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I'm not usually susceptible to the hypnotic effect of some YTMND links, but sometimes... sometimes there's just no resisting it. Not when Weird Al is involved.
If the man were only slightly less talented, at this point in his career he'd be starting a petulant "serious" phase.
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Brian Tiemann
