Robots Invasion!

Kyra blogged this awesome sales pitch pic of me at buckle brown: 'tis the season.
I was down at Union Square to see here special and pick up a buckle as a x-mas gift for my sis. It was hella tuff, since all Kyra's wares are amazing, but I finally settled on a green Hello Kitty buckle for the sister.
I'm still lovin my robot buckle

The Fish House Home Depot Built

Georgia Aquarium, 11-25-05
Originally uploaded by HamWithCam.

Sometimes it takes me while to hear about things, but I just read about the Georgia Aquarium opening and WOW! It's now the largest aquarium in the world and has several unusual animals on display including whale sharks. I've got a soft spot in my heart for aquariums, party because I loved the Steinhart as a kid and I seriously considered becoming a marine biologist for a long time. HowStuffWorks.com has a long article on how the place is run and there's some great shots on Flickr. Haven't ever been to the South, but this might be something that would get me down there. Interesting that the project was initiated by Home Depot's founder.

SNL Skit Gets Viral Online

Figure I wasn't the only one blogging about this skit. the T-Shirts are pretty kick-ass.

SNL Skit Gets Viral Online: "

The SNL skit 'Lazy Sunday' (above) that shows two white guys (comedians Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg) rapping about going to see 'The Chronicles of Narnia' has become a runaway hit on YouTube.com since it first aired on December 17. Reports the NYT:

Since it was originally broadcast on NBC, 'Lazy Sunday' has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times from the video-sharing Web site YouTube.com; it has cracked the upper echelons of the video charts at NBC.com and the iTunes Music Store; and it has even inspired a line of T-shirts, available at Teetastic.com.

'I've been recognized more times since the Saturday it aired than since I started on the show,' said Mr. Samberg, 27, a featured player in his first season on 'SNL.' 'It definitely felt like something changed overnight.'

Put some ads on that puppy, and you've got yourself a TV business model for the Internet age. It's all about the microchunk. Media wants to be free, and available for download in digestible snippets."

BASIC = Major Nostalgia!

The Download Squad blogged about this browser based implementation of BASIC and it brought back memories of learning BASIC when I was about 10 at the Randall Museum. Wow that was a long time ago! But I remember thinking how neat it was to list out commands and the old Apple II would actually would actually do what I told it to do! It was magic!

eBay: 8-Ft One-of-a-Kind LEGO STAR WARS REBEL ATTACK CRUISER

Very classy that Lego is selling this off at an eBay auction as a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity. What an amazing dispaly piece!

New camera tosses

DSCN3978
Originally uploaded by leef_smith.

I tried a new type of camera tossing the other day, using my camera's 16 shot option. I think some of them turned out rather well, or at least different.

The a full set

"Operation Screw This"

The Onion delivers once again:
U.S. Troops Draw Up Own Exit Strategy

Linked by SFist

I missed this in SFist last week Bay Area Blog Pulse, but my entry on the new regional 826 stores got linked. A bit of a surprise, cuz really I figured no one except the random friend was ever reading. Go figure.

Best is gone

I drove down Octavia this weekend and was sad to see the David Best temple was gone. SFMike has a nice photo essay on the loss and a new appreciation of Santas at Marlena's at
Civic Center: The Temple Vanishes and Santa Arrives

SNL - The Chronic of Narnia Rap

Saw this SNL skit, Chronic of Narnia on the net today. It's prett darn funny.

Cousteau's Shark Sub

I don't know. I sort of like this mock-up at the British National Maritime Museum then the Cousteau grandson's
Shark Sub, but I like his inspiration to make it real and a bit more scientific value. I didn't realize the idea came from Tintin when I initially read the story in National Geographic.

via Boing Boing

Cute Overload! ;)

Cute Overload! ;) is a very accurately named website, but truly oh so cute!

via Boing Boing

We have pirates, Brooklyn get superheros

The Pulse has a review of the 826 Valencia sister store 826 NYC, "A Superhero Grows in Brooklyn?". I had no idea they had a cool superheros theme?!? I just assumed they had pirates too :-( Not that I'm complaining about the pirates shop and their lard bucket, but having to go to Brooklyn to get that Hero & Sidekick Communication System sort of sucks. And now 826 Chicago is going to get a secret agent shop called The Boring Store?!?

Camera Toss photos

I took some new cameratoss photos this week. They're intense with a lot of light sources (green x-mas lights), but for some reason they're missing a crispness that I like.

New Trek

Wired has this great article, To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before, in their Dec issue on a bunch of people that are making episodes from the non-existent season 4 of the original Star Trek series. They're calling these Star Trek New Voyages and offering the episodes as free downloads. Amazing stuff!

VOTE CHRIS CHRISTMAS RODRIGUEZ

NPR : Neighborhood Up in Arms over Home Cyclotron

NPR : Neighborhood Up in Arms over Home Cyclotron

I'm sorry but this sounds cool! Maybe because I'm currently reading American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and like the idea of being able to accelerate particles in the privacy of my own home.

Shining Redux

I'm sure this is old, but I just found this great mashed-up version of a Shining trailer, Shining Redux, that puts a whole different spin on the movie. I was pointed to it by the Christmas Story mash-up, A Christmas Gory. Good stuff!

Warrenellis.com » The Metasciences

I've been getting way too much of my new music from Warren Ellis lately. He recently posted this heads up on The Metasciences. They've now got their whole album available for download on the myspace. Good stuff!

Shrift available now!

Six Degrees Records artist Shrift finally has a full-fledged page now, with a link to their first video off the forth-coming album! I thought I'd put in an advance order for the album on Amazon, but people already selling advance copies. So I snagged one. This is the most excited I've been by a new disc in a long, long time.

NPR : Tonle Sap: The Flowing Heart of Cambodia

Heard this story,
NPR : Tonle Sap: The Flowing Heart of Cambodia, on NPR this morning and it reminded me of my first trip to Cambodia. Just randomly I was in Phnom Phen for the water festival and saw all the boat races they talk about. The streets were festive but there was also a tension as well, which played out when Hun Sen launched his coup to oust his co-Prime Minister. But back at the guest house I was staying at, the owner gave us all an impromptu lesson on the Khmer custom of trying to shove as much uncooked sticky rice in your mouth and then eating a banana?!?

Pandora Radio

I just found this very cool little Flash-based web radio, Discover Music - Pandora. On of the things I like about it is that you can build a station based on specific artist or songs and the add and remove artists along the way. The selection of tracks for the "station" is based on the Music Genome Project, which sounds like semi-"scientific" marketing talk, but if it works...

Poor Sad Warren Ellis

Warren puts all this energy into these Apparat MP3 collections, and he's still begging for ears. What a pitiful creature...