Month: January 2005

A couple of months ago I mentioned that Google had bought Picasa, a digital photo management application. They have just released Picasa 2.0, which adds many very useful features to an already great application, including more retouching and editing tools; more file management options; the ability to automatically upload photos to popular online print services like Snapfish, Ofoto, and others; a “collage” feature that lets you make contact sheets and photo stacks; seamless integration with TiVo; and much more. Take the tour for a complete list of new features, or check out PC Magazine’s review.

I’ve tried out many digital photo management applications, and I think that Picasa is by far the easiest to use and quite possibly the most feature-rich. The Timeline feature alone makes it worth it in my book, and the tight integration with Blogger is something that I have yet to use to its full potential. Best of all, it’s free; download it now!

Engadget presents The Big Red Button (of Doom), begging for addition to your desktop. What does it do, you might ask? Why, it opens M$ Internet Explorer, of course! :-p

Speaking of ineffective goggles, check out Bill Gates’ 1983 Teen Beat (?) photo shoot. Scary…

I’m not sure what to make of this Volkswagen Polo ad (page has embedded QuickTime movie). I can’t see this being anything but a fake, but see for yourself…

Check out this great animated GIF spoof of The Lord Of The Rings…

I think Hot Links had the best comment about The Hasselhoffian Recursion: “The goggles! They do nothing!” Beware…

Just when I thought that Star Wars marketing could stoop no lower, I found this: Darth Tater. I must fight the urge to buy this, but I am somehow irresistably drawn to it. Damn you, George Lucas!

If you haven’t yet seen the movie Napoleon Dynamite, I highly recommend it. If you have, then you should definitely check out this Napoleon Dynamite Soundboard. Sweet!

CNN reports that “The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to develop an ‘aphrodisiac’ to spur homosexual activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other less-than-lethal weapons.” Other suggestions included “using chemicals that could be sprayed on enemy positions to attract stinging and biting bugs, rodents and larger animals” and “creating ‘severe and lasting halitosis’ to help sniff out fighters trying to blend with civilians.”

So basically the taxpayers’ money was used to fund research into creating flamboyant, pungent enemies…