Month: March 2005

ESPN’s Page 3 has an excellent list of Top 100 Sports Movie Quotes.

It looks like comments are on the fritz again. I might not get a chance to fix them tonight, but hopefully I can figure out what’s going on by tomorrow. Thanks to Mike for pointing this out; I was wondering why there hadn’t been any for over a week or so…

Update: Comments are sort of working now. A feature that has never worked right is the display of the original post above the comment. Well, that seems to work now, except in some cases it is showing the wrong post (the TV themes one seems to be a popular one for some reason, even after I deleted it), which in my mind is worse than showing nothing at all. In any case, if that confusion prevented you from posting a comment, then I don’t blame you, but feel free to do so even if things seem to be mismatched. I’ll try and see if I can get to the bottom of this, but I didn’t have much luck before, so we’ll have to see. Thanks for your patience…

Update 2: Thanks to Hossein Sharifi of YACCS, it appears that comments are somewhat back to normal. The “comment above post” feature seems to be working properly now, and the comment box is coming up quicker than it used to (I think). Hossein mentioned that there may be a delay in posts appearing above comments after a new item has been posted, but I hope that won’t be a big deal. Please let me know if you see any other problems…

“Clocky is a clock for people who have trouble getting out of bed. When the snooze bar is pressed, Clocky rolls off the table and finds a hiding spot, a new one every day.” Those wacky MIT kids…

Wired reports that two engineers pursuing a master’s degree in industrial design engineering at the Royal College of Art in London have invented a new type of emergency shelter, literally a “building in a bag” that consists of “a sack of cement-impregnated fabric. To erect the structure, all you have to do is add water to the bag and inflate it with air. Twelve hours later the Nissen-shaped shelter is dried out and ready for use.” Amazing…

Parthenon Graphics Timelines has a bunch of historical timelines available for viewing and/or downloading as .GIF images. Very cool…

While I’m at it, Alternatime has compiled a huge amount of links to other sites with timelines.

These videos of Lego vehicle battles bring back some fond memories… 🙂

I posted about the Star Wars III: Revenge Of The Sith teaser trailer last November and thought that it was cool enough that the movie might not suck. Well, a new trailer premiered last week (during The O.C., so I missed it), and it looks pretty damn awesome. kottke.org has kindly provided several BitTorrent links as well as a direct QuickTime link. Please let the movie not suck…

Web of Letters uses the Yahoo API and its image search capabilities to generate images composed of letters based on a search string. You can see the result for DrikoLand above… 🙂

I think Spell with flickr foo does the same thing using images from flickr, but I can’t tell because the service is down at the moment.

Mark Pilgrim of dive into mark has written Butler, which “enhances Google search results by adding links to competitors. It also removes ads, changes typography, and a few other useful things.” Butler requires Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension. Pretty nice…

retroCRUSH presents its list of The 100 Greatest TV Themes, complete with lots of linked content.