Month: July 2003

Adtunes.com is a great “source of information on songs and music used in television commercials, movie trailers, tv shows, and much more.”

Here’s mine:

“Lisa, if you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way!” Well, you’re really really lazy. You manage to get by, but you never put any effort into anything you do. You most likely enjoy watching TV, sleeping, eating, and doing stuff of the sort. Get active. You’re a fat, lazy idiot.

OK, that’s not exactly right, as there was no mention of beer, but not too far off either. Which Advice Quote said by Homer Simpson are You?
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CNN reports that “A woman who didn’t want the rain to ruin the sofa in the back of her truck caused 24 vehicles to wreck behind her Sunday on [Georgia] Interstate 20 as she swerved to get under an overpass.” I’m getting road rage just thinking about this, so I think I’ll go and browse somewhere else now…

I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised to hear this, especially after France named the “@” symbol “arrobase” last year, but this is still kind of stupid. CNN reports that “linguistically sensitive” France is now using the term “courriel” to refer to electronic mail in official documents, banning the more common, colloquial use of the word “e-mail.” More than likely, this will just be a lip service change, according to some people in France:

Marie-Christine Levet, president of French Internet service provider Club Internet, said Friday. “E-mail has sunk in to our values… Protecting the language is normal, but e-mail’s so assimilated now that no one thinks of it as American,” she said. “Courriel would just be a new word to launch.”

Aha, so that’s it! It’s all a conspiracy of dictionary makers…

Apparently, this has been out for some time, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. The 2003 Dodge Tomahawk motorcycle concept seems to be distinctly inspired by the lightcycles from Tron. The motorcycle is powered by a 500 horsepower Viper V-10 engine (!), can “reach 60 miles an hour in about 2.5 seconds,” and needs four independently suspended wheels to handle the power of the engine. Pretty damn cool, although I doubt it can do 90 degree turns like the lightcycles can… :-p

The official M.C.Escher site is chock full of fun stuff on one of my favorite artists, including galleries, a biography, and even some virtual fly-throughs of some of his more famous pieces. Check it out!

After all that Ghyslain AKA “The Star Wars Kid” has had to deal with, I think it would be really cool to see him in Star Wars Episode III. Sign the online petition and hope that George Lucas listens. Hey, if he can contemplate putting NSYNC in, then he should at least consider this…

The Full Metal Jacket Soundboard is probably NSFW because of its language, but you’ll definitely get your daily R. Lee Ermey fix.

The Onion is one of the most consistently hilarious sites out there, but hopefully you all know that by now. Their A.V. Club actually does “serious” journalism, with insightful reviews and interviews covering cinema, music, video, books, and more. Still, I’m glad to see that in their recent interview of Sir Mix-A-Lot they couldn’t resist this tongue-in-cheek zinger: “You were one of the first popular entertainers to talk about asses in a sexual way, whereas that happens all the time now. Do you feel validated by the current focus on asses?” Classic.

Did you ever find yourself trying to remember what the yodelling mountain climber from The Price Is Right sounded like? Or maybe what the Whammy sounded like in Press Your Luck? Well, wonder no longer, as the International GameShow SFX Library has it all, “859 sounds, 144 shows, 13 countries” as I post this. I’m impressed (and frightened)…