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Death Metal Rooster.

Your mileage may vary, but after half a dozen views I feel ready to break some chairs (in a most joyful way!).

The original is definitely worth a watch too.
(Thanks @david!)

I can’t stop listening to this. While it has a cheezy-bit or two, toward the end, around :54, it hits some kind of resonance that’s shudder-inducing.

It needs to be several minutes longer though:

Some months ago (or years?) there was a story on the interwebs about a couple of guys who played a long and elaborate hoax on one guy.

I would really like to find this, but I can’t seem to find any references to it.

Here’s what I (think I) remember:

- The guy the hoax was played on was contacted via a video game forum (he was young – maybe 17 when it started, 19 when the hoax finished)

- The hoax involved emails, mail, fake identities, etc.

- at one point the guy was flown somewhere and  led through some forest trail or something under the premise that he was saving the world

- the guy the hoax was played on had a great attitude about it — a quote from him went something like: “I had fun and would be available to save the world again if the need arises”

I’m pretty sure it was on Boing Boing…?

If anybody can find this on the web I’ll give them…um…I’ll send them a hand-drawn postcard. Is that enough bounty?

Yesterday I had a debilitating fit of procrastination, and ‘Burnt Cog‘ – a simple flash-based media viewer is the end-result (as well as an update to my home page, something I like to try to get in once every seven years or so).

If you like the image/movie effect on the front page of ideacog.net and have a little tech-savvy, feel free to download the source:

Download Burnt Cog (zip, 1.3mb, GPL/MIT license)

Here’s what a movie looks like, here’s what an image looks like.

From the README file:

Burnt Cog is a simple flash-based image or movie displayer based on a folder of media. After you install it,  put images/flv files into a folder. They will be randomly displayed with a title-overlay and a nice burn-in effect. It also (optionally) auto-generates a light-weight navigation of the items in the folder.

I wanted a tool that was extremely simple to add content to. In this case – I just drop new flv, jpg or png files into a folder. The filename will be converted to the caption and they’ll immediately enter the rotation.

There are probably a ton of other great tools like this, but I’m afraid I’m stubbornly DIY. If it helps someone else, great!

Cheers,

Ben

A few years back, these same people came out with a flash game called Samorost. The world they built was just gorgeous and detailed and interesting, and at the time I don’t think I’d seen anything like it, especially not made with flash. Their new game looks to easily top that. Check out Machinarium – you can demo the first few levels.

These are search suggestions in Safari, powered by Google suggest. They make great (and depressing) found poetry.

My new favorite nearly-syllabic-correct haiku:

where is the love
where is the swine flu
where is the undertaker

Bored? What, you finished with all those degrees already?

(ouch, though the last question seems to be well-enough answered by the preceding 9 questions)

Things you cannot escape from: Death, taxes and… iphones!

I love that “How can I keep from singing lyrics” is one of the top suggestions. As I’ve always suspected, music is a virus.

And as far as: How can I get taller?

Good luck with that, people.

Had Twitter not popularized stalking, ’who should I follow’ would be pretty creepy. Actually, scratch that, it still is.

Who should I follow
Who should I marry
Who should be invited to the rehearsal dinner

….seems like maybe someone is getting a bit ahead of himself, here.

Who is my god?

I’ve alarmed the cat by several dramatic readings of this in my quiet office now.

will I ever marry lyfe jennings and get pregnant, and will it be love? Here’s a quiz!