A different view of the Olympics

Olympic Insanity

The Bourne Supremacy

Good movie.
Tough taxi.
Imagine taking a rolled up magazine to a knife fight... and winning.
Not good for people with travel sickness.
...and they remembered the limp.

heh

[Listening to: Girls - The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned (4:13)]

PaperFormers

This is nuts. This site contains PDF files of Transformers and Deceptocons that can be cut out, folded and assembled into a paper model...then, apparently, they can transform!

Fark Photoshop: All your base.

This is the complete list soted by votes and here are two favourites:

The MSN Logo

Here is a document on all the crap you couln't care about the MSN logo

Apparently Jet Blast is Powerful

Apparently Jest Blast is a real problem as portrayed by this Staged Demonstration

Be Afraid

[Listening to: Gasoline - Audioslave - Audioslave (4:39)]

The REAL Great Escape

I did a littel bit of research into the real Great Escape, the event upon which the Steve McQueen/James Garner movie is based. While doing so I came across a bill of materials used to construct the three tunnels ('Tom', 'Dick' and 'Harry'):
4,000 bed boards; 1,370 beading battens; 1,699 blankets; 161 pillow cases; 635 palliasses; 34 chairs; 52 20-man tables; 90 double tier bunks; 1,219 knives; 478 spoons; 30 shovels; 1,000 feet of electric wire; 600 feet of rope; 192 bed covers; 3,424 towels; 1,212 bed bolsters; 10 single tables; 76 benches; 246 water cans; 582 forks; 69 lamps.

My question was this: How do you not notice that much stuff going missing?

The answer:
Allied aircrew shot down during World War II were incarcerated after interrogation in Air Force Prisoner of War camps run by the Luftwaffe...Stalag Luft III was situated in Sagan, 100 miles south-east of Berlin...After several major expansions, Luft III eventually grew to hold 10,000 PoWs; it had a size of 59 acres, with 5 miles of perimeter fencing.

8 bloody kilometeres of perimeter! 59 freakin' acres!

This is a great extension

for anyone who uses Firefox

Everyone's Favourite Dragon

Everyone Should Get Some Sun

What technology does The World’s Online Marketplace use?

Gotta love the Fark Photoshop contests

Photoshop StrongBad in a Die Hard flick

Please make this movie

"I want to tread lightly on what happens over the course of the rest of the film on the off chance that Mary Parent or someone at Universal is seriously going to make this thing. There’s the eight-year-old-boy side of me that thinks that a DIRTY DOZEN-style mercenary team of hyper-smart dinosaurs in body armor killing drug dealers and rescuing kidnapped children will be impossible to resist. And then there’s the side of me that says... WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!"

An extract from a review of the supposed script for Jurassic Park IV. If this is true, it sounds completely mental - not to mention the kind of movie I'd pay to see.

Blurb Translations

Now, I was wandering around today, when I stopped by the video store that's near the Taigum Centro. I wandered in, wandered through, browsing the titles, when one caught my eye. It was a Hong Kong movie called 'Book Of Heroes' or something. Anyway, I checked the back to see what it was about.

The first paragraph went something like this (this is before the actual plot synopsis, mind you):

This Hong Kong action blockbuster stars Jet Li's protege Hak Ho-Sen. Watch his gravity-defying displays of Wushu as he executes a 720-degree kick - where he spins around twice before kicking his opponent.

Somehow, (and probably not surprisingly) this translated itself into:

Dude. If you see this movie, you will see people get Kicked In The Head. This is no joke. They will be Kicked In The Head, and it will be SWEET. There is no escaping this, or any way of avoiding it. People will be Kicked In The Head.

I actually think the translated blurb sold me more on the movie than the actual blurb. Certainly, the promises - nay, the factual statements - of people being Kicked In The Head, to my mind, are far more business-like and seductive than artsy-fartsy talk of proteges and Wushu and degrees of spin. I didn't rent the movie because I wasn't looking to rent a movie, but if I had, I would have rented that one. How can you say no to a movie where people will be Kicked In The Head? I guess you could always whine, "But I don't feel like seeing people get Kicked In The Head," but if movies that Kick people In The Head cared about feelings they probably wouldn't Kick so much Head. And where would we be without movies where people get Kicked In The Head?

Because when it comes down to it, that's what martial arts is all about. Not self-control, discipline, harmony with one's world/self, harnessing one's life force - no, the lesson of Ed Gruberman carries on.

"I, too, wish to boot some head."

That is all.

I bet Alan Moore never read this version of Watchmen

More here

Can you vote for this man?

It's a damn hard ask.

'Course, the problem is that voting for the other bloke is a pretty tough ask, too.

Home Sweet Home

Meet Leung

Who is Leung you ask? Leung is a Chinese dragon, and will be featuring heavily in my photos from this trip. You can see him below, with the picturesque Columbia Gorge behind him.

"Why?", you ask? To which I can only say, "Because."

Doom is upon us!

Well, maybe not. But the University of Oregon is in the grips of some serious recycling insanity as can be seen in this picture of the corridor just outside Kristy's lab.