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The Cape Cod Potato Chips Mystery Potato
Teddy Blanks found a whole potato in a bag of Cape Cod Potato Chips. Here’s his follow-up correspondence with the company who makes the chips.…
Found, Galacticast’s Parody of Lost
“Found”, the latest episode of GALACTICAST is a great parody of the television show “Lost” and features a reference that now famous AACS HD DVD…
The First Annual MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards
In the latest episode of JETSET, Zadi directs our attention to Demonbaby’s great write-up on The First Annual MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards featuring The MySpace…
The Hilarious Animation of Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt has been creating hilarious animated films for over a decade. At one of Nik and Nancy Phelps’ Ideas in Animation screenings I remember…
Power Tool Drag Races at Maker Faire 2007
This year’s Power Tool Drag Races will take place next weekend at Maker Faire 2007 in San Mateo on May 19th & 20th. The PTDR…
Massive Fire Consumes Los Angeles’ Griffith Park
A massive fire has consumed Griffith Park in Los Angeles, threatening the Los Angeles Zoo and is currently headed toward the Los Feliz neighborhood. Xeni…
2007 Cassette Jockey World Championships
The Evolution Control Committee is organizing the 2007 Cassette Jockey World Championships which will be taking place at Maker Faire 2007. Here’s more info, including…
The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen
Our friends Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe are founders of the New York based theater company Banana Bag & Bodice, who through the years have…
Amazon Associates aStore, Build Your Own Amazon.com
Amazon Associates is Amazon.com’s pioneering affiliate program. Recently I started playing around aStore, their new service that allows you to build your own online store…
Ape Lad’s Mnemonic MonKey Pirate HD DVD Key Puzzle
Adam Koford (Ape Lad) has created a clever Mnemonic MonKey Pirate illustration, which if decoded will reveal the super controversial HD DVD processing key. via…