Archive for the 'Westside Representation' Category
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Le Montage
The guys at Handsome Donkey are back with another short. This one is a love story of sorts, with a Handsome Donkey twist.
-CGP fo Life-
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Visor
Visor is a cool little OS X app that gives you a drop down terminal ala Quake.
Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake. Visor requires elements of Quartz only found in 10.4. Visor is compatible with 10.4 and higher only.
If you use the terminal often, this is indispensable. Not only does it take on whatever color scheme you have set for your terminal, it supports Quartz animations in the background. You really have to try it to see how cool it is.
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Amen Brother
Most people have no idea that 6 seconds of drumming from a 1969 B-side is the foundation for almost all modern Jungle and Drum & Bass music. Used in literally thousands of songs, from hip hop to electronica, and even in commercials, the drum break from The Winston’s Amen Brother is the single most used sample of all time.
Sure the video is kind of long (at 18+ minutes) and all you ever see is a turntable, but it’s quite informative for those who dont know the story. Once it’s been pointed out, you will hear sample’s of this song everywhere.
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
419er Gets What He Deserves
This guy was selling a nice video camera used on Amazon and was being pestered by Nigerian 419 scammers. When they went to the extreme of faking Amazon purchase conformations he decided to get revenge. Instead of getting a Cannon GL2 in his scamming little hands, this Nigerian recieved a box of feces, and had to pay the FedEx bill to boot.
“A day or so after listing the GL2 I started receiving emails from interested parties. I was immediately suspicious when I received multiple inquiries wanting to pay for the GL2 via Bidpay and requesting that I ship the Canon GL2 to Nigeria. Each time I responded that the Canon GL2 had to be purchased via the amazon.com purchasing system and that I could ship the GL2 to Nigeria. I also would inform the prospective buyer that I would ship the GL2 as soon as I received confirmation from amazon.com confirming the sale of the GL2. Soon after responding I would receive another email  that looked as if it originated from amazon.com, I believe this is called phishing, stating that my camera had been sold and to ship it to some person in Nigeria. Whenever I receive a sale confirmation email from amazon.com I log into my account at amazon.com to verify the legitimacy of the email and each time the camera was still listed as not sold and there was not any money transfered into my amazon.com account. At this point I was certain that the confirmation emails from amazon.com were fraudulent and I was being scammed.”
The above photo is from the always excellent 419Eater.
-CGP fo Life-
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Saturday, January 7th, 2006
TivoToGo for Mac NOT Vaporware!
Long promised but never delivered, Tivo is showing early test versions of TivoToGo for Mac OS X at CES. TivoToGo lets you download recordings from Tivo Series 2 and presumably the newly annouced series 3 to your Mac and from there move it to other media devices. Burn a DVD, put it on your PSP, or watch it on your iPod Video. The question is: “How long till this shows up on BitTorrent?”
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
LivePlasma
LivePlasma is a music suggestion (movies too) service with a twist. It makes stunning relational charts with a nice and simple (DHTML??) interface. It’s still in beta but seems pretty funtional to me.
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Kazakhstan Looses Sense of Humor
Kazakhstan doesnt like Ali G, damn commies.
“Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.
Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his “Da Ali G Show”, has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West.”
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
Beer Container Protocol
So I’ve been drinking (which I do a lot) and thinking (which I don’t do nearly enough) and came up with something amazingly brilliant. But then I forgot it and scribbled down this instead. Like most of the women I sleep with, I am sure I’ll regret this tomorrow.
Beer Container Protocol
Keg – Always the preferred container for Gods Gift. The man with a keg controls all. They can even be mobilized thanks to dollies and indentured servants. Bringing your keg out in public will attract moochers nine times out of ten, so be sure to bring lots of bear repellant.
Pitcher – If above mentioned indentured servant is otherwise occupied then this is your next best choice. Don’t want to share your pitcher? Damn right you don’t, and by drinking directly from the pitcher, no one but the drunkest slob will want to share your Saliva Pale Ale.
Pint Glass – Simple, elegant, and always there for you (unlike your girlfriend, who’s always there for ME). In the Beer Protocol, the Pint Glass comes third.
Glass Bottle – Hey at least it’s not a can!
Yard Glass – Frat boy novelty. If there’s good beer in it, the second foot and a half will be warm and flat by the time you reach it. If there’s bad beer in it, then I hope you trip and cut yourself on a yard of glass you schmuck
Beer Hat – Makes up for the use of cans by being considered formal-wear in Kentucky. Two beers at a time means you can get funk draster!
Beer Bong – That sixer of Naughty Ice that some loser brought over isn’t gonna drink itself. MGD, Bud, PBR, or any other beer that is only valuable for the liquor content can quickly drown your troubles via a large funnel and 3 feet of smelly rubber tubing from Home Depot.
Beer Can – Consider this simply a momentary container before filling your beer bong. Canned beer tastes bad, is not a usable weapon, and despite what your gay uncle told you, it will not make you forget that time he touched your no-no spot.
Plastic Beer Bottle – What good is a beer container if you can hurt a Major League Baseball player with it?
Beer Goggles – Not a Beer container but something everyone should always be wary of. If she’s talking to you and not trying to steal your wallet, then she’s ugly.
-CGP fo Life-
Monday, September 26th, 2005
Wookies need love too
From Witz.org via BoingBoing. I dont care if it’s real or fake, either way it’s still funny.
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Monday, September 19th, 2005
International Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day
Arggggghhhh me matey, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. The holiest day of the year for Pastafarian’s around the world.
So grab your wench, fight the scurvy, and raise your grog!
-CGP fo Life-
P.S. – Yes I know the PirateBay Logo is for a totally different type of pirate but it’s such a cool logo.
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