I just found out that the geniuses at futurepinball.com have made a pinball physics engine / pinball creation engine:
“Future Pinball is a real time Pinball Development System. It allows you to design and play your very own pinball simulation in True real time 3D. It uses Advanced Physics to provide the best possible Simulation of [...]

Shepard Fairey is the fella who made the (most famous) Barack Obama poster. He’s currently in a little bit of hot water about the image he used as inspiration for his poster (one of which is hanging up in the Smithsonian, so suck on that AP news).  I, of course, totally ripped the dude off [...]

Geez this reminds me of middle school so much. It’s almost painful to watch. 

Turn it up to 11! We’re killin Rebelz boooyyyee!

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I’ve just submitted my first (of hopefully many) shirts to woot.com. If you have an account, and you fine my work pleasing please go and vote for my shirt.
It’s a combination of previous comics, so that makes it self referential, which is one of the critical design elements, right?

Now, I’m the sort of girl who is equally happy sitting down with her knitting to watch Masterpiece Theatre on a lazy afternoon as I am to go out with the boys to watch My Bloody Valentine 3D. Sure, sometimes I mix things up a bit – y’know, maybe I’ll work on a little embroidery [...]

I’m so jealous of these kids. They get to play around with a giant ass screen (actually a bunch of screens networked together). A fellow named Daniel Shiffman teaches a class and writes books about a programming language called Processing. I’m slowly learning the language in my spare time following along with this book (Which is excellent [...]

I was recently in the bathroom at an all-girl Catholic school (don’t ask) and I saw this vending machine. My first thought was “Holy Cow! They’re selling condoms at a Catholic school?!?!” Then I realized that the only choice these girls get to make is pads vs. tampons. Go girl! You got a choice! We’re [...]

This guy is my hero. I was once spotted on a Jumbotron. I was at a White Sox game one cold autumn day with my buddy Commissioner Cool. They started up the fan cam and I told Comm. Cool that if we got on it we had to start picking our noses. Not 20 seconds [...]

The Space Game is a space-based RTS involving building up a mining base while holding back enemies.
Earlier levels see mining asteroids being the main priority, while later on surviving wave after wave of incoming attackers in the number one concern. It’s simple but very polished, with a number of different modes to choose from and a [...]

I just got done watching the Ween Live At The Cat’s Cradle DVD [$16, cheap]. It’s pretty amazing.
The DVD captures the lo-fi beginnings of the duo circa 1991. Each video is either them performing live in a small  basement, pre-recorded in a basement video session, or during the recording sessions of pure guava.
Watching them at [...]

From a space.com article about the size of the observable universe:
“All the pieces add up to 78 billion-light-years. The light has not traveled
that far, but “the starting point of a photon reaching us today after
travelling for 13.7 billion years is now 78 billion light-years away,”
Cornish said. That would be the radius of the universe, and [...]

Thank you wikimedia for allowing people of all stripes to create their own themed wikis.
The next entry in the march of humorous wikis is Dickipedia.
It’s a collection of people who are lumped into the intersection of douchebags and mean.
Some of the writing is entertaining:
From Reagan: “Reagan was credited with saving 77 lives, only 66,923 less [...]

Kill Vampire Lincoln. A movie, about killing Vampire Lincoln. ‘Nuff Said:

[link] Via Thinkin’ Lincoln

Architecture in Helsinki – That Beep from helsinkids on Vimeo.
More information at their website.
Via Polyvinyl.

A racist political cartoon (pictured) published by the New York Post is being denied to be thus. The editorial board of the NYP are either idiots (for not seeing it) or idiots (for thinking we wouldn’t see the image for what it is). Why not just stand for what it is, a publicity stunt?
Via [...]

I’ve just been invited to The World’s Largest Pie Fight. I’m pretty sure it’s invitational, so if you’re itching to go, you’ll have to go to the organizer’s website.
Weezer holds the record with 120 people. What’s better to stimulate the economy than wasting pastries.
Here’s some video from a San Francisco Roller Disco Pie [...]

According to Snopes.com, swiffer products are _not_ dangerous to your pets. I had been guilty of perpetrating this myth. Someone smart told it to me, so I believed it.
That is, of course, unless you clean your floors with gasoline.

I’ve been a programmer for about 15 years. I’ve rubbed shoulders with some pretty smart people. I’ve also had the pleasure to work with people who can’t quite grasp complex programming tasks or methods.
I _used_ to be a little pendantic. Granted, there is the occasional dope who is completely worthless and drags the team down. [...]