Fan death is an urban legend that was originally primarily confined to South Korea, but has spread to other countries in the Far East. The legend states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can result in the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. This belief also […]

you seriously need to check this thing out. this bird, the lyrebird, can imitate apparently any sound. in the video, you hear camera shutters, chain saws, car alarms — all from the bird’s mouth. lyrebird video <– watch this now (via boing boing) Technorati Tags: amazing, animals, bird, boingboing, lyrebird, mimic, sounds

gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: threescore and ten Technorati Tags: funny, gapingvoid, humor

One of the most intriguing toys in history, the bricks gave children endless possibilities of what they could create. While we certainly aren’t masters by any means, we still have some Lego sets around the Uncrate office, and that’s why we were so pumped by The Unofficial Lego Builder’s Guide by Allan Bedford ($16). All […]

congratulations mom & dad! Technorati Tags: 2006, anniversary, marriage, momanddad, parents, sarahcorwin, tomcorwin, wedding

GNOME-BE-GONE – UncommonGoods Watch with amusement as the one and only Gnome-Be-Gone frees your garden of a kitsch little Euro invader. Who does he think he is, wearing tiny red dunce caps and pushing inefficient wooden wheelbarrows? Tuck a few made-in-the-USA Gnome-Be-Gones into your flowerbeds and watch the demented yard goblins get toted away. Set […]

So what about evolution? We did have a fierce drought for a number of years. Maybe some of our local fish evolved the ability to locomote between pools in search of better pickins, like a Chinese lungfish. I’ve been known to do that when the beer runs out. Anybody seen any goldfish waiting at a […]

it is way past time for the US to leave iraq. how many innocent people are our troops going to kill before we start demanding that bush stop behaving like the terrorist he pretended he’s interested in “rooting out”? Technorati Tags: army, bush, death, george bush, iraq, kill, killers, killings, marines, murder, murderers, politics, president, […]

so this was odd, or at least new (to me): b00ty:~/Library/Mail chris$ sudo lasso8ctl restartPassword:Restarting Lasso Service: DoneYou have new mail in /var/mail/chrisb00ty:~/Library/Mail chris$ cd /var/mail/chris what does this mean? Technorati Tags: ctl, email, Lasso, lasso8ctl, lazyweb, linux, macosx, mail, unix

so, about twice a month i bother looking through my website stats, to see if there is anything new or exciting. sometimes there is, sometimes there’s not. i tend to gain about two unique visitors a day per month — i’m average 48 now. the stats tell me location and IP address, so some of […]

so i’m sitting at the coffeeshop right near my house on sunday afternoon, drinking ice water and coding away on a project that i wish i had finished two weeks ago, and there’s a couple in here on what is obviously a blind date. and something about it just hit me: i was sitting here […]

Barista girl with exactly zero irony: What is Starbucks becoming?? It’s becoming McDonalds! Listening to: Brand New Colony from the album “Give Up” by The Postal Service Technorati Tags: barista, coffee, indiana, indianapolis, indy, irony, mcdonalds, overheard, overheardinindianapolis, overheardinindy, overheardinnewyork, overheardinny, starbucks

An amazing step up from the Senseo, which has poor pressure and terrible tasting coffee (although you can find “better” third party pods out there). The Essenza makes a very good shot of espresso or ‘longo’ which isn’t hard to do when you realize it has 19 bars of pressure (same as their more expensive […]