Filed under: animal, funny, sex | Tags: cake, decorations, funny, genitals, penis, rabbit, rude, Tesco
Rude.
Well, is it? Really? I did not make these, although I *did* make the cake.*
They were from Tescos and even my seven year old niece noticed their strange bulges.
My personal favourite is the one in the centre but the one on the right looks very pleased with his, er, package.**
*I have not made a cake for many years and forgotten how easy it is to think it is easy and how hard it is to make it not hard.
**They all look ever so demented.
Filed under: personal
You can shed tears that she is gone,
Or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her,
Or you can be full of the love you have shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her and only that she has gone,
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind, be empty, and turn your back,
Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
Filed under: interesting, news | Tags: microsoft, mp3, new year, Z2k, zune
See? It may be 9 years late, but here it is, finally.
Happy new year one and all.
What? Did something happen last night?
Check out my Flickr to see how I watched it after MASSIVE TV ARIEL FAIL.
Filed under: comedy, mmos, video, youtube | Tags: comedy, election, presidentialelections, USelection, video, videogames, wow
I love the fact that the interviewer is in a bikini. Via Metaverse Journal.
Says Metaverse Journal:
Obama polled 62% across the whole Azeroth population, with McCain been favoured by Alliance whilst Obama is the pick of the Horde.
Are Night Eleves Democrat?
This hit me via a mailing list I am on. Absolutely ace. It also gets funnier towards the end so stick with it. I wonder: which one are you more like? Courtesy of The Website is Down.
Filed under: culture, news | Tags: culture, furries, furry, internet, londontube, Metro, news, newspaper, secondlife, subculture
So I couldn’t help smiling reading the Metro* on the Tube this morning** when I came across this piece on Furries. Yes, Furries in the Metro.
It neatly explains and quite successfully normalises the motivations behind the human desire to dress as an animal and hang around with others who like the same.
It even gives readers some tips on furry lingo. Says the piece:
A common misconception about furries is they want to have sex with real animals. This confusion often comes from hardcore sites which contain sketches of a half-man, half-zebra figure having sex with a lion or orgies of lesbian wolves. Others describe the beauty of busty cows and curvy, doe-eyed donkeys. However, this is an unfair reflection – furries are far more interested in the idea of humans and animals ‘as one’.
Of course, Furries have been a big part of online cultures for a long long time, and they are very visible in places like Second Life.
But I am tempted to check out the furry meets, especially the world’s largest furmeet which, according to the article, takes place in Pittsburgh. Around 4,000 furries are expected at Anthrocon, next week.
I especially like this comment from one of the contributors, FoxB:
I know of relationships that evolve in the furry community between two people but I just like dressing up and looking like a prat. It makes me happy.
Nice to see the Metro shining a light on the furry fellas.
*The Metro is the free newspaper every commuter in urban areas across the UK know and sometimes love.
**Despite many irritating delays today.
***Image from the Metro. I love the bunny at the end fiddling with his/her head.
Filed under: video | Tags: floppy, music, radiohead, retro, starwars, technology, video
Two videos have caught eye this week, both of which use old gear to (re)create music. The first was a late entry to a Radiohead competition to remix “Nude” from their album In Rainbows. James Houston’s video was too late to qualify, which is a great shame. Says Houston:
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) “Big Ideas: Don’t get any” I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
The second is Stars Wars played on a floppy. Yes, played on a floppy. Wonderful.
Filed under: video | Tags: animation, art, blu, grafitti, publicart, video, wallart
Wow. This is one of the most amazing things I have seen in a long time.* MUTO is made by Blu in Buenos Aires and Baden.
*I think I may say that quite often. So be it.
Filed under: video, youtube | Tags: boring, comedy, funny, humour, seesmic, spam, spammers, video, youtube
Don’t ask me why I deliberately searched for the most boring videos on YouTube, but I did, and this is what I found. Actually, it is pretty good and made me chuckle wryly.*
You might enjoy it – Youtubers can be so boring from superdogdoo.
*Seesmic+irritating Youtube spammer=timeline fun
I love it when games are taken into the world like this. This human version of Snake by Get Out and Play (which is an ngage thing by the looks of it) must have taken a bloody age to do. Great stuff.*
*Go to the site and see the making of…
Filed under: Flickr, protest, video | Tags: campaign, Flickr, protest, saynotovideoonflickr, video
I was looking for suitable Calico cat pictures in Flickr when I stumbled across one of the most popular tags which happened to be “say no to videos in Flickr”.
I can see why. To be honest, I don’t really need to use the service for videos. Although they do seem to be good quality, and I don’t mind the time limit, I have had problems playing every video I have tried. Hence, I have given up.
I do have a very good connection.
Anyway, thought it was interesting to see a lot of strong feeling against the development.
Now why is it that Japan has all The Good Ideas?
Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Cat Cafe Calico where you can hire a cat to stroke while you sup on your latte (via Stylist Stuff).
Says Stylist:
In Toyko there are now 3 cafes were you can rent a cat for about £3 for an hour or £9 for 3 hours. Takafumi Fukui is the founder of the first and very popular Tokyo’s Cat Cafe Calico. There are 14 very clean cats to pet – they are shampooed and brushed regularly and you must have a thorough hand wash before entering the lounge.
What I wouldn’t give for one of those here.
*The cat in this photo is Sibsy, who belongs to Zanypurr.
Filed under: game, play | Tags: alterego, colorwars, game, photography, play, youngnow, zefrank
I am liking the new Colorwars (sic) challenge of YoungNow. You have to recreate an image of you when you were little.
There is a gallery and prizes.
Kind of reminds me of Robbie Cooper’s Alter Ego.
Filed under: puppets, video | Tags: 1938media, alcat, cat, feldman, Flickr, flickrvideo, puppet, seesmic, shelisrael, sxsw, video
Alcat, a very good friend of mine, has had his YouTube account for more than 2 years now. He was born in SF and was a wannabe video blogger after being inspired by the likes of Bre Pettis and Steve Garfield at Gnomedex 2005.
He never quite got his act together, however, and languished behind the scenes, licking his paws.
Until he found Seesmic. It was easy to post quick, often rude and argumentative videos there and he liked it. He liked to mime. People seemed to like him. He performed for them. He answered their questions. He joined in their conversations whilst feeling slightly “luckier” than the other cats there because he, unlike the rest, had the power of speech. And he wore wigs well.
He went to SXSW and there he found he could at the same time delight and frighten people. Was he real? Why was he talking? He collected stickers. He ignored those who stared as they passed him talking into the laptop in anticipation of sessions. He marvelled at the people and their geekery. He liked what he saw.
Now, it seems, he is not alone. And he is pleased. When once people scoffed at his video ambitions, taunting him with cries of “but you are a puppet”!, now people are paying for other such felt fellows in video form.
Even Flickr is doing it to launch their video service because they have realised that humans are essentially boring.
Alcat welcomes this. The internets is a big place. There is enough space for all the puppets in the world.* He has even encountered the Feldman man on Seesmic and he looks forward to more encounters of the felt kind.
Except he is furry. Superior to felt.
*Never must he be called “puppet” to his face.
It’s amazing how much a place can change in the space of 24 hours. The geeks have gone to be replaced by the Different Cool music crowd for SXSW. It is what the festival is *really* known for I guess. I wish I could stay for a bit longer but I didn’t bring my skinny jeans so I guess I have to leave.*
Note to self: the music crowd wear their badges hanging off their belts. The geeks stick them around their necks. What does that say about them?
Anyway, roll on next year: check out Jemima Kiss (Guardian), Chris Vallance (BBC) and I as we take a stroll down Cool Strip Number 6.
*The likelihood of me ever fitting into my skinny jeans again is oooohhh ZERO after all the animal flesh and hops I have consumed this week.
Filed under: args, games | Tags: args, games, janemcgonigal, mcgonigal, souljaboy, sxsw
Just when I was starting to wonder what interesting thing I had really seen at sxsw (apart from a couple of sessions friends participated in), along came Jane McGonigal’s keynote. I knew it was The One I Must Not Miss while I was here. It did not fail to please. She has been the only one I have seen who has actually introduced some fresh(ish) academic theory into her talk – that of Happiness. She talked about 10 skills that games can give you which ultimately give you a better quality of “life”. Hence, why there is a mass exodus to virtual worlds.
- mobability: ability to coordinate at large scales
- cooperation radar: ability to attach who would be perfect collaborator for any given mission
- ping quotient: how good you are at reaching out and are good at responding to others’ engagement
- influencey: ability to adapt persusive ability: motivating people
- multi capitalism: monetary and social captial: recognising diff capital systems: getting people to trade those
- protovation: rapid, fearless innovation: failing is fun. fail quickly and a lot means you learn the most: gamers do this a lot
- open authorship: giving content away and acknowledging it will be changed: how to design content to make sure people can modify in positive ways
- signal/noise management: knowing what is signal and what is noise
- longbroading: zoomed out view of higher level systems
- emergent sight: you can spot patterns – things you weren’t expecting: being comfy with messy complexity (eg lost ring – multiple languages): seeing opportunities in messiness.
The thing about games and virtual story worlds – no matter how graphically sophisticated (or not) they are – is at least they give you feedback and points for doing things. That way we know instantly what our strengths and weaknesses are, and how we are doing. We don’t really get that in everyday life.
Then of course, she ended the session with a spontaneous Soulja Boy dance. As you do.
Filed under: art, seesmic | Tags: art, community, creativity, mashups, seesmic, web2.0
What I love about philosophically web 2.0 applications and services is the creativity they inspire or help to display in the people who don’t just “use” but who are part of the fabric of those applications and services.
Take this from a very talented Seesmic member, Till, as an example. These Seesmic portraits are simple really, but just fun.
He (I think it is he and others) has also done some great sketches of some of the community’s characters.
Check them out on this Flickr stream.
Filed under: surveillance | Tags: cameras, cctv, screensaver, security, surveillance, voyeurism
This seems like an interesting little screen saver: apparently SurveillanceSaver is not spyware in itself, which would be ironic wouldn’t it. It is however, a feed of 400+ webcams/cctv/security camera images from around the world. They are supposed to be live images. Via Slorker. Highly addictive (if I could get it to work).
