Category: Miscellaneous

Claim: Iraqi militant web site displays image of action figure toy identified as a captured American soldier.

Snopes reports that the status of this claim is True.

From All Your Base to Zombo.com, the Wikipedia has a pretty good collection of Internet Memes.

The Thought Project is a collection of headshots taken of random people in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York City. Beside each image is the thought(s) they were thinking just as they were approached for a picture.

Over a period of 3 months I stopped 150 strangers on the street and asked them what they where thinking about the second before I stopped them. Using a mic and a dictaphone I recorded what they told me, then took a picture of them. 55 of the 150 thoughts are presented on this website as quotes. All quotes state exactly what was said during the interviews. The interviews took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and New York City.

Amazing story about a man’s promise to his grandfather.

When I was 9, I caught my grandfather shaving in the bathroom and that is when I saw it: His Camp Number – 58877241.

Not knowing any better, I asked him why he got such a “stupid tattoo”. He told me that he really didn’t want to get it and quickly tried to cover it with a towel. I followed him asking him, “Why don’t you get it removed then?” He stop dead in the hallway and without turning around said “So I don’t forget.” We never discussed it again.

When he died last summer, I told myself that he was finally at peace. As I stood over his coffin with my wife, I reached down and took his arm in mine. I unbuttoned his sleeve and rolled it up. I looked at the number again – 58877241. My wife looked at me and asked “Why are you doing that?” All I could say was “So I don’t forget.” Right then I made my promise to him – Never again.

What is particularly fascinating about this story is the response he got from one woman about her own grandfather and his experience in the war:

They hauled him in front of a firing squad. The Captain of the Guard again demanded that the Jews among them be identified. Then one of the soldiers came forward and identified himself as a Jew. The Captain grabbed him and hauled him away and stopped the execution. The troops never saw the soldier again.

The soldier that volunteered the information that he was Jewish was named Roman Edemskoi (58877241) – the same man.

(Via MeFi)

I got a parking ticket today; how irritating. I discovered it when leaving from the figure drawing studio.

Anyway, here are my figure drawings. Please leave a comment if you like them.

I just installed another great extention for Firefox. It’s called Sage.

Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It’s got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don’t.

Previously I Heart Firefox.

On June 5, 1996 HoTMaiL was publicly announced. 3 years and 8 million users later it sold to Microsoft for $400 million.

Read about it in this interesting Wired Article.

GXM Studio is the new media company in Malaysia that I am hoping to work for while I am over there in two months. They have some pretty nifty little animations, web design, and video work. I’m very excited.

By now, you’ve likely seen the Numa Numa Dance. The New York Times reports that the dancer, Gary Brolsma, isn’t enjoying his newfound fame. “These days, Mr. Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job […] He is distraught, embarrassed.” (silly registration req’d)

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Here is a hairy headed update of my model.