Maya= Beautiful Lady AND Powerful Software Application

Maya Makes Drinky Crow Show's Boozy, 2-D World Spin
I did not know that there is a program called Maya, a 3-D graphics and modeling software powerhouse owned by Autodesk, or that "Chances are that any CGI movie is made in Maya."

Reading about it at this site though, I particularly favored this quote, which is so cool----
"Maya has the ability to immerse you, to trick your brain."

My Birthday!

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Disney's Dickhead

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things If you can't see the type on the letter, which came to a woman in 1938 who applied for a job cartooning for Disney, it essentially says that girls (and thats the wording they used, girls and young men) aren't allowed and that all the creative work is done by "young men." But I do LOVE that cute stationary,
eh? One of the Commenters on the post at BoingBoing said that in '97 she was turned down by a recruiter at a Brown job fair when she asked about jobs for a developer, writing code because "you're a girl." The guy got fired, but still...that was just 10 years ago, it says alot about the company dynamics and culture behind the carefully moderated PR scene. And you wouldn't necessarily expect it from such a family friendly, trusted old brand...or WOULD you, cause I've had many a conspiracy theorist tell me about the evil old ways of Walt Disney, the rumored anti-Semite, pedophile, devil worshipper and what else have you...

Microsoft Surface, AKA Big Ass Table

Techcrunch Funny parody of the Microsoft Surface press video, much enjoyed.

It's Like Looking into a Mirror

Tasty Kids

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Next time I make quesadillas I need to go out and buy some of that kid cheese. So tasty!  I love it.

Discount Stores, in a Nutshell

WTF?! | gigglesugar - Funny Videos & Humor.
Boy oh boy. This is laugh out loud retarded, you should have
seen me when I stumbled across it at work. A sight to see, fo 'sho.

Agreed.

Daily Kos: Bush should be tried as a war criminal after impe... Funny. I especially like the rendering of Condoleeza Rice and the Prez' very special thought bubbles.

Crazy Japanese Game Show

All I have to say is: who thought this up? And one other thing that comes to mind is...its strangely entertaining. American shows have NOTHING on these silly Japanese!

Shadow Art

the new shelton wet/dry
This is undoubtedly the coolest art I've seen in a bit. Imagine, thinking about how to arrange regular objects, sometimes TRASH even, to make the shadows look like this?

Or this?


Visit the link for everything. I'm still amazed.

The Yes Men

Exxon Will Burn PEOPLE For Fuel If Climate Calamity Hits Us ...
The Yes Men have struck again, this time at a GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference. For those unfamiliar with the awesome Yes Men, these guys think up outrageous pranks that are designed to display corporate America's (and corporate everyone else') increasing despicability. At the oil conference, they snuck in pretending to be Exxon reps, and launched into a lengthy, detailed presentation of Exxons emergency management plan, about how they intended to keep the fuel pumping in the event of some enormous calamity-- they, of course, would melt down the bodies of the people INVOLVED in such a calamity, thereby recycling the billions of people right back into oil. Then they showed a PowerPoint of how the scientific procedure is accomplished...and then they handed out prototype candles, of which the wax was made from a janitor who wished to demonstrate the potential for the future. The point is, the executives sitting around listening to the pitch didn't bat an eye. They even lit their sample candles. Nobody even remotely SNIFFED OUT the prank until the Yes Men played a silly video of said Janitor expressing his interest in becoming the first human subject after his "accidental" death. Outrageous.

The picture is from their old prank at a textile conference hosted by the World Trade Organization. If the suit looks outrageous, you need to see the video, because it is. What we're turning into, all of us, slowly, is a dangerous thing. The Yes Men are out to reveal that, one prank at a time.

Microsoft Maths

An interesting article on Forbes’ website discusses a rivalry between Microsoft and Google. Want to know who they named the winner? Apple. If you didn’t quite get the math in that equation, let’s go over it together. Google brought a suit to the U.S. Justice Department complaining that Microsoft’s newest operating system, Vista, has a desktop search embedded within the program that is difficult to remove, essentially forcing Vista users to use the search engines instead of any others, namely, Google’s. While most analysts are calling the claim bogus and backing the argument up with carefully detailed instructions on how easy it is to remove the search function in question, should the user care to do so, the case is bringing back flashes from Microsoft’s shaky legal past.

In the early 1999, amidst accusations that the company had evolved into an ugly monopoly fit to take on and take out the competition, Microsoft was ordered to be split up by a federal judge. Bill Gates, however, went on to win an appeal, exchanging Microsoft’s freedom from a breakup for an agreement never to hinder rivals who build applications that can run on Windows. Enter Steve Jobs.

Forbes say, “For starters, Apple can now do all sorts of things with its operating system that are off limits for Microsoft.” And they have. From the introduction of iTunes, a software program for buying and organizing personal media that now comes built in, standard, with every Mac, to an Apple-brewed web browser, Safari, to embedding a search program, Spotlight, into a version of their operating system OS X.

One of the most buzzed about announcements at a recent World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 11 was the introduction of a Safari for Windows. Does Bill Gates have to stand for that?

The answer is yes. Microsoft is in a position, albeit probably not of a voluntary nature, where they have to keep their doors open to any Apple product that Jobs throws at them. At the same time that Apple ports a new browser into Windows, Microsoft is seeking to play the blame game too: Nate Anderson at Ars Technica points out that antitrust accusations fly both ways: Microsoft publicly objected to Google's $3.1 billion buyout of online ad system DoubleClick in April (see BusinessWeek.com, 4/14/07, "Google's DoubleClick Strategic Move"). The company charged that the deal would give Google as much as 85% of the online ad market. At the time, Microsoft said the buyout raised concerns about competition.

"Google has been playing the same game, but it has conducted its campaign in secret and directly with the federal government," writes Anderson. While they squabble, however, Apple is taking the cake. Especially with the upcoming release of the much anticipated iPhone, it seems as though most other tech happenings have fallen to the wayside. As Brian Caulfield at Forbes said, “Maybe Microsoft would have been better off breaking itself up.”

McJob McShit

Words: McDonalds Wants To Literally Redefine "McJob" - Consu...

Apparently, there is a whole word that was made up in the age of McDonalds that made its way into the dictionary, "McJob."
The McJob is defined as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement," which makes sense, I guess. However, and this is a HUGE shocker to everyone, McDonalds is sending their lobbyists to work on this issue (because g*d knows they have nothing else to lobby about, right?) trying to change the definition to a job that "reflect a job that is stimulating, rewarding ... and offers skills that last a lifetime." All I have to say to that is
1. Get the Fuck outta here. Rewarding and stimulating? Only if the employees are allowed to sniff the glue on the underside of the boxes of frozen burgers they merrily tear into each day.
And
2. Who even uses the word McJob anyway, that this is such an issue?

Little Red Komputerz

Meme or Lame - Intel introduces 5-inch portable concept PC '...
While I don't think this is lame, I'm trying to envision someone sitting in a lecture, squinting into this tiny itty bitty wittle screen, and taking notes or...doing something else productive. While I know I'mhardly the target market for this handy dandy little gadget, I like to pretend I know everything and can talk it up as such...another picture portrays a less funny looking device overall---

Its like a huge sidekick. With that, my two cents is that its cool that this thing has wireless, GPS, and Bluetooth to boot, i dont think its got the appeal for what a little computer is meant to be used for. If you need fast productivity with interwebs, you get a blackberry. Lecture notes and paper writing require a more typical laptop...and this baby? Whats this baby for?

Menstrual Maya

This is how I feel when I get my period. Woe to us girls out there.