Processed Food is Nasty

My friend Kat is up to something excellent...

Wowowowowowowow 3D!

Dude at Carnegie Mellon has totally figured it out. Wiimote 3D head tracking. Srsly whoa.

This one's for the calendar...

Every year, I get the Cat Lovers Against the Bomb calendar. It's a side arm of Nebraskans for Peace, and it's got 8"x10" photos of cats, cat-head-shaped moon phase icons, and important dates in both cat and peace history.

This story will almost definitely be in next year's calendar.

Not the cat in question, just from Flickr






Missing Cat Found in Owner's Suitcase

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 22, 2008

Filed at 11:38 p.m. ET

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- The last time cat-owner Kelly Levy saw her tiger-striped feline was before she took her husband to the airport. The 24-year-old came back to her house late Friday to find the bottom step, where Gracie Mae would usually be waiting, empty.

Levy tore the house apart looking for the 10-month-old tabby who had been spayed just days before. She and her dad took out bathroom tiles and part of a cabinet to check a crawl space and papered the neighborhood with ''lost cat'' signs.

Then she got a phone call.

''Hi, you're not going to believe this, but I am calling from Fort Worth, Texas, and I accidentally picked up your husband's luggage. And when I opened the luggage, a cat jumped out,'' Levy recalled the caller saying.

Gracie Mae had crawled into Seth Levy's black suitcase undetected, been put through an X-ray machine, loaded onto an airplane, thrown onto a baggage claim conveyor belt and picked up by a stranger.

The tabby made the 1,300-mile trip home on an $80 plane ticket Sunday night.

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Information from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, http://www.sun-sentinel.com

Star Wars Guide to the Candidates

XO to the people-powered media. Star Wars Guide to the Candidates

Perfect Time

It's snowing. Perfect time to curl up with the LOLCat Bible Translation Project!

Ceiling Cat

An excerpt from Genesis:

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.

2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.

3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1

6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling.7 An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen.8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day.

9 An Ceiling Cat gotted all teh waterz in ur base, An Ceiling Cat hadz dry placez cuz kittehs DO NOT WANT get wet.10 An Ceiling Cat called no waterz urth and waters oshun. Iz good.

11 An Ceiling Cat sayed, DO WANT grass! so tehr wuz seedz An stufs, An fruitzors An vegbatels. An a Corm. It happen.12 An Ceiling Cat sawed that weedz ish good, so, letz there be weedz.13 An so teh threeth day jazzhands.

14 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has lightz in the skiez for splittin day An no day.15 It happen, lights everwear, like christmass, srsly.16 An Ceiling Cat doeth two grate lightz, teh most big for day, teh other for no day.17 An Ceiling Cat screw tehm on skiez, with big nails An stuff, to lite teh Urfs.18 An tehy rulez day An night. Ceiling Cat sawed. Iz good.19 An so teh furth day w00t.

20 An Ceiling Cat sayed, waterz bring me phishes, An burds, so kittehs can eat dem. But Ceiling Cat no eated dem.21 An Ceiling Cat maed big fishies An see monstrs, which wuz like big cows, except they no mood, An other stuffs dat mooves, An Ceiling Cat sawed iz good.22 An Ceiling Cat sed O hai, make bebehs kthx. An dont worry i wont watch u secksy, i not that kynd uf kitteh.23 An so teh...fith day. Ceiling Cat taek a wile 2 cawnt.

24 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has MOAR living stuff, mooes, An creepie tings, An otehr aminals. It happen so tehre.25 An Ceiling Cat doed moar living stuff, mooes, An creepies, An otehr animuls, An did not eated tehm.

26 An Ceiling Cat sayed, letz us do peeps like uz, becuz we ish teh qte, An let min p0wnz0r becuz tehy has can openers.

27 So Ceiling Cat createded teh peeps taht waz like him, can has can openers he maed tehm, min An womin wuz maeded, but he did not eated tehm.

28 An Ceiling Cat sed them O hai maek bebehs kthx, An p0wn teh waterz, no waterz An teh firmmint, An evry stufs.

29 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, the Urfs, I has it, An I has not eated it.30 For evry createded stufs tehre are the fuudz, to the burdies, teh creepiez, An teh mooes, so tehre. It happen. Iz good.

31 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthxbai.

Ahhh

Ande, in response to seeing the video about the new MacBook Air:

"Oh my god, I want 5 of everything they make. Seriously, if they made toilet paper, I'd buy it, because I know it would be the absolute best. My ass would never be cleaner."

More Photos, Secondary Blog

Darin kindly uploaded an album of photos. My camera, defunct, has yet to be replaced.

Also, knitting and other handmade pursuits (other than films) have their digital home on a new collaborative blog, Handmade It, viewable here. Let me know if you want in.

Bicycles in China

Great little video done by Bryce Kanights found via Good Problem.

SFMOMA

new bike city

Yesterday I biked in San Francisco. Hills conquered, bikes taken on trains, bike hooks hanging in the courtyards of bars, messenger bags aplenty. Very nice.

MIA

I've been skiing in Colorado for the past five days.

I have learned while here in Colorado that spin-offs spin off spin-offs.

Public Enemy > Flavor Flav > Flavor of Love > I Love New York

...or is it?