Merry Christmas, from my family's (unsuspecting, too trusting with their nativity scene specifically, loving, caring, delightfully pleasant and always full of laughter) home to yours. May your Christmas be a magical one....
but not TOO magical.
Love always,
Christie
xoxo
p.s. Moe, this doesn't require you to re-write a Notorious B.I.G. song in it's honour. Just let me clear that up right now. Not. Necessary.
Ten million gamers can be wrong. How World of Warcraft has turned the nerd into the bully. Do you know what I love about this story, other than the fact that it's edgy and gives another perspective (which by the way is fantasti) of the phenomenon that is World of Warcraft? That this perspective is written by a fiesty beautiful brilliant redhead who perhaps in a trivia off could pan out to be a bigger geek than I am. Which is crazy impressive, clearly. That being said, here is Liana K's article for Gaming Excellence on how she's not Wowed. [ Not WoWed ]
Remember the name Mr. Unstable? You know, Timothy Tackett, that Burger King employee who filmed himself bathing in the Xenia, Ohio, fast-food joint's utility sink? Well, Tackett is hoping you haven't forgotten about him.
Since posting the video in the summer, the eccentric YouTube celebrity has spent the last few months growing a rap music career. He released a full-length album under the Mr. UNSTABL3 moniker, titled "Show Me on the Doll," and threw a CD release party.
The BK firing seems to have soured Tackett on working in the food industry. But he hasn't heard a peep from the company since he lost his night-shift job, he said in an e-mail.
Music has become Tackett's full-time gig, and he's working on booking shows to play next year.
So, if you're a concert venue owner looking for a madcap hip-hop artist with experience disassembling fast-food fryers, you know the guy. And a dressing room may not be necessary -- as long as there's a roomy enough kitchen sink in the back.
I discovered this classic again today and wanted to share with as many people as possible who maybe missed it or would like to see their favorite lion again.
This should keep at least some of you occupied while you wait for the games to start this weekend....and you know, it's festive and stuff. I give you, Papercraft Turkey Time. [ Papercraft Turkey ]
We snuck out into the middle of Broad Street to snap a pic in front
of City Hall and all the crowds. When Will raised his hands for the
picture, cheers erupted. So he continued to repeat the gesture, getting
wild response from the crowd on both sides of the street up and down
the street as far as we could see.
With great power comes great responsibility. Tune in next week to see if Will can make trains run on time?
Ah yes, what better use for Grand Theft Auto IV than to recreate the classic film....wait what? Oh Naked Gun. Okay sure. I suppose that was a good use of time.... REALLY? Naked Gun? That's the film you came up with. Don't get me wrong, I love Naked Gun but way to pull that out from the depths of nowhere.
Trailer for Disney Pixar's next upcoming film, "Up."
I'd say it looks AMAZING, but really I started sounding like a broken record about these things like, oh I dunno...8 movies ago? That fat kid is totally gonna join the mile high club unconsentually. [ Pixar's "Up" ]
This warms my Canadian heart. Link thanks to Doug, who is most definitely not a Canadian but I think some part of him wants to be. Which is good enough.
Design your own muppet at FAO Schwarz for $90 bucks. I am just a little sad I can't make my very own Mahna Mahna puppets with a twist. This will be way more fun than my RealDoll. I'm kidding. I don't' have that kind of money and if I did it would look like Denny Crane's real doll of Shirley Schmidto. WAIT WHAT? [ Design a muppet ]
Willard Wigan, a genius who creates detailed micro-sculptures that fit on the head of a pin or inside the eye of a needle, was profiled on an ABC news segment last year. That is completely, ridiculously amazing. Damn savants, making us all look like slackers...
Based on the 1966 Batman TV series, a very young Bruce Wayne
takes on the famous, pint-sized villains of Gotham City. Directed, shot
and edited by Joe Valenti of Valenti Vision Films and Produced by
Jordan Wachtell.
I kid you not this is pure infant comedy nerd gold. Wahwahwah It's worth watching even if it's just to see the cutest children ever. My personal favourites would be the Penguin and the adorable and the smiley kid who has the time of his life playing Robin.
I wish either of my grandmothers could have rapped. Whatevs. Well, my nanny could swim 80 laps in the pool every day till she was 84 and went surfing when she was 80. So take that, rapping grandma.
I don't know why I think everything is a competition. I need to work on that. Perhaps therapy.
-- Christie
Like all the best ventures in mankind’s short history, there may have
been drinking involved in the conception of the Couchathon.
First take The Imponderables,
four of Canada’s most skilled comedians, and force them all into a tiny
room. Then ask for donations to two great charities. The more people
donate, the more the “ass-tranauts” have to stay in the tiny room. On
the couch. Performing for you, their unseen audience.
There is nothing more I love in the world than annoying friendly Toronto comedians as they are forced to sit on a couch for ...well, who knows how long. Give more to Charity for Sick Kids and they'll just keep on sitting there. Couchathon for Sick Kids, is not for the weak. Or unfunny. Go watch now. [ Couchathon ]
When they eventually get off their asses, then go check out the Imponderables site. They're always entertaining. Drunk or semi sober. Oh and I'd like to give a shout out to Dave, who I have had the pleasure of getting drunk a few times. ;)
**Update they have passed the 25 hours on a couch period. How long will they keep going?
This unofficial political ad flips the cards on the presidential race -- by changing the candidates' race. Designer Tor Myhren, the chief creative officer for Grey Advertising, throws color out of the equation for today's election by imagining John McCain as an African American and Barack Obama as a white man.
Is it just me, or does the white Obama bear a striking resemblance to Jim Carrey? Seriously, would Obama really rock that kind of haircut? I'd like to think he'd go with a cool, trendy mullet.
This Sarah Palin impersonator might not have the accent down or the right clothes (maybe she didn't have the budget for an authentic Palin wardrobe). OK, she's no Tiny Fey, but this Palin parodist sure can spin a rhyme.
In the song, YouTube user EvaDivaSuperstar name-dropped more campaign cliches than you could fit in an SNL skit. She put together a solid rap that even Kanye West would be proud of. [ Sarah Palin Impersonator Speaks Out ]
Few U.S. presidents are logged in the history books with a wholly untainted legacy. But do you know who never let us down in a time when the nation and the world at large was facing its biggest crisis? President Whitmore.
If the name doesn't ring a bill, think Bill Pullman in his inspired role as fearless leader in the 1996 blockbuster "Independence Day." With moving speeches amid alien-ravaged rubble and an admirable stint as a spaceship-blasting fighter pilot, President Whitmore joins one blogger's list of characters, who, had they decided to run (or exist), would likely garner more votes than Barack Obama or John McCain.
After all, Dennis Haysbert as David Palmer in "24" did pave the way for the country to accept Obama as a viable candidate. At least that's what Haysbert seems to think.
As you, a responsible American citizen, enter the voting booth today, think of the greats: Jack Nicholson as the goofy leader in "Mars Attacks" or Harrison Ford as the butt-kicking executive from "Air Force One." [ 11 Fictional Presidents You'd Likely Vote For Over Obama & McCain ]
I know I'm not alone when I say that Halloween on a Friday is a dangerous combination. When combined with a weekend, the rarely innocent holiday turns into a three-day blur of orange adult beverages, Sarah Palin and Joker costumes, and, well, more adult drinks.
If you had a good weekend, you might not be feeling fantastic today, but as long as you didn't get in a car, you should be better off than the guy in this video. Watch as he fails the police sobriety test with pain-inducing hilarity.
And seriously, you better not be drinking and driving, people! Let this clip serve as a PSA.
This snapshot comes care of Electronic Arts' support website for the PC game Command and Conquer Red Alert 3. A manufacturing error in the printing of the game manuals caused a "small number" of units to be distributed without the final digit of the 20-character activation code, required to play the game.
The page details a workaround that the company has designed to bypass the issue, which entails guessing the last digit out of a possible 26 letters and 10 numbers. Of course, when you consider the alternative involves snapping pictures or scanning the manual, e-mailing customer support and then waiting for a response, the code-breaker option might be the better one.
If you are trying to install Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 and the code is only 19 characters long, then it is missing the last letter or number. This was due to a misprint on a small number of manuals and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
There is currently a workaround that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try "guessing" the last character. To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game. If this does not work, you can follow the instructions below.
In order to get a replacement code, please click the "Contact Us" link on the left side of the page, and attach an image of your code to the incident.
If you do not have access to a digital camera or scanner, you can fax us a copy of the back of your instruction booklet, along with a copy of your receipt. ... Please include with your fax your First and Last name as well as your incident number.
If you would like, once you have created your incident, you can also contact us by phone using the number found on page 28 of your manual.
Note: If you decide to contact us by phone, please include the incident number that you created for this issue.
Dressing up in spooky garb and decorating your house with jack-o-lanterns and cloth ghosts are common practice for Halloween. But if you want to take the scary celebration one step further, rent one of these 10 frightening vehicles, and roll up to the parties tonight in style.
Granted, half the list is basically "cars that try to look like the Batmobile," but, you know, Batman's wheels are actually pretty scary, so I'd say that's a fair criteria. The Dark Knight isn't going to intimidate any super-villains if he's driving the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. [ 10 Scariest-Looking Cars of All Time ]
I've got to give props to Electronic Arts for its EA Sports viral videos. Tiger Woods' "Jesus shot" was an entertaining way to reach out to fans online. It turns out that the French division of the company was rocking the viral video boat in January with the jaw-dropping "Réinvente ton jeu," meaning "Reinventing your game."
The video shows soccer kids performing wild feats, with an array of acrobatics to boot, as part of a promotion for the Fifa Street 3 game. The footy tricks performed on camera might not be 100% realistic, but who cares? These moves are too incredible to warrant criticism.
Wait, what am I talking about? This is the Internet we're talking about here. A bunch of commenters on the original video have already chimed in, calling the video "fake" -- and doing so in a number of different languages. Oh, well! You can't please everybody. [ Réinvente ton jeu ]
Correction: The post originally translated the video title as "Reinventing your Thursday." Thanks to those in the comments for correcting my mistake. (Stinkin' computer translator software!)
Christie St. Martin was born in Bermuda and educated at two Canadian universities that would prefer not to be mentioned here until she supplies them with healthy building endowments. An uber-geek and proud of it, she established herself as an Internet presence with All Things Christie, a blog that managed, with its quirky and unabashedly self-indulgent links to and commentary on whatever struck her fancy or her ire, to attract small legions of readers, fans and would-be stalkers. Her interests were as they are: myriad and eclectic, though certainly given to a particular fondness for the tech-y, the game-y and the kitschy. She is her own organizing principle, a kind of mad surfer on the crests of cultural lunacy, alternately acerbic, ecstatic and unintentionally insightful. She has since blogged for VH1's "Best Week Ever" and Exhausticated.com, providing her usual melange of cheek, snark and occasional observation. Christie also contributes to LAT's Hero Complex blog.
If you have any cool videos, Web pages or photos that you think should be on this blog, e-mail the link (no attachments, please) to cstmartin@gmail.com
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Few U.S. presidents are logged in the history books with a wholly untainted legacy. But do you know who never let us down in a time when the nation and the world at large was facing its biggest crisis? President Whitmore.
