Incredible!

Makes me think of Douglas Adams and David Brin.

Very very cool.

-k

YouTube - Dolphin play bubble rings

Val Kilmer is reportedly set to sign up to star in a sequel to his 1985 comedy "Real Genius." The "Tombstone" star recently announced his intentions to take on more comedic roles in the future in a bid to alter his Hollywood image and take his career to a new level.

It's gonna go to a new level alright... straight down.

Sorry, I mean, Real Genius is kind of a geek/nerd cult classic -- I own a copy -- but I really don't think he's gonna get much traction out of a sequel. I just can't imagine what's going to work.

Kilmer Plans Real Genius Sequel

South of the city, in Tukwila, the baristas at Cowgirls Espresso wear sheer negligees and visible pink panties. It's the same story in any number of other suburban bars and drive-through stands, like the Natte Latte in Port Orchard or Moka Girls in Auburn - bikinis, racy lingerie, fetish clothing, and plenty of suggestively exposed flesh.

At Best Friend Espresso in Kenmore, at the northern end of Lake Washington, the outfits take their inspiration from Playboy-style sex fantasies. The staff will go for the naughty schoolgirl look one week, then don black-framed glasses the next to look like sexy secretaries.

Welcome to "sexpresso" - the latest coffee fad to hit America, in which the country's seemingly boundless fascination for Italian-style Java is combined with its equally boundless fascination for half-naked women.

Coming with a theme for a coffee bar is nothing new in America. In Los Angeles, there are cafes where you can buy second-hand books, get cut-price legal advice, throw pots, or listen to really, really bad live music provided by local bands. Strangely, nobody until now has thought of combining coffee with sex.

sounds great, though i doubt they'll be coming to the bible belt anytime soon...

Independent | Sexpresso coffee shops take Seattle by storm

On Nov. 18, 1985, a new comic strip made its newspaper debut: Calvin and Hobbes. It featured a small boy wearing a pith helmet who announced that day that he was going to check his tiger trap. The boy was Calvin and the tiger snared in the last panel -- happily snacking on the bait -- was Hobbes.
For 10 years the duo captured the imaginations of adults and children alike. Then, in 1995, cartoonist Bill Watterson announced his retirement at the age of 37.
Now the definitive Calvin and Hobbes collection has been released. The three-volume set is fittingly called The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. It features every one of the 3,160 strips Watterson produced between 1985 and Dec. 31, 1995.

[ These are gorgeous volumes, I think. The paper has reasonable heft, and they did a clever thing with the coloring that makes it look as if the strips had been carefully cut from a white page and glued, scrapbook style, onto an off white sheet. If i didn't already own every single Calvin and Hobbes book ever published, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Since I *do*, I'll buy it sometime later, when I can simply no longer resist. -k]

NPR : Spiffy: 'The Complete Calvin and Hobbes'

] This review is based on a substantially complete version
] of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy shown to a small
] group of journalists in London on 31st March 2005, to
] which I was invited by Buena Vista International and
] Digital Outlook. The generosity of these companies in
] paying for my travel to this screening is gratefully
] acknowledged. The opinions expressed here are the
] personal critical opinions of myself, author and
] journalist MJ Simpson. This review is based on a single
] viewing of the film; if any factual details have been
] misremembered, I am happy to amend those portions of the
] text. Because of its great length, this review has been
] split into four parts:

[ The site is pwnd... wish there was a mirror. -k]

Long film review of _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_

IconoclasT wrote:
] k wrote:
] ] [ Heh... doubtful... girls are way more complicated than
] ] computers. -k]
]
] ...and don't obey the regular rules of logic... ;)

[ Good point. Maybe it's not that they're complicated as much as that they're chaotic. They start with what looks like a simple formula but pretty soon it's effectively random. I think mine is a couple of sine waves for food, gadgets, girls and skiing. -k]

RE: IF I CAN BUILD A COMPUTER

[ Heh... doubtful... girls are way more complicated than computers. -k]

IF I CAN BUILD A COMPUTER

The Audi-Oh vibrator was designed to be used at dance clubs... there are two microphones on the pager-like control box which pick up sounds and translate them into variable vibrations pulsating through the mini-bullet vibe.

Techno Trance++.

Audi-Oh

"All the traffic tickets say, 'Notice of violation. License number: no tag,'" Cara explained.

Officials said city computers linked to state Division of Motor Vehicles computers finally found an address for ticketed vehicles that lacked license tags: Cara's home in Elsmere.

"I messed up the system so bad," Cara said. "I wonder if they can put me in jail or something?"

[ HAHAHAH! That's awesome. Software engineers take notice... -k]

Vanity License Plate Brings Tickets

] John Woo has optioned Nintendo's best-selling video game
] franchise Metroid for the big screen, says The Hollywood
] Reporter.

Holy $#|+! A series of Metroid movies! John Woo!

[ Kick ass! Maybe. I hope. -k]

John Woo Bringing Metroid to the Big Screen