This is brilliant. Potentially NSFW.
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I really, really don’t understand Germany. Or Germans. I give you: The Dreamship Surprise!
Space in the year 2304: in a UFO that crash-landed in the Nevada desert 300 years ago, mankind found the scientific guidelines which were used to colonize Mars half a century later. Now the descendants of the first colonists are on their way back to Earth. Led by their unbelievably wicked Regulator Rogul and his unbelievably even more wicked disciple Jens Maul, they are up to no good. In fact, the Martians are planning to subjugate the blue planet to the red one. With a huge array of spaceships, a conquest of Earth seems imminent. And only the crazy crew of Dreamship Surprise can “helpâ€: Captain Kork, engineer Shrotty and first officer Mr. Spuck. But instead of fighting intergalactic crime, they´re busy with their choreography for the upcoming “Miss Waikiki Pageant”. With the help of the space cowboy and taxi-pilot Rock, they set out to save the earth from invasion…
Watch the trailer for the ultimate in gay space heroes. The only one I could find to embed is in Japanese (with German audio)…so be warned. Wonderfully off-kilter gay sci-fi movies…there’s just not enough of them.
I dare anyone to find a more homosexual sci-fi picture than this:
Just another example of the sort of thing that would never happen here. This film had the largest theatrical opening in the history of Germany. And it doesn’t even have The Hoff in it.
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CrazyEgg
The newest Web 2.0 tool in my expanding arsenal of webilicious goodness: CrazyEgg. With registration and a simple addition of a bit o’ code you get:
- Individual click counts for every link on a page
- A summary of a click data
- And my personal favorite: an overlayed heat map
Pictures as soon as I get them. I’m using it for two sites, currently, and need to figure out where the code goes inside WordPress…not as easy to find the right place in the PHP. But I’ll get it working soon.
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Missing my green note
…but rockin’ on the blue note.
I’m going to miss my lime green iTunes icon…but the new blue makes up for it:
New iPods! New iTunes! Movies! The new iPod shuffle is seriously the size of a quarter…it’s amazingly tiny. And we’ve got a space jump up to 80Gig, which is double the storage of my 3rd gen iPod.
And the biggest thing isn’t even out yet…iTV, the much-rumored set-top box from Apple that will stream wireless video signals to your television.
Lots of questions, like: what codecs will the iTV support? Can I play my divx videos across it? Will it support 5-channel sound wirelessly?
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Windows LiveWriter
Here’s a test-post from Windows LiveWriter…I’m just seeing how well it handles WordPress, and images, and such. Not a huge fan of local blog editors normally, but I thought I’d see how well Microsoft has handled this.
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Quick update
So what am I up to these days, besides being too busy to blog as much as I’d like:
Preparing classes
- New workshop on Google Scholar
- A kick-ass new student-centered class on Plagiarism that uses music and sampling as a metaphor for academic writing
- Faculty workshop on plagiarism
Writing stuff
- Finishing a presentation for LITA Forum on wikis
- Working on a book proposal
- Finding travel grants
To make up my regrettable silence to all my valued readers, I leave you with a too-cute-for-words picture of Summer Glau (River Tam from Firefly and Serenity) from DragonCon:
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DragonCon
I’ve spent the last 24 hours in Atlanta, GA at DragonCon. I thought I would share with you the single picture that is the essense of all things DragonCon:
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And once more, I’m off
This time to DragonCon, in Atlanta, GA. I’m gonna go get my geek on, play some games, run some tournaments, grab some schwag, sell some cards. More as I’m there and when I return.
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Valleyschwag 4
More Valleyschwag! This month wasn’t as good as last month, but the shirt is nice. I’m not sure wtf the mini beach chair is good for…holding my cell phone? The stickers are interesting, as always, and I got a bottle opener. But it does seem a bit small, comparatively…of course, Valleyschwag is undergoing some serious growing pains. I’m willing to give them a few months to work it out.
I’m also not sold on Perplexcity…I’m a gamer, and love games of all sorts, but I’m just not sure how to take such a massively distributed puzzle. Seems like more work than fun to me.
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I am not a terrorist
Read the story. Buy the shirt. This is getting utterly ridiculous.
Reminds me of the printable felony I produced for BoingBoing awhile back. I will definitely be buying one of these.