Oh, HELL yes. The Amazing Screw-On Head, brought to you by Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy. It looks as it should—like his actual comics do, and the humor and feel of the comics translate perfectly. Check it out.

Date posted: August 3, 2006 | Filed under design, shortlinks | Comments Off on The Amazing Screw-On Head

So Agency.com posted a Youtube video of their “pitch” for Subway, which is tired and lame. (don’t watch the whole thing-it doesn’t get any better.) Coudal Partners posted an unsolicited response which not only schools Agency.com’s attempt at “viral” marketing, but tells the truth about Subway’s sandwiches.

Date posted: August 3, 2006 | Filed under humor, shortlinks | Comments Off on Subway Pitch.

Hunter S. Thompson rides and reviews a Ducati. I’ve not laughed this hard in a while. I miss that old crazy bastard.

Date posted: August 3, 2006 | Filed under humor, shortlinks | Comments Off on Hunter S Thompson And A Motorcycle.

These ads distill what Legos are all about. Brilliant advertising, and not at all about movie tie-ins, which seems to be the current Lego strategy.

Date posted: August 2, 2006 | Filed under design, shortlinks | Comments Off on Awesome Lego Advertising

The rest of the East Coast is hot as Hades right now, but our little corner of the world is cool. We’re holed up in the bedroom, with the A/C on 75° waiting for the Smackdown Episode of Project Runway to come on at 10. Apparently somebody’s getting the axe, and we’re placing bets on who it might be. (I say crazy basket-head guy.)

Today’s business trip to D.C. was successful, although predictably hot. We met up with our contact at Union Station and ate lunch under the huge barrel-vaulted ceiling of the main hall. Then we traveled a few blocks south, where we had a meeting in an office with a spectacular view of the Capitol Building. This particular meeting was Jen’s show, and she did a great job with the clients (and the work!) while I was happy to take a back seat and watch.

Whoops—it’s time to go. Make it work!

update: Wow, I didn’t expect that.

Date posted: August 2, 2006 | Filed under general, humor, travel | Comments Off on Back From The Swamp.

Vanity Fair has the 9/11 NORAD tapes online, with transcriptions and audio. It’s interesting that 1. the official timeline was misrepresented, and 2. Cheney made such a big deal out of the deliberations to shoot Flight 93 down, when he wasn’t notified about any of it until 15 minutes after the attacks were over.

Date posted: August 2, 2006 | Filed under politics, shortlinks | Comments Off on September 11th Intercept Tapes.

this is how we garden...in the ghetto

This is our garden as of this morning, before the blast wave hit us. It’s 100+ degrees out there now, and our cucumbers and tomatoes are love-love-loving it. The two plants up front are Big Boy tomatoes, the huge round beefy ones you see for $3/lb. at the store. The next two plants back are “Health Kick” tomatoes, which are low-to-the-ground Italian style tomatoes—long and dry, good for stuff like guacamole. Behind the tomatoes are four cucumber plants, which are going apeshit and climbing the ladders I built for them at the rate of about 6″/day. Each plant is throwing off blooms like crazy, and they have about 20 fruit between the three of them. Behind the cukes are four forlorn soybean plants, the ones the squirrels didn’t dig up. We had dreams of growing our own edamame, but obviously the yard critters love Japanese food as well. (that freaky cat statue is supposed to be some kind of deterrent, but I think it’s mainly serving as a perch for the local bird population, who seem to like to poop on its head.) Finally, in the far corner, we have two tomato plants grown from seed in our basement, which are finally coming into their own and putting off fruit.

Big Boy

Yesterday I made some hummus and we had cucumber-tomato-hummus sandwiches for dinner. While it wasn’t the most filling thing we could have eaten, it sure was tasty.

Date posted: August 1, 2006 | Filed under garden | Comments Off on One Benefit of the Heat.

Here’s a handy link to a Google Maps cell tower search for the U.S. It doesn’t have helpful information like what kind of tower, or which carrier owns it, etc, but it’s at least a start. It also explains why we get lousy coverage here in the C-ville. (via)

Date posted: August 1, 2006 | Filed under projects, shortlinks | Comments Off on Cell Tower Search