Since the first season of this series only had 6 episodes, It was quite easy to collect them and list them here for your viewing pleasure. For the entire second season, you’ll have to check back later this week, because it takes quite some time to dig them all up. Enjoy these, more is on it’s way.
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Yesterday I accidentally stumbled upon an episode of the American version of The Office, the masterpiece that first saw daylight behind the twinkling eyes of Ricky Gervais. I had heard that the US version was not as good as the UK version, but frankly, I have to reconsider my point of view. I just love this, really. Nobody can replace Ricky Gervais, true, but you just have to check this out. It’s hilarious. In this case, The Office takes a painfully funny look at the interactions of cubicle jockeys at the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Tune in for the full third season and enjoy. If I have some more time this week, I’ll dig up the other seasons and line them up on this blog as well.
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The Podfather – Parts I, II and III, Three special free shows from three doyens of podcasting – multi-award winning Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant (The Office, Extras) plus the round-headed idiot savant, Karl Pilkington.
Yes! They’re back! Briefly, but still. Tomorrow is the second part of the 3 podcasts, you can still tune in for the Halloween edition right here (mp3, 14 MB)
Halloween edition includes: Ghostly drivel abounds as Steve consults a text-based oracle, Karl experiences a kidney probing, Steve visits Bristol, Karl becomes a Godfather and Ricky tells of some lighter moments at the morgue. Plus a competition to win CDs and books signed by podcasting’s top triumvirate.
I can’t wait to hear the Thanksgiving edition tomorrow, and then I’ll have to wait a month again to listen to the Christmas special on December 25th. Be part of this phenomenon, download it today and tomorrow and brighten up your Christmas with the ultra hilarious threesome of pod.
Find tomorrow’s edition on Guardian Unlimited
Good impressions, that’s what people must have of you once you’ve stopped the conversation you were having. At work I have a few colleagues who’re quite good at it. A closing line, totally off-topic and so far out it’s actually a damn shame nobody was there to record it. So that’s why I’ve been searching a little for a tool that suits fine to play along in the game. Every time I send out an email to one of these colleagues next week, I’ll include a cunning phrase to entice their thinking and make them philosophically ease back in their chair to stroke their imaginary beards. Examples might be:
“As my uncle Will always used to say: Nothing is quite as distracting as the memory of pressing an ice-cold cola bottle to their jugular right in the middle of a United Nations reception.”
“Someone has put it this way: Thanks to you, at this precise moment someone is feeling the sensation of a staggering religious epiphany right in the middle of soothing the escaped tiger.”
Or: “Remember: There’s nothing that can wake someone up like the feeling of having their nipples removed and cleaned right in the middle of freeclimbing the face of El Capitan.”
Yeah. It’s always good to end conversations with an impressive literate line.
Want to have more? Check out the Instant Sensual Karma Generator, and you too can increase the amount of pleasure in the universe by granting a moment of bliss to some bewildered soul. (Careful, some links on that site are NSFW)
This is a very cool piece of Code-Art to check out: there’s a 20 by 20 squared field set up. You have to make contours (figures) in the squares by clicking on them. Doing so, you ’seed’ mushrooms. Make sure you seed plenty so it looks like the first screenshot I took. Then press the ‘generation’ button to start. You’ll see the formula start to work and ‘calculate’ generations, showing the results instantly (as illustrated in the second image below)
Resulting process in action:
When it’s all finished, or if you can’t wait that long: earlier, you can start clicking randomly in the field (click fast in circular movements) to activate new generations of mushrooms.
Mushrooms follow these rules:
For each generation,
a mushroom with 1 or 0 neighbor dies (loneliness),
a mushroom with 4 or more neighbors dies (overcrowding),
a mushroom with 2 or 3 neighbors survives (stability),
an empty space with 3 neighbors sprouts a new mushroom (birth).
Check out:
Art Project: Mushroom Life by Kaiyijo
A Mushroom perspective on John Conway’s Game of Life
Also check out Kaiyijo’s site, by the way. It’s a Flash beauty!
Check out the Tickle Me Elmo TMX demo and tell me your heart doesn’t fill with desire when this ROTFL (rolling on the floor laughing) puppet comes your way. I want one of these, seriously! I’m going to order it this weekend, as soon as I’ve found out where to buy it online. This little red devil is going to become my mascotte! I’ve already made some space on the desk :)
Seen on iBt4iM
Straight to the ‘gotta keep this in mind for x-mas’ archive goes this enlightened beauty, of which I’m pretty sure some people would be really ok with finding it under their tree. Adorably simple, very marketable and so totally worth it:
Product sales pitch:
What better present for the person who has everything than a poignant reminder that they want for nothing? This lovingly crafted vial of emptiness is filled to the brim with unfettered nothingness. Free from the burden of possessions, the weight of responsibility, Nothing is as idiotic as it is brilliant.
Indeed even old Macbeth, though mad as a kipper, realised that life, whilst full of sound and fury (and that was before iPods) is inherently daft and ultimately signifies Nothing. And let us not forget, that ‘Nothing’ is so important that most of our universe – and the contents of a lot of people’s heads – appears to be made up of it.
It’s a statement, an empty gesture if you will, a nod at the futility of ownership, and yet despite ‘Nothing’ being nothing, it is of course packed with millions of protons, neutrons and what have you, which is pretty good for Nothing.
Yours for the humble price of $6.28
For sale on: I Want One Of Those | via Bnox
Aye, today be Talk Like a Pirate Day! On this fine day, everyone can talk like a pirate all day long. ‘Tis a fine way t’be speakin’, and if ye’ disagree I may make ye’ walk the ol’ plank and send ye’ ta’ ol’ Davy Jones’ Locker!
Ahoy, while not as popular as [Christmas] or [Arbor Day], Talk Like a Pirate Day is a recognized and heartily celebrated international holiday. On September 19th, people awake transformed: their ‘oices deeper, their usual pedestrian walk replaced by a seaman’s swagger, and whene’er they speak, they speak with the ‘oice o’ a pirate.
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founded by [John Baur and Mark Summers] durin’ a raquetball game and, coincidentally, occurin’ the same day’s as Mark’s ex-wife’s birthday, Talk Like a Pirate Day has taken the world by storm. A pence for an old man o’de sea?
Join the fun :) surprize someone. And if they don’t like it: we be keelhaulin’ them next morn!
Visit: TalkLikeAPirateDay.com | Get the Party Kit | Pirate Talk Generator