The Stuff

More iPhone humor. The new Bakelite model.

I enjoyed this video, Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man. It was created by film maker Andre Perkowski by cutting and pasting from over 15 films. Watch it undistracted, and in the dark.

Why pay for chicken eggs when you can make your own? Try MyEggs.

Tonight, I was drinking bloody Marys and watching the Shark Week shows I had on my DVR, and they were talking about how sharks could smell 1 part blood in 1,000,000 parts of water. So I started to think: just how extraordinary is that really? Then I thought about farts, and how accurate a humans’ smell was. First I had to figure out how big a fart was. I found this site (http://www.heptune.com/farts.html) that says humans produce a half a liter of flatus a day, and on average humans fart 14 times a day. That means the average fart has a volume of 2.2 cubic inches (had to do some math — well really, this web page did the math http://www.onlineconversion.com/). I’ve smelled farts that creeped up stair cases, and across gymnasiums, but to be fair, we’ve all smelled farts from across school classrooms, so to detect the human’s ability to detect farts, I needed to determine the volume of a classroom. Figure that the classic high-school classroom is 9′x20′x20′ — that’s 3600 cubic feet, or 6,220,800 cubic inches. To be fair, lets say humans and desks take up 1/3 of the room, and that the volume of room available to fart expansion is 4,000,000 cubic inches. If we divide 2.2 cubic inches of fart by 4,000,000, we find that the human can detect 1 part of fart in 1.8 million parts of air. That’s better than the shark’s ability to sense blood in water.

Granted my math, science, and logic might be off — but my excuse is that I’m drunk. Booya!

I was bored, and when I’m bored I spend money on things that I think might distract me from my slow crawl to the grave. So I bought Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3… and inside of 30 minutes I realized that I should have spent my money elsewhere. $60… that’s a lot of drinks, a nice meal, Japanese snacks, a tank of gas (and a road trip). Anyway, had I listened to Yahtzee Croshaw first, I would have saved $60 or spent it in one of the aforementioned ways. Always wait for Yahtzee’s review before buying a game.

Yahtzee’s review of Metal Gear Solid 4.

Have you seen the new Cinco phone? It’s amazing.

BTW, what happened to Ed Begley Junior’s career? I’ll tell you what happened: it’s better than ever!

Last weekend I went camping in the Catskills for a buddy’s bachelor party, and on my way to the campsite I spotted what looked like rocket ships tricked out to look like 1950s custom cars. The artist who created these custom culture works of art is Steve Heller, and you can find his shop on route 28 in Boiceville, New York. If you’re in the area, it’s worth the trip to check out the sculptures and Steve’s custom-car inspired furniture.

More photos of Steve Heller’s sculptures and Steve Heller’s website.

Issac Hayes died today.

This weekend officially sucks.

Bernie Mac is gone. Bernie was a unique and talented entertainer. I’m going to miss him.

One of the funniest comedy routines ever (video is not safe for work, but funny as funny gets):