Monthly Archives: January 2012

Is Flightplan an Unofficial Remake of Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes?

When watching Alfred Hitchcock’s classic comedy-thriller The Lady Vanishes last night, I couldn’t help but keep returning to a movie I saw several years ago, a Jodie Foster thriller named Flightplan. The similarities are uncanny. Someone close to the main

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Internet Fun: GuyWhoForcesHisWifeToDressInAGarbageBagForThreeYears.com

In the Carmen Sandiego Effect category, I give you GuyWhoForcesHisWifeToDressInAGarbageBagForThreeYears.com. Mentioned on How I Met Your Mother, this website consists of a series of pictures of a fictional couple posing. The man wears clothes while the woman wears, as the

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Internet Fun: Smax714

I stumbled upon this gem by accident. Hopefully, by the time I’m done here, you’ll understand both why I found this by accident, and why I call it a gem. It all started with a video titled “Llamas with Hats

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Internet Fun: Vertu

In the “stuff for people with more dollars than sense” category, I submit for your enjoyment Vertu, purveyors of ridiculously expensive cell phones. This site consists of about half a dozen different cell phone models, ranging in price from a

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An Awesome Service: If This, Then That

I’ve been aware of this service for a while, but today was the first time I spent some serious time with it. If This, Then That (ifttt.com) is a tool that essentially lets you create simple scripts for various Web

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A Fun Little Idea: Comment Helpers

Thanks to the internet’s mash-up (or pastiche, depending on to whom you speak) culture, I think that jokes like this can be powerful and have the ability to go a long way. Here’s the idea: the next time you are

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Internet Fun: Last Exit to Nowhere

I’ve known about this website for a while, but until I started these “Internet Fun” posts, I never really had anywhere to share it. It’s called Last Exit to Nowhere. They make T-Shirts based on movies. They’re awesome T-Shirts. I

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Internet Fun: Cartoonized.net

Have you ever wanted a cartoon version of yourself? It’s not very useful, but it’s fun to have and looks really professional on your Facebook and Twitter avatars. (I’m also going to use mine for PoMoCast album art.) I’ve tried

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Video Games I’ve Been Playing

Lately, I’ve been spending time playing video games. So I though I should share a list of what I’m playing. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim I really don’t need to say much more. There’s  a lot to do in this

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