Occasionally, the website Gizmodo holds a ”Photoshop Contest”. This past week’s theme was to ruin an iconic photo with modern technology. This entry by CedricROLLAND didn’t win, but it should have:
Brilliant!
Monthly Archives: May 2009
A is for Ackbar
I saw this over at Daring Fireball and thought I’d repost it, since it’s the most awesome thing I’ve seen a while:
Enjoy!
They Were Still There?
When I saw this article about Kiddieland Amusement Park closing, my reaction was “They were still there? I thought they closed a long time ago.”
Still, I remember (vaguely, though) going there as a kid. I’m sure it will be missed by the families that still go there. (Apparently, even though I didn’t know they weren’t around anymore, they did enough business to employ 250 seasonal workers.) There’s really not much else in the Chicago area that offers that kind of family entertainment.
Anyway, for those feeling nostalgic, here’s a look at Kiddieland’s history.
Space Lego
I am loving this week’s Gizmodo space feature! Today, they have a look back at all the Lego Space sets throughout the years. Ah, the memories.
Just to date myself a little here, some of the sets I had:
Alpha 1 Rocket Base
Space Command Center
Galaxy Explorer
The Galaxy Explorer. That was one of my favorites.
What’s Liftoff Like?
If, like me, you’ve dreamed of going into space ever since you were a kid, you need to read this article:
Pre-Launch Jitters and Then… Liftoff.
You probably would also appreciate the other guest columns on Gizmodo this week from Leroy Chiao.
One can only hope that commercial space flight becomes affordable within this lifetime. Sigh.
Surprising Hold Music
So, I’m on hold with my web hosting provider to change my account settings, (it had occurred to me that I no longer need some of the features that came with the business class hosting and I could downgrade to the “home” package for half the cost) and the hold music took me completely by surprise.
It was the theme music to Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I don’t think hold music has ever made me laugh before. Feel tortured? Yes. (Like the time I was on hold for an extremely long period of time listening to the same five Elvis songs repeated over and over again.) Laugh? No.
(Also, the song played directly after “Love Theme from MST3K”? Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”.)
So, I’d like to know: Have you ever been caught off guard by hold music? What was the strangest, best, or worst, hold music you’ve ever heard?
Fixed the Captchas
Some more moving pains. It turns out the captchas were still pointing to the old domain. (Thanks to Stu for pointing out that this was broken.)
Anyway, it’s fixed, so everyone can now resume commenting.
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