Now this is awesome:





From Neatomrama:

New York-based artist Naoko Ito transformed a tree branch into art by sawing it into small pieces, putting them in jars, then stacking the jars into the original shape of the branch.

Taco Bell Founder Dead at 86

Not a good start of the year for those of us who love destroying our innards....

Spaghetti Os and Chunky Soup - where would I be without you?

DELRAN, N.J. – The Campbell Soup Co. executive who was behind the enduring brands SpaghettiOs and Chunky Soup has died.

Donald Goerke (GUHR'-kee) was 83. A Campbell spokesman confirmed that Goerke died of heart failure Sunday at his home in Delran in southern New Jersey.

Goerke was marketing research director of Campbell's Franco-American line in the early 1960s when his group started dreaming up pasta in shapes that would appeal to kids. He chose the o's. They were marketed with the unforgettable tagline, "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs."

Later, he helped introduce Chunky Soup, a hearty ready-to-serve soup that stood out from the company's traditional line of condensed soups.

Composed entirely of sounds from the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day':

Good Riddance 2009!

I'm well past my 30 days, so I guess I'm gonna have to live with my new HTC Rhodium (at&t's tilt2, known as the Touch Pro 2 on every other carrier).

Been checking out the custom ROM's on XDA and while most are great, they all have things I don't like about them. I think I'm gonna have to learn how to use a ROM Kitchen and cook myself up a good custom ROM for this phone. It's already radically different from stock, and running 2 interfaces simultaneously, so I might as well take the next logical step and try to brick it! :-p

The amount of information available in mind boggling, but with all the incredible software out there I'm hoping I can get rid of a ton of bloat and add in my programs without using up the precious device storage and make this thing run faster than the Millennium Falcon (yeah, I went there!).

It still pains me that HTC removed the D-Pad (and many other buttons) from there phones, and basically restricted the ability to use these phones with only one hand. If only there was a way to upgrade the hardware on my trusty old HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125)...

Still, if I'm gonna have to "live with" the best phone on the US market (until the HD2 comes out early next year), I might as well make it better than new :-)

(there's also talks of porting Android to the TP2 - that might be interesting to try as well...)

When, perpetually speaking, one of the most horrible cable companies in the country takes control of a media company who's reach and size rivals Disney, we all lose. Granted, NBC has done their best to kill sci-fi, they do have one of the best networks on TV (USA), and are partnered with the ratings goliath known as the WWE as well broadcasting the local NY MLB games.

I can't wait for Yankees games on an over-compressed Comcast feed, and knowing them they'd try to charge for watch extra innings....

Of course since I read it on Engadget, factual reliability is suspect as best.

From Girl's just wanna have fun, to the Super Mario Brothers Super Show, to the classic days of the former WWF, Capitan Lou said it best: "Often imitated, never duplicated,"

"One of the company's most popular and charismatic legends," the WWE said in a statement. "He will be greatly missed."

But Albano's success transcended the ring and catapulted the Captain into pop culture.

The band NRBQ paid homage with their song "Captain Lou," and he appeared in a number of "Miami Vice" episodes along with several films.

His biggest moment came when he teamed with Lauper for a string of videos in 1985, playing her father. The "Rock N Wrestling Connection" helped boost both Lauper's record sales and the WWE's ratings.

Watching game footage from PX....

NERDGASM!

Wow.

Seriously, just wow.