Monday, October 27, 2008

"Wendy"

    Facebook (remember the days when it was exclusive to students only?), aka. cum bucket of the internet, has so much to offer.

    You can get reconnect with "friends" that you never had interest in real life, lose your privacy, get bombarded by clever data-mining advertisers, and blah blah blah...

    It comes with no surprise there is a group called "CooLeSt TaTToo On FaceBook...." with this posted in it by Wayne Fright (go ahead and friendquest him):


    http://photos-413.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v236/165/18/624295413/n624295413_2973720_4222.jpg

    Yep, it is an upside-down "Wendy".

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Enola's Tattoo in Waterworld

    io9.com recently posted something about futuristic bad-ass tattoos, one that received much attention is on the back of Enola in Waterworld (it was a shitty movie by Kevin Costner, come to think of it, were any of Costner's movies good?).

    From Engrish & Hanzi Smatter
    I thought Enola was a dwarf when I first saw the movie. Perhaps that was because the camera's angle that made her head huge and shrunk her torso.



    The characters on the left of the circular thing is "latitude" and "longitude" on the right. I don't know why the movie people decided to break two characters into three. It is not like they are saving any flesh space.



    The characters inside of the circular part is longitude & latitude's actual coordinates.

    Latitude = 27° 59' N
    Longitude = 86° 56' E

    Spoiler alert: it is the location of Mount Everest.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Nov 2008 Wired - Lost, in Translation

    In November 2008 issue of Wired magazine, there is an interesting article about underground (or should that be "under-net") volunteers that would add subtitles to popular American television shows for those who do not understand English.

    The concept is interesting however the illustration accompanying the story is not so.





    While both English and Arabic alphabets are up-right and correct, the four Chinese characters are upside-down.

    means "serious laughter" in Chinese.

    This is second time I have spotted Wired magazine making similar snafu.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Dad 9.15.94

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Scary Spice, tell me what you want?

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sharing the Misfortune

BBC: The Kremlin Digger

    Alan noticed something odd about the photograph in BBC's article about Russian journalist, Elena Tregubova.


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3227666.stm

    Alan says: "The Japanese in the background is obviously reversed. Perhaps the BBC published a mirror-image reversed copy of the photo. Although obviously intended to be Japanese, the text in the background is not exactly legible anyway and it does not seem to make any sense. Maybe the Japanese is reversed on the background image. Who knows? I’m not sure why such a journalist would want to be photographed in front of such a gibberish background. Is this fashionable in Russia or something?"

    My guess would be it had something to do with paragraph 3 of the article:

    "In one chapter, its author describes a flirty sushi lunch with Vladimir Putin, then head of the Russian security services, the FSB."

    Sushi, #42 on list of things White people like.