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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/27\/animation-no-robots\/","trash":"","name":"animation-no-robots","parent":"","title":"Animation: No robots","date":"2012-02-27 17:58:19","filepath":"posts\/20001325_animation-no-robots.xml.json","type":"post","content":"\"No Robots\" is a refreshing tear jerker that tackles bigotry, not against other races, but against our future children, robots. \u00a0How can we be so cruel to the ubermensch, that new dimension of life we should be proud to be the called its parent?\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23017365?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"215\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/23017365\">No Robots<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/yunghantaiwan\">YungHan Chang<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n<em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/no-robots-wonderful-animation-about-a-future-where-robots-are-banned\/\">LaughingSquid<\/a>, which in turn was via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/student\/no-robots-by-yunghan-chang-and-kimberly-knoll.html\">CartoonBrew<\/a>.<\/em>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/25\/comic-space-avalanche\/","trash":"","name":"comic-space-avalanche","parent":"","title":"Comic: Space Avalanche","date":"2012-02-25 17:45:54","filepath":"posts\/20001322_comic-space-avalanche.xml.json","type":"post","content":"This comic caught my attention.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceavalanche.com\/2012\/02\/24\/life-on-the-streets\/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Space Avalanche - Life on the streets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spaceavalanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/life-on-the-streets_onblack_english.jpg\" alt=\"Space Avalanche - Life on the streets\" width=\"234\" height=\"1837\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nIt has a similar dark humor as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pbfcomics.com\/\">Perry Bible Fellowship<\/a>, but with more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceavalanche.com\/2011\/02\/04\/geordi\/\">Star Trek<\/a>.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceavalanche.com\/2011\/01\/25\/chinese-lantern\/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Space Avalanche - Chinese Lantern\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spaceavalanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chinese-lantern-on-black2.jpg\" alt=\"Space Avalanche - Chinese Lantern\" width=\"324\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a>\n\n<em>see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceavalanche.com\/\">more<\/a>.<\/em>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/23\/fun-shirts-i-made-you-a-cookie\/","trash":"","name":"fun-shirts-i-made-you-a-cookie","parent":"","title":"Fun Shirts: I made you a cookie","date":"2012-02-23 18:35:54","filepath":"posts\/20001317_fun-shirts-i-made-you-a-cookie.xml.json","type":"post","content":"This isn't an advertisement, but a public service\u00a0announcement.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lolmart.com\/product\/lolmart-shirts-i-made-you-a-cookie\/\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lolmartshirts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/i-eated-it-WomensShirtsTemplate.jpg\" alt=\"I made you a cookie shirt\" width=\"240\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lolmart.com\/product\/o-rly-family\/\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lolmart.com\/files\/2011\/07\/09_owls_shirtWMNS.jpg\" alt=\"O Rly shirt\" width=\"240\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nCool shirts with great designs. \u00a0I want. \u00a0But all my sizes are out of stock. \u00a0Damn it all.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lolmart.com\/product\/lolmart-shirts-i-made-you-a-cookie\/\">I made you a cookie, but I eated it.<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lolmart.com\/product\/o-rly-family\/\">O Rly? \u00a0Ya Rly. \u00a0No Wai!<\/a>\n\n<em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/lolmart.com\">lolmart.com<\/a><\/em>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/23\/song-its-your-birthday\/","trash":"","name":"song-its-your-birthday","parent":"","title":"Song - It's your birthday","date":"2012-02-23 11:36:20","filepath":"posts\/20001284_song-its-your-birthday.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G1HlnEURM_A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\nThis is the perfect birthday song. \u00a0Thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/totalghost.com\/\">Total Ghost<\/a>."}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/18\/lincoln-vampire-hunter\/","trash":"","name":"lincoln-vampire-hunter","parent":"","title":"Movie: Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter","date":"2012-02-18 11:12:02","filepath":"posts\/20001313_lincoln-vampire-hunter.xml.json","type":"post","content":"This movie looks fun. \u00a0I would pay money to watch this in a theater, preferably at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/drafthouse.com\/\">Alamo Drafthouse<\/a>.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aPxdjECyPmw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/17\/ui-fail-wundermap\/","trash":"","name":"ui-fail-wundermap","parent":"","title":"UI Design Fail: Wunderground's wundermap page","date":"2012-02-17 11:53:03","filepath":"posts\/20001302_ui-fail-wundermap.xml.json","type":"post","content":"The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/wundermap\/\">Wundermap<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\">Wunderground.com<\/a> is amazing, but the web page layout is atrocious. \u00a0Here's an quick critique of the map page:\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1304\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Wundermap\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wundermap_crit.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1304 \" title=\"wundermap has a bad user experience design\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wundermap_crit_sm-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"wundermap has a bad user experience design\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\n\n \n\nThere are redundant menus, redundant search bars, and a massive header advertisement at the top. \u00a0All these are aligned vertically pushing the main content, the map, below the bottom of the page (the <em>\"fold\"<\/em> in newspaper speak). \u00a0This shrinks the map to only <strong>36 percent<\/strong> of the overall page! \u00a0Scandalous!\n\nIt appears the web developer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/wundermap\/\">Wundermap<\/a> is taking design hints from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\">Weather.com<\/a>,\u00a0is one of the web sites on my mental <em>User Experience Design shit list<\/em>. \u00a0Behold:\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1303\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Weather.com\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/weathercom_crit.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1303 \" title=\"weather.com has a bad user interface design\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/weathercom_crit_sm-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"weather.com has a bad user interface design\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\n\n \n\nVisitors should not be required to scroll to view data, but it appears the designers at <a href=\"weather.com\">Weather.com<\/a> didn't get that memo.\n\nStill, Wundermap is awesome enough that I can forgive a bit of blight just so I can monitor the weather stations in San Francisco. \u00a0Put a fork in Weather.com because that site is done."}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/16\/artist-fab-ciraolo\/","trash":"","name":"artist-fab-ciraolo","parent":"","title":"Artist: Fab Ciraolo - Art of my generations","date":"2012-02-16 11:15:11","filepath":"posts\/20001295_artist-fab-ciraolo.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Fab Ciralo has created a wonderful mashup of hipster and 80's cartoons. \u00a0Do you miss Thunder Cats? \u00a0Well, add a dash of hipster and you have Fab Ciralo's work.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\/\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"red riding hood - fab ciraolo\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xZiX9MfTQko\/Tm2g6kwQc1I\/AAAAAAAAASU\/pN-VuSTQyII\/s640\/Little-Red-Riding-Hood.jpg\" alt=\"red riding hood - fab ciraolo\" width=\"213\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\/\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"heman - fab ciraolo\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3CjsXJVpiOI\/TmUKJnUFWxI\/AAAAAAAAASA\/htEjtyn9BBc\/s640\/OSH.jpg\" alt=\"heman - fab ciraolo\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\/\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"space - fab ciraolo\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LbbU8swU0z0\/TdHbr1y_twI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/IJFHYTVL0k4\/s640\/DEALER-10-final-2.jpg\" alt=\"space - fab ciraolo\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\/\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"heman - fab ciraolo\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-e3hwXUJyjFI\/TcDqMBeoHdI\/AAAAAAAAALQ\/wOWtZO-00ms\/s640\/OSH1.jpg\" alt=\"heman - fab ciraolo\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nThe posture of the characters is very similar to the\u00a0disengaged vacant stares of old photographs and The Royal Tenenbaums (or The Life Aquatic).\n\nYou gotta love Care Bears and Rainbow Brite.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"car bear - fab ciralo\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tzRH3ToP-kQ\/Tkvoz4Cu3kI\/AAAAAAAAAQQ\/uL2Omndx5go\/s640\/Oldschool-Heroes-Care-Bears%25282%2529.jpg\" alt=\"car bear - fab ciralo\" width=\"144\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\"><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"rainbow brite - fab ciraolo\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JYN6XsvixU0\/TjuMsgEfPLI\/AAAAAAAAAPk\/Z3It9RAqMUo\/s640\/Rainbow-Brite-%2526-Lala-Orange.jpg\" alt=\"rainbow brite - fab ciraolo\" width=\"230\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>visit Fab Ciraolo's <a href=\"http:\/\/fabianciraolo.blogspot.com\">blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/15\/spotlight-fantasy-dye\/","trash":"","name":"spotlight-fantasy-dye","parent":"","title":"Spotlight: Fantasy - DyE","date":"2012-02-15 11:43:08","filepath":"posts\/20001290_spotlight-fantasy-dye.xml.json","type":"post","content":"I'm not sure what to say about this video... \u00a0It may be NSFW, but there isn't lewd\u00a0imagery... \u00a0It sure is NSFL. \u00a0Behold.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6QFwo57WKwg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\nThe guy at the end must be what people consider God. \u00a0One glimpse of his\u00a0supreme\u00a0awesomeness burns your eyes and destroys you. \u00a0I rather like the concept of God being somewhat repugnant and malformed creature. \u00a0Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.\n\n<em>want the song? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005TQJLQY\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005TQJLQY\">get it here<\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B005TQJLQY\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/14\/human-traffic-camera-arrested\/","trash":"","name":"human-traffic-camera-arrested","parent":"","title":"Human Traffic Camera... Arrested?","date":"2012-02-14 11:12:17","filepath":"posts\/20001255_human-traffic-camera-arrested.xml.json","type":"post","content":"R\u00e9mi Gaillard got the bright (and hilarious) idea to pose as a traffic camera... you know, the ones that mail you speeding tickets. \u00a0He was having a hilarious time until some law enforcement types without a sense of humor decided to put a stop to it by arresting him.\n\nWatch the whole video. \u00a0The ending is priceless:\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvYxXBMqEOM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\nI didn't know it was illegal to pose as a camera... \u00a0an officer, sure... but an inanimate object? \u00a0I'd like to see what charge they came up for him at the clink.\n\n<em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/02\/man-arrested-for-impersonating.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/em>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/13\/dope-zebra\/","trash":"","name":"dope-zebra","parent":"","title":"Dope Zebra","date":"2012-02-13 17:04:39","filepath":"posts\/20001286_dope-zebra.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fljKx9nvrL4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<em>zebra dancing on the lawn...<\/em>"}}
