Archive: October 20, 2007
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Can you believe that Garfield the cat once looked as ridiculous as the comic above? Yep, it’s true! The comic strip you see there is the very first Garfield comic ever printed! My my, the strip has changed since then — Garfield isn’t as fat, Jon doesn’t look nearly as doofy, and well, let’s just [...]

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Anybody who has ever been to the 14th Street A/C/E Station in the New York City Subway system has probably seen Tom Otterness’ work. He’s the artist behind those little bronze-like statues and sculptures that often depict cartoon characters in oddball acts and strange circumstances. I don’t normally ride the A/C/E line but when I [...]

This is my favorite Jack Johnson song. Look at Ben Harper go at it on the slide guitar!

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If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you use a computer regularly. And if you use a computer regularly — whatever OS and platform it is — you’ll be familiar with the unnerving event of that instance when a computer program freezes and is waiting to come back to life. Usually, this event is marked by [...]

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That’s pretty much all you have to do in this game. Just slap the nerds and leave the normal kids alone. What grade will you score?

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This is so cool! Right now on eBay, you can be in the winning race towards a real-life working replica Optimus Prime Peterbilt truck cab! [via] The truck is well-equipped with Optimus Prime accessories, like a voice-activated alarm system with Optimus Prime’s voice from the movie, a 17″ LCD DVD player, a Bluetooth CD stereo [...]