Posts by Scaramouch
American Voices
The cast of the Flinstones in the recording studio
If you met any of these people, you'd feel like you'd known them your whole life. And yet, most would go unrecognized on the street. Today, YesButNoButYes pays tribute to those classic entertainers of our childhood - the men and women who were responsible for some of our favorite cartoon voices. (My thanks to IMDB for providing a lot of the trivia.)
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Posted by Scaramouch on July 30, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
Saturday Night at the Movies
I'm typing this out on the deck behind my house, overlooking the pool in the afternoon shade, sipping Coconut Rum over Ice. Stupid internet movies is the last thing on my mind, and it should be the same with you. Get out, have a life, turn off the computer, go and do something less boring instead.
Still here? Sigh. Ok, let's get this friggin' thing over with.
How to teach your kids the wonder of the internet And another one for the kids - the latest episode of Salad Fingers From the Japanese Apple site, a trailer for Shinobi (QT 7 required) A couple of interesting CGI shorts - Workin' Progress and Sam I'm not even sure what this is, but very interesting nonetheless - Forest Grove Two movies I'm really looking forward to: Thumbsucker and Green Street Hooligans Finally a little Death in the Afternoon - not for the squeamish.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 30, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Balls
Don't you just wish you had been there to see this?
100,000 bouncy balls released down a hill in San Francisco.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 29, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
The Day The Music Died
According to BoingBoing, the Supreme Court in Canada has effectively outlawed the copying of music from your own CDs onto your own iPod, which means our Canuck friends must only load songs they've bought at the iTunes store onto their MP3 players.
A quick calculation shows what this actually means, because if you actually divide the number of iTunes songs bought by the number of iPods sold, you get the actual number of songs, on average, everyone should have on their playlist.
Note to Steve Jobs - make your next iPod a 100mb version, because that's all we need.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 29, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
For girls who love Coq
From Agenda Inc:
Sexual double entendres were removed overnight from Burger King's new website, CoqRoq.com, but the company claims it has received no complaints from consumers or other outside groups, AdAge reports. The deleted content included captions, under photos of young girls, that read: “Groupies love the Coq” and “groupies love Coq.”
BK are claiming “malfunctions in the Flash and XML programming were responsible for putting the captions up.” Now, I'm not trying to be a technical genius here, but thats sounds to me like a very unusual “ Flash programming error” unless you happening to be running your web server on a computer named HAL.
Note to marketers: when you create a site based around a fake band with the word “Cock” in it, for a product that's designed to go in your mouth, don't act surprised when someone assumes it's less than innocent.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 29, 2005 | Comments (2) | Send to a friend
Coming Attractions, and a competition..
I'm currently working on a longer blog that I'll post sometime in the next few days featuring these people and a few others. But in the meantime, I'm soliciting guesses in the comments section - what do the following people have in common and what is the story about?
One YBNBY T Shirt will be sent to the first person who correctly guesses the subject of the story. Not that I'm in any danger of having to stump up for a shirt, because I'm pretty certain no-one will get the connection.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 28, 2005 | Comments (4) | Send to a friend
Me and my Tumor
A grad scientist student at Rutgers University has created a Flickr photoblog that shows in detail the removal of his cancerous brain tumor. Fascinating, if a little graphic (via BoingBoing)
Posted by Scaramouch on July 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Lock up your Virgins
I have all due respect for Richard Branson. Like James Dyson, he seems to be one of those rare things - a successful visionary. Someone with the ability not only to see the big picture, but also bring it to reality.
So it's rather disturbing to learn over on the Chilling Effects website that Branson and his organization are trying to lay claim to the intellectual copyright of the word “Virgin” in all its uses, in this case by suing a young businessman with a company called “Virgin Threads”.
I think I have the solution though - maybe all those companies could just substitute the word “unslutty”. “Unslutty Threads” has a good ring to it, and I suspect the domain name is free.
See also “Unslutty Olive Oil”, “Unslutty Sands”, “The Unslutty Suicides”, “West Unsluttia”, “The Unslutty Birth”, and of course “The Unslutty Mary”.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Lust for Bust
Act like a man on the new website for Milwaukee's Best Lite Beer. Look for the game entitled “Lust for Bust”, where the aim is to sneak as many looks as you can at your room-mate's girlfriend's hot breasts without her noticing.
Now there's a brand that really understands its audience.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 27, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Now this is what I call a soundboard
This is for Lynx deodorant, which I believe is what the Brits call Axe. (via Screenhead)
Posted by Scaramouch on July 27, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Where are they now - Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Inspired by a posting on BoingBoing tonight, plus Jellio's excellent Where are they now - The Bad News Bears, I thought I'd catch up with the main cast members of the original Wonka movie and ask - (dramatic music) - WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
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Posted by Scaramouch on July 27, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Where women glow and men plunder
So - think for a minute - who could possibly be last years highest paid Australian entertainer? Nicole Kidman? Or Russell Crowe perhaps? Or how about Mel Gibson? Well, according to Parade Magazine, it's none of those because the answer is....
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Posted by Scaramouch on July 26, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
My 15 minutes is up
Having decided I'm NOT a celebrity who's privacy they have to worry about, Cafepress have reinstated all the items in our store bearing the Scaramouch photograph, including the ever popular “Scaramouch After Dark” pillow. Shop till you drop.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 26, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Extras
I realized that I never wrote up my promised review of Ricky Gervais' Extras, so here it is: bloody brilliant.
It was always going to be difficult for Gervais and Merchant to follow on from The Office, and I'm going to avoid making any kind of comparison between the two, because it's unnecessary. The script is hilarious, the concept is a great one and this series will definitely be one to watch. Although the show started slow, Gervais was soon in fine form, and he graciously gave many of the best moments to his supporting players, including his wonderful co-star Ashley Jensen. The ditzy blonde is a well-worn cliche in comedy, but she had me cracking up, especially with her observant take on race relations, which probably came straight from the Prince Philip School of Tolerance.
For those of you who look forward to enjoying this legally on HBO, you have a treat in store. For those criminals out there who need more instant gratification, hop over to UK Nova. And while you're there, check out the first episode of Season Two of The Catherine Tate Show - another standout.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 25, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
It's Oceania...no, Eurasia...No Oceania
It seems that Bill Gates is taking the launch of his rival to Google Earth to rewrite history in his own image:
Apple's giant HQ in California's Silicon Valley is mysteriously missing from Microsoft's new online mapping application, Virtual Earth, which was unveiled to the public today.
The full story over at Cult of Mac
Posted by Scaramouch on July 25, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Picking Up Girls Made Easy
Mastering the basic elements of “wild, uninhibited streetplay”, all on a handy MP3 to download to your iPod to listen in situ. This is classic stuff
Posted by Scaramouch on July 25, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
RSS feeds
Is anyone having problems with our RSS feeds this morning? I can't seem to get them to work on my Mac.
UPDATED: The RSS feed should now be working again. My hat's off to Feedburner, who responded to the problem in an hour or so and modified their system. Very impressive for a free service.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 25, 2005 | Comments (1) | Send to a friend
That Was The Week That Was
A roundup of some of the best posts of the week on YesButNoButYes
- NYC returns to it's Porn roots
- 15 Minutes of Fame
- Where are they now - The Bad News Bears
- Big Ideas for TiVo
- One of these things in not like the other
- Terror-colored Glasses
- Ouch!
Sheesh, now THAT was like scraping the bottom of an empty barrel. Must try harder.
Posted by Scaramouch on July 24, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Saturday Night at the Movies
A little early this week as I'm heading down to the coast for the day.
A fun experiment in photo collaboration - Infinite Flickr: The Movie Why you should always dissuade your child from wanting to be a bus driver, especially in Korea Color invades a monochrome world - True Color Oooh a little politics - Tony Blair, puppet prostitute. Two videos of guys with WAAAY too much time on their hands - Quarters & Blind Rubik's Here's the secret motivation behind every woman with a successful business career Finally, this week's main feature, a very inspired short movie about Creative Desktops.
Now, where did i put that bucket and spade?
Posted by Scaramouch on July 23, 2005 | Comments (0) | Send to a friend
Wanted: A Few Good Widget Testers
Anybody who doesn't have a Mac with OS 10.4 installed, move along, there's nothing to see here.
Otherwise, I'd REALLY appreciate it if you could beta test a new “YesButNoButYes Widget” I knocked together tonight. It works fine on my machine, but I'd like to see how others find it. Basically, it's a small widget that will display clickable headlines of the last 15 stories from YBNBY. In other words, it's a small RSS reader. It installs pretty much like all widgets - unzip the file, then double click to install.
Any and all feedback would be VERY appreciated before I add this feature to the site permanently. You can download the widget from here :
http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/downloads/yesbutnobutyes.wdgt.zip
Hope you like it. My first little widget - I'm a father!!!!
Posted by Scaramouch on July 23, 2005 | Comments (4) | Send to a friend
