Archive for December, 2009

Hey folks. It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted last, so I thought I would let you know what is going on with Dorkazine. It is officially in transition to the new server. I was hoping to have it moved over by now, but the move to a new CMS makes it a little more difficult. I want to preserve all posts, comments and other data.

Of course, the trip to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) hasn’t been helping. CES is a lot bigger for us because we will be doing live video from the CES floor. Our good friends at NBC Universal are letting us borrow the stage to do our show on Saturday (4 PM PST) and Sunday (3 PM PST).

Dorkazine will be back on regular production after Jan 12. That is, unless I see some dorky items at CES. Then I might upload some great pictures….

So Happy New Year. It’s gonna be a Blue Moon this New Years’ eve, then we celebrate the new decade. So let’s look back at the dorky 00′s!

• Y2K
• Windows ME and Windows Vista
• Dot Com Bubble
• Ginger – the Segway project
• Pets.com puppet pimps himself out Bar None
• Email Stamps
• Paris Hilton’s phone hacked
• Sarah Palin’s email hacked
• Duke Nukem’s failed restart
• Telsa Motors fall
• TJX Credit Card Thefts
• HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray
• Goodbye CompUSA and Circuit City. Hello SystemMax
• The Polaroid camera signs off
• Gates – Seinfeld commercials
• Million Pixel Ad Boards
• The Yahoo – Microsoft – Google – AOL debacle
• The Twitter Fail Whale
• AOL buys Time Warner
• Goodbye Charles Schultz
• The “Chad” issue in Florida
• Same Sex Marriage issues
• Smoking Ban issues
• The end of the Microsoft Anti-trust issues
• Enron
• 9/11
• The Mark Zuckerberg Interview at SXSW
• Stephen Colbert for President
• Stephen Colbert to Space
• Goodbye to the Concorde
• George Bush gets a free shoe
• The Lybia ban was lifted by the US
• Goodbye Oldsmobile
• Bill Gates gets hit with a Pie
• O.J. Simpson tempts fate – and looses
• The Scream dissapears
• Katrina
• Saddam Hussein execution
• The first Human Face Transplant
• The Leap Second – Twice in the Decade
• The Large Hadron Collider up and down
• Bandwidth Caps
• Pluto is no longer a planet
• Fighting for Oil
• H1N1
• Steve Jobs health
• The Onion becomes real news (for one reporter)
• Mylie Cyrus leaves Twitter
• From 3 MP to 10 MP
• G4 buys and ruins TechTV

What other items should be added to this list?

This is the craziest innovation I have seen in a while. It’s a clock – but instead of having ticking hands, there is a guy behind the glass with a marker changing the time every minute by hand. Every minute passes and he erases the markings, then re-draws the new time.

Only thing is – there is no man behind the clock.

I suppose there WAS a man doing this, but it was in front of a camera. He must’ve taken a few hours doing nothing but drawing lines around the face of the clock.

So what you are seeing is a computer video of a guy drawing lines. Pretty cool, eh? Makes me think of how easy it would be to do that…

By the way – this clock was on display at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.

Apparently this picture has been out for a while, but this is the first I’ve seen of it, so it’s new. Sammy Davis Jr – whose birthday was yesterday – would be soo proud…

Instead of houses, why not a Gingerbread motherboard. M&M resistors, Black Licorice capacitors, Gummi candy buttons all connected with frosting. Only thing missing is the case. Maybe they already ate that part.

Well, I throw this challenge out to you – what can you build? Send me the pictures and I’ll post them here.

So I got emailled these. I am not sure where they came from – although there was thought they may have originated from College Humor.

Still, this makes me think – Who has the time to put this together. Better yet, who is the ingenious person that took the time. Or even more – Where is Leia’s Facebook profile and can I be her friend.

What other Facebook profiles can you imagine? Star Trek? Gremilins? Good Times? William Katt from Greatest American Hero is on Facebook – Check out what he says.

In the meantime, here are the posts. Pretty friggin hillarious.