dennis yang dot com

this one just writes itself.. i’m gonna just post exactly what it says on their site… ahh germans.

Dickmann’s is the chocolate foam kiss

In 1997 CocoCabana added a hint of Caribbean flair in Germany.

[thanks andy]

zefrank always has funny stuff.. especially his cat annie and his instructions on how to dance properly… anyway, he just made a great video on friendster. hehe. funny.

Here’s a little snippet of a Yahoo! Instant Messenger conversation I just had.. is YIM blocking Google URLs?? I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but.. this is just too weird… and, please no comments about me searching for a “prom dress”.. it’s one of our most popular searches on mySimon, so I use it a lot as a test case…

dennis: see the url i sent?
dennis: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=canon+g5
masnick: no
masnick: send again
dennis: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=canon+g5
dennis: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=canon+g5
dennis: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=canon+g5
dennis: see?
masnick: yahoo messenger sucks
masnick: no
masnick: grrr
dennis:
dennis: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=canon+g5
masnick: no urls showing up
dennis: see now?
masnick: no
dennis:
masnick: GRRRRR
dennis: wtf
masnick: i dunno
masnick: i wonder if yahoo is doing something
masnick: that’s messed up. i’m not getting them at all
dennis: how about this http://www.google.com/
dennis: no?
masnick: nope. nothing
dennis: www.yahoo.com
dennis: that?
masnick: that i got
masnick: heh. wonder if yahoo is blocking google urls
dennis: http://www.google.com/
dennis: that?
masnick: i only saw the one yahoo url
dennis: WTF
dennis: anyway, go to google
dennis: search for “prom dress”
masnick: ah
masnick: shopping bag
dennis: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=canon+g5&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=ff
dennis: how about that url
masnick: no
dennis: man
dennis: that’s so odd
dennis: www.mysimon.com
dennis: that one you got though
masnick: that showed up
dennis:
masnick: mysimon works
dennis: that’s really f’ed up
masnick: yeah
masnick: what else were you trying?
dennis: http://www.CHANGETHIS.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=prom+dress
dennis: you see that one?
masnick: yes
dennis: (change CHANGETHIS to google)
masnick: yeah
dennis: how about just the word.. google
masnick: google works
dennis: google.com
masnick: it’s just the urls
masnick: hmm
dennis: www.google.com
masnick: what if i send back to you
dennis: that one no good?
masnick: hang on
dennis: yah
masnick: that one?
dennis: nothing
masnick: what one?
masnick: did you get that?
dennis: get what?
masnick: man
masnick: they’re blocking google urls
dennis: holy crap
masnick: that’s FUCKED UP
dennis: ok.. this is going on dennisyang.com
dennis: www.dennisyang.com
dennis: you get that one?
masnick: it’s gotta be a mistake
masnick: dennisyang works

i mean.. ok, jokes are funny and stuff, and april issues of magazines always have april fools stuff in them… but, what the hell was DETAILS thinking when they put this page in the most recent issue of their mag? gay or asian? i mean, it’s not even funny. just kinda dumb. i dunno. i don’t even know if i’m offended or not. it’s almost like the details guys are trying to do a half-ass imitation of the maxim attitude, and dreadfully failing. i mean, in maxim’s april issue, they have funny shite like some watch with a 176 carat diamond in it for “the man that is too rich to care about the time”. for april fools, car and driver does cool stuff like road tests f-18s and stuff.. i mean honestly, details..

There’s a great article in Wired about how playing golf simulation games can really help out your real game (something i’ve been saying for ages now.. i’m a HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of Tiger Woods Golf 2004 for the PS2). Anyway, give it a read, and go get yourself a golf game.. they ROCK. Anyway, the article goes on to describe some more simulation games, including one made by Full Swing down in San Diego that actually lets you swing at balls in your living room. Oh boy.

Wired 12.04: The Swingers Club

what happens when you mix up a mischevious staff, a TON of post-its, and an accidentally unlocked office? this.

[thanks mike!]

Oooo.. now that we’re “post cold-war”, check out these soviet ICBM launch keys on eBay (man.. i love eBay — especially since “eBay” is “Be” in pig latin). These things were made with titanium.. those soviets sure did know how to make cool doomsday stuff.

[thanks mike]

Oooo.. there’s an easter egg in the BMW M3’s sequential manual gearbox — apparently, if you tap the right sequence in the gear shift, the car will launch you from a stop at 5,000 RPM..

So.. what happens if you do “up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-start-start”?

[thanks mike]

The DARPA Autonomous challenge is starting in a few days.. Teams have to design and build a ground vehicle to autonomously go from LA to Vegas in less than 10 hours. Winner takes home a $1 million cash prize. Man.. it’s such a cool race. I really wish that I had gotten a team together to do this.. i’m yearning for my HEV days, i guess. Anyway, most teams are building an SUV with some sort of self-drive-guidance system, but check out this autonomous motorcycle riding robot built for the race. frikkin cool.

[thanks mike]

ok, this one’s for korby… subways of the world, presented on the same scale. pretty neato. note the conspicuous absence of the san francisco subway. yah, cuz we don’t have one. one of note anyway.