ORIGINALLY AIRED: 2/10/2005
Strindberg and Helium, iPod Cramming, Rebecca Ryiz
Episode #5025
| Dutch Treat: The Dutch military has come up with color night vision – provided you sample the daytime scene first.
Bunny Blackmail: Ah, yet another despicable way to make money, brought to you by the Internet: Maps Can Be Fun: Google invades the dull, grey world of online maps with its dynamic new Google Maps. |
| When it comes to Flash-animated comedy, does the scenario of a depressed Swedish playwright and a happy lil’ blob of lighter-than-air gas come to mind? If so, then have we got the cartoon for you: Strindberg and Helium.
Creators Eun-Ha Paek (artist/animator) and James Bewley (who voices Strindberg) met in the comedy group Milky Elephant and decided to collaborate. Thus came Strindberg and Helium, which James says utilizes “pretty basic comedy building blocks – the odd couple.” And, yes, they certainly are odd, which is what makes the cartoon singularly funny. As Strindberg rants about his depressed state, Helium manages to burble out half-formed words with oblivious joy. And what, exactly, is Helium? “I’m sure everybody has their own take, but for me he’s an emissary of a spiritual force of happiness,” said James.There you go! You can decide for yourself at www.strindbergandhelium.com. Also, visit http://milkyelephant.com while you’re at it. |
| What – 40 GB not enough space for your ever-growing collection of iTunes? Well, never fear. You can still load a few more albums onto your iPod with our handy guide to stripping out the album cover art, written by our own David Prager. |
| The theory was to see how many callers the two Kevins could respond to in one segment. In practice, we kept losing the callers before they made it onto the air. But here are the two that connected:
What happened to Alex Albrecht? “He’s doing Dell commercials, out there making a living,” said Kevin R. “We still hang out. You can visit him at www.alexalbrecht.com.” How can I clone my hard drive on my modded Xbox to transfer it to another Xbox? You may find the answer at www.Xbox-scene.com. |
| In tech topics…
Watch What You Decompile: Tecmo is suing the webmasters of ninjahacker.net, as well as 100 anonymous users of the site, for modding Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, and Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball with custom skins. Will Steve Ever Get Sirius? The satellite radio home of Howard Stern has been in talks with Apple about placing Sirius on iPods. Are the Exploding Collars Coming Next? School kids in a small California town are tagged with RFIDs. Parents get upset. Your Tax Dollars at Work, Again: The Pentagon paid for teleportation study. Conclusion: It won’t work any time soon. |
| Studio Troika in England has invented the “SMS Guerrilla Projector” – a device with projects the text messages from a cell phone onto the sides of buildings, sidewalks, windows, and signs. Apparently, things can get a tad dull around the office at Studio Troika.
Visit www.studiotroika.co.uk for more info. |
| While Sarah’s out on assignment, Brendan decided to round up the guys for a manly version of her Gems of the Internet. Somehow, they’re just not the same. |
| On our LAN Party today we played Unreal Tournament 2004 with Rebecca “Wabi-Sabi” Ryiz and “Barker Beauty” Rebecca Mary. Our apologies to all the players who couldn’t join us due to a plague of technical difficulties. |
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