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The Whirlpool Polara Oven

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 1, 2002

Remember Jason Alexander, the actor who played the character “George” on Seinfeld? One of his first acting roles — if you can call it that — was for the famous McDonald’s McDLT. Let’s take a look:

Why do I bring this up? because when it comes to keeping the “hot side hot, and the cool side cool”, nothing beat THE WHIRLPOOL POLARA OVEN. It’s a refrigerator…inside your oven!

It’s like a big giant crockpot, designed with food safety in mind. Just put your raw food into the oven, and tell it what time to start cooking. Your food will be kept safely refrigerator cool (no e.coli here!), and will be almost done cooking by the time you make it home from the office.

And to think that watching this fancy stuff on The Jetsons was all futurey and stuff.

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The Warholizer

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 1, 2002

Here’s how you can get your very own 15-minutes of fame: just upload your photo to THE WARHOLIZER and have it automatically turned into a Warhol-style portrait.

No, it won’t be a can of soup. You’re just going to have to try it and see.

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Flash Fun: Five Finger Fillet

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 1, 2002

We all have a twisted, freaky side. Here’s a website for you:

All you have to do at Five Finger Fillet is tap your spacebar at the right time to drive the huge, shiny knife blade in between your victim’s – er, lucky friends’s – fingers. Try to hit the table as many times as possible without slicing off anybody’s extremities. Ouch.

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Flash Fun: The Bruce Lee Ultimate Movie Trailer Remixer

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 1, 2002

We’ve all seen those classic Bruce Lee movies, with all the thumping music, quick camera cuts, and superimposed text graphics. THE ULTIMATE BRUCE LEE MOVIE TRAILER REMIXER gives you a chance to create your own movie trailer loop using music, graphics, and video cuts recreated from those movies you loved watching late at night on TV.

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The Calories Burned Calculator

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 1, 2002

Although there are those who argue that “calories don’t count,” most experts I’ve spoken with — and trust me, I’ve spoken with quite a few — all agree that 3,500 calories equals a pound of fat.

So dieting is easy: all you have to do is reduce your caloric intake by 500 calories a day, and — over time — you’ll find yourself losing about a pound a week.

Sounds easy, right? Your first step is to know approximately how many calories it takes to sustain your weight. That, of course, varies depending on your age, gender and activity level.

So all you need to do to get a precise estimate of what those numbers are, you can enter how many hours you do specific activities at THE CALORIES BURNED CALCULATOR.

The list of activities is pretty expansive, and includes such activities as playing guitar, playing frisbee, brushing your teeth, horse grooming, and mopping. Even sex is broken out to “intercourse” and “foreplay” categories. Yup, they’ve thought of everything!

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Music Royalty Calculator

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 1, 2002

Calculating the money made in a record deal can be overly complicated. Does the artist make a ton of money as soon as they’re signed? Not necessarily.

Check out the MOSES AVALON MUSIC ROYALTY CALCULATOR to see if you’re getting screwed before you sign your band away.

All you need to know is:

Advances
- how much the advance is
- retail price of the record. CD pricing averages to around $11.98 apiece, and indie record deals expect that 80% of your sales to come from CDs.
- What the royalty paid to you is
- How big a promotional budget will you have? This is monty that is coming directly out of your pocket, so spend wisely.
Producer’s payout.
- Royalty
- Producer paid from record one
Label costs
- Packaging deductions
- Breakage
- Percentage of Sales royalties are calculated on

The calculator will determine, based on the info you’ve provided, how much money is made on each actual sale and how many sales you need to have before you start making money. Of course, this is only going to be a rough estimate – your actual successes may vary.

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Movie Review

Movie Review: Rollerball

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 5, 2002

Rating: 2 out of 5
Rated: PG-13 for action-movie violence, occasional bad language, and Rebecca Stamos naked in silhouette.

Got to watch this one at a morning screening. I’m glad I didn’t waste an afternoon or evening watching this dreck.

A disclaimer: The James Caan edition of Rollerball is one of my favorite movies. Nice homage: in the new one, they keep the classic “Jon-a-than! Jon-a-than!” chant that makes the Caan version awesome.

It’s sort of like the Planet of the Apes remake: it’s not awful, and it’s intended to stand on its own. But the originals in both cases were so much more inspired.

The first one: The game was easy to follow and understand. Skaters go around the rink, pick up the ball, and slam it into the scoring pod. Can be shown with one camera.

The new one: The game is on a figure-8 track (left over from RollerGames? Where’s the alligator pit?) with a bunch of hampster habittrails and ramps and stuff. You never get a good sense of how the game is played or who any of the team players are (or which team they’re on).

The plotlines are similar: the game is run by The Corporation and Jonathan tries to figure out his role in the game. Not a bad updating of the plot; the execution should have been done MUCH better.

There are a ton of bad directing choices in the film, but a lot of action scenes were cut; expect to see them uncut on the DVD.