Monthly Archives: October 2005
Excellent comic
October 31, 2005 – 1:03 pm
A lesson is learned but the damage is irreversable.
Utterly fucked up, totally excellent.
You might be a leftist if…
October 31, 2005 – 12:56 pm
…you can’t tell the difference between society and government:
When a country seemingly on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons calls for one of its neighbours to be “wiped off the map”, the world surely has every cause to worry. When the country making the threat is vast, volatile Iran, and the object of its hostility [...]
Gigi and the Cockroach, etc.
October 31, 2005 – 12:50 am
I can’t remember how I found this guy’s site or who he is (aha!), but I really like his sketches. There’s something about the slightly messy line and the flat colors that really appeals to me. Some nice ones:
Also, fairly cute is the excercise gigi and the cockroach:
…where Roach + Redhead + Apocalypse = Victorian [...]
Rock Action
October 30, 2005 – 9:13 pm
From Mogwai’s mailing list:
Last week we mastered our new album in NYC with Greg Calbi. We have been recording at our new Castle Of Doom studios in Glasgow with Tony Doogan since Spring this year. It is 43 minutes, 7 seconds long. We are very happy with this record, we hope you [...]
Threadless
October 30, 2005 – 8:51 pm
Threadless is pretty cool - it’s an ongoing t-shirt design contest, where users vote on the best designs and the company prints the winners.
(I’ll have to submit a design… yeah, real soon now)
One could waste tremendous amounts of time browsing designs there, if one were inclined. And one might find designs that should not be [...]
Strange goings on in the ‘hood
October 30, 2005 – 6:44 pm
1. First, rake the leaves away from three storm drains (observed but not pictured).
2. Open hydrant, then sit in your truck while hundreds/ thousands of gallons of water empty into storm drains.
3. Close the hydrant.
4. Be sure to look less than thrilled at the prospect having your odd shennanigans recorded for posterity.
5. “Too much water” [...]
Administrivia
October 30, 2005 – 3:35 pm
Just installed Spam Karma 2, haven’t looked at the config yet. Ping me with any commenting difficulties.
When the singularity arrives
October 30, 2005 – 2:24 pm
It won’t only be people who benefit.
(from, via)
Mass murder and arithmetic
October 27, 2005 – 4:34 pm
I’m posting this a little late, but - on the Arlington List, the “Co-Leader of MoveOnArlington”, wrote:
MoveOn.org is planning vigils all over the country when we top 2,000 Americans killed in Iraq. As of this morning, 1,992 American soldiers had tragically died.
On the date we learn about the 2,000th death, if we hear before 3:00 [...]
Rape and pillage
October 25, 2005 – 4:10 pm
Instapundit writes:
MY ADVICE TO CHRISTIANS, JEWS, HINDUS, ETC: Start blowing things up and beheading people. This will gain you enormous solicitude from the powers-that-be:
A West Yorkshire head teacher has banned books containing stories about pigs from the classroom in case they offend Muslim children. The literature has been removed from classes for under-sevens at Park [...]
Star Trek Alert
October 24, 2005 – 1:56 pm
In Star Trek: The Voyage Home Scotty traded the formula for transparent aluminum to a company for materials to build pens to haul two humpback whales back to the future. I guess the company finally get their shit together and is bringing it to market-
I GIVE YOU:
aluminum oxynitride
I hear the army is coming out [...]
A sea of Dudes
October 11, 2005 – 6:27 pm
It’s not the world’s most in-depth interview, but it was an excuse to use the the phrase “A sea of Dudes” for a blog title.
DVD out Oct. 18th.
We have a winner!
October 4, 2005 – 10:22 pm
For a contest I didn’t realize I was holding: Best Blog Post Title of the Year. Read it here.