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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Tim Hecker live
August 21, 2007 – 11:50 pm
Not much to look at, but sounds nice.
Scary heavy metal guys ISIS filtered by Hecker.
The internet is made of tubes
August 21, 2007 – 10:15 pm
I’m hugely amused by the fact that, after all this RIAA bullshit, lawsuits, the neutering of napster, etc., any song that I don’t own a legal copy of is available for me to listen to for free because armies of weirdos have put them all up (ie, “illegally re-published them”) on YouTube.
WTF, RIAA?
Here, by the [...]
Knock knock / Who is it? / Uhhh… Candygram!
August 21, 2007 – 4:21 pm
This is cool:
The basic process for developing fingers and toes in land animals may have existed for more than 500 million years in shark genes, according to a new study.
Of course, it makes the uplift easier, and, in this case, much more frightening.
Artists & authors
August 21, 2007 – 3:53 pm
Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!! collects works by various artists interpreting their favorite literary figures/authors/characters. Mildly cool.
(above: Bruce Timm / H.P. Lovecraft)
Appreciation is nice
August 21, 2007 – 1:21 pm
Lileks @ SmartFlix blog:
I knew the very second I opened the attractive SmartFlix envelope (much better than Netflix, to be honest, and it doesn’t stand out with that red STEAL ME, POSTAL EMPLOYEE color) that this would be the most awesome training film ever.
(emphasis added)
“w00t!”, as the kiddies say.
Great beer, beautiful women, political sanity
August 17, 2007 – 7:43 am
I have got to move to the Czech Republic.
Freaky!
August 14, 2007 – 8:42 am
A collection of photos documenting a French(?) actress destroying herself with plastic surgery.
Sad, sad, sad. What a waste.
I have a name for it - Jessica Rabbit Syndrome.
Oh, not safe for work - boobage.
Damn the Swiss!
August 13, 2007 – 10:37 am
I spent part of Sunday assembling a new benchtop table saw. The Swiss let me down with the instructions:
Required tools:
Tool A
Tool B
Tool C
Tool D
So, I went and collected tools A, B, C, and D.
About half way through, when I’m at a point where somehow I’m managing to hold about six different components with two [...]
Stardust arrives
August 10, 2007 – 12:37 pm
and gets four stars.
I read the book and like most of Gaiman’s stuff, it left me unsatisfied.
But the reviewer does say it has Lusty Wenches, always a draw in my book.
Efficiency
August 9, 2007 – 5:40 pm
How UPS got William Gibson’s Spook Country to me:
West Sacramento, CA -> Mather, CA -> Louisville, KY -> Poughkeepsie, NY -> Newark, NJ -> Philadelphia, PA -> Stratford, CT -> Windsor Locks, CT -> Watertown, MA -> Arlington, MA
(this took three days, instead of Amazon Prime’s promised two)
WTF, UPS? Time to lay off the sauce, [...]
At least they’re trying
August 8, 2007 – 3:17 pm
The Brits are ordering two new carriers.
As I see it, there is one major problem with this strategy, and that is, at a time when the English are cutting down on their fleet and support infrastructure, they are investing in two huge assets that require a deep support structure to be effective.
The strength of the [...]
They fused, somehow
August 8, 2007 – 2:45 pm
From Peter, who writes:
My roomate Max loves to make films for the You Tube. He made one about me. It’s only half true, tho.
Which half, I couldn’t shouldn’t say.
Achewood
August 8, 2007 – 10:31 am
The AV Club’s interview with Chris Onstad:
AVC: Can you get lost in your own head doing a job like this, working at home all day long?
CO: Oh, I’ve gone through periods where I’ve totally lost perspective on life. I’ve gone through mini-Brian Wilson periods, where I won’t answer the phone for like weeks at a [...]
Junk science looks so much better
August 8, 2007 – 12:25 am
…when you’ve got your own animation studio!
(Neal Adams was an extremely accomplished cartoonist and comic artist in the 60s and 70s, and he is, apparently, not at all fooled by your “plate tectonics” nonsense)
Didit didit didit didit didit didit didit da DAH
August 7, 2007 – 12:53 pm
Are all supermarkets awash in 70s prog rock, or just the one near me?
I’d kind of hoped we’d be leaving all that behind us - far behind.
Is nothing sacred?
August 5, 2007 – 10:09 pm
From my favorite photo-blogger, 12 months (or more) in the middle kingdom:
That iconic beverage that you either love or hate is as much a part of life in China as it is in any other country - These bottles although small 250mls are very cheap for the size they cost around 1 Yuan (plus another [...]