Monthly Archives: August 2007

Sandsquid

Pretty cool! Someone tell Lileks! (via neatorama)

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Tim Hecker live

Not much to look at, but sounds nice. Scary heavy metal guys ISIS filtered by Hecker.

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The internet is made of tubes

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 … Continue reading

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Knock knock / Who is it? / Uhhh… Candygram!

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 … Continue reading

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Artists & authors

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)

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Appreciation is nice

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 … Continue reading

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Gibsonian celebrity-recognition brain lobe

(for JMD)

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Great beer, beautiful women, political sanity

I have got to move to the Czech Republic.

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Freaky!

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.

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Damn the Swiss!

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. … Continue reading

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Stardust arrives

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.

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Efficiency

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 … Continue reading

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At least they’re trying

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 … Continue reading

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They fused, somehow

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.

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Achewood

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. … Continue reading

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Junk science looks so much better

…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)

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Didit didit didit didit didit didit didit da DAH

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.

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More planned big mergers

Stop the madness!

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I’m cautiously optimistic

…that I will live to see September.

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Is nothing sacred?

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 … Continue reading

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