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Friday, July 26, 2002
Monsignor Trabbold passes along a link to The Caffeine Machine; I've certainly heard quite a bit about casemodding (from folks here at work and elsewhere), but I'm terrified to see an entire site dedicated to the hardcore modders: PimpRig. I was also surprised to see how crappy the Caffeine Machine's logo (he used a stencil?) is after the nice job he did dremelling the picture on the window. Karla's Bee-House-demonstrated casepainting skills are obviously in need.
In case you might be reading this from a faraway land and wonder what this "Wisconsin" place is like, it's a place where we have things like 'lumberjill edu-tainment' and 'Bratwurst Day'. A land of wonder and mystery; a place of ghosts and cheese. Perhaps someday you will come to visit and study at the Camel Classroom. But know that vampires aren't allowed, and watch out for the Hodag.
Watching Microsoft like a hawk. And it's worth it, to read stories like this--if you're going to lie, people, do your research.
Thursday, July 25, 2002
Tired of fighting it out on the gridiron, Yale and Princeton take their rivalry to the next level as the Princeton admissions department hacks their Yalie counterparts. Now I'm just waiting for MIT to get into the mix and show 'em how it's done.
You may not be lucky enough to get cool Mr. Yuk merchandise, but you can at least hear a riff from the ever-threatening Mr. Yuk theme.
And sifting through the available channels (and through links on the chanelled pages) has also led me to some cool pages like Dicebox and the oft-mentioned-by-Karla-yet-I-had-never-seen Flangy News. Good fun. More distractions, but good fun.
Having fun playing around with Newsisfree, though it seems a bit buggy--the interface keeps logging me out rather than adding channels to my page. I'm still not certain that it's better than a good set of bookmarks--except for pages where you normally have to work around a ton of ads; the syndication, by design, strips all of those out. That's pretty cool.
Kevin Reid-Rice, making his preparations to obsess over WizKids' Mechwarrior game, spotted this page on WizKids' site about a supercool Mech treehouse.
The interesting thing about this Amazing Journey/doggy paddle story is not the swim, but that he was reunited with his owner after police "scanned his microchip." Welcome to the future, friends.
Combine Photoshop and a big dollop of WTF to get: "What If Beetle Bailey and the gang were at the World Trade Center when it was attacked?"
Obviously it's too late for me, but maybe you want to hide what the Web knows about you. (NYTimes link)
My sister's interest in photography sparked my own, a spark fanned when I got my digital camera. So I'm really enjoying coming across good collections of photography on the web--and today MeFi pointed me toward Weegee's World, a collection of photos taken by Weegee in New York (and elsewhere) during the early half of the last century.
Some of my favorites:
- "Simply Add Boiling Water"
- "Joy of Living"
- "Summer, the Lower East Side"
- "Coney Island at Noon Saturday"
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Still some text size/color formatting to do, and more content planned (especially for that blank sidebar to the right), but now I go get some sleep. Anyone have a clue why the main background of the page (e.g. beyond the right sidebar) is that dark gray and not white? I think I have the body tag done properly...
Holy...
That last post came via XML feed auto-crossposting from Newsisfree.
New toy....must play.
(Of course, the first thing I did was mess with the formatting of the crosspost--so really, how automated is it?)
Tony Hawk 2015: "The biggest name in skateboarding signs a long, long contract."
On IGN - XBox via News Is Free
Tempted....tempted by another....checking out Radio tonight, and I love its XML feed news aggregator. Supercool.
I guess it's a good thing that I don't really need to carry around the ACLU's Bustcard on a regular basis.
When Superman fights alligator, who will win the delicious candy? (from the excellent gum and candy art concept page of The Imaginary World. Check out the rest of the site--you'll see something you recognize eventually (I don't know if Brian remembers this, but I do...)
Bad news for The West Wing as Rob Lowe plans his departure--presumably so he can go from one of the best shows on television back to working on quality fare like Atomic Train.
Chad sends along this story of death by chocolate at the Kargher Candy Corporation. Looks like their search for a quality control engineer came a bit too late. Me, I suspect those skate punks over at Cheap Skates II; they're always up to no good.
UPDATE: Again from Mr. Towle, another chocolate story. Hey Chad, is there some chocolate newsfilter I should be reading?
Well, when Patrick goes silent Teresa more than picks up the slack. Check out her blog, Making Light, for some great posts recently--from corporate malfeasance to vegetarian mayonnaise to Jesus eating guinea pig. Oh, and the kabuki frogs she found? Desktop.
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
From Japan to this page to Google to the world...
Some of you might remember Ober Dicta's investigation a few months ago into the weird and wacky world of the Japanese promotion of an ISP called Hi Ho. Today I was contacted by one of the organizers of the gotoAndPlay(); Flash Film Festival who asked for permission to reprint some of OD's information and translations in a handout for the festival. Once I got permission myself from Glenn, who did the translations, I gave the go-ahead. There's no link for the 2002 Festival yet, but I'll keep an eye on the page and post one once it comes up. It'll be fun to see what they're showing, and I'm happy to play even a small part.
Thus have I suddenly been elevated from Hi Ho Enthusiast to Hi Ho Intarnet Pseudo-Authority. That's right, friends, post on the Net long enough and you too can become an Expert!
Mix Clerks with Marvel Comics, throw in a bit of RunDMC for spice, and you get... Heroes.
And if you were a fan of Hyakugojyuuichi, you'll probably like Irrational Exuberance. If you haven't seen either, click and prepare to be infected by the meme...
Monday, July 22, 2002
How can I not share a snakehead warning with all my friends and readers? No, not those snakeheads--these snakeheads.
Um, gosh, I'm all for the discipline, but maybe you shouldn't be teaching the juvenile delinquents about modern weaponry.
A Metafilter post pointed me to this scan of Action Comics #1. Great not just for the Superman story but also for the Zatara, Tex Thomson*, and Scoop Scanlan stories--characters often lost in the glare of Superman's first appearance. I love the graceful art in the Marco Polo story, too.
* Though I knew he was an older character, I remember Tex from his appearance in recent years as the Americommando in The Golden Age (and, in slightly altered form, Kingdom Come); Jess Nevins' annotation of Kingdom Come #2 explains how the cowboy you see in Action Comics #1 became the uberpatriot recast as villain in modern books:
"The Americommando debuted in _Action Comics #1_ as Tex Thomson, who travelled the world with his sidekick Bob Daley, fighting crime and encountering the bizarre and grotesque. In _Action Comics #33_ Tex put on a domino mask, took up a whip, and began fighting crime and costumed criminals (including a Chinese cyclops named Gorrah) as Mr. America; in _Action Comics_ #54 Mr. America went behind enemy lines and fought the Nazis as the Americommando. The Americommando returned to America in _Action Comics_ #74 and was not seen again until brief cameos in _All-Star Squadron_, thirty years later.
Sunday, July 21, 2002
"Of course we can't have that impacting our beloved rants at all, so the rants will continue to be updated every day. I haven't decided yet exactly who I'm going to have replace them. Right now I'm trying to decide between Brian S, our graphic designer, and John, our head warehouse monkey."
I'd love to be wrong, but I'd bet that the chances of Brian writing the FFG Rant on a more regular basis are pretty slim.
On the same site, as I really like FFG's Legends and Lairs line, I'll have to start reading their new Behind the Curtain d20 column on a regular basis.
The thing I like best about Arthur Anderson Night is not that it was a financial joke told by a baseball team, but that it sounds like they just. kept. hammering. the. joke. home. Somebody in the organization either has a fantastic sense of humor, or a real axe to grind.
Things to Do on a Sunday When You Should Be Working: take all the spooooooky employee photos on your company website and combine them (roughly; okay, very roughly) as if they had a common light source:
Apparently a majority of the Heads favor their left profiles. See, that's the kind of useful information we'd never know if I didn't have other things I'm avoiding doing.
Now I'll buckle down and get something done. Really.
A new blogfad: Blogchalking.
Of course, if you want to get offline and into the sun, there's always warchalking to get into. Or maybe even just chalkchalking.
"In forums nothing is ever settled and all your content filters away"
--Pot calling kettle black..er, FARK talking about SA.
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