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Friday, September 27, 2002
I can't imagine why anyone living in Wisconsin with a telephone wouldn't sign onto the No Call List for telemarketers. Do it before December 1st, or forever hold your peace.
I wander away for a while and...
I can't tell you how irked I am that I didn't get to wave my geek flag and, after Wayne asked, ID The Racoons and the Lost Star before the 'Tron just went and gave away the game.
That'll teach me to not close down my web browser and do work.
I was sold on the concept of Funny Pages--a column summarizing the week's comic strips--before I even clicked. Now that I've clicked and even read ("Saturday, Marmaduke sits in the chair."), I must insist that you do the same. Preferably on a regular basis.
Via MeFi, a great article summing up the ongoing argument between Bill O'Reilly and Ludacris. I don't know who I'd want to win (is nobody an option?), but I'm at least interested in following the story.
Thursday, September 26, 2002
There are times as a freelance writer that you kick yourself for not thinking of a great idea first.
Great stories on Yahoo's newsfeed today, including the man lost at sea for four months, Sony's possible plans to expand the PS2 with Tivo-like capabilities, and the possibility of replacement of lost teeth with cloned teeth.
It had been almost two months, so I went out geocaching late Tuesday night and scored a virtual cache. Now I see that there's a new project on the website--collecting benchmarks. Seeing as how I've been doing that informally for years, I could see doing a bunch of these this fall--it's like having 70,000 new caches to go find, most of them unexplored! How cool is that?
AICN is taking their battle against J.J. Abrams' Superman script to the next level. Now I'm as irked as they are about the script (even if I don't agree with all four of Harry's "universal truths"), but I also like Alias; I'd hate to see what's obviously an Alias event (Abrams signing with Jennifer Garner) ruined by this--geeks fighting geeks is never pretty.
Of course, we'll see if AICN manages to stick to this policy of "pretend it doesn't exist". Scoop-chasing wields a pretty heavy brickbat against journalistic integrity round those parts...
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Interesting but pseduo-hoax post involving Monty Python and Edward Gorey is made to MeFi. Minor chaos ensues.
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
The link to Typophile's smaller picture font project has been going around the blogosphere for the last couple days. But what I found particularly interesting was Davis' inspiration for the project--hive-mind playing of games.
Strange; for some reason, all BlogSpot blogs appear to carry (or, upon review of some the pages, carried recently) links to Blogger's status page, which seems to be overloading the Blogdex ratings--note that it currently holds first place by a more than 19:1 ratio.
Newsarama has a great article today on how characters who recently appeared in Alan Moore's Tom Strong weren't the fruits of his imagination but actually public domain characters from comics' past. As a fan of metafiction, I'm glad to see more material--and more recent material--entering the mix.
Listening to NPR on the way to work today, I heard that the Dow slipped below 7700 today. Whew. Remember the heady days when Wired was sure we were headed for "Dow20K"?
An interesting thread on MeFi today talking about the dotcom boom, bust, victims, and survivors. mit linkenmoren, as usual.
"It’s a pretty cool system. Unless, of course, you’re the poor phone attendant whose job it is to talk to angry nutcases all day long."
Monday, September 23, 2002
The most litigated party in America: the U.S. government. But with 13 lawsuits against them a day, in second place...
"Velcro Mittens give babies head start". In related news, putting a speaker in their mouth allows them to start speaking much earlier.
"...the point is, I don't necessarily equate being easily manipulated by mainstream shit with being normal. Those of us who are slightly disturbed need distractions like football and melodramatic movies even more than those who have less confusion and egg beaters and flying monkeys swirling around in their heads. Sure, I don't sit at a desk all day, but I'd be making LSD from the lemons life gave me if I trumpeted my laziness as a virtue."
--Rabbit making an argument for Anal Expulsiveness.
Teresa (as per usual) has some great things to say about the potential new national language for East Timor: Finnish.
Once again evil spreads quietly, this time in the form of a 'free' Elvis Costello CD seeding Microsoft digital rights software onto unspecting users.
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