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Saturday, February 15, 2003
So weirdly cool that I'm happy to help spread the meme (via boingboing and mathowie):
Check out Ruben FM's video for DJ Format's "We Know Something". His other videos are pretty fun as well, and really do the job of driving in the hook on songs I might not have even listened to otherwise. On his news page he says he just got into the IFF Director's Lab; I look forward to seeing what he comes up with.
(Sure, his video for "Time Bomb" turns me on to The Dismemberment Plan--just in time to hear that they're breaking up.)
A collection of stunning custom Simpsons figures (via wholelottanothing).
And--I'm not sure whether or not I've linked to it previously (curse my inadequate search engine!), but when the song came up in my MP3 rotation, it made me track down this video for Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails "Hurt" so I could watch it again.
Sorry to be so quiet. I'm suffering under the weight of dueling deadlines and a terrible case of Needtodolaundryitis.
Friday, February 14, 2003
"I'll write a nice blurb for his book first, though. It can be the doomed bastard's epitaph. I'll send a squad of finely- trained San Francisco Death Pervert Girls into his warehouse home, and they will wear his dangly bits as grisly murder trophies."
See, that's why I keep writing--so that perhaps someday someone somewhere will say something nice like that about me.
Thursday, February 13, 2003
The team investigating the Columbia accident announces its first conclusion: that somehow plasma (superheated 2000 degree air) made its way inside the left wing as part of the chain of events leading to the shuttle's destruction.
Anyone else out there playing Nation States who might be interested in setting up an autonomous region? I've only been playing for a couple days, and I'm already finding the North Pacific too crowded...
UPDATE: Join New Ober in the Pine Curtain region!
Over on Electrolite, Patrick quotes from a New Yorker profile of Vaclav Havel:
All too often, Havel wrote, living normally "begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."
Patrick goes on to say:
Spot on. Because the desire to avoid extra effort is such a powerful part of human behavior, we tend to assume--when we're thinking loosely--that humans generally want to avoid work. But the desire to be effective and the desire for one's efforts to be meaningful are powerful as well. Those in power habitually underestimate how radicalizing it is when individuals find themselves frustrated in their sincere attempts to do good work.
In the grand tradition of blogging, commenting on comments, let me say: Yes.
Further, one could speculate, though I could neither confirm nor deny, that emergencies aside, one could graph the frequency of posts to some blogs as some sort of correlative indicator of stress on this. Very. Issue.
"We wanted something that was memorable but meaningless, so we could educate people as to what it means...The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
Via the Slumbering Lungfish, the story of the biohazard symbol.
"If War breaks out after 10AM M-F please make sure that we call Joe and Jack to come in..."
Are you ready for war? A Clear Channel station in Sacramento has made their plans...
Contributors to the always excellent Edge (I still like to go back into the 2002 World Question every once in a while to prod my brain) on the Columbia disaster and the future of the space program. (via boingboing)
"I Can't Believe They Let That Get Into Print" Department:
" 'Best Buy is about boxes--we've got people coming into the store to purchase them,' explains Jeff Stratman, a senior buyer. 'The digital cable kit isn't the only product we sell that's essentially air.' "
(from "Broadband for Suckers", Wired, March 2003, pg. 44)
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
I'm glad that today's big shakeup in DC Comics' editorital department puts Mike Carlin back in a more creative and less administrative role. But I'm sad to see that Dan Raspler and Andy Helfer, two guys who have always been nice enough to spare a few minutes for me at conventions, are being shown the door.
Es brillig war. Die schlichte Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller--mumsige Burggoven
Die mohmen Rath' ausgraben.
Jabberwocky around the world. (via Incoming Signals)
Mighty Girl's "Life Lessons in Literature" in today's Morning News (via Bookslut. Whew--three websites in one post; proper attribution is rough sometimes...)
There's a thin fence between clever and stupid, and Cunning Stunts appears to be standing atop it screaming as loud as they can. (Beware: egregious numbers of popup windows lie beyond that link.)
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Monday, February 10, 2003
This may only be amusing to those who have played the game Thief (or in particular, watched JP or I play) but Burt likes stealing everything.
Kasparov gets booed at the New York Athletic Club as he both offers and accepts a draw in game six, ending the series at 3-3.
Via boingboing, Technorati's new Interesting Newcomers page, which could be an interesting way to find blogs you haven't seen before.
Cast your vote as to which TV series you'd like to see released on DVD by Sony. Unfortunately, you don't get to see any sort of results page. Given that it's an online poll, I suspect that The Tick is doing pretty well. But don't underestimate Barney Miller fans...
Via Making Light, Peter Schmies's Word Classification Test. Definitely not for the faint of vocabulary--I managed 170 out of 200, but only after expending a lot of skullsweat breaking words into their roots and comparing them to words I did know. (There were a few (15-20) blind guesses in there, too, but they seemed to have an equal rate of failure and success.)
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