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Saturday, April 12, 2003
So they find Saddam's love bungalow....and it has Elmoresque fantasy art on the walls. It is indeed a weird world.
UPDATE: Of course, Teresa knows exactly what painting it is....and suspects it and Saddam's other paintings may just be knockoffs. Making it an even weirder world, I suppose.
UPDATE 2: Glenn points out that the very same painting is the only result of this Google Image search.
Once again Latin falls to pop culture as scientists explain the walk of elephants as "the Groucho gait" rather than something that requires a six-year degree like repetitive verwiligusian retromotion. F'rcryin' out loud, scientists, pretty soon everyone's going to know what you're talking about! Cryptify yourselves, you fools! (link via Incoming Signals)Friday, April 11, 2003
Wow. Kevin Sites was captured, held, and then released by Iraqi soldiers earlier today. Don't miss the audioblog at the end of the entry.
For more great personal-level war reporting, I also once again point you toward Back to Iraq. Christopher Allbritton is traveling through Kirkuk and Albril, where the pot is still boiling:
"The looting in Mosul seemed much worse than what happened yesterday in Kirkuk. I bumped into Philip Robertson, of Salon.com, who asked me if the Americans were moving into Mosul. I said I didn’t know. “Well, they better get there fast before they start shooting each other,” he said.
Geek circuits on!
Uh...sir...they've never really been off.
Very well. We proceed:
Wow. This G.I. Joe vs. Transformers miniseries actually sounds pretty darn cool. And I have to admit that toys based on the series would be very neat.
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Sure, you could listen to the Man's line on the official Kool-Aid website, where they say there are only ten flavors. But there are brave rebels out there fighting the eternal struggle against corporate whitewashing of the past, and they remember Eerie Orange. They remember Blue Moon Berry. They remember Wildberry Tea.
And donning hooded red cloaks they slide through the night across damp cobblestones to gather in hidden, shadowed halls where they kneel before statues of Edwin Perkins, and over their minions' grim chanted chorus of OHYEAH-OHYEAH-OHYEAH-OHYEAH they whisper in unison:
All of which is really just a way to direct you toward the Kool Aid Photo Archive. Check it out.
For more obsessive detail (how to dye your hair with Kool-Aid! How to make Kool-Aid Play Dough! How to clean solenoid valves with Kool Aid! Kool-Aid Toast! Kool-Aid Man Fanfic!), don't miss the the Kool-Aid FAQ.
If you aren't tired of Kool-Aid links yet, you can always read about:
- That strange era of advertising where the Monkees, Bugs Bunny, NERF, joy buzzers, snakes-in-a-can, and Slinger frisbees all came together in the service of Kool-Aid
- The Kool-Aid Museum Exhibit
- Kool-Aid as a tool for romance
- Taste-testing Kool-Aid versus chalk
- The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man (full disclosure: I actually have a couple of these buried somewhere in my comic collection.)
- Tossin' down K-A Science with some chromatographic separation
- And, of course, the Atari 2600 Kool-Aid Man game
No, I didn't expect to post so many Kool-Aid links either. But the Google search just keep turning up wonderful strangeness...
From the cryptic "current obsession" noted in his sidebar, it sounds like Defective Yeti's Matthew Baldwin is planning another treasure hunt. If I were in Seattle, like some people I know, I'd certainly try to play.
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Apparently you never know who's watching in New York, either: The Video Surveillance Tour of Manhattan (via Gawker.)
What I want now, if it isn't out there already, is a map of Manhattan where you can click to see through the eyes of all those cameras. If you can't beat the security, you can at least take advantage of it to indulge casual voyeurism.
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Online, you never know who's watching: a MeFi user bags on a linked article from Wired...and gets an immediate followup comment from another MeFite--the author of the article.
A new set of pictures to the right, many from today's journey to the House on the Rock with JP and Karla.
An excellent article on the military's Information Radio, now broadcasting from the skies over Iraq (via Metafilter.)
Monday, April 07, 2003
An hour ago, I was about to go home after a long day at work. Then a link to this enormous archive of weirdness appeared on Metafilter. For fans of strange audio who count the hours between posts on 365 Days (nearing Song #100!), it's a kooky crazy buffet of goodness that never ends. Until it does, of course.
Speaking of 365 Days, I was catching up on some of the tracks from the last month and found Orson Welles doing a pea commercial. Amusing enough on it's own, its doubly so now that I know the pea commercial bit from The Critic is based on reality.
Very busy today. So it's time to just toss out a list of links for you to peruse. I don't remember how or where I've found them, or even if I've posted them before. They're just in my "Post to Blog" bookmarks directory. Enjoy.
- Accordion Guy gets saved from a crazy woman by a random blogger. Just another reason to read all the blogs you can, folks.
- The website of E.S. Posthumus--supercool, kinetic modern classical music that you'll recognize from movies and trailers
- Gaming in the world of Cowboy Bebop
- Glarkware--almost as cool as Zusty shirts.
- The art of Graham Roumieu
- Music in the key of PDP
- Cory Doctorow's Metacrap essay
- The Art of the Mix CD
- Some blogs for you to check out: Q Daily News, Matt Fraction, izzle pfaff!, Out of Ambit, DeLong, Amax, The Critical 'I'. Look for some of these to be added to the blogroll to the left soon.
- So You Wanna Be a Sitcom Writer
- Unca Mike's Bad Advice
- The Crime Scene Investigation Resource Page--including a link to a page telling how to use a stungun to lift latent fingerprints
That's enough for now. Get off my lawn before I call the cops.
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Finally! Southern elementary schools and English football stars have fallen to my online persistence!
At long last, I rule the unquoted Google search for my name and my internym!
Of course, on the down side, there go my last vestiges of online privacy....
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