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Saturday, June 07, 2003
I'm incredibly busy and not getting much sleep as our team here at work runs pell-mell towards alpha on Dead Man's Hand, but there's time for a couple of quick updates to topics previously mentioned on OD:
In important news, another cache of important artifacts missing from the Iraqi National Museum have been found.
And from the department of low-value self promotion: my bean picture has been posted on Beans Around the World (I suspect my dad will be as bemused as I am to see me called a "fishing guru"), and I apparently beat Slashdot to the punch by six hours last week.
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
"Books, contact cleaner, glasses, CD player," the guard says looking through my bag, "um, what's in these?" he says, holding up two overstuffed bank bags.
"Money from the convention I was just at." I reply.
"How much money? And can you please open them for me?" He asks.
"Uh, tens of thousands of dollars and no I can't, I don't have a key." I say.
"How did you lock them?" He asks.
"I got them from someone who had a key and I'll give them to someone at the office who has a key." I say.
"We need them opened to prove it." He says.
"You can cut them open." I suggest.
"Why do you want us to cut them open?" He says suspiciously.
Jon had a weekend of commerce and adventure, and relates it entertainingly on his blog.
Passed along by Jon, a terrifying look at the Circle of Life being completed as animals* are made from meat. I think my favorite part of the site might be where they show how to make a bird from a hot dog and picture said bird with a nest full of hatchlings (made from cocktail weiners, presumably.)
* And a few flowers
Looking for an interesting project for the summer? Why not build your own cruise missile?
UPDATE: Credit where credit is due--this link via Making Light
On the Gothamist, an interesting overview of the camgirls vs. photobloggers battle being fought on fotolog.
I've passed this on to three or four people in person today, so I suppose a few of you out there in ODLand might be interested: how to put yourself in the Matrix. Well, okay; you can use Photoshop to put your name in an image using the Matrix font with easy-to-generate Matrix-like code in the background. But it hardly sounds as exciting that way, does it?
Tuesday, June 03, 2003
Via J-Walk, here's Ober Dicta's score on the Buzzwordometer:
Apparently wearing a D20 Fireball T-shirt instead of a tie works.
A declaration: Kathryn Cramer has officially replaced the Bleat as my domestica-cum-politics-cum-SF blog of choice. (Of course, as I enjoy reading each of them, they both stay on my blogroll.)
With today's story by Slate writer Peter Maass following up on the interview a couple weeks ago, the web continues to hone in on Salam Pax. There are unsurprisingly few who seem to understand the concept that someone who writes under a pseudonym might, you know, want to remain anonymous. Even Maass pretends to play the game but can't help feeding out a few more details ("this is his real first name", a physical description, etc.) for those filling out their Farley Files.
Meanwhile, others have chosen to treat Salam as an example and would like to encourage more blogging in the area as a next-gen free press. It's an idea I could get behind--I'm always a fan of bootstrapping whose tools are as multipurpose and as powerful as Internet-connected computers. However, the situation I fear would be international readers linking in from across the blogosphere...but the national (in this case Iraqi) audience consisting of only that small percentage who can get to the few hundred computers at the Net cafes. The beauty of print mediums is that they're more universally accessible, the sneakernet distribution network is already in place, and the literacy operating system is installed and accesible by 58 percent of the population. Much like they are here, blogs would make a nice alternative source and review system, but I can't believe that they would (yet) be an adequate substitute for a good national daily newspaper.A combination of network outage and heavy responsibility have managed to keep me offline for the last couple days. But I have to point you (thanks to Glenn and Liana) toward the Lucido Felice Quartet. They're a classical quartet playing pop culture tunes from the "Knight Rider" theme to "The Legend of Zelda"--and when they play more traditional pieces like "Por Una Cabeza", I suspect it probably because Arnold danced the tango to that piece in True Lies.
If you like their music, why not buy their CD? It has quite possibly the best title ever given to a classical album, it's cheap, and all the profits go toward the United Cerebral Palsy Fund.
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