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Saturday, September 06, 2003
Via Boingboing, weirdness is afoot in the Twin Cities as giant game pieces are making their way around the metro area in some sort of abstract, large-scale game called, appropriately, the Big Urban Game. I'd post my favorite of the pictures over on The Bug Photo Gallery, but as someone with a Creative Commons License on his page I have to respect the "May not be reproduced without permission" request on the gallery.
I just posted an eBay auction for a song I bought from the iTunes music store. It should be interesting to see how this works out. I only spent $0.99 on it but I bought the song just as legally as I would a CD, so I should be able to sell it used just as legally right?
Apparently George Hotelling was able to find bidders for his auction to the tune of sixteen grand--but his story is onhold while he tries to get the auction reinstated after eBay yanked it.
Friday, September 05, 2003
You’ve got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?
I would tell him to… You know what? I wouldn’t know how to respond. How’s that for an answer? Is this a psychological test? I’m worried…
An intrepid reporter uses Blade Runner's Voight-Kampff Test to determine whether the candidates running for mayor are truly human or just android replicants. (via Metafilter)
Thursday, September 04, 2003
The best thing to come out of the new David Spade movie has to be some of the former child-star group interviews I've been reading.
Mark your calendars--only two weeks until Talk Like a Pirate Day comes around again on September 19. In the meantime, study up on why and how to avoid sounding like a landlubber.
I've been doing a lot of reading online today, looking into the role of analysts in the intelligence community. If that sounds at all interesting to you, you can follow my path by checking out the CIA website's Analytical Positions section, then browsing around over at the Directorate of Intelligence and reading the history of the DOI.
I'm still in the middle of reading through the Kent School papers, and then I plan to jump over and browse through the Wikipedia page on intelligence agencies and poke around through the history of satellite reconnaissance and such over on the NIMA website.
All this for something I may or may not write. It's a good thing I enjoy research.
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Get up to speed on the denziens and doin's in the Okeefenoakee with Pogo 101 over on Movie Poop Shoot.
A huge and supercool archive of ASCII movies, some ASCII art, and even a couple attempts at ASCII stereograms (via Boing Boing.)
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Via Test Pattern, TV Shows on DVD, a news site dedicated to which shows will be released on DVD and when.
Brace yourselves--Adland reports that Hawaiian Punch mascot Punchy is being un-superdeformed. The Hawaiian Punch website appears to be down while the transition is underway, but at least they're letting Lil' Punchy take one last victory lap around the country this summer.Conversation at work this evening:
Them: What were you doing out there in the parking lot?
Me: Talking to my mom.
Them: In your trunk?
Me: On my cel phone.
Them: In your trunk?
Me: Oh, and replacing my brake lights.
Them: You were talking to your mom and replacing your brake lights?
Me: Yeah.
Them: Why are you still single?
I've been expending far too much time since hoping they weren't being sarcastic.
Via Boing Boing, The Shifter--aka Jenny Everywhere, the Open Source super hero. Some good stuff already, mostly alt-comix flavored. It's cool to see that take on a character that could easily--and will likely--go on more mainstream SF or superhero adventures.
Woo! My Sovereign Stone sourcebook should be back from the printers and in stores soon!
UPDATE: Hey! It's also my first book listed on Amazon!
The strange story of the pizza man who vanished--and then showed up at a bank with a note saying that they had to give him money or the bomb that had been placed under his shirt would go off. (via Metafilter)
UPDATE: Via the FBI website, pictures of the devices used to attach the bomb to the pizza man.
Via Gizmodo, something I've been waiting to see: demonstrations outside the lab of full-color digital ink. It's pretty amazing stuff (<--link to PDF white paper on the tech), but it looks like it's directed toward use as billboards and large stable public displays. What I'm waiting for is full-color digital ink on a cheap, durable paper simulator display. Then it might be time to invest my life savings.
Alias fans might be interested to know that tucked inside the (poorly designed) box of the first season DVD set is a flyer advertising the release of the Season 2 set ...on December 2, just as Amazon claims. I can only hope they release The West Wing as quickly.
(Oh, and while I'm making requests, can we get Max Headroom on DVD already?)
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