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| Friday, January 30, 2004 |
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B-Side Radio Our pal Jeff Chorney did a sound collage at Burning Man last year, and it's now available for your listening pleasure at B-Side Radio. Good stuff! Posted at 6:30 PM |
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Spyware got you down? It sure as hell has me down...but then again I'm an IS manager. Anyway, after searching around for good spyware fixes, I happened onto this site...I am now using several of the freeware tools, and find they work better than their commercial counterparts in many cases. Have fun, and good luck. Posted at 11:25 AM |
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
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Wing Music - www.wingmusic.co.nz - Listen to Wing Wing...Wing...Wing... Hello - who's there? hahahaha, oh man that's funny. Now, go listen to Ms Wing's song stylings...it's quite rare that someone of her talent get's captured on CD...quite rare indeed. Thanks to Benny at Real Guitars for the link Posted at 10:53 PM |
| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
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Holy Grail Legos This has been out there for a while, but I had forgotten all about it until reminded by 15times.com. For those who know Holy Grail, this is priceless...a brilliantly made work of genius....the Camelot song and dance scene done entirely with Legos. For those who do not know Grail, it's still kinda funny, but will probably hit you outta left field (in which case you need to go rent it today!) Posted at 10:09 PM |
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Mumples non-piercing nipple rings My my. Not worksafe Very interesting Posted at 8:18 PM |
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New Book All About U.S. Tax Code Bullshit Guess what....Bush, Dean, Kerry, whoever...it ain't gonna make a bit of difference. This will be getting far worse before it ever gets any better. You and I will continue to pay more and more in taxes, we will continue to pay vast amounts into Social Security, and we will never see a penny of it when our time comes. Posted at 3:39 PM |
| Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
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Sex Dolls How'd I find this, you may ask? The inimitable 15times.com, where else? Anyway - this is hillarious, like LOL milk out the nose hilarious. NOT WORKSAFE NOT FOR ANYONE UNDER 18 NOT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS ISSUES WITH SEX DOLLS Everyone else, go laff yer asses off! Posted at 11:30 PM |
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Neuhausplatz 200NC, "look ma, no case" Oh, good googly moogly Rico had told me about this one, but I finally found the URL. This is awesome! Posted at 11:14 PM |
| Monday, January 26, 2004 |
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Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations Very, very cool site of links all about tessellation, tiling, mosaic, geometry, etc, etc....go check it out Posted at 12:13 PM |
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Yahoo! Movies: Sundance Film Festival Coverage Oh, yea. It's Sundance time again. Posted at 10:14 AM |
| Sunday, January 25, 2004 |
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The Cheating Culture Weblog Cool blog Posted at 8:42 PM |
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The Quest For Tea In San Francisco Begins No, not loose tea to take home. Afternoon tea, cream tea, high tea, low tea...you know...tea service. I used to live in the UK and "tea" got built into my system. We decided to get on the web and check out who is serving tea. We found The King George Hotel on Mason street, and a couple of people rated the service as "the most English in San Francisco." Sadly we didn't pause to think that the reviewers might have their heads up their asses. To give them the benefit of the doubt, it is quite possible that when they wrote their reviews, it was a good tea. The cream tea service is $8.50 per person. First off - the tea was fine - a good English Breakfast. The china and teapots were just fine as well. Sugar was on the table in packets - a loss of points, but not a make or break item. Every table had a vase with a fake rose - again, points off, but not deadly. What killed the whole thing for us was the scones. I know what you're thinking, "the scones? You are such a snob." But wait! These weren't just bad scones. They were big old american style cakey scones - big points off. They were full of little cinnamon struesel bits - bigger points off. They were FROSTED with this thick layer of too sweet cinnamon frosting...and to really drive the in the last nail...they were microwaved. These abominations masquerading as scones were served to us with a tiny jar of Devon Cream and a tiny jar of orange marmalade. Who the hell needs jam on a scone that's way to sweet to begin with? With an $8 per person minimum, there's no way to just go and enjoy a pot of tea, so we give this one a zero - avoid at all costs. As Stacy put it, quite correctly, we'll never forget how bad it was (a good thing a year from now), and everywhere else we try should look up from this one. Posted at 3:30 PM |
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Update - excorporation.com is live, live, all the way live no comment system just yet...leave comments here for now Posted at 3:22 PM |
| Saturday, January 24, 2004 |
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CNN.com - Germany mourns Helmut Newton - Jan. 24, 2004 Helmut Newton One of the greats, one of my favorites, one of my inspirators, died yesterday at age 83. Posted at 9:51 PM |
| Friday, January 23, 2004 |
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excorporation.com now this is getting kinda recursive...sorta. I just set up my other blog, excorporation.com. It's not at that URL yet, but will be soon. In the meantime, click the link. Posted at 4:27 PM |
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Captain Kangaroo Dies Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo, Dies at 76 Keeshan died of a long illness, his family said in a statement. Keeshan's "Captain Kangaroo'' debuted on CBS television in 1955 and ran for 30 years before moving to public television for six more. The program was wildly popular among children and won six Emmy Awards, three Gabriels and three Peabody Awards. Posted at 12:00 PM |
| Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
  Did he finally do it???? The project CTP has been gabbing about for years now??? I sure did :) I now have a computer in the kitchen, on the internet wirelessly, with a custom Filemaker Pro recipe database to boot. How'd I do it? A P100 laptop, a stick of RAM, a $30 wireless dongle, Win98, some aluminum bar from OSH, and a wee bit of time. I just installed it 30 minutes ago - we'll let you know how it works out. update - I still need to build the power supply into the cabinet, properly mount the 802.11 doohickey, and secure the screen to the door...for those who wondered :) update 2 - now with photoshoppy goodness applied to that dark second photo! Posted at 11:06 PM |
 Oh dear me...turn me loose with my camera and look what I find. Kobe, as tempting as that sounds, I'll pass. Although Kobe's favorite appears to be a fair bit more legal than R. Kelly's favorite. :-) Posted at 7:50 PM |
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Gosh, that's some funny shit Very much an oldie, but very very much a goodie. update - sorry for no linkage here earlier. all for the want of an equal sign :( Posted at 1:54 PM |
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tee hee hee Holy moly - Jocelyn Elders in CTP's RI twice in one day?? wow Posted at 1:44 PM |
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eXile #176 - Feature Story - Rush the Junkie: Count the Lies! Pretty good reading about drugs, power, money, and who gets to freely enjoy all three... Like most American arguments, it comes down to who can afford the best lawyers. And Rush has already hired one of the best in Florida. So by the time his case hits the courts, we’ll all be sobbing for Rush and his addiction. But somebody should ask Rush a question: if addiction is real, then how come we have sent millions of Americans to hellish prisons for it? Isn’t that kind of like sending diabetics to prison for trying to get insulin? We need to go back and check Rush’s record for signs of sympathy for the helpless addicts who found themselves in his present predicament. And durned if we don’t come across a clear, simple declaration of Rush’s views: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to…find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.” He’s white all right. He’s been getting away with it. But don’t warm up the riverboat just yet, because Rush isn’t going anywhere. If you really think he’s ever going to see the inside of a prison cell, you’re suffering from America’s most widespread addiction: slurping up the self-serving lies their masters tell them. Posted at 11:34 AM |
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If she (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them. -- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993 I haven't heard, did he go to London or Zurich? Posted at 10:54 AM |
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
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BLM sets desert use standards based on Burning Man 'nuf said. Posted at 5:24 PM |
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
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Diesel Fuel Screen Printing Wow. Black on white t-shirts, $3.50 each. Stickers, 250 for $20. These guys appear to rock...that is if you need such things. Posted at 11:54 PM |
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btw - for some great robotics programming on TV, check out Scientific American Frontiers on PBS Posted at 10:32 AM |
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Robot Rivals Oh, god, why do I bother? I guess becuase there's no real choice. What am I muttering about? "Robotics" shows on TV. The whole battling robots thing has the world thinking that's what robots are, where those are actually more like R/C cars with added functions and tougher bodies. So then I sit down to watch Robot Rivals on DIY the other night, and I happen to catch the egg retriever episode. I don't know...have I been at this too long? Can I not just sit and take it in and chill...well, no I can't. I'm watching these engineering students from Clemson and Utah building this stuff, and I'm watching what they are building on a 19" TV well after the fact, and I can plainly see from here that THEIR SHIT WON'T WORK!!! WTF!?!?! This is the future braintrust of mechanical enginnering in the US? I do not think so. Or at least I hope not. Jeezus! Then when something doesn't work (for the very reason I was just shouting at my TV screen) they go do a redesign...and THEY DO IT WRONG AGAIN!!!! Criminey sakes...it was painful. It was probably more painful for Stacy who had to do her homework with me yelling at the TV such choice things as..."God dammit, what the hell are they gonna do it that way for?", and "WHAT?!?! an 8th grader would know that won't work before even building it!!!!" (especially if I was the 8th grader)(which I was probably acting like yelling obscenities at the TV LOL :) Anyway, I guess I'm ranting now...all I want is some decent robotics programming on TV...there is some, but a lot of it is really painful to watch. Is this too much to ask? BTW - yes, I will keep watching robot rivals...there are a lot of episodes, and maybe I caught the worst one...I sure hope so. Posted at 10:27 AM |
| Saturday, January 17, 2004 |
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OH dear G-d this is sooooo funny. oh jeez. Play me! wayyy foul language. DO NOT PLAY AT WORK. DO NOT PLAY AROUND KIDS. DO NOT PLAY AROUND THE ELDERLY. I am not joking folks. For more of the same, including the infamous Casey Casem rant, go here. Posted at 9:04 PM |
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Microsoft gives you the Facts on Windows and Linux Yea - and the Fox gives you the facts on the chickens, and the President gives you the facts on WMD too. Why, if Linux is as irrelevant as Redmond said it was a month or two ago, are they STILL fighting Linux? Even stepping up the fight with this campaign. Wanna know why? Because they can't stop it, and they can't own it. And the PHBs of the world will never read more than the headlines. Damn. Duplicitous mother fuckers...always have been, probably always will be. Come on M$, just compete...don't lie. If you really were "all that" you wouldn't have to stoop so low. Posted at 5:09 PM |
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Apple - iLife - GarageBand Ahhh...they've done it again. Another killer app, just released this morning (Friday). I have already made 3 Windows die-hards jealous over GarageBand's Apple only status. Go to the site, check it out...mighty cool stuff. 'Specially for $49. BTW - before you ask...yes, I was at the Apple Store when it opened this morning. Yes, I was the first one thru the door, first to the counter, first to buy a copy of iLife '04 in Emeryville. Sheesh. ;) Posted at 12:02 AM |
| Friday, January 16, 2004 |
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Maggot Art Art made by maggots. 'nuf said. link found at J. Schumacher's blog Posted at 5:09 PM |
| Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
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Truth in advertising... teeheeheehee I really woulda thought Condi's was bigger ;-D Posted at 8:44 PM |
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Forum: The fish that threatened national security Jesus. Are we (read US authorities) really coming to this? We are going to hell in a hand basket folks. Posted at 12:03 PM |
| Wednesday, January 14, 2004 |
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Bad Press Books - Michael Hernandez de Luna and Bad Press Books - Michael Thompson Okay - so you all know how big a fan I am of excorporation in art...well, excorporation in more than just art really. So much so that I own the domain name excorporation.com. Of course I haven't done a damn thing with it yet, but that's how damned much I love the excorporated. Anyway, these two guys in the links above are brilliant. Geniuses (hey Andy, I spelled it right!!!) of excorporation, and in a HUGE way. Yes those are stamps, yes they designed and printed them, and yes they got mailed. I love it. Pure genius. Posted at 11:53 PM |
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The hits just keep on coming Let's say you're NASA. You need a robot to help out in Space. Who do you make this friendly, helpful robot look like? Boba Fett you say? Yea...that's a great idea!!! NASA thought so too. sheesh Posted at 11:11 PM |
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Ever wonder where your tax dollars go? DARPA has created the first robotic 1980s English rock musician head. Posted at 11:07 PM |
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evidently, teeth can be a real bitch to model correctly hey, I made a pun there...eviDENTly...that's funny Posted at 11:01 PM |
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Android World - anthropomorphic robots & animatronics My pick for winner of the "best content versus worst design" website for 2004...perhaps of all time. YOW - way hard to look at, but chock full of roboty goodness. Posted at 10:55 PM |
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Eclipse.org Main Page For geeks only. Posted at 4:40 PM |
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AbyssAudio.com - Music Software Hmmm...handy Posted at 3:37 PM |
| Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
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Abandoned Bicycles of New York Andyman sent me this link....incredistupendiferous!!! Ever notice bikes around town locked up to things, abandoned, beaten-up, wrecked, stripped, tortured? Of course you have. This is a gallery of these forgotten steeds in NYC...no stories, just the bikes. Being a bike maven, as well a photog, these photos really strike a chord with me...please go check them out! Posted at 10:08 AM |
| Monday, January 05, 2004 |
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Buttery goodness in Sweden Hikers find 140 buttered shoes, on a remote mountain, in Sweden, with half a kilo of butter in each shoe. Oh man - does this give me an idea. 70 loaves of crusty bread, in shoeboxes, in the city. WHO'S WITH ME?!?!?!?!? Posted at 10:55 AM |
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