...will he ever win?

Clickolinko!: http://saveie6.com/compare.php

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:45:52 +0000

emad

Clickolinko!: http://hackedirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/6f0127b4-d06c-4ced-aa7c-f0faa784c421.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:00:59 +0000

http://hackedirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/6f0127b4-d06c-4ced-aa7c-f0faa784c421.jpg

Weekly World News -- Breaking News: MERMAID HALLE BERRY WASHES ASHORE

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:46:21 +0000

MALIBU - Surfers at Zuma Beach were shocked to see a mermaid, especially when the mermaid is Halle Berry!

Neil Gaiman: Australia and the Magic Quiff

noreply@blogger.com (Neil) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:27:00 +0000

Right. Off to Australia.

If you are on a plane to Australia today and you hear the sound of weeping coming from a nearby seat, it will be me, fighting to lose ten pages from a pretty tight script. (I bet I will lose two or three pages easily. Then the pain will start.)

I leave you with this remarkably photoshopped Russian magazine cover. (You can see the line on the left where my real hair stops and an enlarged version begins.)

What puzzles me mostly is, my hair is weird enough anyway. Why make it weirder?

(For the hair detectives amongst you: here are lots of photos of me from the same day that that Russian photo was taken. http://satu-san.livejournal.com/49214.html)

Clickolinko!: http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:16:56 +0000

teferi

Clickolinko!: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/07/30/magazine/20100801-taryn-simon-contraband.html#/-38/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:46:55 +0000

Cow-dung toothpaste.

Laughing Squid: All My Friends Are Dead

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:33:20 +0000

“All My Friends Are Dead”, a hilariously morbid children’s book by Avery Monsen and Jory John.

If you’re a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you’re a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you’re a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children’s book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character’s unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.

An animated GIF of the book has become the most reblogged thing on Tumblr of all time.

via The Daily What

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Clickolinko!: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cvtfv/reddit_i_need_your_help_bank_of_america_is_trying/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:31:51 +0000

cheques

Clickolinko!: http://www.reddit.com/cvtfv

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:31:51 +0000

Better?! HUH?!

Laughing Squid: Washing Machine Self Destructs After Trying To Wash A Rock

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:20:09 +0000

A washing machine sets itself on destruct mode after trying to wash a rock.

via Arbroath

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Clickolinko!: http://www.ufunk.net/en/publicite/tatouage-sur-lego-pilot-extra-fine/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:31:05 +0000

do you perhaps mean http://www.ufunk.net/en/publicite/tatouage-sur-lego-pilot-extra-fine/ ?

Clickolinko!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25445139@N05/4819827575/in/photostream/#/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:31:05 +0000

guys, have you heard about "computer crime"?

Clickolinko!: http://www.brothers-brick.com/2010/07/31/what-your-minifig-would-look-like-with-tatoos/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:31:05 +0000

pity it's a 'shop

Clickolinko!: http://dirtbags.net/tanks/round-6504.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:46:23 +0000

the only way to win is to not play the game

Clickolinko!: http://canopycanopycanopy.com/9/mao__king_kong__and_the_future_of_the_book

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:16:20 +0000

http://canopycanopycanopy.com/9/mao__king_kong__and_the_future_of_the_book

Clickolinko!: http://angryflower.com/consol.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:16:20 +0000

emad_

Clickolinko!: http://pinktentacle.com/2010/07/macabre-kids-book-art-by-gojin-ishihara/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:01:32 +0000

emad

Clickolinko!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougzaj/4842734626/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:22 +0000

Also nemo

Clickolinko!: http://clientsfromhell.net/post/880763621/client-we-want-every-single-upper-case-letter

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:22 +0000

muppets, that's trivial in CSS.

Clickolinko!: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html#photo25

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:22 +0000

I can see how this really helps him escape his daily life

Clickolinko!: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html#photo23

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:22 +0000

emad

Clickolinko!: http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/881101825

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:22 +0000

bz2

Clickolinko!: http://www.slate.com/id/2262214/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:21 +0000

http://www.slate.com/id/2262214/

Clickolinko!: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html#photo37

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:21 +0000

gotta do laundry wit yer gun on

Clickolinko!: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html#photo32

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:21 +0000

like photos from the great depression in the US

Clickolinko!: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html#photo31

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:21 +0000

THE PERFECT DISGUISE

Clickolinko!: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/afghanistan_july_2010.html#photo26

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:46:21 +0000

Vin Diesel?

Clickolinko!: http://www.metafilter.com/94273/The-plot-thickens#3212616

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:30:39 +0000

hurf durf

Clickolinko!: http://i.imgur.com/bfCUl.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:15:58 +0000

emad

Clickolinko!: http://www.horolezec.cz/galery/a_gal_66/czech2/macechy2_25.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:15:58 +0000

nemo

Clickolinko!: http://shanefagan.com/2010/07/31/rethinking-names/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:01:53 +0000

Translation: I am high as a kite. Give me money!

Clickolinko!: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/07/31/dogs-with-goggles/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:01:53 +0000

emad_

Clickolinko!: http://www.marriedtothesea.com/073010/magic-flag.gif

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:46:49 +0000

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING

Clickolinko!: http://identi.ca/notice/44555364

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:46:49 +0000

http://identi.ca/notice/44555364

Clickolinko!: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100731after.gif

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:45:22 +0000

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100731after.gif

Clickolinko!: http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1796228.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:45:22 +0000

carseats for babies

Clickolinko!: http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1795871.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:45:22 +0000

the women around here just jump into the wading pool fully dressed, no special clothes or anything.

Clickolinko!: http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1795351.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:45:22 +0000

emad

Clickolinko!: http://www.metafilter.com/94273/The-plot-thickens#3212444

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:45:22 +0000

ding ding ding!

Clickolinko!: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8_programming.html#1280529494

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:31:10 +0000

mmm, utf-8

jwz: postfix, spamassassin, dovecot and sieve?

jwz@jwz.org (jwz) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:03:30 +0000

Dear Lazyweb, how do I use both SpamAssassin and Sieve at the same time?

Is the way this works that Postfix writes /var/mail/jwz via procmail, and then dovecot reads from there and moves the messages to ~/mail/ via sieve? I can't even tell.

Postfix main.cf has mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail.

/etc/procmailrc is:

DROPPRIVS=yes
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc -u $LOGNAME -x -s 100000000

/var/mail/jwz gets X-Spam-Status headers written into it. So far so good.

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (for dovecot 2.0) has:

protocol lda { ... mail_plugins = sieve ... }

Dovecot is managing to read messages out of /var/mail/jwz and deliver them to me over IMAP, with SA headers intact. But it's not running sieve, possibly not even running its own lda, and everything I have googled so far is a twisty maze of illiterate wikis that may or may not be written for versions of the software that is 5+ years out of date.

I thought maybe the answer was to add
| /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $LOGNAME
to the end of procmailrc, but that let me to discover that:

% cat testmsg | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d jwz
Exit 75
lda: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: undefined symbol: tried_default_save
lda: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins

So I guess I have the wrong version of the sieve plugin? I have: dovecot-2.0-0.18_114_rc3.el5 and dovecot-sieve-0.1.17-5.el5 on CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

Clickolinko!: http://identi.ca/notice/44536334

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:15:46 +0000

Screwtape: huh?

Fabulist: Cat Rabbit Plush

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:03:54 +0000

Tasmanian artist Cat Rabbit makes dolls you want to be your friends. They're a little odd, a little scary, and entirely, completely lovable (look at that face!). They're each unique, they've all got style, and they love just being themselves. Revel in their sweet personalities here and here, and get one to love for always and call your very own here.

(Photo via this amazing photo shoot here. Go look! The models and dolls are wearing matching costumes, and it is wonderful.)

(A big thanks to Dianna!)

Weekly World News -- Breaking News: THE MIDNIGHT COWBOY IS READY FOR THE LADIES!

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:01:37 +0000

NEW YORK- You like leather ladies? Well, the hottest gigolo in town is waiting for you to ring his cowbell.

Clickolinko!: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/webversion/getjokeFUN.php?class=any&subject=any

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:01:27 +0000

quick joke URL

Clickolinko!: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/webversion/fulldisplayJB.php?index=2&id=3057&whence=jb

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:01:27 +0000

emad

Clickolinko!: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/webversion/fulldisplay.php?id=133333

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:01:27 +0000

changing he id doesn't seem to do anything here http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/webversion/fulldisplay.php?id=133333

Clickolinko!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airbus_A380_cockpit.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:46:43 +0000

I remember in one of the ST:TNG movies, Riker takes the enterprise to "manual mode", and a Gravis joystick rises out of the console. now, I don't know what to feel

Clickolinko!: http://emmark.info/dam.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:46:43 +0000

Looking down and suddenly seeing a giant void where water is supposed to be is disconcerting

Clickolinko!: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/webversion/getjoke.php

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:46:43 +0000

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/webversion/getjoke.php

Clickolinko!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bkramme/4845012347/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:31:10 +0000

Screwtape

Clickolinko!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emack_%26_Bolio%27s#Name

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:16:09 +0000

"It has been noted that Emacs, text editing software popular with computer programmers, and BOLIO, a text-formatting program, were developed within walking distance of a store near MIT."

Clickolinko!: http://onproductmanagement.net/wp-content/uploads/stupid-question.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:01:29 +0000

http://onproductmanagement.net/wp-content/uploads/stupid-question.jpg <

Clickolinko!: http://i.imgur.com/Jn2Jt.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:16:36 +0000

Nice, except they need to mirror things so that Eastern Australia lines up with Eastern US.

Clickolinko!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarlem

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:16:36 +0000

the original Harlem, since the 10th century

Clickolinko!: http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/06/03/a-complete-look-at-the-new-subway-map/#more-6075

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:01:28 +0000

Screwtape: http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/06/03/a-complete-look-at-the-new-subway-map/#more-6075

Clickolinko!: http://nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:01:28 +0000

http://nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg is the controversial map that forced things back towards less-schematic

Clickolinko!: http://nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1966_a.gif

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:01:28 +0000

or http://nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1966_a.gif

Clickolinko!: http://nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/irvingtrust-july68.png

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:01:28 +0000

Screwtape: Compare to, e.g. http://nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/irvingtrust-july68.png

Clickolinko!: http://nycsubway.org/maps/historical.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:01:28 +0000

er, http://nycsubway.org/maps/historical.html

Clickolinko!: http://nycsubway.org/maps/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:01:28 +0000

Screwtape: Here, pore through this: http://nycsubway.org/maps/

Clickolinko!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Park_New_York_City.svg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:01:28 +0000

Screwtape

Clickolinko!: http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:46:58 +0000

Screwtape: http://mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

Clickolinko!: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:46:58 +0000

New map for the Moscow Metro.

Neil Gaiman: Cutting stuff, watching parking meters, getting graphic in Sydney

noreply@blogger.com (Neil) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:26:00 +0000

As of 2:30 this morning I was certain I'd be blogging again today. I'd just sent off the finished draft of the Doctor Who script, and I was done.

Then I got up somewhat later this morning, and read an email from my script editor at the BBC a) giving me a thumbs up for all the new stuff [which I wrote for practical and budget reasons, but which will, I think, actually be much cooler than the stuff it replaced] and b) having formatted everything correctly according to BBC rules, letting me know that the script's actually a good ten pages too long.

So there will be another draft, over the next couple of days. By the end of it, all redundancies, slow bits, things that can be thrown overboard, or lines of dialogue that the author is particularly proud of will have gone, and it will be ten correctly formatted pages shorter.

And I will keep them in reserve in case they call to tell me that the episode's coming in short, and can I write three pages of sudden conversation?

...

This evening I got an email from my lawyers in the Todd McFarlane case (quick! If you have no idea what I am talking about, or if you are writing something about the case, read this first: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/06/despatches-from-alternate-universe.html. It's short and explains everything. Did you read it? Okay...) and attached to the email was this pdf file.

The PDF file is Judge Crabb's ruling on the matter that Todd wanted brought back before the court -- the question of accounting for the characters that Todd felt weren't even a bit derivative, and which I thought were not just derivative of the characters I had created for him, but in one case, actually was the same character I'd created with Todd originally. In her ruling Judge Crabb said, yes, she thought so too...

The two characters are similar enough to suggest that either Dark Ages (McFarlane) Spawn
is derivative of Medieval (Gaiman) Spawn or it is the same character to which plaintiff owns
the copyright.

Much as defendant tries to distinguish the two knight Hellspawn, he never explains
why, of all the universe of possible Hellspawn incarnations, he introduced two knights from
the same century. Not only does this break the Hellspawn “rule” that Malebolgia never
returns a Hellspawns to Earth more than once every 400 years (or possibly every 100 years,
as suggested in Spawn, No. 9, exh. #1, at 4), it suggests that what defendant really wanted to
do was exploit the possibilities of the knight introduced in issue no. 9. (This possibility is
supported by the odd timing of defendant’s letter to plaintiff on February 14, 1999, just
before publication of the first issue of Spawn The Dark Ages, to the effect that defendant was
rescinding their previous agreements and retaining all rights to Medieval (Gaiman) Spawn.)

If defendant really wanted to differentiate the new Hellspawn, why not make him a
Portuguese explorer in the 16th century; an officer of the Royal Navy in the 18th century, an
idealistic recruit of Simon Bolivar in the 19th century, a companion of Odysseus on his
voyages, a Roman gladiator, a younger brother of Emperor Nakamikado in the early 18th
century, a Spanish conquistador, an aristocrat in the Qing dynasty, an American Indian
warrior or a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I? It seems far more than coincidence
that Dark Ages (McFarlane) Spawn is a knight from the same century as Medieval (Gaiman)
Spawn.

Anyway. That's that round done with.

I wish I took some kind of joy in this, but I don't.

At this point all I hope is that Todd can do an accounting for all the comics I wrote for which he paid no royalties, and the rest of it; and that he'll settle up and I will make some comics charities very happy; that his comics company will finally come out of bankruptcy; and that I can forget this forever.

For the curious, there is an account of this round at Maggie Thompson's excellent blog, starting with http://www.maggiethompson.com/2010/06/june-15-in-madison-with-neil-gaiman.html and going on from there, an entry at a time.

This is a photo from Maggie's blog of Todd McFarlane (right) and his witness Brian Holguin (left) after they'd testified.

...

Tomorrow Maddy and I go to Australia for the Graphic Festival at Sydney Opera House. (The overall link to the Festival is here: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/about/program_graphic.aspx).

I'm going to read my novelette "The Truth is a Cave In The Black Mountains" for the first -- and possibly only -- time in public there, next Saturday night. There will be accompanying music by the FourPlay String Quartet, something I find exciting and scary at the time, as I've never attempted an accompanied reading, and Eddie Campbell has painted about 40 illustrations, which will be projected while I read.

There will probably be some other stuff -- I'd love to do a Q&A there, for example, but need to check with the organisers if it's permitted.

There will be a signing afterwards.

If you don't yet have a ticket, they are at: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/neil_gaiman.aspx

Eddie Campbell used to blog. This is the blog, frozen in time: http://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/

FourPlay can be found and heard at http://www.fourplay.com.au/ & http://www.myspace.com/fourplaystringquartet

And just to bring things all the way around to the beginning of this blog, http://shop.fourplay.com.au/Catgut.php is a link to FourPlay's online shop. And the first track (which you can hear a smattering of on the site) is the FourPlay version of the theme from Doctor Who.

Clickolinko!: http://www.birdandmoon.com/birdandmoon/birdparts.html

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:15:50 +0000

I don't see how the gal who made this chart can get off telling me my science facts are insufficiently accurate.

Clickolinko!: http://www.roomsapp.mobi/blog/2010/07/worst-review-evar/

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:01:26 +0000

Welcome to Mackertosh.

Clickolinko!: http://zork.net/fortunes/xkcd/662

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:46:54 +0000

Well, frankly, at this point, I mostly say these things to see what new burn she'll come up with.

Clickolinko!: http://zork.net/fortunes/xkcd/661

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:46:54 +0000

Rosemary has taken to shooting down my Calvin's-Dad-style Informative Nature Facts with increasing harshness.

Clickolinko!: http://www.unwiredview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Apple-patent-travel-app.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:46:54 +0000

Exhibit B, a diagram from Apple's "travel application" patent (see the top right)

Clickolinko!: http://taptaptap.com/img/screenshot/whereto/1.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:46:54 +0000

Exhibit A, a currently-shipping third-party iPhone application

Clickolinko!: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/senate-cant-pass-tax-cuts-but-it-can-raise-penalties-on-pot-brownies.php

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:01:44 +0000

so stupid

Clickolinko!: http://www.cullmantimes.com/local/x1037665242/Underwear-packaging-reportedly-recalled-from-Walmart-after-Cullman-pastor-s-complaint?fark

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:01:44 +0000

http://www.cullmantimes.com/local/x1037665242/Underwear-packaging-reportedly-recalled-from-Walmart-after-Cullman-pastor-s-complaint?fark the fuckk

Clickolinko!: http://zeroperzero.com//crs/img/np1.jpg

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:31:36 +0000

teferi

Fabulist: Up to Much, Armadillo?

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:24:13 +0000

I've always had a silly aversion to armadillos. I think it stemmed from a strange taxidermy situation from my childhood, which is certainly not the armadillo's fault. But I went on a hike the other day near the beach and I saw a pair of armadillos for the first time in the wild -- going about their business, being friends, having fun. And it hit me in a flash -- these animals are super cool.

Which makes this armadillo ring by designer Up To Much super cool. Bonus: I'm pretty sure it can double as a weapon.

(link) : (via)

Clickolinko!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HK_G11

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:16:55 +0000

it was actually a real prototype

Clickolinko!: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hO8DpQ_l2rfoZbDPLnKRjcrezttwD9H8VMQ00

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:01:25 +0000

what.

Great News Network: Mars site may hold buried life

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:40:00 +0000

Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.

Clickolinko!: http://nedroid.com/imagesb/tricerotops.png

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:01:18 +0000

http://nedroid.com/imagesb/tricerotops.png

Clickolinko!: http://twitter.com/Atrios/status/19940633401

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:01:17 +0000

http://twitter.com/Atrios/status/19940633401

Clickolinko!: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/07/28/2368772/arlington-mosque-reports-vandalism.html

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:46:22 +0000

you don't even have to go past the editors note

Clickolinko!: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/07/30#20100730-practical_gsm_a51_attack

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:46:22 +0000

good times

Clickolinko!: http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary/219.html

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:46:22 +0000

nice hack

Clickolinko!: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/bad-for-the-jews/

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:16:23 +0000

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/bad-for-the-jews/

Laughing Squid: Space Hygiene and the People Who Stopped Bathing for Science

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:28:15 +0000

“Space Hygiene and the People Who Stopped Bathing for Science”, a hilarious video promo for “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void”, a new book by Mary Roach that comes out on August 2nd.

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

via Amy Kugali

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Laughing Squid: The Enormous Bubbles of Sly Lebulleur

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:03:59 +0000

Sly Lebulleur makes beautiful, gigantic soap bubbles. Set to music and filmed in slo-mo against a stark forest, Sly’s creations become eerily proto-lifelike. You can see more of his nebulous creations on YouTube and his Flickr stream.

via Vancouver’s favorite art/design blog, Booooooom

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:46:29 +0000

Woman gets screwed over by tech support, comes back for seconds

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:46:29 +0000

haha, gj randall http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/29424/1280172144/knifeforkspoon.gif

Laughing Squid: Mr. Potato Head Anatomy

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:20:09 +0000

“Mr. Potato Head Anatomy”, the latest anatomical toy illustration by Jason Freeny.

via Hi Fructose

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Laughing Squid: Time-Lapse of an Ant Colony Living In a Scanner

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:57:50 +0000

François Vautier installed an ant colony in a scanner, scanning it each week for 5 years to create a time-lapse video.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:01:15 +0000

So that Android app which was stealing all your data? Turns out maybe not so much

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:46:33 +0000

uhh, that's good marketing actually. if I pay a $150 setup fee and save $15/mo, they make money if I cancel before 10 months, and I save money if I stay for over that (and they now have a long-term customer)

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:46:33 +0000

hahaha, genius

Laughing Squid: Taking A Couple of Dinosaurs For A Walk

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:44:12 +0000

Two dinosaurs being taking for a walk in Australia, a promo for the “Walking With Dinosaurs” world tour.

via The Next Web

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Laughing Squid: Star Wars vs. Star Trek

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:31:52 +0000

“Star Wars vs. Star Trek” by Bill Parker

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Losanjealous: Tickets On Sale This Morning: Jonsi, Florence and The Machine, CocoRosie, Neon Indian, Surfer Blood & The Drums & more

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:31:32 +0000

HEADS UP Florence and the Machine @ The Wiltern Sun 11/7 Jonsi @ The Wiltern Sun 10/17 CocoRosie @ Music Box (Pre-sale password: grey) Wed 10/6 Neon Indian w/ Prefuse 73 @ Music Box Fri 10/1 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan w/ Willy Mason @ El Rey Wed 9/29 Surfer Blood & The Drums w/ [...]

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:16:36 +0000

rasher, isn't it?

Laughing Squid: Wireless & Wi-Fi Service Coming to NYC Subway Stations

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:12:19 +0000

photo by Scott Beale

Bloomberg is reporting that wireless and Wi-Fi service will be deployed at NYC subway stations. The rollout is scheduled to completed at the rate of 10-15 stations per month with a total project cost around $200 million.

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Laughing Squid: Photos of New York City From Above

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:55:38 +0000

photo by Daniel Acker

Denver Post’s Plog recently featured some stunning photos of New York City from above on their Captured blog.

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Weekly World News -- Breaking News: WEEKLY WORLD NEWS JAPAN LAUNCHES

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:46:21 +0000

JAPAN - Weekly World News has got its finger on the pulse of Japan!

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:45:54 +0000

then most of the replies agree (whilst slagging off Bieber)

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:45:54 +0000

BRAIN WORMS

Laughing Squid: Suspicious Suitcase Stickers

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:38:55 +0000

THECHEEKY.COM has created a series of suspicious suitcase stickers that are guaranteed to get you stopped by TSA agents when traveling through airports. Canada is not amused by these stickers and has banned them.

Take a stand against monotonous travel with Suitcase Stickers. Designed to stick to anything, they will draw attention to your bag making it easily identifiable and sure to make you some new friends.

via The Consumerist

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:31:29 +0000

"This inspired me to sign a petition. Together we can do it guys!"

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:16:52 +0000

Guitar + Cello + Didge = Doctor Who theme :)

Laughing Squid: San Francisco Improv Festival 2010 and The Future & History of Improv

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:13:41 +0000

A vision from San Francisco’s improvisational past, the groovy and edgy clip above features Howard Hesseman (who later played Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati) and Mel Stewart, whose long career included a recurring role on Scarecrow & Mrs. King, as part of a performance by The Committee in 1969 on The Dick Cavett Show.

The foundation of San Francisco’s rich tradition of improvisational theater can be found in the 60′s troupe The Committee, whose alumnae include improv legend Del Close (teacher / improv guru to the likes of John Belushi, Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert), Rob Reiner, David Ogden Stiers and Gary Austin (who later founded The Groundlings). The Committee toured widely, had chapters in New York and L.A., and offered classes to teach the skills of improvisation to the next generation.

Now a couple generations further on The San Francisco Improv Festival is revisiting the legacy of The Committee and continuing their tradition of both entertaining and teaching improv.

The 2010 San Francisco Improv Festival takes place from August 12-21 and includes an incredible 20+ shows featuring nearly 30 improv groups over the 10 days, plus workshops, award ceremonies and panel discussions. It all happens at the Eureka Theater in downtown San Francisco. They have just released an iPhone App for the fest as well. Laughing Squid is a co-sponsor of this year’s festival.

The festival will feature rising improv stars, honor veteran local improvisers, revisit the history of improv in San Francisco, and give a behind-the-scenes-account of a classic film comedy. Check out the full lineup HERE.

Comedy historian (and Monty Python associate) Kim “Howard” Johnson will interview original members of The Committee on Saturday, August 14th. The next night, Johnson will talk about his own book Monty Python’s Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian recounting his time spent on set during the making of the classic British comedy Life of Brian, featuring a slideshow of photos he took at the time.

On the training side, the fest offers workshops for performers by three nationally known teachers Armando Diaz, Jonathan Pitts, and Ron West (Whose Line Is It, Anyway?). Armando’s “Improv Boot Camp” workshop sold out so fast that they are now offering additional “audit only” tickets for anyone who just wants to watch the class.

The dozen plus other events include an award night honoring Barbara Scott and her 20+ years performing with BATS Improv. Also there will be two performances by Uncle’s Brother featuring Saturday Night Live’s Tim Meadows. Here’s a clip of Uncle’s Brother in action…

The festival is produced by members of the San Francisco improv & sketch troupe Crisis Hopkins who have stoked the improvisational fire for many years, both with their owns shows and by holding regular “improv jams”, open-call performances that draw both veterans and newbies.

Finally great local freestyle rap band The Freeze will be performing the night of August 19th. They feature improvised music and freestyle raps based on input from the audience. It goes a little something like this…

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Laughing Squid: Pomparkour, Parkour With Ladders

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:01:21 +0000

New Zealand energy drink V made by Frucor Beverages made a creative promotional video featuring the imaginary sport of Pomparkour, a variation of Parkour where people use ladders to quickly scale various structures.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the video was made.

via Neatorama

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:00:45 +0000

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boscb-boston-marriott-cambridge/

Laughing Squid: The Internet Animal Orchestra

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:36:23 +0000

“The Internet Animal Orchestra” by Rathergood

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:16:31 +0000

kitten huffing is a crime!

Laughing Squid: The Illuminations, A Glowing Art Installation by David Normal

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:45:08 +0000

San Francisco surrealist painter David Normal recently launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds for his project “The Illuminations”, a series of self-illuminated prints based on his paintings. David’s goal is to install the project at the Center Camp Cafe at Burning Man and for it to continue on to future locations.

Using LED light strips to “edge-light” acrylic sheets, exquisitely printed images are made to glow from both sides like a kind of stained glass window. Beautifully printed and handsomely framed, the glowing Illuminations are a uniquely mesmerizing mode of display that is ideal for my otherworldly visions.

Unlike ordinary painting exhibits where the work hangs on the walls, the Illuminations hang in the center of the room and can be viewed from both sides.

Displaying my work in this way breaks up the typical gallery routine. The division of space and the dark environment discourage viewers from crowding in the center of the gallery to socialize while neglecting the art. In the Illuminations installation the viewers attention is dominated by the art – it cannot be ignored.

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Weekly World News -- Breaking News: BAT BOY CUT FROM JERSEY SHORE SEASON 2

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:31:19 +0000

MIAMI, FL - There was a glaring omission from the second season of the Jersey Shore!

Laughing Squid: Comic Themed w00tstock 2.4 Poster by Len Peralta

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:52:54 +0000

Len Peralta made an awesome comic themed w00tstock poster that he drew live on stage at w00tstock 2.4 on July 22nd in San Diego during Comic-Con. He has a limited number of them that are for sale.

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Laughing Squid: 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:24:44 +0000

photo by Scott Beale

Today is the 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, make sure to give a big thanks to awesome sys admins who keep your servers running. We would like to give a special shout-out to our Laughing Squid Web Hosting sys admins Frank Escamilla and Zuhaib Siddique.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:46:41 +0000

teferi, sarah

Weekly World News -- Breaking News: THE OIL CLEANUP X CHALLENGE

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:31:08 +0000

NEW YORK, NY - Despite the tragedy that the Gulf oil spill has caused, there are still a few bright spots!

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:57 +0000

Nanotechnology

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:00:46 +0000

"That is why this book is written in TeX and why it uses whatever fonts TeX uses." If that's the state of the art for TeX->HTML, I'm very impressed.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:46:06 +0000

Goldman sachs regrets calling a spade a spade. In future, use of word "shitty" will be replaced with something else when describing GS's shitty deals.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:31:55 +0000

emad

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:31:55 +0000

emad

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:31:55 +0000

emad

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:31:55 +0000

Screwtape

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:01:13 +0000

i think the running gag must be "lawyers are terribly at typography"

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:45:39 +0000

Screwtape

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:45:39 +0000

sneakums

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:31:49 +0000

SpaceHobo

Weekly World News -- Breaking News: CLINTON THROWS BACHELOR PARTY FOR MEZVINKSY

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:01:58 +0000

Rhinebeck, NY - Bill Clinton threw a wild bachelor party last night for his future son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky. Chelsea Clinton wasn't happy.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:45:33 +0000

go higher dammit!

Modern Mechanix: Jantzen Lastex-powered figure-control swim suits (Jun, 1949)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:27:00 +0000

Jantzen Lastex-powered figure-control swim suits

there’s something about a Jantzen!

…there’s something about a Jantzen that’s bound to make you look wonderful, to make you feel wonderful, to inspire romantic ideas about you…and that “something” is genius. Genius is involved in the exclusive Lastex-powered fabrics that remodel your body along young graceful lines. Genius is involved in the efficient Jantzen girdle control and the effective bra-lift present in every girl’s suit…the flawless fit, trim athletic lines of men’s trunks. “Amourette”, girl’s suit, has a tricky slimming panel, comes in Jantzen Lastex-powered two-way-stretch pique, five glorious colors plus all-white, all-black, black with white panel, Rio red with white panel 11.95. “Militaire” the man’s trunks, Jantzen Lastex-powered sharkskin in seven smart color routines 4.95. Other Jantzen women’s suits 8.95 to 17.95… men’s trunks 3.95 to 6.95… at most stores.

Modern Mechanix: Nautilus May Meet Zeppelin at Pole (Aug, 1931)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:26:56 +0000

Nautilus May Meet Zeppelin at Pole
Details of the methods by which the Graf Zeppelin and the Nautilus, Sir Hubert Wilkins’ polar submarine, hope to complete at the North Pole the most amazing rendezvous in all history, are pictured in the above drawing. The map shows the route these craft will follow. The Nautilus, described in detail in last month’s issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions, is now on its way to the North Pole.

Modern Mechanix: Hand Signal Light for Motorists (Sep, 1931)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:26:52 +0000

Hand Signal Light for Motorists

EVERY year a large number of auto accidents occur because drivers fail to notice signals. A simple device, the hand signal light, recently invented, helps to make driving safer, especially at night.

If the driver ahead wishes to make a left-hand turn, the driver behind will be able to see the signal. As soon as the hand is extended, lights from the car in the rear strike the red glass, which makes the signal clearly visible. The signal light is worn like a wrist watch, as shown at right.

Modern Mechanix: Electronics Tells The Chemist (Jun, 1960)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:26:46 +0000

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unusual compounds find uses because

Electronics Tells The Chemist

By Shirley Motter Linde

THERE are about 750,000 known organic chemical compounds. Less than one percent of these have any known medical or industrial use!

The other 99 percent are a huge potential of untapped applications. They represent hundreds of thousands of chemicals sitting idle on laboratory shelves when they might possibly be useful in curing cancer, righting viruses, killing insects, giving more gas mileage, making rocket fuels for space vehicles, producing new synthetics, etc.

With present methods, it’s a long, time-consuming, laborious process ferreting out practical uses for new compounds. Let’s say a company comes up with a new chemical as a by-product. They may spend millions of dollars in research trying the compound in one application,

then another trying to find a use. After years of hit or miss research, they might be successful.

Or the company may catalog the fundamental characteristics of the compound and pass the information on to other industries in hopes of receiving suggestions on how the substance might be developed.

Or, if the compound looks like it might work as, say, an insecticide, the company might ask an insecticide expert to compare its properties with known bug killers and decide whether it’s feasible.

All this set scientists at the Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo., to wondering whether a program might be developed to determine, with the aid of electronic computer techniques, the structural and physical properties which correlate the uses of chemical compounds.

Institute chemist Richard A. Carpenter said, “The mental processes of the expert led us to think of employing rapid electronic equipment to simulate his decisions. Since the expert bases his decisions on the comparison of the new compound with the properties and structures of materials previously found promising, this information could be coded and processed into a memory device. The results would be a sort of ‘super chemist’ armed with millions of facts, correlations and significant patterns from past experience and research. This ‘super chemist’ would be equipped with a never-failing memory able to make many comparisons simultaneously without bias and at a high rate of speed.,,

Like the expert, the computer could calculate, compare, correlate, and come up— in minutes—with possible uses for the new compound.

For example, says Carpenter, the computer can be used to pick out likely chemicals to treat cancer. So far, he points out,

cancer research has been a matter of blindly trying everything that comes along in hopes of a cure. Over 20,000 compounds have been tried already. The computer, on the other hand, can analyze the common characteristics of the more promising substances and pin-point similar but different substances offering the most promise for further experimentation.

Much preliminary work was necessary even before the computer could be called into play. The research team wrote to 1,000 companies for catalogs and data sheets on their compounds. The material poured in. Hundreds of thousands of facts on boiling points, densities, formulas, and uses had to be coded and punched onto computer input cards. A system had to be devised for transcribing that data onto a magnetic tape. This process is still under way.

Monthly trips are made to Washington, D. C, to make use of the huge Vanguard computation center. Only about five minutes a month are allowed the researchers, however, because the computer priority is alloted to satellite problems. But those five minutes are the equivalent of 25 years of desk computing time. It takes researchers three weeks to get enough information together to take up the five minutes on the computer.

After two years of painstaking work, the research team has assembled and coded facts about almost all the 3,000 compounds with known uses. These facts will serve as the computer’s memory. Within a few months the entire memory system will be complete. Then the electronic computer, with its high-speed classifying system, will start on practical problems.

What will be the impact of this electronic brain on chemistry? Says Carpenter: “It will certainly stimulate research, reveal better chemicals for many old and new uses, cut development costs by making research more efficient and productive, generate new knowledge by revealing normally obscured correlations, and most significantly, it will substitute a methodology for the current confusion.”

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:17:11 +0000

https://twitter.com/jstedfast/status/19741871274

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:17:11 +0000

emad

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:17:11 +0000

http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/876774671

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:01:21 +0000

http://gōōglē.co.nz/

Clickolinko!: http://gō"

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:01:21 +0000

Interestingly, gnome-terminal highlights "http://gō" as being a URL.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:44 +0000

DING DING DING

Fabulist: It's Carnal Love That I'm Thinking Of

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:33:35 +0000

Ash - Carnal Love

I am mesmerized by how simultaneously repulsed and fascinated I am by this video.

NSFW due to excessive use of honey dripping from flowers made of pink icing, bananas wriggling around in goo, and sweet, dirty people getting really sweet and REALLY dirty.

(link) : (url) : (buy)

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:31:18 +0000

emad

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:31:18 +0000

Does one of you hoopy Internet froods know what 'TIL' means?

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:31:18 +0000

Polo + basketball = Argentina!

Fabulist: Tuesday Music Roundup, Now On Tuesday! And Friday!

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:29:02 +0000

I'm not great at doing things on a preset schedule, but you can at least trust that in an ideal world, I'd do a music roundup twice a week. So that's my goal. That's what we're working toward here. I'm not saying that's going to happen, but in my Platonic ideal Fabulist, it happens like CLOCKWORK.

Also in my Platonic ideal of the Fabulist, you love every song. But this is not an ideal world, and musical taste, I would argue, is one of the most subjective things there is, bless it. If just one song from my many, many roundups is a song you come back to again and again, a song that becomes a part of your life, a song that represents a time to you when you were happiest, or talked you through when you were saddest, then I've done what I set out to do here: Make you fall in love with a song you wouldn't have heard otherwise.

So let's lasso 'em up!

Vinegar Socks - Life in the Sewer
myspace : url : buy : on tour

My Other Friend - Collectors
myspace : url : on tour

Kim Taylor - Lost and Found
url : myspace : buy : on tour

Unicycle Loves You - Justine
url : myspace : buy : on tour

Cotton Jones - Glorylight and Christie
myspace : buy : on tour

Brad Laner - Eyes Close
myspace : buy : video

Nick Jaina - Sleep Child
myspace : url : buy : on tour

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:15:59 +0000

http://www.superpoop.com/073010/man-vs-box.jpg

Weekly World News -- Breaking News: ELLEN DEGENERES LEAVING AMERICAN IDOL

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:47:16 +0000

HOLLYWOOD, CA - American Idol will be in need of two more judges when the next season kicks off!

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:31:23 +0000

the best part about this article is that it is presented like it was still in a high school newspaper, no photos or anything that helps you see what they are talking about

Laughing Squid: Defibrillator Toaster

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:25:05 +0000

Shay Carmon came up with a design concept for a Defibrillator Toaster that helps you revive your old bread.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:16:14 +0000

yep, taller.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:16:14 +0000

Your choices are 'pdf' or 'flash'. :<<<

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:45:37 +0000

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:31:07 +0000

good fucking grief.

Weekly World News -- Breaking News: BARCELONA BANS BULLFIGHTING

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:16:45 +0000

SPAIN - A longstanding Spanish past-time may be coming to an end!

Fabulist: Superflat Chateau

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:03:01 +0000

I visited the Palace of Versailles earlier this year, for the first time since I was a kid. We went in the thick of winter, on a gray, frigid day when everything was covered in snow. The overpowering drabness of the light and the people in layers of thick coats shuffling almost wordlessly from room to room made the gilded furniture and the ornate chandeliers seem almost out of place, and the gardens were dormant and remained unexplored that day. I decided maybe the Château wasn't the right fit for me to visit in winter.

And now I find out that Takashi Murakami will have an installation at the Palace this year from September 14 to December 12. Takashi Murakami, whose Superflat was THE first art book I ever bought. And I'm thinking, even if it were the dead of winter, and I and everyone else were bundled in a million different overcoats, and I couldn't help but vividly imagine frozen chamber pots in every bedroom I walked through, I'd be so down for that. I may not be a cold weather girl, but I'm a Murakami fan through and through. And I love his statement:

“For a Japanese like me, the Château de Versailles is one of the greatest symbols of Western history. It is the emblem of an ambition for elegance, sophistication and art that most of us can only dream of. Of course, we are aware that the spark that set fire to the powder of the Revolution came directly from the centre of the building.

But, in many respects, everything is transmitted to us as a fantastic tale coming from a very distant kingdom. Just as French people can find it hard to recreate in their minds an accurate image of the Samurai period, the history of this palace has become diminished for us in reality.

So it is probable that the Versailles of my imagination corresponds to an exaggeration and a transformation in my mind so that it has become a kind of completely separate and unreal world. That is what I have tried to depict in this exhibition.

I am the Cheshire cat that welcomes Alice in Wonderland with its diabolic smile, and chatters away as she wanders around the Château.

With a broad smile I invite you all to discover the wonderland of Versailles.”

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Laughing Squid: The Flower, An Animated Call To End Marijuana Prohibition

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:15:59 +0000

“The Flower”, an animated short by Haik Hoisington (Blackmustache) that is a call to end marijuana prohibition.

The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited.

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:46:18 +0000

Status.Net as an IRC bot?

Laughing Squid: Cephalopods In Love

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:44:44 +0000

“Cephalopods In Love”, a heartwarming stop-motion animation by Tia Doran.

An octopus and a nautilus fight their urges against an interspecies romance, only to succumb to sweet, sweet tentacle loving. Shot on location in my mother’s backyard.

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Laughing Squid: Burning Man Infographic

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:10:49 +0000

Flint Hahn created “This Is Burning Man”, a beautiful infographic that shows the history and evolution of Burning Man over the last 24 years. Here’s a larger version.

The history of Burning Man has always been a complex entity that has survived, nay, mutated over the years. And because of this, it has grown rapidly since its humble beginnings of a simple gathering on a beach.

The infographic poster shows only a small portion of what Burning Man is. By no means do mere numbers even begin to show a complete picture, as that is a history of stories, experiences, and individual tales.

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Laughing Squid: Some Jedi’s Are Real Jerks

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:01:20 +0000

“Jedi A-holes”, a great video by Freddie Wong, who made “Flower Warfare” and “Light Warfare”.

Yea, those Jedi’s sucked. Not me though. Many of you may not know that I’m a Jedi (I’m a sweetheart of a Jedi).

Or that I used to teach people to build light sabers on my old TV show, Systm. My co-host Patrick doesn’t fight fair, though:

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:01:17 +0000

so afraid of the gay-police, they ate their frankfurters like corn on the cob

Losanjealous: Ticket Giveaway: My Morning Jacket at the Greek Theater with Avi Buffalo, August 12–Enter Now

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:45:59 +0000

My Morning Jacket w/ Avi Buffalo Greek Theater Thurs 8/12 Info [ENTER TO WIN TICKETS] Photo of MMJ at The Greek back in 2008 by Sung.

Laughing Squid: Proper Opossum Care by ME Pearl Productions

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:31:52 +0000

ME Pearl Productions has produced several informative videos on proper opossum care.

ME Pearl Productions consists of a dead squirrel named Pearl that channels Pink Mama (Georgette Spelvin), offering advice to all who ask.

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:31:21 +0000

"Model describes universe with no big bang, no beginning, and no end"... then wins the swim suit competition

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:31:20 +0000

this webpage could not be displayed because you touch yourself at night

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:16:24 +0000

wombat

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:16:24 +0000

what did you say?

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:16:24 +0000

squinky

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:01:33 +0000

wut?

Fabulist: A Whale of a Toy

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:42:35 +0000

I love every single one of these vinyl Munko whale toys designed by artist David Choe, especially the ones with legs. That probably makes them something other than whales, per se, but I'm not going to quibble. View all twelve and order a whole case of 'em here.

(NSFW if your workplace is squeamish about vinyl cartoony boobs on female whale figurines. It's probably in your contract somewhere.)

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Laughing Squid: Trojan “No One’s Pleasure”, Designed For Ultra Dissatisfaction

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:34:40 +0000

Trojan introduces ‘No One’s Pleasure’ Condoms for bitter, resentful couples.

Contraceptive manufacturer Trojan unveiled its new line of “No One’s Pleasure” condoms Wednesday, the first prophylactic specifically designed to intensify sexual dissatisfaction among bitter and resentful couples.

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:31:37 +0000

ow my brain

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:31:37 +0000

that strip works perfectly if you put Ray and Roast Beef in their place

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:31:37 +0000

teferi

Weekly World News -- Breaking News: OBAMA ON THE VIEW

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:45:38 +0000

NEW YORK, NY - The president made his much controversial appearance on The View!

Laughing Squid: Teaching Koreans How To Swear In English

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:34:52 +0000

An Anderson English class that teaches Koreans how to swear in English that features some great spoken examples by the instructor.

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:31:10 +0000

rasher rasher rasher rasher

Laughing Squid: Mobile Watermelon Cooler

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:57:05 +0000

The Marugoto Tamachan Watermelon Cooler, available for import through GeekStuff4U.

Summer is a good season for eating fruit. Yet eating “hot” fruits because you have no fridge with you may be problematic. Designed firstly for Japanese (which are watermelon-lovers), The ABS made Marugoto Tamachan Watermelon Portable Cooler has a capacity of 14L which will allow you to store several food and beverages. Not only you can cool your picnic, but as soon as winter come you can also warm it thank to its warm function. Coming with an extendable handle and running on AC/DC, take your Marugoto Tamachan anywhere with you!

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Laughing Squid: Scotch Tape 69

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:28:21 +0000

A provocative ad by Ogilvy & Mather for 3M’s Scotch permanent double-sided tape.

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BB-Blog: TXTBOMBER

bbutch@hansondodge.com (Bridget (aka BB)) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:23:07 +0000

Flavorwire Pic of the Day: TXTBOMBER

(Hey, Martina - what does this say?)

Laughing Squid: The Yes Men Fix The World, Peer-To-Peer Edition

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:10:44 +0000

“The Yes Men Fix The World”, a film by the activist/prankster duo Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno aka The Yes Men, has been released as a downloadable torrent. This special Peer-To-Peer Edition of the film includes an exclusive video of The Yes Men impersonating the United States Chamber of Commerce. The film is also available on DVD.

The Yes Men Fix The World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks.

From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.

Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed.

Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:01:38 +0000

Clever...

Losanjealous: Laura Marling, El Rey Theater, July 28, 2010

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:01:37 +0000

Laura Marling| lauramarling.com 2010 Mercury Prize Nominees 1. Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions 2. Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea 3. Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N’ Cheek 4. Foals – Total Life Forever 5. I Am Kloot – Sky at Night 6. Kit Downes Trio – Golden 7. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I [...]

Losanjealous: Robyn, Amoeba Records, July 23, 2010

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:46:16 +0000

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Laughing Squid: Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:07:38 +0000

Jay Shafer gives a tour of the 100 square foot Tiny House that he lives in. It’s one of several Tiny and Small Houses he has built since 1997 through his Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.

Jay on why he lives in tiny houses:

My name is Jay Shafer and since 1997 I have been living in a house smaller than some people’s closets. I call the first of my little hand built houses Tumbleweed. My decision to inhabit just 89 square feet arose from some concerns I had about the impact a larger house would have on the environment, and because I do not want to maintain a lot of unused or unusable space. My houses have met all of my domestic needs without demanding much in return. The simple, slower lifestyle my homes have afforded is a luxury for which I am continually grateful.

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Laughing Squid: Zombie at Tiffany’s

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:42:03 +0000

“Zombie at Tiffany’s”, a creepy Threadless t-shirt design by Marion Cromb.

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BB-Blog: Bike & Cats print.

bbutch@hansondodge.com (Bridget (aka BB)) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:38:58 +0000

THE SMALL STAKES - Bike & Cats

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Laughing Squid: How The NBC Peacock Logo Was Created

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:32:58 +0000

Nathan Love worked with NBC Artworks to created this Spumco inspired animated short showing how the NBC peacock logo was created. Nathan has posted his treatment for the animation, showing how it came together.

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:01:13 +0000

the saddest thing

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:01:13 +0000

ding ding ding &c

BB-Blog: Red Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chair

bbutch@hansondodge.com (Bridget (aka BB)) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:29 +0000

WANT. That is all.

(Except to ask Room & Board if they have 3rd graders doing their photo blocking and shadows. Yikes.)

Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chair – Room & Board

Laughing Squid: La Choy Ad Campaign From 1966 Featuring The Muppets

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:46:06 +0000

A behind-the-scenes look at a 1966 ad campaign for La Choy featuring early versions of Jim Henson’s Muppets.

See Previously: Muppets Star In a Series of Ultra Violent Wilkins Coffee TV Commercials (1957-1961)

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:46:01 +0000

okay, that's it, we really and truly live in the stupidest of all possible worlds.

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:32:18 +0000

BELGRADE - A Bosnian man claims he is being targeted by aliens after a sixth meteorite strikes his house.

Laughing Squid: Slow Motion Video of a Multiple Tower Upward Lightning Strike

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:29:26 +0000

Tom A. Warner (ZT Research) shot a slow motion video of a multiple tower upward lightning strike captured at 9,000 images per second on June 16th in Rapid City, SD.

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