Borklog
19 September 2008
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25 July 2008
For Enna: ZombieHarmony.
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For Crazy Erin: Imperial Alpacas. obtw, you on twitter? Join me @ borkware.
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The Danny Abramovitch Aikido Wrist Stretches that keeps moving around.
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9 July 2008
Suddenly Last Supper; shamelessly stolen from Flutterby
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23 June 2008
Nopenope monster costumes.
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20 June 2008
Sporn.
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14 June 2008
Some apple-nerdy funsongs.
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12 June 2008
Attack of Smurf Porn.
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11 June 2008
Very Important Product.
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3 June 2008
For Crazy Erin: Vader and his Joe
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2 June 2008
Hot chicks with no eyebrows. wtf?
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24 April 2008
For Crazy Erin : Groom's Cake.
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23 April 2008
Under the Hood, pimped out clothing with, uh, Kellogg's characters on them?
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14 April 2008
From maf, An Engineer's Guide to Cats.
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12 April 2008
From Enna, Oh Four Tuna. There's only one word to describe this: YES!
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8 April 2008
Protein synthesis at a cellular level, as expressed through dance.
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5 April 2008
Woot! We're now on slicehost. And there was much rejoicing.
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4 April 2008
From RedToade, Unsold SF and Fantasy TV Pilots. Scary thing is I remember all of these, except for The Tribe.
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From Mr Machine Tool : Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir performing a classic soviet-era anthem.
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26 March 2008
From Avi, Baby Got Stats.
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From Grand-Rapper E/D: Disturbing Teddy Bear, looks like you can get your own, too!
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25 March 2008
Stuff White People Like. Got to admit, it's pretty spot-on.
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24 March 2008
Yellow Drum Machine, rhythmic robot.
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22 March 2008
From niroTTorin, Badger Badger Badger, sadly, no mushes or snakerooms.
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21 March 2008
Barack Obama @ google, being asked about sorting algorithms.
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From uncle ghastly, Gay scientists identify Christian Gene.
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17 March 2008
From Enna, a TED talk from a Brain Scientist who suffered a stroke.
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14 March 2008
BLAZEMONGER.
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7 March 2008
Customer Reviews of the Playmobil Security Check Point.
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11 neighbors from hell.
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6 March 2008
From Carl, The Amazing Colo[u]r Changing Card Trick.
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Phun, a 2-D physics sandbox.
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5 March 2008
Darth Vader (and others) rap. Lyrics NSFW.
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4 March 2008
HoffBreeds.
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From cockeyed, Velcro being pulled apart.
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3 March 2008
5 books that can actually make you stupider.
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2 March 2008
Rejected Star Wars Promotional Products.
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29 February 2008
A reason not to use your cellphone during a concert..
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Mahster hadn't heard the song Convoy. Here's a strange video version.
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Superman is Elvis.
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28 February 2008
From Snyder, Food Fight, history of warfare as illustrated by ethnic food products.
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Lego animation of Eddie Izzard's Death Star Canteen, with Jeff Vader.
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27 February 2008
From L^2, National Inconvenience Yourself Day, a "perform common courtesy that seems to be dead dead dead today" day.
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It's amazing how much better Garfield gets when you take stuff away. Garfield minus Garfield is delightfully surreal.
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24 February 2008
From Redtoade, Cat Haiku.
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23 February 2008
From Uncle Ghastly, Creepy Panda Cartoon, like Resevoir Dogs meets David Lynch meets Fish Heads.
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22 February 2008
41 Science Fair Experiments.
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19 February 2008
Hoping to boost the page rank of the National Home Gardening Club review page. We've been getting frequent collection calls from a crew employed by the National Home Gardening Club for charges we don't owe. They, and their collection agency, are a bunch of losers.
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Try a Bacon Float!.
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17 February 2008
NirottoriN had never seen Rock me Amadeus. Poor guy.
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OMG! SHOPPING CARTS!!! wooo! (found from Cockeyed's How much is Inside a Shopping Cart).
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16 February 2008
From Uncle Ghastly, Star Trek: The Sitcom.
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15 February 2008
Farkitrol, it can help with Missing White Girl Syndrome.
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14 February 2008
Terror in the data center, or is it just a FSM manifestation?
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12 February 2008
From NirottoriN (indirectly) : Goatse the Ride.
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Color Pencils Reviewed. With an interface this bad, it must have come from microsoft.
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5 February 2008
The AD&D Book of Sex.
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29 January 2008
For Crazy Erin: Construction of the Millennium Falcon.
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17 January 2008
Lasagna Cat, the most bizarre thing ever.
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23 December 2007
From Bagelturf : Some not-so-usual photos from English Russia. I like the zombie + chainsaw set the best.
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2 November 2007
I like the new look of some of my favorite websites, like Flutterby and Doug E Doug's Blog.
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History of LOLCats.
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19 October 2007
Even though it's an obvious add, the trailer for Fight For Kisses is amusing.
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8 October 2007
From Maf: Dirk Gently on the "radio".
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3 October 2007
For Enna: Richard Scarry Best Word Book Evar, differences between 1963 and 1991 editions.
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28 September 2007
CrazyErin: I was ordered by Miss Deb to not tell you about these (don't scroll to the bottom on the last one).
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Hi Monkey has a Blog.
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24 September 2007
Darth Vader gets the Blues.
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21 September 2007
For Billings: Lunch in the park.
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From billings, for Crazy Erin: Star Wars, the Musical.
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15 September 2007
Infocom Rap.
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4 September 2007
Radiers of the Lost Parts. Crazy Erin, be sure to watch it all the way to the end.
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3 September 2007
Enna pointed me to a new and updated nerd test:
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1 September 2007
Mr. MachineTool went to see Avenue Q, and send me the soundtrack (alas no DVDs). After listening to (and laughing at) soundtrack, I browsed YouTube for AveQ videos, and found Avenue Q Fiddler on the Roof.
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25 August 2007
Death Metal BananaPhone.
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Pictures from a trip to CA.
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23 August 2007
Who's Hoff is it anyway?.
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22 August 2007
Google Sky. It's awesome.
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13 August 2007
Be sure to support the party of family values (via flutterby)
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Bill Atkinson Photography. Yes, the same Bill Atkinson that did Quickdraw and Hypercard.
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8 August 2007
Bizet with Bottles.
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From redtoade: Boot to the Head, anime style.
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1 August 2007
For Enna: zoe needs one.
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31 July 2007
From G-R/E.D., The Dove, a very arty Art film.
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LoTR, Harry Potter Style.
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Terminator vs. RoboCop.
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28 July 2007
Uncle Ghastly sings Deep Space Nine (was Terok Nor).
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23 July 2007
Elvis is Everywhere.
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human beat box extravaganza.
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20 July 2007
And from TVL, Prisoners doing the Algorithm March.
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"Thriller", performed by 1500 Philippine prisoners (a serious WTF from Ooomanskeee)
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19 July 2007
Another vid from G-R/E.D, What if the Beatles were Irish?.
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Not to be out-done, Doug E. Doug sends on Larry's High Silk Hat.
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From GrandRapper E.D. : His Cheeseburger. No Lolcats involved.
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15 July 2007
nope nope nopenopenopenope.
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13 July 2007
From Maf, History Today, a look at romanticism vs classicism.
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12 July 2007
rap country fusion with a hint of metal.
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Fru-Fru restaurant menu generator.
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11 July 2007
Box 350, Boston Mass. 0 21 34!.
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Pictaps, make your own boogying avatar.
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Found via Redtoade, Film Can Cannons. I think folks at the Google Offices need these.
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For DougEDoug: WebCam (safe for work).
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8 July 2007
Three Bass Oboes in one place. L-R, Laurel, Sharz, Steve.
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I don't know if Crazy Erin still reads this, but: WOO HOO!!! WOOOOOOOO! Way to go E.T.! Of *course* we want to play for the state-side ceremony. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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The Humans Are Dead
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27 June 2007
Lego Aircraft carrier.
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17 June 2007
Welcome Back Kotter, updated.
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16 June 2007
More photos. WWDC trip, #2, and Minky Business.
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14 June 2007
Halifax, it's in your lungs.
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10 June 2007
SF Pictures, first batch.
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7 June 2007
From liscio, Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing. 1984's memory hole for photographs gets one step closer.
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How Not to make a Powerpoint.
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6 June 2007
The Dalek Song.
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Falkirk Wheel. The guy who sent it to me said it saved them having to make 40 locks or so.
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4 June 2007
Chicken Dance with giant ducks, led by a hot girl, in a foreign language. Yet disturbingly boring.
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2 June 2007
For Enna: don't be cruel to the undead.
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For Crazy Erin: Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. Also related. 2 Hot Girls in the Shower, and WWJD.
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29 May 2007
From Teh Moby SpokZor: Intelligent Design, Norse-Style.
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24 May 2007
From Doug E. Doug : UAE building the Death Star.
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From the HappyLemur, The Little Girl and the Sea Monster. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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23 May 2007
Because everybody needs a place to put their PIN Number.
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21 May 2007
From nirotorin, Death Star Lives!
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20 May 2007
I'm happy that zombo.com is still around.
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From Enna, Build a Cylon Roomba.
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18 May 2007
My Finnish obsession continues. Finnish as a world language. Finnish has longer and better swear words than any other language.
Too bad the Rosetta folks don't have a Finnish product.
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From the Pittsburgh Office Den Mother, Bunny Comics.
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AngryLuke 'accidentally' posted Shave Everywhere.com. Includes music video.
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awalker found a online lolcat creator. I had to make one of Vikki: 
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Salvador Dali on "What's My Line".
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15 May 2007
From Dan over at Flutterby: R/C airplane piloted by a teddy bear.
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Purple and Brown, bizarre clamation from Aardman.
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14 May 2007
From Enna: Busy Bath, the greatest bathtub toy of all time.
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13 May 2007
Two new photo ablums up: Morning trip to Freeport, PA, and Morning trips to a local lake.
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9 May 2007
from wm_eddie, Claire de Lune on a Theremin.
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8 May 2007
NiN Closer + Star Trek (TOS).
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7 May 2007
(why do I always think of Chunks when I come across these things.) Big Boat Porn, with a new, improved goatse.cx-style logo.
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5 May 2007
Jesus and the Argonaughts.
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4 May 2007
From a mailing list: "My favorite was when Compaq bought Tandem. They had the choice of either
calling the new company Condem or Tampaq."
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Rands has a piece on doing effective presentations.
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3 May 2007
TURN YOUR HEAD!. Mental health will drive you mad.
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Best Venn Diagram. Ever.
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30 April 2007
From Oster, Flight 405 Landing.
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25 April 2007
Look Around You (#7) - Iron. British science documentary. The pyramid experiment is most amazing.
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Jeffrey Fiedl's Autofocus Test Chart.
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24 April 2007
From G-R/E.D., The Prisonbear I'm not a number, I'm a teddy bear. Along with some explanatory text.
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23 April 2007
I've added my last couple of Germany pictures. The whole set can be found at Frankfurt 1 and Frankfurt 2.
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I love the "I'm in ur machine eating ur bugs" meme of cute kitty pictures. A friend sent me DuneCat, my new favorite.
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15 April 2007
I'm in Frankfurt teaching a class. Here are some photos.
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11 April 2007
Redmonk's incredibly cool sign[b/v]log. Unfortunately I haven't had any one to practice my ASL with for a decade, so I can barely keep up (if that much).
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10 April 2007
Donkey Kong attacks UCSC Engineering Building.
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9 April 2007
ok Gen X'ers. Fill in the blank: "Thank you Easter Bunny! _________ __________". (for a hint, see this)
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6 April 2007
Winnie the (Communist) Pooh. Soviet animation.
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5 April 2007
The Inbox of Nardo Pace, the Empire's Worst Engineer.
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Hey Crazy Erin, you still out there? You *so* need to do this at your wedding.
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4 April 2007
Who knew that eggs could be so... perky?.
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30 March 2007
From froody, You are a pirate. Do your part to fight global warming.
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We've had an influx of wildlife here in Leechburg.
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29 March 2007
Kermit the Frog sings Nine Inch Nails. Includes muppet free-basing.
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27 March 2007
Am I SPOCK or NOT?
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26 March 2007
The real secret behind (or underneath) mouse pointer technology. (takes awhile to load)
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25 March 2007
Hollywood TV Adaptation Shortage Expected Soon!. Although a Holmes and YoYo movie might be fun.
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From Ms. Vious, MnM's Dark Movie Game, complete with Hieronymus Bosch style artwork.
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21 March 2007
Two excellent ones from the Happy Lemur : Death by Caffeine, for tht final, yet wired, exit. And then when you're reborn into this life again to contnue the wheel of suffering, Baby Rock Records, your favorite rock music transformed into baby music.
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20 March 2007
From DanGi, David Lee Roth performing Jump, Bluegrass Style.
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From Mr. Machine Tool, One Man Star Wars. Who needs all those special effects. and actors.
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18 March 2007
Oh my. From Arhuman in #macdev: There exists a Livejournal community dedicated to slash fiction based on the Mac vs. PC adverts.
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17 March 2007
Hick Hop. It rules(tm).
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7 March 2007
From Maf, Baby Go Back, Gilbert and Sullivan style.
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Mmmm.. Chocolate Dalek Cake.. We will exterminate you... deliciously.
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6 March 2007
From SpecialK, Secret Waffle House Communications Channel.
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5 March 2007
For those Kulka, Fran, and Ollie fans, the ultimate Kukla Fran and Ollie Page (which I linked to several years ago) is at a new home and a new domain name.
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3 March 2007
I've added a bunch more pictures to my Santa Cruz Photo Album.
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2 March 2007
Ten Principles of economics, translated.
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1 March 2007
Sometimes the internet is just totally awesome. On Today's ZeFrank, Ze delivers the "Whip Somebody's Ass" video to Ray, and the show is an interview with Ray. He's a fascinating individual, and all of the Stuff the random sportsracers out there did was truly staggering.
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27 February 2007
From a discussion with some cow-orkers, some stuff on (technical) interviewing : why can't programmers program?, including FizzBuzz (took me 2:30 in straight C. I feel so slow) and My Favorite Interview Question, about Monopoly, and of course, SteveY's Five essential phone-screen questions.
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KNEEL BEFORE ZOD.
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26 February 2007
PXR of RogueAmoeba has a nice posting on Experiences in Web Hosting, with major props to Pair.com, a local Pittsburgh outfit.
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From Run/ESD, Britain for Americans. This is Britain. We live here. We are called British people. Find out all about us and the way we live! ... People who don't live in London are called "provincials", and are not allowed to meet the Queen or get married. Their suicide rate is high, and so on.
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From rzolf, Songs to wear pants to, like Exploding Dog meets garage band.
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HiMonkey combines the essence of the Cross Stitcher and the Cardiac Tech, with wonderful results.
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23 February 2007
Astronaut Moonstalker, flash game of questionable taste, but kind of fun.
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20 February 2007
Please... help... can't stop listening. Holly Dolly Song... good lord... mother...
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19 February 2007
Sick of Finnish music yet? If not, here's a musical analysis of some of Loituma's stuff.
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18 February 2007
From Special K, MC Hammer's Blog.
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Contiuning to the Finnish-line, DougEDoug passes on this Video of Loituma doing Ievan Polkka.
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17 February 2007
On May 19, 2006, DougEDoug sent me this rather strange flashimation with a totally infectious tune (danger: contains earworm). I had no idea what it meant - some bug-eyed sucidal chick on a chair twirling some green vegetation, and when you click the pause button, well, what happens to her is what many of us dreams should happen to the teletubbies. Anyway, last night Rzolf sent me LeekSpin, with the same groovy tune. "Where have I heard that before...", and I found DougEDoug's original thing in the BorkLog archives. Looking at page source for leekspin, I saw the name of the flash file was loituma__.swf. I then Yahoo!ed Loituma, and found Wikipedia's page on the leek spin. The tune is a Finnish Folk song, and is available via ITMS (the whole song is fun). I think I must be part Finnish - Sibelius totally rocks, and I still think the Helsinki Complaints Choir song is totally delightful.
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16 February 2007
Human Beat Box + Flute + Inspector Gadget.
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8 February 2007
Quantum Computer demonstration solving NP-Complete problems. Could be cool. I'm hoping it's true, and not a hoax / cold-fusion kind of thing.
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5 February 2007
From Ihab, zoomable UI for product browsing.
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1 February 2007
From Carl, Attractors Flash App. I can play with this thing for hours.
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31 January 2007
Today is National Gorilla Suit Day. 4ACGS!
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A beginner's guide to faking your death on the internet.". Amusingly enough, Zynx on one of the Clan Lord forums faked his own death, and got found out.
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30 January 2007
"Steve Jobs" introduces the iPhone. He's a witch! Burn!
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29 January 2007
"Thriller" Dance at a wedding reception. Sure beats the hokey-pokey and the chicken dance!
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From Alcor, Punch Punch Revolution.
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26 January 2007
From loko: The next time you find yourself on a plane, sitting next to someone who cannot resist chattering to you endlessly, I urge you to quietly pull your laptop out of your bag, carefully open the screen (ensuring the irritating person next to you can see it), and hit this link.
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The Nikon 18-200mm VR (vibration reduction) lens arrived, and I picked it up today. We needed to take some photos of instruments for an upcoming recital (Seton Hill University, Cecelian Hall, Feb 4 at 2:00 - double reeds and friends, including a commissioned piece that includes the NPR theme, Dragnet, rite of spring, DSCH and 4ACGS. Will be over before the superbowl pre-pre-pre game shows). Here some photos with that lens. The light was horrible (late night, with an incandescent lamp and a flourescent lamp), but I am impressed with the results, considering the conditions. The photo with the contrabassoon was with a tripod. The rest were hand-held. Considering some of the exposures were in the 1/8 to 1/4 second range, I must say the VR stuff actually works.
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25 January 2007
Seen in a Google tech-talk : Savage Chickens . Chicken cartoons on post-it notes.
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Spot the Subliminal Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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The 25 Secret Perks of Working at Google, featuring the sophisticated humor that can only come from Cracked.
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Great Photographers on the Internet. Some photographs critiqued.
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20 January 2007
L33t Tiles, scrabble tiles for the script kiddie generation.
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18 January 2007
Star Wars Ep III, the Abridged Script.
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From GR..... E-D it's The...... Star Trek White...... Rabbit Re.....Mix.
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16 January 2007
No Whammies!, story of the dude that studied patterns on a TV game show and walked off with a nice pile of cash.
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Dan Lyke over at Flutterby™ has a pointer to three lunatics go caving in an (presumably) abandoned hydroelectric plant behind Niagara Falls
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Windows 386 Promo Video. After the first minute or so, skip ahead to minute 7, where the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys.
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15 January 2007
It's (a petty random) adventure time!
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7 January 2007
Something for Crazy Erin : Star Wars lines improved by substituting the word "Pants".
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5 January 2007
Every Language War Ever.
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From jfpoole, Rosetta Stone for Unix
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Ze Frank on What Starbucks is Really Up To. If you haven't seen Ze's show before, it's a fun daily videolog that gets more interesting and more fun the more of them you see.
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3 January 2007
From awalker : Google Porn: A Play in One Act.
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From a fark.com forum thread. I need to remember this next time I'm at dinner with my "I planted tomato seeds in my garden, but didn't get any monkeys. Evolution is stupid. Intelligent Design Just Makes Sense" acquaintance. *sigh* Once again, for those who missed it the first five billion times: Science is backed up by testable, verifiable evidence, and can be changed if more concrete evidence to the contrary becomes available. Religion is a bunch of guys wearing fancy dresses and telling you that if you don't believe what they tell you to, while handing them over your hard-earned cash, you're going to burn forever.
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Continuing my previous conversation with G-R/E.D., he said "I think you're just the man to write a Lovecraft musical". The poor lad didn't know about A Shoggoth on the Roof. Documentary, and you can get the album.
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A new camera appeared in the household - a Nikon D200 digital SLR. wonderful, wonderful camera. Ken Rockwell has a D200 review page. Beware that Ken is the Philip Greenspun of the Nikon world. Believe half of what you read, and ignore the parts where he gloats about how rich he is. Here are some cute kitty pictures taken on Christmas. The light was horrible - one incandescent bulb, and some dim gray overcast light from outside. This is all hand-held at 1600 ISO. I've been using Aperture as my sorting and post-processing software (minimal post-processing - I was a slide-film kind of guy in the analog days. I hate darkroom activities), and am loving it. More pictures will be going up at my Picasa Web Album as I get around to posting stuff on line.
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From Oster: Do It Yourself iBook Logic Board Repair. Grand_Rapper E/D says "whoa, that's cool. Fix your ibook and make a sacrifice to Baal at the same time!". And eventually the discussion devolved to "South Pacific meets Lovecraft" and "I'm going to wash that unspeakable horror out of my hair"
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Wow. It's been awhile. I've been terrifically busy due to music stuff in december, google stuff, and general sickness brought about by stress caused by the previous two. Hopefully I'll be more interesting in 2007.
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28 November 2006
Just when you thought you were safe from HeadOn! Apply Directly to the Forehead! Atomicbird (once again) comes up with a winner: Headon Auditions (yootoob)
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22 November 2006
Interview with Robert M. Pirsig, the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance guy.
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21 November 2006
NEW BLODE!.
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18 November 2006
Cool! getting into the virtual newspaper about something other than a restraining order. Pittsburgh Post-gazette article about the google office here. I'm ducking and covering during a barrage of nerf darts on the picture abount mid-way down.
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16 November 2006
Kobayashi!, great eating of hot dogs to saving the world he is! (gootoob video)
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14 November 2006
From Enna, Helsinki Complaints Choir with the Suomeksi song of disgruntlement.
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7 November 2006
My prediction for today's election: The GOP will maintain control in the house and senate by a very narrow margin. Santorum in PA will get re-elected, also by a narrow margin. Gasoline prices will start rising again. (I'm very pleased to be 3/4 wrong so far! But gas prices are going up again around here.)
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25 October 2006
A question from GVD:
A friend has a 17-year-old autistic son. Apparently this boy loves his lap top computer. He likes computer based games. The mother does not know if he has every learned any programming languages. He has been"passed through" high school although he probably has failing grades. The primary reason is not being focused on the work, He seems to be very intelligent in some areas. Have you-all any suggestions how the parents could get the boy tested for computer skills. Do you know of any programs--academic, private, commercial,etc for autistic individuals.'?
So if anyone out there in badger-land has any suggestions, please drop me a line at markd@borkware.com, with 'autism' in the subject so I can keep it from being spammified. Thanks!
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16 October 2006
EET WEEL FEET!, my favorite CuteOverload of all time (so far). Although Cats 'n Racks is a close second.
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15 October 2006
From Grand-Rapper E/D : Lego Automatic Weapon.
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12 October 2006
Even though it's not specified whether it is a lesbian unicorn or not, the Avenging Unicorn Play Set looks wholesome fun for the entire family.
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11 October 2006
From Amanda Walker: C-130 lands on Aircraft carrier.
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10 October 2006
Honesty is the best policy at weddings (uTube Video)
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5 October 2006
Let's paint,exercise, and blend drinks!. And the story behind it, and, of course, the let's paint TV website.. Part 3 of blended drinks has a caller singing Doors tunes.
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22 September 2006
Man, wm_eddie rules! He brought me (and jo2y) a stuffed Domo-Kun to the Google Office today. Domo-Kun so totally rocks everything.
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20 September 2006
Just in case you didn't know, David Hasselhoff is the antichrist.
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25 August 2006
From Happy Lemur, one of the reasons the internets are what they are today. Pictures of barfing rainbows. What will they think of next? dancing badgers?
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24 August 2006
From Grand-Rapper E.D.: Badgers on a Plane
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atomicbird found yet another Head on! Apply Directly to the Forehead! remix.
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23 August 2006
from schwatoo in #macsb: Is the meat roasted with 24th USB?, the beef bowl personal computer. Loving the translated machine text! (laughing)
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21 August 2006
New from AtomicBird, MondoMouse, makes your mousing much easier.
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20 August 2006
Bring me the head of Charlie Brown.
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Mr_Noodle redeems himself : Tour of the [lego] Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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From Mr_Noodle on #macsb: Fat Wonder Woman. Really makes one wonder.
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19 August 2006
Saw Snakes on a Plane. It was one of the better unintentional comedies I've seen. Kinda gross in places, kinda dumb in places. Lots of laughter in the theater. Enna: don't see it.
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17 August 2006
Dr. Tran! (some text lettering and voices may be NSFW)
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16 August 2006
Snakes on a Plane, The Daily Show Interview.
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15 August 2006
I weep for the state of science in America.
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12 August 2006
Star Trek Motivational Posters.
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4 August 2006
Reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk.
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31 July 2006
Panexa, ask your doctor for a reason to take it.
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29 July 2006
Wishmaster - misheard lyrics, not quite up there with the llama song, but still fun.
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19 July 2006
From LibraryAlgebrist, a championship I could really get in to.
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18 July 2006
From DougEDoug for CrazyErin, Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager
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15 July 2006
A fun(?) number counting puzzle. You're allowed to edit the URL. It goes to 30. It gets progressively harder. I want a couple of hours of my life back please.
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12 July 2006
From TVL, McD's Sundial.
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11 July 2006
Head On! Apply Directly to the Forehead! (3 minute remix. Gets rather soothing after awhile). Head On! Apply Directly to the Forehead! (some dude's video. I like the toasters.)
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30 June 2006
Hasselhoff doing Secret Asian Man. They've taken 'way your number, and given you a name.
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23 June 2006
Head On, Apply Directly to the Forehead.
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22 June 2006
Some link love for louielouie: WebnoteHappy 1.1 released!. It may sound like Engrish, with Domo-kun about to leap out and make your Hello Kitty wristwatch turn into a Daikon Radish god (?), but it's actually a cool bookmark manager.
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21 June 2006
Pickle Phobia, one of the weirest TV shorts I've seen in awhile.
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A startling epiphany: "roomba, photoshop, rolos" and "klaatu, barrada, nikto" share the same syllable structure. That is all.
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20 June 2006
One of those rare pictures where you're either amused at the cuteness, or amused at the unintentional (I hope) reference to an internet icon.
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Some photos from North Korea. Looking at NK cities in Google Earth is kind of freaky - wide roads and no cars.
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Because I'm always looking for this and never find it in time: I invented photoshop with rolos.
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From Maf, 80's Music Videos.
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19 June 2006
USB Teddy Bear holds data, scares children.
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16 June 2006
From JHughes, Game Over
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10 June 2006
Some pretty good Amazon reviews..
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9 June 2006
Paul McCartney makes mashed potatoes. I like the talking oven mitts.
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7 June 2006
The MonkeyChow diaries.
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3 June 2006
RocketMen: Shatner (which... started it... all oh the... pain), Stewie, and Reboot.
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2 June 2006
yo, def spock jam, or something like that.
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25 May 2006
From Rzolf: BRUBECK MOUNTAIN: A TALE OF TWO EFFETE JAZZ AFICIONADOS TRAPPED WITH ONLY ONE LP IN THE HIGH PLAINS OF WYOMING
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Get some classic Apple ][ reference materials.
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Smells like Teen Ukuleles?
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How to choose a career in medicine.
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24 May 2006
From G-R/E.D, Man Finds Badger Under Bed. (and thankfully it's not a Furry story)
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19 May 2006
From DougEDoug, earworm-worthy tune. Anyone know what the tune is, and if it's available online somewhere?
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16 May 2006
The Search For Spock.
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15 May 2006
From Rzolf, Kitundu, a guy who makes some weird instruments using turntables. Cool quicktime movie of some of the creations.
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10 May 2006
For Crazy Erin: Emperor Palpatine Collect Call movie.
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8 May 2006
Unsuckified versions of the original Star Warts triology to become available.
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6 May 2006
Best Icon, Evar.
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2 May 2006
This is a link to This Is the Title of This Story,
Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself. This is the sentence that thanks mikemorton.
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29 April 2006
NASA Procedure in case Buildign 245 is attacked by Vikings.
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21 April 2006
For Crazy Erin: Snakes on a Plane YTMND. I think you'll like the sound track.
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20 April 2006
From Enna, The Llama Badger Song.
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19 April 2006
Today is bad music video day at the GOOG. Dschinghis Khan - Moskau. ITMS has an 8 minute dance remix track. must.... purchase....
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This one is making the rounds, but I enjoyed its awfulness. I Wanna Love You Tender, the Finnish smash hit video of the 80s.
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18 April 2006
The very best in Twelve Tone Rows. (Although I like the Stravinksy bit)
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16 April 2006
Definitely one of the weirder things I've seen on the net. McGriddle Fan Fiction.
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From the Grobinator, Rube Goldberg Machines.
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15 April 2006
The Easter Bunny Hates You Too.
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12 April 2006
Obligatory link.
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11 April 2006
The Thing in the Crib, or. Cthulhu Cthild Cthare.
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Cool story about a serious Oops made right.
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9 April 2006
Tired of Captchas? Try Kitchas. Pick out three kittens to prove you're a person. CUTE!
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8 April 2006
From the emiloid, Tommy Pederson, the trombone player from Spike Jones (the original one from the early 20th century, not the rapper knock-off).
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5 April 2006
I am spoonman. believe it or not. (site a bit slow)
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4 April 2006
Woo! BethLynn is Sysadmin o' the week now.
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2 April 2006
From Rzolf, SQL on Rails. Taking the VC out of MVC.
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30 March 2006
iGoatse iPod iCase. I'd get one if I didn't have to explain it. "Well you see Pastor, there's this site on the internet..."
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28 March 2006
Billings' Centerfold Sysadmin of the week page.
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23 March 2006
DO NOT PRESS happy fun red button.
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And related to the Starwars transformers. More bizarro starwars merchandise, and bizarro potato(e)head album, including Darth Tater.
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OMFG. Starwars Transformers!.
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I Miss VMS.
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18 March 2006
From Darkover, If your brain ever felt like wool, keep away from these zombies.
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17 March 2006
Lego Aircraft Carrier.
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Live Action Pac-Man. wokka wokka wokka
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16 March 2006
How to Enjoy Sushi, a handy guide for everyone. This is the Samurai way.
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14 March 2006
Another one for Crazy Erin: Ryan vs. Dorkman.
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13 March 2006
Don't know how long it'll be up, but go to google.com and click on the logo. It lives now at mars.google.com.
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10 March 2006
Singing Horses.
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9 March 2006
Important safety tip: don't taser yourself.
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ClikClak, computer-generated cartoon. The ending is sad.
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8 March 2006
How to Survive a Robot Uprising, the author speaks.
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Death to the red meat sellers!! You meat-eaters on Ash Wednesday beware! Your 9/11 is coming! Death to the meat sellers! Death to the meat eaters! Death! Death! Death to those who insult our holy fast!
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From the happy lemur, removing Garfield's thought ballons make Jon seem to be totally insane. But it is one way to make Garfield actually funny again.
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6 March 2006
somewhat controlled helicopter crash. Yikes!
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3 March 2006
Another one for Crazy Erin: Awesome Poster.
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2 March 2006
Praise be to the Hasselhoff. Worth watching all the way to the end.
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From G-R/E.D (indirectly), Fish Emblems. I like the cat one.
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26 February 2006
Andreas Katsulas passes. :'-(
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24 February 2006
From mikeash, Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj .
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For CrazyErin: Elvis Trooper.
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13 February 2006
From Wayne: Serenity Comic with actual muppets. Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
Part 5,
Part 6,
Part 7,
and Part 8.
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Cool multi-point touch screen demo(e).
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10 February 2006
Canon Rock, Taiwanese guitar shredder takes on the Tacobell Canon.
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Jesus, the Muscial. Maybe this is a good excuse for the Lutherans I hang out with to start rioting and burninating stuff.
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Found on #macdev: iobrush, super-duper new paintbrush for the new era. Plus a groovy soundtrack.
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6 February 2006
The group of Lutherans I hang out with sent some folks to the gulf to assist in the rebuilding after Katrina. Pastor Ed Sheehan sent back some notes on what they did down there.
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4 February 2006
looks like someone had already done the 501(c)3 thing for "Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra", so we had to change our name. Hopefuly Google will pick up Three Rivers Festival Orchestra instead. An alternate url is 3rfo.org. Be careful going to trfo.org, lest ye be met with criminal death to the face.
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3 February 2006
From Pink: Mr. T - Treat Your Mother Right.
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1 February 2006
YOU MUST OBEY STEELER BABY
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Electric Company coming out on DVD. Sounds like a job for Silent E.
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20 January 2006
From jo2y: badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger ASCII ASCII.
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19 January 2006
From Grand Rapper E.D., Stove burner.com It's like porn for the, uh, stove burner set.
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16 January 2006
Dr. Bronner Quotes. Reload the page! All One or None! Dilute! Dilute! OK!
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9 January 2006
What time is it?. Click on a spot in the world and find out the local time.
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From PeteJ, sheet music from hell.
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4 January 2006
HappyLemur sends along some more Chuck Norris Humor.
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3 January 2006
The Internet is for Porn, a quasi broadway-musical style tune, performed by WoW characters. Some lyrics NSFW.
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2 January 2006
I really don't like "Planet" sites, and aggregated blog communities. It seems like a great idea, but usually things are either dominated by a small number of verbose semi-coherent individuals who I rarely find saying anything that is interesting to me (like WPLUG Planet and Artima weblogs, or the set of blogs added either aren't really on the topic of the collection, and/or are dominated by a small number of verbose semi-coherent individuals who I rarely find saying anything that is interesting to me (like Planet MacDev). I guess some folks find them useful, but I don't. Maybe that's why i'm not on the cutting edge of Web 2.0.
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30 December 2005
Some friends and I are organizing a new group: The Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra. The goal is to create a group where the strong members of local community orchestras (I think there are 4 of them) can come together and tackle works that are larger and more demanding that what can be attempted by any individual group, such as a Shostakovich symphony. If you're interested in joining, please fill out the survey. (and also this is linked so that TheAllMightyGoogle will index us for "Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra")
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24 December 2005
Another diversion for Kaiser Szuhay: I have no idea what this is called (scroll down) but you can have streams of interacting substances. Fire burns oil and Cera (wax I think), plant grows with water. Namekuji is a slug I think, so grows with water and shrinks with salt. It's weirdly fun.
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22 December 2005
I've put up some clips of me (and my peers) playing various instruments.
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From PeteJ, Pimp My Nutcracker.
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19 December 2005
From DougEDoug, The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd, podcast radio programs, chock full of good puns.
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16 December 2005
Surprisingly, a non-obscene link from Angry Luke in #macdev: Cute Overload.
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14 December 2005
I had no idea there were collections of Chuck Norris joes
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11 December 2005
From human39 on #wplug, Battle of the Rubber Bands. Christmas tunes performed on rubber bands. It's delightfully awful.
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6 December 2005
wplug.org is currently down due to a flood in the CMU server room where our machine is located. wunplugged.org is the temporary home until we get the machine back and installed in a place a little less humid.
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29 November 2005
From Darkover, The Lesser Elvis Banishing Ritual. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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28 November 2005
Crazy Erin (probalby) wasn't involved in creating the Wendy's good to be square website, but it sure looks like her work (or at least sound-effects wise, especially the bloopers and the School of Music) Very silly.
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22 November 2005
Remake of The Prisoner?
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18 November 2005
From Kaiser Suzhay, 20 questions. ANIMAL, but for the web.
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16 November 2005
Mr. T. to lend voice to GPS navigation system. The "Mr. T. talks trash to the driver" clip is hilarious.
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15 November 2005
Many folks have heard through the grape vine that I might be working at Google. It's true. I started today, spending the week out in Mountain View CA for Corporate Disorientation and Assimilation. It's going to be so nice having a regular paycheck again. wooo(t)!
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14 November 2005
Putting this here because it's so hard to find otherwise: Apple Store Finder.
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13 November 2005
If Dr. Seuss wrote for ST:TNG.
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10 November 2005
Hello Kitty's Dark Side.
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9 November 2005
YTMND described in mainstream press.
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6 November 2005
Flutterby pointed out a Cockeyed.com blurb on The Military Uses of Silly String.
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3 November 2005
From Ooo-Man-Skeee, An Eye for Annai. Pleasant gentle little animation.
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2 November 2005
Human39 is asking the internerd to Help Me Pay Off My House. just $1 from 32K visitors is all it takes. I know him in RealLife(tm), and he's a good guy, well worth a buck or two.
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1 November 2005
From DougEDoug, Muppet Central Radio.
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31 October 2005
From Crazy Erin (yes! she's aliiiive!) It's a big ad. Carmina Beeeer-ana.
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30 October 2005
Babylon 5 Scripts is open for business. The FAQ is amusing in places.
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28 October 2005
From Dr. Jones(bio), Gangsta Rap Coloring Book
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From Billings, RAID explained in pictures.
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By popular request, here is my Gig Calendar for the next couple of months.
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24 October 2005
Babylon 5 Scripts, 14 volumes of JMS's B5 scripts.
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23 October 2005
TV Cream's Top 100 Toys, blast from christmas catalogs past.
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Found on memepool, GridGame, kind of like Conway's Life, but different. So far my high score has been 384, but I haven't been trying too hard. bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop.
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21 October 2005
I'm in the Silly Valley (Mt View) now. Quite a fun "drive" down 101. I'm in room 204 for folks who want to hang out and chat friday evening (say starting ~7)
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From a thread over at flutterby, Baby Got Back, the white-bread version.
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19 October 2005
Pittsburgh Unprepared for Full-Scale Zombie Attack.
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18 October 2005
Giant Safety Penguin.
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I'm going to be in the Silly Valley later this week talking to some clients. My friday evening is free (the 21st), and I figured I'd hang out at the hotel. Anyone who would like to drop by and geek-chat is welcome to come. I'll be at the Hotel Avante, 860 E. El Camino Real Mountain View, California 94040. Say after 7:00, either in the room or in the bar/lounge if they have one.
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We had our massive concert weekend. Here's an mp3 of the Muczynski Quintet for Winds, movements 2 and 1 (in that order), featuring our quintet (I'm on bassoon, the spousal over-unit on oboe)
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15 October 2005
Gig Alert: I've got two concerts coming up this weekend (for any readers in the Pittsburgh area). The first is this evening (Saturday 15th), the Edgewood Symphony is performing at East Allegheny High School, 7:30. Highlights include Dvorak's "New World" Symphony and Tchaikovsky's March Slob.
Tomorrow afternoon (Sunday 16th) our woodwind quintet (Zephyrs) is joining with another (Aeolian Winds) to do two Dvoark pieces (Czech Suite, and the Serenade for Winds) at 3:00pm at First Baptist Church in Oakland. It's part of their Sanctuary Concert Series. This one is free admission
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12 October 2005
Trainer for StarWreck. Trek meets B5.
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From the Happy Lemur, The Airline Screening Playset, the review.
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8 October 2005
From #macdev IRC.
2:45<l33pofaith> hi, how do u fix stl on gcc 3.3 for panther? it seems to broken in my machine
2:45* mikeash wonders how anybody could expect a person to be able to answer that
2:46<l33pofaith> :)
2:46<markd2> we look for things
2:46<mikeash> things that make us go!
2:46<markd2> you are smart
2:47<arwyn> you can make us go
2:47<mikeash> I never realized that episode was a tech support allegory before
2:48<arwyn> we are not smart 8)
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From boingboing, Learn to make a FSM Brooch. The original is available on ebay.
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7 October 2005
Bookmark for me: Contrabassoon Technique.
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5 October 2005
If you've already seen Serenity, be sure to check the Screenit! review and make sure you saw everything. At least 1 "s" word, 9 hells, 5 damns, 4 asses, 1 crap, 3 uses of "Oh God" and 1 use of "God" as exclamations.
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3 October 2005
From TSFNKP: iPod, Nikola Tesla Edition.
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1 October 2005
From G-R/E.D. - Bunnies doing Alien in 30 seconds, and Highlander. Also coming up at Angry Alien are War of the Worlds (1953) in October and Star Wars in December.
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Just came back from seeing Serenity. Wow. What a kick in the head. If you're a fan of the series, make sure you don't get any spoilers before seeing it.
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29 September 2005
Now *this* is a feel-good family movie I want to go see. Shining!.
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26 September 2005
Had a nice time with some Visix folk this weekend at Andrew-n-Lisa's wedding. In browsing websites, I came across MrXine's How to win technical arguments.
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Pets in Uniform.
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10 September 2005
From MamaJo, UFO Sightings Maps and Statistics.
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9 September 2005
Flying Spaghetti Monster, the game.
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6 September 2005
Pizza Country, weblog from a pizza place.
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5 September 2005
Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow.
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4 September 2005
For Crazy Erin: I've got a bad feeling about this. Includes a quick remix at the bottom.
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3 September 2005
Cat in a sink. Cat in a sink. What do you think, about a cat in a sink?. Iguana in the Sauna to come next?
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2 September 2005
He Piddies da Foo Who Don't See Rocky XXVIII VI..
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From Rzolf, Kid Beyond's Ableton Live commercial. Human Beatboxes rule(tm). Tribe TV spot with K.B. too.
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1 September 2005
N'Orleans, Before and After.
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30 August 2005
The Mercury probe took some movies of an Earth fly-by. I hope everyone was smiling and waving at the camera.
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Uncle Bob gives Joel the smack-down.
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25 August 2005
A reference nobody will get, Jesus Deer and Jesus Deer Ornaments.
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From Ms. Vious, Cyborg Name Generator. DougEDoug's Cyborg name is a bit on the racy side.
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19 August 2005
From BoingBoing, odd Japanese music video. The music is pretty atrocious, but I like the slo-mo photography.
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From rzolf, Photographing flying insects using "lasers".
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17 August 2005
From billings, Evangelical Scientists refute gravity with new 'intelligent falling' theory.
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From MicroWayne, Google Maps and tracking Hubble and ISS.
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13 August 2005
Play Doom on an iPoodle.
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12 August 2005
From ScottK, Ethel, an insane avant-rock string quartet.
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The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox, or how to fit three bugs into 512 bytes (yes, bytes) of security code. LuxuryYacktman also has a commentary.
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whoa. rzolf blogstyles.
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From Enna, Specialized Weirdo Bikes. There's no April 1st date on the article, so they might be legit. Pretty interesting looking to say the least.
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11 August 2005
From Lupines in #wplug: NetBSD to power toaster. (and by toaster, that's not a cute description of a style of computer. It's actually a toaster.)
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Ms. Vious posted a link to Two Lumps, online comic about a pair of cats, one smart, and one not-so-smart. Cat people will probably enjoy it.
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8 August 2005
Mr. T. and Me, collections of Mr. T. stuff.
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6 August 2005
Old-school mac guys probably remember The Dogcow. Some may even remember TechNote #31 that was the debut of Clarus.
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From T.Trussell, Rime of the Ancient Macintosher, websites running on 68K macs.
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Cave art hoax hits British Museum. Trolley trolley trolley get your adverbs here.
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4 August 2005
The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Makes more sense than Scientology. I really dig the global average temperature vs. number of pirates graph.
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Putting this here so I don't forget about it. FileLight, a pretty cool disk space consumption visualizer. In my copious spare time I want to adapt this for OS X.
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First family of Windows Vista viruses unleashed.
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3 August 2005
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?. A list of Pinky's various responses to that interrogative.
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2 August 2005
Found on GoogleSightseeing, Sprol (probably pronounced "sprawl"), "Negative eco-tourism from Orbit". Today's entry is on Three Mile Island.
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29 July 2005
From Rzolf, We support the guy in china who sells the idiotic magnets.
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28 July 2005
For all you Zombie-fans out there, Undead Focus Group Picks Names For Microsoft Technologies.
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Stolen from Flutterby, Alternative versions of the "Don't make me come down there. -God" billboards you see littering the countryside.
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27 July 2005
For Crazy Erin: Model Star Wars Ships That FLY!
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From Enna, The 3 variable Funny Test. I am *The Ham* (big surprise there). Your humor style: CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | LIGHT.
Your style's mostly goofy, innocent and feel-good. Perfect for parties and for the dads who chaperone them. You can actually get away with corny jokes, and I bet your sense of humor is a guilty pleasure for your friends. People of your type are often the most approachable and popular people in their circle. Your simple & silly good-naturedness is immediately recognizable, and it sets you apart in this sarcastic world. . Bork Bork Bork.
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22 July 2005
We're watching up the CattleCar Galactica DVDs, and every now and then we come across an actor that looks familiar. Doing that we found BattleStar Concordance. Whole lotta stuff there.
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20 July 2005
For folks who enjoy my quotes file, Cluefire and Damnation.
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19 July 2005
I may be a bit late to this party, but nirotorin passed along Star Wars Episode III : A Lost Hope. I especially like the final Jar-Jar scenes.
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18 July 2005
From Rzolf, The Hipster PDA, the ultimate accessory for your Getting Things Done(tm) lifestyle. Plus, it uses no batteries!
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16 July 2005
Found over in Vinoodle's World, he has a link to Google Pedometer. Not an official Google product, but something using the google maps API. It lets you chart a course (like for walking, running, or cycling) and it will tell you the mileage. Start recording, then double-click the spots to go from pointA to pointB to.
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From G-R/E.D. banana mania. That banana guy really gets around.
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14 July 2005
Carter: drop me a line to markd@borkware.com. I don't have your current email.
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Sarah Rush, the "Launch When Ready" woman from Battlestar Galactica.
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12 July 2005
Found over in the land of Flutterby, While my Ukulele Gently Weeps. I had no idea the Uke was a legitimate instrument. This is definitely worth a listen to.
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11 July 2005
In a fit of ego, I decided to google for "markd", and found markd.net, website for a gospel rock band. I figure it's a shortening of marked (by God). Guess I'll have to get a T-Shirt.
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From davb, An addictive graph-based game.
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Kaiser Szuhay has mentioned (in person and via AIM) the hill sprints that come from Matt Furey. I've found a couple of articles of Furey's: Getting started with Hill Sprints and Hill Sprints Get You Fit Fast.
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From Reflex_ibook in #macdev, Color photographs from World War I.
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for emacs folk: dav[e]b in #openacs pointed out IswitchBuffers, an alternative to C-x b. (I haven't tried it yet, but it looks promising)
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5 July 2005
I'm on my first real vacation (that is, no work being done, no concerts being played, no meetings or other general obblgations) in forever. We're down in Deep Creek MD with 6 friends (The "Navy Crew") just hanging out, eating, and not doing much of anything. The house we're renting only has dialup (and the tiBook + AOL isn't cooperating) so we're nerding out at a coffee shop with free WiFi(tm). While here, DaveB passed on The Ridiculously Thorough Guide to Making Your Own Pizza.
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1 July 2005
Anyone speak Slavic? (I think). Redtoade found this quote attributed to him: "Ne smeta me kad ljudi prave gre?ke, samo bih ?elio da prave neke nove" and we're curious what it might mean.
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redtoade, who never gushes about technology, gushes about the emacs planner mode. planner mode on the emacs wiki and webpage / weblog of an enthusiastic fan and current maintainer..
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28 June 2005
A discussion in #macdev wandered over into the world of global thermonuclear destruction (and whether it would make a good game). It reminded me of the Nuclear War card game we played a *lot* in high school. "Got change for 50,000 people?"
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27 June 2005
From AngryLuke on #macdev, The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection, only $8,000 (down $13,000) for 1802 books (700 lbs shipping). Plus if you get the Amazon Visa card, it's an additional $30 off! Woooo! I wish I had the time / money / bookshelf space to get this.
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24 June 2005
The universe is a sick and demented place. Here I am, trying to wean myself off of HFCS-based caffeinated fizzy drinks (the Core Class is over, so I don't need to burn the midnight nose grinding getting stuff done). So what happens? After 30 years of *never* winning anything from "look under the coke cap for a prize. You have a 1 in 10billion chance of winning anything" promotions, I have, in a week's time, won two one-liter bottles of fizzy product.
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22 June 2005
From Rzolf, Tom Cruise Kills Oprah (quicktime). e-meter not included.
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20 June 2005
From Rzolf, one of the WEIRDEST craigslist postings i HAVE SEEN in quite a WHILE.
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15 June 2005
Steve Jobs commencement address.
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11 June 2005
From ScottK: M.C. Escher meets Photoshop.
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9 June 2005
Ms. Vious had a link to a silly "what kind of woodland creature are you?" online test. I answered honestly, and ended up with an unsurprising result (but I have no idea what variable 1 is)
Badger
56% Beast |
| You are a badger. You are quite shy but probably have lots of friends. You may also have a bad temper. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 0% on variable 1 |
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6 June 2005
Too bad there's no Domo-kun merchandise to be found.
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31 May 2005
Also from Rands, DasKeyboard, unlabeled, totally black keyboard. I want one. It goes to eleven.
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From Rands, Life in Stunt City (movie)
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30 May 2005
mp3 time: Bye Bye Blues, with the Westmoreland Symphonic Winds Jazz Band. I've got the solo spots at the beginning and at the (very) end.
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From human39, po(o)p vs. soda. I call it "coke".
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29 May 2005
Found on nutters, FlyGuy, one of the cooler interactive flashimations I've seen in awhile. Reminds me of the old VideoWorks cartoons made on the original macs.
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27 May 2005
From daveb on #openacs, Turn a can of Guinness into a Popsicle.
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26 May 2005
iGuy for your iPod. They should make a brown furry iDomoGuy version.
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Yet Another Wiki, this time at memory-alpha.org . Star Trek (TOS) Episodes, plot summaries and behind-the-scenes goodness.
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CrazyErin caught me with this one. The LJ Drama Generator. Put in your LJ name (or someone you know), and crawls the friends list. Then it plugs them into some pre-canned, yet realistic angsty teen drama. This one was generated using redtoade:
mom was totally unfair to me the other day and now now I can't go to the mall with people :-(.
Oh and edibiase added another meme to their journal. GOD I HATE THAT!!!1!one!
Which is hilarious imagining that coming from the RealToade.
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24 May 2005
I was chatting with CrazyErin this evening, when I used the word "Franglais". I was surprised the Tigger smellchecker didn't flag it. Doing the cool cmd-control-d over the word shows that the Tigger dictionary has it defined. "a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English." (which it is)
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17 May 2005
For domo-kun, A Domo-kun iPod (from boingboing)
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13 May 2005
Spotted in a comment on Fark:
Wendy's: What happen ?
Manager: Somebody set up us the chili.
Ayala: We get finger.
Wendy's: What !
Ayala: Main lawyer turn on.
Wendy's: It's you !!
Lawyer: How are you gentlemen !!
Lawyer: All your bucks are belong to us.
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8 May 2005
While working on my intro-to-programming eBook, I needed to double-check the spelling of "DeLorean" (really!). IN the course of doing doing that, I came across DeLorean.com. There's actually New Products coming out of DeLorean Motor Cars (well, OK, it's replacement parts and books), but it's still kinda cool. Plus there's a virtual warehaus tour, and restoration services. You can also order a refurbished car online.
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The Expressionless Girl (flashimation, annoying soundtrack)
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7 May 2005
Judge Kozinski of some federal court, is apparently known (amongst other things) for having amusing court opinions. this one has ~200 movie titles interwoven amongst the text.
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it's 5/7/5
majesty of short poems
Pooh says "tiddly-pom"
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Satan devalued by 50. 616 is the area code for Grand Rapids, Michigan. hmmm....
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6 May 2005
Barbie USB Drive.
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John C. Welch posts some mild-mannered ponderings about the Star Wars saga. 