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Entries from October 2002

Googlism for Atlanta

October 31st, 2002 · Comments

What IS Atlanta?

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Tags: Atlanta

The Neglected Mixtape

October 29th, 2002 · Comments

The guys over at Pitchfork Media always give me a grin with their unapologetic musical queerness. Check out the latest Neglected Mixtape piece.
The talk about ‘clever’ segueways in the article really hits home. My best ever was following Beastie Boys “Hey Ladies” with Flatt & Scruggs’ “Flint Hill Special” (replacing the banjo kickoff of “5-Piece [...]

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Tags: Music

Weekend Surfing Assignment

October 25th, 2002 · Comments

Your assignment for the weekend:
Wal Mart Recepits Since 1996—no kidding, somebody has saved every WalMart recepit since 1996 and, what’s more, scanned them and put them on a weblog so you can comment. Suprisingly entertaining, really.
Icelandic Weblogs—the beautiful, the vapid, the hearty, the brilliant: the Icelanders.
Talk Dirty To Me
I’ll want a [...]

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Tags: This is Weird

Picasso’s B-Day A La Google

October 25th, 2002 · Comments

How cool is Google? This cool:

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Tags: Art · Geek

Grrrr!ammar

October 25th, 2002 · Comments

Simon Duffy, “writer” for CNN, pulls out this doozy:
After that shooting, a suspect was chased on foot by police who came within a few feet of them before they escaped.
Since when is a suspect them?

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Tags: Grammar and Words

Too Much Time On His Hands

October 23rd, 2002 · Comments

Six Hard Drives. 37 Operating Systems. Holy Cow!
Ah the excitement and boundless possibilities of youth…

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Tags: Geek

In your presence even my shadow acquires the sensation of touch.

October 21st, 2002 · Comments

The Surrealist Compliment Generator

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Tags: Arkansas

Uncanny Resemblance

October 20th, 2002 · Comments

I was going through some old college photos and found this gem.

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Tags: Consumer Fetish

Nothing new under the sun

October 20th, 2002 · Comments

This is nostalgically hilarious. Back in my high school days, though we called it a “beer run” because one ran with the beer. There was also a “Bonzai!” variation on the deal.

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Tags: General

Black People Love Us

October 18th, 2002 · Comments

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Tags: Culture · Funny!

Windows Messaging Spam: Delicious!

October 18th, 2002 · Comments

Has anyone received any Windows Messaging Service spam?
This is a particluarly scary and insipid version of mass marketing that takes advantage of Windows’s built-in messaging capabilities (not to be confused with Windows Instant Messenger, M$’s attempt to steal AOL’s market) to pop a message on your computer terminal.
Messaging Service is used by the system or [...]

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Tags: Geek

what the shit?

October 17th, 2002 · Comments

As far as I can tell this is for real. Or, someone spent a lot of time on a confusing joke.

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Tags: This is Weird

This is Freightening…

October 17th, 2002 · Comments

From Tone:
Brawl Occurs at Youth Football Game

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Tags: Legal Misdeeds

Hangin’ On The Line

October 17th, 2002 · Comments

Today we (Scott B., Chris and I) were on a call puzzling through some mundane and annoying SiteMinder/iPlanet issues. It’s the kind of work nobody wants to do: looking through log files for shreds of evidence and combing through configuration files. We all have mountains of work piling up, with serious consequences and pressure [...]

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Tags: Work

/. on IHT

October 15th, 2002 · Comments

Now the expats are hipped to what us geeks already knew: slashdot rules.
Way to break the big news, International Herald Tribune!

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Tags: Geek