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Entries from October 2002
Googlism for Atlanta
October 31st, 2002 · Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: This is Weird
Picasso’s B-Day A La Google
October 25th, 2002 · Comments
How cool is Google? This cool:
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?
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…
Tags: Geek
In your presence even my shadow acquires the sensation of touch.
October 21st, 2002 · Comments
The Surrealist Compliment Generator
Tags: Arkansas
Uncanny Resemblance
October 20th, 2002 · Comments
I was going through some old college photos and found this gem.
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.
Tags: General
Black People Love Us
October 18th, 2002 · Comments
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 [...]
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.
Tags: This is Weird
This is Freightening…
October 17th, 2002 · Comments
From Tone:
Brawl Occurs at Youth Football Game
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 [...]
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!
Tags: Geek





