Preference Personnelle
Tuesday, December 30
 
Also from metafilter, Vitamin Q. Lists, trivia, all kinds of fun stuff.
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Via mefi, Alton Brown on mad-cow scares, an article from The Economist on body hair and an article from The Atlantic about Stepford Children. Ooh, and Jim Loudermilk's top tech flops and top tech-before-its-time.
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Sunday, December 28
 
Amateurish middlebrow cultural commentary from Time magazine: Has the Mainstream Run Dry? Of course it has, and this is, of course, only news to Time magazine.
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Monday, December 22
 
Via memepool, and from Lucian James' page (I've mentioned his work here before), American Brandstand, dedicated to counting the occurrence of brand names in popular music. Current leaders: Mercedes-Benz and 50 Cent. And, also via memepool, an Elvis jumpsuit search. And from slashdot, a link to a comparative review of online music services. I wouldn't use any of 'em, but that isn't to say I'm not curious. And, from metafilter, this snazzy zipcode applet. Give it a shot. It's neato.
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Sunday, December 21
 
The Greatest Week in Rock History--the Mefi discussion is more interesting than the Salon article. Take a look at the big hits of, oh, say, 1969, or 1993, or the current Billboard chart. Golden, gilded, interesting times, I don't think this shitrain will ever let up.

And from my pal Laura, If the Library Were Like Amazon.com.
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Friday, December 19
 
Via slashdot, papercraft from Yamaha. Yes, that Yamaha. And, along the same lines, paper polyhedra, paper Nintendo characters, paper robots and the paper Thinkpad.
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Anti-RIAA stuff: on the PETA/Adbusters street theater tip, downhillbattle.org. And, for Nature Conservancy-style vote-with-your-wallet tactics, RIAA Radar, an easy online tool for determining whether that album from Carly Simon, The Coup or Chumbawamba was released by an RIAA member label (yes, no, maybe).
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Wednesday, December 17
 
Here's Games Magazine's Top 100 for the year. Their data goes back quite a ways, too. Good stuff, if only for suggestions as to which games you've never heard of to keep an eye out for at the thrift store. And Gothic Miss Manners.
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On mefi a while ago, and keeps getting more and more entertaining: sidetalking.com, which started out making fun of the N-Gage (which just had MAME ported to it--alas, if I didn't already have a cellphone and a gameboy, I'd be all over that. Wait--wouldn't I just get a PDA/phone combo?) and mutated from there, and fuh2.com, flipping off Hummer H2 drivers (I originally had 'owners,' but please--the owners are mostly banks and GM dealerships).

Also: geek tattoos.

And was it Rachel that was telling me about this? Whirl-mart. Also in the area of anti-consumerism-performance-art, Rev. Billy's Starbucks page.

And, last but not least, I think I've decided what I'm going to get engraved on the back of that iPod I'll probably never buy: Think Differently. I wonder if Apple would object, like when that guy wanted to get 'Sweatshop' printed on his light-customized Nikes.
  7:09 PM 0 comments
 
Let me just say, so there isn't any shadow of a doubt, that I think Spiderman-themed blogger and livejournal templates are an idiotic boondoggle that, rather than hyping a bad movie, will serve only to mark, years from now, the creation dates of a bunch of long-abandoned and very stupid weblogs.

Also, here's a meta-page with best-of-year lists. Aww yeah.
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Tuesday, December 2
 
Here's an article from Cleveland's Scene magazine about the reclusive Bill Watterson.
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A lagniappe of cultural kitsch and B-movie claptrap

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