Preference Personnelle
I've mentioned 'em
before, but here are this year's
Dumbest Moments in Business. Also, via
slashdot, a
CNN article about complicated consumer electronics and poor confused saps such as myself.
I like this person's
weblog. And here's
blacktable.com, which is... hmm... well, I like their turducken
how-to.
Al Franken tackled a LaRouche supporter at a Dean rally?
What the?
Here's an Ars Technica
article about Apple, mini iPods and pricing strategy. Here are comments, from
Ars and
Slashdot.
Via
slashdot: media preservation--
CDs/
DVDs, from NIST, and
others, from the LOC.
Here's a Rolling Stone
interview with Justin Frankel (of Nullsoft/Winamp/Gnutella/etc fame). Here are /.
comments.
Ha! Ha! The bombs are bursting!
Fire! Fire! In English it's fire!!
Fu Fu! The bombs are increasing!
Hey! Hey! Let's make fires of peace!
Somehow we're always involved
All this time, being either cold or sweating
There are many things to decide
I'm at the edge of a cliff (Hah ha~)
If I have to, I'll do it, regardless of how many times
Raise the power! (Yes~!!)
If I don't do it, who will?
I'll answer the call for hope.
3,2,1 - I won't forget this even when I become an adult.
3,2,1 - Your heart is bursting because you're invincible.
Today and tomorrow
I'm at the edge of a cliff.
Ba! Ba! Babibube bombs!
Good good! Good looking fire!
Pu! Pu! What about fractions?
Bey! Bey! I'm learning about fire!!
--translated lyrics to 'I'm at the Limit,' opening music from
Bomberman Jetters (NA GC version: 1/29/04), via this
faq and fansub group Anime Kraze
Via mefi, some Princeton kid's
Generic Rap Song. Call it a parody of the intellectually-and-artistically-bankrupt style that, y'know, some fools be spittin'. The song/video/essay? I don't necessarily think it's all that, so to speak.
Via mefi,
abandoned bikes and
Ask-A-Linguist (hyphens mine).
Here's a mefi post about damaged books and
marginalia. Oh, the things I've seen.
Also, two crime novelists I like:
Andrew Vachss and
George Pelecanos. Also, I'm a huge
Jim Thompson fan, but, like, guh. The man is the Elvis of crime fiction.
And, two different
mefi threads about Bush and education in Texas (check the first thread for links to anti-five-paragraph-essay
arguments). Here are the main articles referenced, from 60 Minutes II and the
NYT.
Also, in the both-
Slashdot-and-
mefi category, anti-pomo-litcrit stuff from a hard scientist--in this case, an
engineer.
Library worker stuff--
refgrunt, and
refgrunt. I love it, though I still want to find or start an lj group for, like, stupid patron stories.
Even if I didn't like Bob Dylan, I'd still think this
Annotated Blonde on Blonde was superfly fresh.
Here's
lunarama, a directory of 24-hour and late-night places.
The Onion AV Club's
Pathetic Geek Stories has its own site.
Some random guy
hates weblogs. Newsworthy.
Here's a Washington Post article about the
Bush twins.
I don't like streetlights--I like stars.
These folks agree. "Everybody doesn't agree with you--you agree with everybody."
Here's an article about
Athlon coolers. I'll need it when I get that Shuttle. Oh, fractious day.
And, lastly, the
Creative Commons people. Should I publish this weblog under
this license?
This
slashdot thread contains references to Child's Play, Penny Arcade and that NY Post
article about GTA. Metafilter covered many of the same topics
here. Same story with the popular "
What You Can't Say." Here's
/. and
mefi coverage. Ooh, and from Harper's via
mefi,
A History of the Iraq War, Told Entirely in Lies. And more from mefi,
misappropriated retrocrush content, and the art of the
cigarette paper.
Here are memepool posts about
libraries.
Here's a weird
article from Tom's Hardware, seemingly suggesting that people try to become white-box PC vendors. Here are slashdot
comments.
"They go to an all-night emergency waiting room run by Dr. Nick, they ask Smithers if they can go ahead of him. He replies, "Uh no, I'd really rather get this taken care of." He's standing up, while everyone else is sitting which I believe to be a very subtle reference to the legendary problem gay men supposedly come to emergency rooms with, namely having a foreign object in his anus he is unable to remove."
That's not a subtle reference, you dolt, it's an anal fixation. And it's not in the show--it's in your head. Via mefi, this
site seeks to explain ostensibly-obscure Simpsons references like Chez Geuvara's and 'Ich bin ein Springfielder.'
Also, here's Lake Superior State University's annual
list (way to make news, LSSU) of
Banished Words. 'My bad': played out since 1998. I was sick of 'my bad' ten years ago, and I just heard a coworker use it the other day. I'm reminded of that
Straight Dope slogan--Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It's Taking Longer Than We Thought).
