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Reviewing the winners of the Design Julian Assange's Next Hairstyle competition. - Boing Boing

2011 Jan 19, 7:44Lol at Team Rocket Julian Assange.
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Ratatat Rocks

2010 Dec 28, 10:42
I just found out that I like the group Ratatat. I'd first heard them way back when the Zune was first released as the backing for Los Corazones on the zune-arts.net website.




But I didn't know who they were until today when I watched this Filmography 2010 video (via Kottke)



Until about 1:16 in, the music is Ratatat's Nostrand. On the first viewing it drove me crazy because I could only vaguely recall hearing something like that music before. I tracked it down via the zune-arts thing above and eventually found my way to the Nostrand video. Funny, all the recent comments on that one are from people who also just watched the Filmography video.
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Infovore » Something on my mind grapes

2010 Sep 27, 1:39Twitter account that retweets Kanye West's tweets with 'Liz Lemmon, ' prefixed to produce occasionally hilarious 30 Rock quote sound-a-likes.PermalinkCommentshumor 30-rock meme kanye-west mind-grapes twitter

ASRock > Products > ION 330Pro

2010 Jul 26, 1:13PermalinkCommentstechnical purchase product

Animated GIF From Wedding

2010 Jun 13, 3:47From Angie's photos of my wedding there's a sequence of four photos where everyone's holding still except me. Of course I turned this into an animated GIF using GIF Make, to produce my animated wedding GIF. I don't embed the image in the HTML because it is really irritating.PermalinkCommentswedding animated photo personal gif

Douglas Crockford Facts

2010 Mar 18, 7:23Right behind Bruce Schneier, Douglas Crockford now gets his own Facts page including awesome facts like "Crockford is the sole user of the super-strict equality operator (====), which either returns true or kicks you in the balls."PermalinkCommentsdouglas-crockford humor javascript nerd technical

(Video) Playing Rock, Paper, Scissors Against A T-Shirt - PSFK

2010 Jan 20, 2:35Video of augmented reality t-shirt that plays rock paper scissors against you.PermalinkCommentsvideo rock-paper-scissors t-shirt augmented-reality

The Thermals - Now We Can See

2010 Jan 1, 1:20Via http://www.last.fm/music/The+ThermalsPermalinkCommentsmusic rock mp3 free lastfm system:filetype:mp3 system:media:audio

Benji Hughes – Discover music, videos, concerts, & pictures at Last.fm

2009 Dec 22, 7:17Listen to "Why do These Parties Always End" and "You Stood Me Up"PermalinkCommentsmusic benji-hughes electronica folk rock

Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to sound like English Boing Boing

2009 Dec 17, 6:13"In this remarkable and fully rockin' video, an Italian singer performs a rock piece whose lyrics are gibberish intended to sound like English"PermalinkCommentsvideo language english italian rock music

24 ways: Rock Solid HTML Emails

2009 Dec 14, 2:25Recommendations on writing HTML for email clients... Ugh.PermalinkCommentsvia:mattb html email css web reference technical

Vanjamrgan's Gallery

2009 Nov 29, 1:53Fictional characters with beards. "Bearded: Brock Samson, Bearded: Robocop, Bearded: Hellboy, Bearded: Boba Fett, Bearded: Black Mage, Bearded: Wario, Bearded: Clint Eastwood, Bearded: Batman"
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The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion

2009 Oct 30, 10:41All the stuff Nintendo forces developers to take out of the Nintendo Maniac Mansion port. I had read this before and didn't connect after watching Douglas Crockford's JavaScript talk that this was the same guy.PermalinkCommentsdouglas-crockford game videogame nintendo censorship pc history geek

YouTube - JavaScript: The Good Parts

2009 Oct 28, 11:02"This session will expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable and maintainable." Zeke recommended listening to his talks.PermalinkCommentsgoogle video technical douglas-crockford javascript programming presentation jslint web browser

Zork rock anthem - Boing Boing

2009 Sep 29, 10:26Zork walkthrough as song works pretty well actually.PermalinkCommentsmusic mp3 free zork if interactive-fiction game videogame

Why the Music Industry Hates Guitar Hero

2009 Feb 26, 11:41"Aerosmith has reportedly earned more from 'Guitar Hero : Aerosmith' than from any single album in the band's history." Games are usually more expensive than albums but still impressive stat.PermalinkCommentsvia:ethan_t_hein music guitar-hero videogames copyright art media rock-band ip riaa

Sarah and I Are Engaged

2009 Jan 30, 5:21

Shot on the RocksOver the previous weekend Sarah and I got engaged. I had a limo pick us up and take us to a park that has a beautiful view of the Seattle skyline where I proposed, then out for dinner and drinks including a bottle of wine for the ride back. What's the point of a limo ride if you don't drink while being driven around? It was a nice night and only had a hint of rain when we came home. We don't yet have a date set.

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Royal Pingdom - The world's most super-designed data center - fit for a James Bond villain

2009 Jan 8, 5:45"It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Sweden's largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city... The bunker was designed to be able to withstand a near hit by a hydrogen bomb." Wait, you mean it can't take a direct hit? Lame.PermalinkCommentssweden photos design datacenter underground bomb technology

Know Your Meme | Rocketboom

2008 Dec 29, 4:44Rocketboom makes Know Your Meme video explaining the history of various Internet memes with attached example links. Fairly humorous.PermalinkCommentshumor video internet meme history

Party Movies Recommended by Netflix

2008 Sep 18, 10:31
Poster for 24 Hour Party PeoplePoster for Human TrafficPoster for The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down

Netflix has recommended three party movies over my time with Netflix and if you're OK with movies featuring sex, drugs, rock&roll (or techno) as almost the main character then I can recommend at least The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down.

24 Hour Party People is based on the true story of Tony Wilson, journalist, band manager, and club owner (not all at once) around the rise of punk and new wave in England. Like many true-story based movies it starts off strong and very interesting but gets very slow at the end like the writers got bored and just started copying the actual events. Unless you have some interest in the history of music in the 80s in Manchester I don't recommend this movie.

Human Traffic is fun and funny following a group of friends going out for a night of clubbing and partying. I had to get over seeing John Simm as not The Master from Doctor Who but rather as a partying youth. It felt like it was geared towards viewers who were on something like the totally odd techno musical interludes with the characters dancing for no apparent reason. Otherwise the movie was good.

The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down is done in the style of an old educational movie on the topic of clubbing and partying. It sounds like a premise that would get old but they do a good job. While demonstrating drinking and driving they have scientists push a mouse around in a toy convertible. Enough said. It was funny and I recommend it.

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