2008 Jun 24, 9:52
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Posts concerning two Ska Fests and a Dodge Ball After Party posted on a light pole.
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canada art victoria marketsquare 2008 Jun 23, 12:13My plans for the Victoria BC trip.
me map victoria canada 2008 Jun 17, 12:32Some of my favs: UFOs creating pyramids, a periodic table of elements consisting of 'Air', 'Water', 'Fire', etc., and satin in overalls burying fossils. I'm surprised by the lack of FSM.
humor via:boingboing satire religion science clothing shopping tshirts evolution intelligent-design 2008 Jun 16, 3:57An awesome and frightening photo of a tornado.
photo nature tornado weather news via:swannman 2008 Jun 10, 4:52"...we were able to generate hundreds of real DMCA takedown notices for ... nonsense devices including several printers and a (non-NAT) wireless access point."
security bittorrent copyright dmca legal mpaa piracy printer research riaa washington 2008 Jun 6, 2:41"After finding him responsible for 27 separate instances of professional misconduct, the Florida Bar has requested that controversial Miami attorney and anti-gaming activist Jack Thompson be
disbarred for 10 years, reports GamePolitics."
game news wired jack-thompson justice finally awesome legal law 2008 Jun 2, 12:57A card game where 'new players are often told only "the only rule you may be told is this one."'. '...the game being a parody of life in the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution,
where the laws changed secretly..."
card history politics game legal parody 2008 May 30, 10:52'"Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment?" The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.... So we sent him out to buy some office supplies.'
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A cowboy welcomes us to historic downtown Scottsdale: "Welcome to Old Town Scottsdale"
street arizona sign cowboy scottsdale welcome sarahsphoto 2008 May 19, 3:47"Ever get nostalgic for the Drive-In movies of yore? Now with the new global guerilla drive-in movement, MobMov, the drive-in is making a comeback--thanks to the wonders of modern technology."
drive-in flash-mob movie car projector 2008 May 19, 12:28"Were he alive, Konrad Kujau, the man who forged...countless paintings, would no doubt feel a tingle of pride for his great-niece...being prosecuted for forging his signature on hundreds of cheap,
Asian-made copies of works such as the Mona Lisa..."
art history fraud 2008 May 19, 11:54Forged fake art: "After being released from prison in 1988, Kujau opened a gallery in Stuttgart where he sold 'authentic fakes'... In fact, his work became so popular that other forgers began to
create forged copies of Kujau's forgeries."
art fraud history via:boingboing.comments konrad-kujau 2008 May 5, 8:59Its vi in Javascript! Woo! Vi is awesome!
via:callmevlad vi vim development javascript editors 2008 May 4, 9:13An explaination of the story behind Pac-Man.
via:ethan_t_hein videogame humor pacman art 2008 May 2, 1:39'...a more cryptic stencil has appeared on the Humber Bay Arch Bridge, boldly proclaiming "ISBN 486-28495-6" for all to see and ponder. This International Standard Book Number turns out to be a
paperback edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden; Or, Life i
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I've finally finished the Baroque Cycle, a historical fiction series set in the 17th and 18th centuries by Neal Stephenson whose work I
always enjoy. There were often delays where I'd forget about the books until I had to take plane somewhere, or get discouraged reading about the character's thoughts on economics, or have
difficulty finding the next volume, or become more engrossed in other books, projects or video games, and leave the Baroque Cycle books untouched for many months at a time. Consequently, my reading
of this series has, I'm ashamed to say, spanned years. After finishing some books which I enjoy I end up hungry for just a bit more to read. For this series I don't need a bit more to read, I'm
done with that, but I do want a badge or maybe a medal. Or barring that, college credit in European History and Macro Economics. I can recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed Neal
Stephenson's other work and has a few years of free time to kill.
history neal stephenson baroque cycle book nontechnical 2008 Apr 30, 12:03"But once upon a time telephones were fiendishly complicated devices that required instructional videos like these!"
history video education phone 2008 Apr 30, 10:48"anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it
gradually turns out to be alright really."
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