• Archive for May, 2008

    The foo.ca Garage Sale

    by  • 5/27/2008 • movies, music • 0 Comments

    In the interests of reducing space, I’m getting rid of a lot of media that we simply don’t listen to or watch anymore. It’s just so bulky… There’s a table of just over sixty items continued after the jump, all DVDs and CDs at this point; just things that I have listed in the Amazon [...]

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    Twitter from space

    by  • 5/25/2008 • geek, science • 0 Comments

    I still don’t quite get twitter, but this is amusing… The Phoenix Lander has a twitter feed written in the first person. It would be so much more interesting if the messages were actually being sent from the lander itself, rather than some NASA geek in mission control, but I’ll try to suspend my disbelief [...]

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    Houston; The Phoenix Has Landed.

    by  • 5/25/2008 • science • 0 Comments

    PASADENA, Calif. — ­ NASA’s Phoenix Mars spacecraft appears to have made a safe landing on Mars. Just before 8 p.m. Eastern time, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here received a radio signal from the Phoenix on the ground in the icy plains north of Mars’ Arctic circle. Because the signal was relayed [...]

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    Noise and Experimental Music

    by  • 5/25/2008 • insanity, music • 3 Comments

    I’ve been using this post, saved away in my drafts folder for a while, investigating artists and labels. The starting point was a list of companies that distributed or released a some Merzbow recordings, and it kind of grew from there. I decided I’d clean it up a bit and share it. If anyone’s thinking [...]

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    Advance Copies

    by  • 5/25/2008 • music, Vancouver • 0 Comments

    There’s just something about getting a CD before everyone else; hearing a CD months before the pointi n time that the band’s label decided to open the gates to the public. That is really 70% of the attraction that I have had to music journalism; the other 30% split between free concerts, photo passes and [...]

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    15 Minutes is Rarely Enough

    by  • 5/24/2008 • humor, music, video • 0 Comments

    Check out all those Net Celebs in the new Weezer video, Pork and Beans I’m a bit saddened that Tay Zonday is noticeably not providing vocals on the track. There are a number of ‘behind the scenes’ videos around the shoot, focusing on some of the ‘talent’ that was there for the day, including one [...]

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    Macintosh Warranty Support

    by  • 5/24/2008 • life • 0 Comments

    Well, I broke down last week and took the belligerent laptop in for service after I backed everything up over wi-fi to another computer on the home network. It’s difficult to prove that a computer is broken if it works whenever you take it in for service, so I was really hoping that it wouldn’t [...]

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    Nobody knows why, though

    by  • 5/23/2008 • humor • 0 Comments

    Mike Sacks has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, McSweeney’s, Radar, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, and Salon. He works on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair magazine. Mick Sacks has a collection of Photos of TV that just couldn’t be real… well, perhaps they shouldn’t be, but are. You [...]

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    Nagorny Karabach / In The Garden

    by  • 5/21/2008 • music, video • 0 Comments

    All this waiting, Blixa… Come and pay me a visit I have unlimited time and the view is most lovely over the clouds and the town in Nagorny Karabakh You will find me if you want me in the garden unless it’s pouring down with rain You will find me waiting through sping and summer [...]

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    The Quotable Einstein

    by  • 5/21/2008 • atheism, science • 0 Comments

    While Albert Einstein is not a final resource on the non-existence of God, this quote from a letter recently auctioned off should help to set the record straight when Einstein is claimed as a man of religion by Christians in debates. “Das Wort Gott ist für mich nichts als Ausdruck und Produkt menschlicher Schwächen, die [...]

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