We’ll have to see how long it stays like this, but the link to this article from CNN.com’s front page currently reads, “Dominatrix Beats Manslaughter Rap”.
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Monthly Archives: January 2006
U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section III
Hey! Tomorrow is your chance to damage your liver with the 2006 State of The Union Drinking Game!
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Tagged Politics
Falling
On February 3, the crew of the International Space Station will “launch” a new project. They’ll be jettisoning a space suit equipped with sensors and a radio transmitter so that amateur radio operators can track it while it falls.
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Tagged Personal Blather
New Comic Friday
An elephant never forgets his wife’s birthday…
Making the rounds
This music video has been getting some circulation from various folks on-line. Enough so that I can’t remember where I first ran into it (Fark? Wil Wheaton? Andy Ihnatko? Decafbad?)…
Anyway, the video for Keith Schofield and Wintergreen’s song When I Wake Up gives a brief history of the abysmally bad Atari 2600 video game based on the movie ET. The tune is pretty cool. The sight of a bunch of hipsters digging up a desert landfill in search of old video game cartridges is quite chuckleworthy too.
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Tagged Technical Notes
DANGEROUSLY cute
Ran across a dangerously cute flash animation. It’s set up for 3D viewing, kind of reminiscent of the old ViewMaster setup. I found it easiest to view it cross-eyed, but your milage may vary.
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Tagged Personal Blather
Big Gulp
I’m pretty wired right now, and I’ve only had one cup of coffee. Of course, that cup holds the contents of an entire pot. I made sure to make a second pot for everyone else though.
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Tagged Personal Blather
New Comic Friday
It’s time for another new comic!
I’ll apologize in advance if it’s one of those comics that gets a song stuck in your head. I’ve determined through long study that the only way to get rid of a song like that is to give it to someone else. You could do this by humming, singing or whistling, or you could just send folks here to read the comic.
That thing about passing on a song to get rid of it is a scientifically verifiable fact too, not a clever ploy to get more people reading the comic.
Not at all.
Busy busy..
Prepping for an open house at work. We’re giving away two iPods, one Nano, one Shuffle. All faculty & staff are eligible to win, except for me and my direct co-workers, obviously. I’ve preloaded them with music by two of my co-workers’ bands.
Also: made a rigged demo of our new work website. Basically, it’s set up as a slideshow. Each page will automatically refresh with the next page after 10 seconds. Rigged demo slideshows are a fun use of the META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" tag.
Tonight will be cookie baking and decorating time. And maybe washing the sizing out of the new embroidered shirts with the office logo on them.
Sleep may happen at some point too. No guarantees on that though.
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What is Quirkblog?
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