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¶ by Rob FrieselToday’s Real Life is a classic. Freakin’-A – – don’t I feel like this every day?
Today’s Real Life is a classic. Freakin’-A – – don’t I feel like this every day?
Nam June Paik passed away yesterday at age 73. The world mourns the passing of a true genius. His legacy lives on in video installations and robot families everywhere.
Saw this yellow/black Poe stencil featured over on Beyond the Beyond. It’s cool. Check it out!
Exxon-Mobil reports 2005Q4 as being one of record profits. $10.7 billion in profits. Revenue rose 20 percent to $99.7 billion as rising demand and hurricanes lifted prices for oil, natural gas and gasoline. Full-year revenue was $371 billion, pushing Exxon Mobil past Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as the largest U.S. company by sales. The average U.S. […]
Suburbia. An impending apocalypse. Stockpiling food. Organizing. Family members missing. A wife that is unfamiliar and isn’t fit to be called partner. Adopted daughters. A missing son. The house is too big an unfamiliar. Cardboard boxes won’t do it. There’s looting. Protect yourself from the looting. Ride that out and you’re still not safe. But […]
Open note to all those working on the “social software product[s]” of “Web 2.0” (or are otherwise pre-gaming for Zeldman’s hypothetical Web 3.0): Semantic equivalents in tagging apps. I don’t think this is anything remotely like a new idea but SERIOUSLY please make your applications smart. And by “smart”, I mean that if you’re going […]
Via Boing Boing: Sliwinski at In Newsweekly reports on Blizzard’s roundabout discriminatory policies re: World of Warcraft. The response from Blizzard was, “While we appreciate and understand your point of view, we do feel that the advertisement of a ‘GLBT friendly’ guild is very likely to result in harassment for players that may not have […]
I’m on the St. Mary’s campus and they’ve recently installed a new outdoor theater. The theater reminds me of that famous one from Central Park except that this one is partly underground. I’m there to witness a dress rehearsal of some student-written play (or perhaps the writer was a graduate, I cannot recall). A friend […]
“Teaching Math” through the ages…
Fafblog! presents, in the continuing War on Terror: the Department of Baby-Eating: Q. How many non-terrorist babies would it be acceptible for the president to accidentally eat in the course of enforcing a rigorous terrorist baby-eating program? A. First of all, the president would never ever eat a baby unless it was reasonably suspected to […]