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Via afoundobject:

IF YOUR LIFE WERE A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here’s how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie.

Opening Credits: Mark Farina “Midnight Calling (Fly Amanita remix)”

Birth: Bob Marley & The Wailers “One Foundation”

First Day At School: Prefuse 73 “Mantra Two”

Falling in Love: Broadcast “Poem of Dead Song”

Fight Song: Jeffee “Down Like This”

Breaking Up: Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Power of Equality”

Prom: BT “Movement in Still Life”

Life: H-Foundation “Release”

Mental Breakdown: Circulation “Magenta”

Driving: Breeder “Beetlejuice”

Flashback: Ministry “Stigmata”

Wedding: Ella Fitzgerald “Because of Rain”

Birth Of Child: Equinox “Contact”

Final Battle: Pink Floyd “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”

Death Scene: Faith No More “Underwater Love”

Funeral: Badly Drawn Boy “Stone On The Water”

Ending Credits: Nightmares On Wax “Rise (reprise)”

Hard to say what’s up with the last couple nights’ worth of dreams.  There have definitely been dreams but by the time I awake…  There’s nothing substantive.  Nothing to write on.

Which is weird because I also wake up with a feeling that I had just been through some epic, truly Homeric adventure.

Last night (for example) was some post-Star Wars adaptation.  Like Timothy Zahn meets Anne Rice meets Tom Clancy adaptation.  Luke Skywalker as the troubled, sexually inadequate hero.  Some expansive story into which I was deeply embroiled and yet … the moment that wakefulness returns there is not enough detail to write it down.

The night before was almost the same.  Some expansive world that was all underground.  I was shadowing Frederico from Six Feet Under and yet he was cast in some different role and yet not and yet there I was, following him through this subterranean suburbia … rivers and narrow wooden bridges and townhouses and dark dark dark as far as the eye can see.  Where were we going?  What were we doing?  Not enough to write it down … but the images too potent to just let go and forget.

In a way, it’s nice…  A healthy dream life is usually indicative of lots of good things.  But it’s also frustrating to wake up and have forgotten so much of that world.  C’est la vie?

currently playing: Fatboy Slim “Santa Cruz”

In an attempt to stay true to the household’s hostname naming convention, a recently acquired 4GB SanDisk Cruzer needed a name… While “double” may have been more appropriate for a 2GB, I’ve certainly never heard of anyone buckling down to the bar and ordering a quadruple.

At any rate, no one “out there” on the interweb had a decent icon of a shotglass worth the name. So I made my own. Based on this shot from Club Charles in Baltimore (wow, almost three years ago?), I think it will do nicely. Preview:

And the Mac icon (icns) download: double.zip

Perfect? Hardly. But worlds better than the one cartoony example I did find.

And to John: I blame my Manhattan crazvings on you, sir. That was THIS night…

currently playing: Maritime “Parade of Punk Rock T-shirts”

• Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading
  via Fimoculous.com (via Anil Dash) - - an aggregated “best of ‘06″ with a little bit of everything (subjects-wise…)
  (tags: blog writing todo)
• Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches
  via LifeHacker: “Tip #1: Use the Correct Methodology” (duh? hmm…)
  (tags: google search tutorial todo)

Was I out to lunch on this aspect of the Flickr maps when it came out? Or did they just add this recently? Observe:

See the little blue dot in the lower-left corner of the thumbnail? When I first loaded up the map this evening I saw that most of them had it. And the only one that didn’t was one I hadn’t geotagged yet. So I let my curiosity get the better of me and I clicked on it:

…and sure enough it goes to that spot on the map with the call-out for the photo’s geotagged location. Neat! Put it all together (with my annotation, of course):

(click for to make big)

Anyway… I thought it was pretty spiffy.

currently playing: Fluke “Setback”