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Month: May 2007

  • Make your way in the world

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    “Here’s a fantastic 1976 Gong Show appearance of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo who later shortened their name and shifted their musical style from pure cabaret insanity to New Wave.” “Chaos, discord, controversy, argument; the troll often serves as the Erisian element, capable of galvanizing and polarizing unsuspecting groups with his tricks.” [via]…

  • Game developer gets gamed by players

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    So there’s a recent kerfuffle involving accusations of corruption in EVE Online, the game not the ecofeminism. There were some accusations of the developer colluding with favored players that created a stir. Then, after a delay, the game company responds that they’ve been framed; via Slashdot: “The objective of this scheme was to permanently paint…

  • links for 2007-05-28

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    Hogwarts Sock Swap (tags: blog HarryPotter craft meme) Harry Potter Book 7 Sock It or Swap It (tags: blog HarryPotter crafting meme)

  • links for 2007-05-26

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    John O’Donohue Author of “Anam Cara” and others … (tags: Irish spirituality poetry luminary) Saturday Night Live: Don Rickles/Billy Idol – TV.com I loved this episode. Don Rickles was fantastic as he caught all the regular cast flat-footed. Some day I will find this episode again, but it never seems to get played. Hmm ……

  • links for 2007-05-24

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    Skybus Flying from the Bellingham, WA airport … to Columbus, OH only? Well … okay. Not so much. (tags: airlines cheap travel)

  • links for 2007-05-23

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    Oil Lamp. Replica. Roman period 2nd Century C.E. “This lamp, made in the tradition of the work-shop at Jerash in Transjordan, is decorated with pomengranate branches.” (tags: history wishlist) Groom Mate – Battery Free Nose and Ear Hair Trimmer Seemingly hard to find! My grandfather had something like this, but everything now plugs into something.…

  • you rush in and demand

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    you rush in and demand I take you seriously about things that don’t even matter plans for the future that may not occur or that could be made at that time in the future and when a decision has been made you proceed to make new problems for which plans need to be made right…

  • links for 2007-05-22

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    Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women. Without Airbrushing. “To put it simply, Jezebel is a blog for women that will attempt to take all the essentially meaningless but sweet stuff directed our way and give it a little more meaning, while taking more the serious stuff and making it more fun, or more personal, or…

  • links for 2007-05-21

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    Main Page – Space Vagabonds Wiki Space Vagabonds Play by Post RPG wiki, using Risus rules (tags: rpg games roleplaying wiki risus) Homebrew Dot Net Forums :: Index Space Vagabonds Play by Post RPG forum, using Risus rules (tags: rpg games roleplaying risus) Bokardo – Social Design by Joshua Porter “Social design is a subset…

  • links for 2007-05-20

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    Fellow Earthlings’ Wildlife Center “we are the only privately licensed facility that specializes in caring for meerkats” (tags: wildlife sanctuary meerkats) Animal Planet :: Meerkat Manor (tags: meerkats) Firehose “The Slashdot Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist our editors in the story selection process.” (tags: collaboration) Neil Gaiman – “I…

  • If wishes were horses

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    “I don’t know if this is already obvious information, but the name “Unicorn Chaser” is also appropriate for an airline called “Virgin” because of traditional medieval beliefs about unicorns–that they could only be caught or tamed by a virgin.” “‘Spintronics’ research hopes to usher in a new age of computer speed and performance by measuring…

  • links for 2007-05-19

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    The Nag “The Nag is Anti-Apathy’s boisterous new web campaign that makes it very easy for you to do one thing a month to live more sustainably, taking you step-by-step through one low-effort, high-impact action around a lifestyle theme such as energy, food or fas (tags: sustainability collaboration) Welcome to Anti-Apathy | Anti Apathy “Anti-Apathy*…

  • There is no there anywhere anymore

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    “The electronic P-I will carry real-time news, same as the Internet, not yesterday’s news like traditional papers. Readers will turn the e-paper’s pages by touching the flexible screen. And when those readers head off to work, they will roll up the electronic P-I and stuff it in their pocket, purse, or briefcase.” [via] “… Our…

  • links for 2007-05-17

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    Dirty Laundry: Octopuses: a discordant ode to those octopodes (tags: mollusks food) SmartSuckers.html (tags: science mollusks articles) Crafty Pants! » Knifty Knitter Octopi (tags: mollusks crafting) Acrobots (tags: animation art flash fun) Cool business card designs | creativebits (tags: design example BusinessCards)

  • links for 2007-05-16

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    Girl-Wonder.org “Girl-Wonder.org is a collection of sites dedicated to females in mainstream comics. Our goals are to foster an attentive, empowered audience community and to encourage respect and high-quality character depiction within the industry.” (tags: Blog comics feminism culture) When Fangirls Attack (tags: links comics feminism blog) Greengage Jam Recipe – Mrs Beeton Revisited from…

  • Olympia Ecovillage gets a nod in the shower

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    The Seattle Times has an

  • links for 2007-05-15

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    languagehat.com: CIRCUMCELLION. (tags: language terminology history religion) Circumcellions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Using their ‘Israelites’, the Circumcellions would attack random travelers on the road, while shouting ‘Praise the Lord!’ in Latin.” (tags: history wikipedia religion) languagehat.com (tags: Blog academic language) Bad Boys: Circumcellions and Fictive Violence “The aim of this inquiry is not to…

  • Jump up and get down

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    “In short, I’m a lazy, ignorant jerk and that doesn’t open many doors unless you enter politics. But luckily, I think I may have found my new career path: Roman-era Circumcellion.” [via] Kind of reminds me of this oldie but goody:[also]

  • Icebreaker 2 is new old

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    The pending release of Icebreaker 2, a video game that is a sequel to an old 3DO console game that features the virtual pre-cursor to Icehouse pyramids, snuck up on me and yelled, “Boo!” Sorry for this tangent, but this is a game that might have been lost behind obsolete copy protection if that protection…

  • links for 2007-05-14

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    MAC Rhino Fonts (tags: design foundry Typography) The Generator Blog (tags: Blog meme tools graphics) Voodoo Doughnut – The Magic is in the Hole!!! (tags: Portland food shopping ValuesofN) Platial.com (tags: mapping information visualization web2.0 Portland) Introversion Software . About Us (tags: blog games videogames programming) Cynbe’s Humongous Hotlist: Mixed Net Knowledge, Knick-Knacks & Nuts…