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A few weeks ago, I grabbed the BitTorrent file of the full collection of artists playing at SXSW this year - 2.6+ Gb of all new music, over 750 bands worth. (wired article, boing boing article, what’s bittorrent?) Excellent! I’ve got it in my iTunes rotation, and a couple of tunes have come […]

Transparent Screen - peon.master
Originally uploaded by w00kie.
Many more pictures like this at Flickr (which, BTW, was just bought out by Yahoo)
I think this is pretty cool.

I wrote this in November 2001, and just ran across it now. It’s not particularly complete, but it might be of interest to my readers who gamble:
All gambling is, at its heart, an act of worship.
I first became aware of this in my first real gambling experience. I was going to a trade show in […]

Groovy, Colorware is doing Mac Mini’s!
They’ve been doing iPods, G5’s, powerbooks, etc, for a while, but this is new, though not unexpected. First colors are Blaze and Carbon.
Found at 123MacMini

found here
IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.
One night I was sitting in my car outside Columbia University where my wife Shirley was studying Anthropology. While I was waiting I was listening to the radio and heard an interviewer ask ‘Now that you have reached 75 have you any advice for our audience […]

Walking in my neighborhood, I was accosted by a lady shouting “Jesus is coming! To Echo Park! Look at the birds!”
I took her flyer, and she furiously explained to me that Jesus was coming, and you could tell by all the birds in the air.
I’m afraid she’s going to be terribly disappointed on […]