The SecurID Drinking Game - this may, in fact, be the nerdiest drinking game I have ever encountered. It’s awesome.
Kabuto returns, sadly diminished - Kabuto, the amazing sushi restaurant I wrote about last August is still open, but the Chronicle and Michael Bauer are disappointed in its new incarnation.
Lazy Monday - The West Coast Response to “Lazy Sunday” - you saw “Lazy Sunday“, of course. Well, now the west side response has dropped.
Yo Redvines is west coast like Tupac Shakizzler
So step off our licorice, go suck on a Twizzler…
Navahoax - Did a struggling white writer of gay erotica become one of multicultural literature’s most celebrated memoirists by passing himself off as Native American?
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Gallery of Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine - this reminds me a bit of James Lileks’ Gallery of Regrettable Food. Both are worth hours of of slightly horrified browsing.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Q & A: Our Omnipotent President - you love Fafblog, yes you do.
You don’t go to war with regular laws, which are made outta red tape and bureaucracy and Neville Chamberlain. You go to war with great big strapping War Laws made outta tanks and cold hard steel and the American Fightin Man and WAR, [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Slug (of Atmosphere) and Murs team up again
FELT is a musical collaboration with the long-term goal of having sex with b-level Hollywood actresses. This record is not for the love of Hip Hop. The album is not to prove whose city has a better-implemented smoking ban. It’s solely a vehicle for rappers to have celebrity [...]
Late Capitalism Rulz - Everyone needs the Shrimp Butler. And remember:
The Shrimp Butler is the ORIGINAL hand-cranked shrimp deveining product. Shelton Corp. urges you NOT to buy the illegal, inferior Chinese knockoff in the marketplace which is an infringement of our USA patents 6,129,621 & 6,273,807.
In the Zone - I don’t know if this is taken out of context, but it’s chilling.
Any motion, anyone who moves in the zone, even if it’s a three-year-old, should be killed. Over.
Also, some debate at the MetaFilter thread from whence this link came.
Prayer for U2 at Japanese Shrine - prayer cards asking U2 to go play in Japan
Dance MMO - like DDR with a couple thousand of your closest friends. Sweet. (Except that it’s not much like DDR, I guess.)
Fast track to a fine vintage? - Japanese company claims to have invented a process for artificially aging and improving wines without the need to cellar them. Interesting, but I’ll be surprised if it works. As would Derrick, I’m guessing. [via Dave, who is totally dropping a P-A reference in that post.]
LiveJournal gets hacked - “thousands” of accounts compromised - Some l33t hax0rz used a XSS scripting attack to get password cookies, prompting a number of changes.
Update: A funny reenactment of the hack.
This is why you should care about what Google does with your info - because it’s not just whether you think Google is evil, it’s also whether or not they retain your information and will allow (or here, may be forced to allow) someone else to look at it. Every search for something on the [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
And the funkiest year ever was… - oh yes. Hip-hop plus geekery. I love it.
Because the Sample FAQ lists the year of the original songs that have been sampled by hip hop producers, we can construct a simple frequency count of the number of samples that used material from a given year.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The Field Guide To North American Hipsters - I think I might be a cross between the “Pop Nerd” and the “Indie Fan”. Hold me.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Believing - Richard Dawkins’ letter to his daughter on why one should believe things. Related: Penn Jillette’s “I Believe” essay on NPR, which might be the most positive, life-affirming atheistic piece I’ve ever read:
I’m not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance - this is actually the first movie in Chan-wook Park’s “Vengeance Trilogy”, but I’ve seen the second two (Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance). According to this review, “it makes Old Boy feel like a Disney cartoon”. Netflix is my friend.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Beautiful Soup - “Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.” And it handles bad markup. Sweet.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The Perfect Cookie? - Open source techniques applied to the problem of making a (relatively) healthy, shelf-stable, interesting, and delicious cookie. Food scientists unite! (I am such a Malcolm Gladwell fanboy.)