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Mike Doughty in SF

Mike Doughty is playing on Thursday, Sept. 24 - San Francisco CA at The Fillmore (w/ Karl Denson). I wanna go!

dan on 09.15.04 @ 09:28 AM PST [link]

Windows Characters and Their Use in HTML

Windows Characters and their use in HTML

Dan on 09.14.04 @ 09:54 PM PST [link]

The Guy Game

I bet that The Guy Game is probably getting a lot of publicity anyhow... but how could I not bring it up? See? There's a formula... $x + sex = $$$.

Dan on 09.13.04 @ 11:02 PM PST [link]

Mad Magazine's Bush vs. Jesus Campaign Ad

If George W. were running against Jesus Christ for President, this is what his campaign ad might look like.

Dan on 09.12.04 @ 08:22 PM PST [link]

Star Wars Origami

Kind in alignment with Ross' post, here's some Star Wars Origami.

Dan on 09.10.04 @ 01:54 PM PST [link]

Digital Girlfriend, Part Two

First there was the cell-phone girlfriend, and now cyber-vixens are going to be in Playboy. What more can be said but "huh?" Ok, maybe "wow."

Dan on 09.09.04 @ 09:32 PM PST [link]

FreeMind, Organization, Etc.

FreeMind is a really hip outlining/mind mapping tool. Yes, that's all for today... well... "Getting Things Done" was a bit of a meme on del.icio.us today.

Dan on 09.08.04 @ 10:23 PM PST [link]

Jane Siberry's First Album

If you ever see this album (Jane Siberry - ) for sale anywhere, buy it immediately. If you buy it for me, I will reimburse you... though if you listened to it first, I'd probably have to rip it from your cold, dead fingers.

I wish I could find a copy of it to buy, and that it was still in print.

Dan on 09.06.04 @ 12:57 AM PST [link]

Porn Star or My Little Pony?

Obviously, I'm sweet and innocent, because I totally failed this quiz. Literally. I got a 33%.

Dan on 09.06.04 @ 12:48 AM PST [link]

Corpus Callosum

Last night Scott and I headed over to Barefoot Coffee Roasters to hang and work out some game ideas... and were met with a distinct serendipitous pleasure... Corpus Callosum.

Corpus Callosum is one of the most interesting bands I've seen in a while... and I don't mean "interesting" in the "yeah, that's the nicest thing I can think of to say about them" way. I mean, they're actually interesting. Aside from a semi-superfluous reference to Avery's vocals sounding a bit Tom Waits-ish every now and then (and well, particular bits of some of their songs remind me of Waits' song "Underground"), they're difficult to categorize. To me, they sound the way the inside of Grant Lee Buffalo's album "Jubilee" looks, or rather, what I'd have expected GLB to sound like based only on looking at the album art. I'm trying to compare them to something they're not or categorize them, and it's difficult... so this is an exercise in futility... because it's insanely difficult to compare a band that's so dazzingly brilliant and original to the mundane crap one hears regularly. It's hard not to like a band who plays a lullabye with yelling in the middle of it... yet they're much more than that.

Listen to some of the samples on their web site, or even better... try to make it to one of their shows... or even better yet... listen to the samples on their web site, make it to one of their shows, and buy their CDs. That's what I did, and I'm all the better for it.

Dan on 09.05.04 @ 02:18 PM PST [link]

Obscene and Vulgar

This is one of the most obscene and vulgar things I have seen in quite a long time. Don't click the link unless you think you can stomach something that a girl who named herself after a gorilla with a kitten would probably adore. (Amazingly, the link is "work safe" though it is highly disturbing.)

Dan on 09.04.04 @ 11:11 AM PST [link]

Hooters In India... No, I'm Not Making It Up.

I'm totally not making this up... Hooters is planning to expand into India.

"The outfits don’t change. We make some allowances for local menu," said Mike McNeil, vice president of marketing for Hooters of America . "We might have the steak sandwich, but you might also be able to get fish and rice or curried chicken or something like that."
The steak sandwich might not fly. Hindu diets specifically prohibit beef. McDonald's India, for example, offers a Chicken Maharaja Mac as well as the vegetarian McAloo Tikki Burger.

I wonder when Hooters will open a store in the Middle East... orange shorts, a skimpy t-shirt, and an orange veil... yeah, that'll promote, uh "peace."

Say what you will about the place, I think their Buffalo wings with a pitcher of Heinekin is all that. I've never understood the orange shorts... as if orange is somehow "sexy" or something? Well, maybe it is if you're a grapefruit (whatever that means).

Dan on 09.04.04 @ 12:03 AM PST [link]

MD5CRK

There's a distributed computing project to attempt to crack the MD5 algorithm. For those who don't know... MD5 is a one-way hashing algorithm... so, basically, one puts in "Man Dan, that is cool!!!" and gets "f3e088a9ce9f28910a7ee18b65a49374" out. This is useful for storing passwords in a database, for example... because when the user enters a password it can be hashed and then compared to the hash stored in the database.
Basically, this allows one to store passwords in a way that's extremely difficult to figure out, in the event that one's DB is hijacked.
I know, I know... I'll post more links to pictures of bikini car washes soon.

Dan on 09.03.04 @ 11:18 PM PST [link]

Santa Knows Who Has Been Naughty Or Nice

Why is this kid smiling like that? Click him to find out.

I bet that he's not only getting coal for Christmas, but maybe he's going to go to Hell too.

(Not "work-unsafe" exactly... but probably not overly advisable either.)

Dan on 09.02.04 @ 11:37 PM PST [link]

Something I Learned Today...

I'm just passin' on a little something I learned today... Life is much better with a little Maceo.

Give it to the drummer, give it to the drummer, give it to the funky drummer...

Dan on 09.01.04 @ 10:01 PM PST [link]