It’s been a while since I’ve done a shameless plug, so : if you’re fond of ‘vintage blues and various cognates, kith and kin thereof – from a capella to zydeco, including but not limited to deep delta blues, jump blues, Hawaiian slack key, hillbilly, Western swing’ and so on, I most highly recommend Karl Kotas’s (y2karl of Metafilter fame) streaming show here.
I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here, but I think I like it.
I always find the visceral hatred some web-purist types seem to harbour for Flash puzzling, particularly when wacky folk can use it to make trippy stuff like Crankbunny. Each thing in its proper place. Kumbaya, my lord. Something like that.
Happy 70th birthday to Harold Kindall, Jerry Kindall‘s dad. Just ’cause I’m a sentimental old chook, sometimes.
From Iconomy to Styleboost to ThisIsAMagazine. A fruitful hour or so of looking at Nicely Designed Things. Sometimes I just get in the mood to enjoy pretty things. Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters, cursing the preciosity of it all.
I am a man of strong feeling, and in that I am quite consistent. Which direction those strong feelings will go on a given day, however, that tends to be a little harder to predict.
Anil notes some interesting figures of his own : Metafilter, a place I very much enjoy, and one that’s run by just one guy (with a little help from his friends), gets more traffic than the Wall Street Journal, Etrade, ABC TV, or universities like Harvard, at least according to Alexa.
This is kind of staggering, and Anil rightly notes how important the implications may be of such a thing : “..what I’m pointing out is the dynamic… there is momentum behind a future where a Google search on a particular piece of legislation will yield a discussion by ordinary folks on the web ahead of the sponsor’s official platitudes about the bill. ”
Edit : This comes with a few grains of salt, discussed here (of course).
An amusing Google API toy : The Google Smackdown. Brought to you by the same fine individual who made SnapGallery, the XHTML version of which I used to make (with some hand-tweaking) my (experimental – don’t expect much) galleries here.
Edit : I am the KING!
Not unlike What’s Better, which is also kind of fun.
Just in case you weren’t quite certain how harrowingly well Chris Locke can write, I direct your attention to the last few EGR dispatches. That is all.
(Edit : Well, that’s not quite all. I’ll point, as does BB this morning, to Mike’s latest as well, and encourage you to enjoy more phenomenally affecting writing from around the virtual neighbourhood.)
Still…(edit : umm, imagine a rising inflection here which would indicate my susceptability to the patriotism virus, even though yadda yadda….)
I notice [via the impeccable Acts of Volition] that Wired has started putting the entire content of the print edition up on the web. This is happy news for me, as I can’t buy the print edition here in Korea, and even though it cost me more than a 12-pack of Hahn Premium to buy when I lived in Australia, I nonetheless did so regularly, and have been missing it. Not sure if the content divorced from the slippery-paged, sensuous tangibleness of it will make me as happy, as I won’t be able to read it in bed when I have a hangover, but it’s nice to know that it’s at least there. A dry hump is better than no hump at all, nicht wahr?
The ‘Jackhammer Jesus’ dildo. Part of the line of quality products that also includes the ‘Buddha’s Delight’, just to be equal-opportunity offensive, I guess.
I would be interested to talk to someone who would actually want to use one of these puppies. I’m a curious fella, though. Some might say too curious. Some others might say some other things, unpleasant things, things that are just plain mean, but when I stick my fingers in my ears and repeat “I can’t hear you!”, I find I am able to thwart their vicious attacks.
This is a Valuable Strategy, and I encourage you to use it in your very own Personal Life. Checks or money orders to the usual place.
This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder what the hell the bastards who ‘run’ the country are doing to my homeland. I haven’t been back there in more than 4 years now, and although I do sometimes entertain fantasies of going back permanently and hiding in a nice little cabin near a stream, nestled amongst fragrant pines, it’s probably not going to happen anytime soon, if at all, unless you folks buy a lot of Cafe Press crap.
But that doesn’t stop me feeling a wave of despair when I hear the latest statistic, or the newest piece of bad news about how Canada is coming more with each passing year to resemble the Cesspool to the South. I pray that it’s not true, but I suspect that it’s too late.
The look on the face of the ‘baby Jesus’ here is truly classic.
Also : ‘Man and dinosaur lived together peacefully around 2000 BC.’
Update : Ah crap. This link is #1 in the Daypoop Top Forty today. I am now officially Not Worth Reading.
“In 1996, Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert began traveling to different places in the world to make balloon hats for people and take photos of them. The goal was to show people all over the world laughing and having fun, and to emphasize the fact that all human beings are born with the ability to experience joy. In total, they visited 34 countries and have over 10,000 pictures.”
Yes! Dammit, yes! I love these guys.
[via Everlasting Blort]
This is pretty gigantically cool. Takes your keystrokes, turns ’em into abstract art. Not quite sure how, but I’m sure if you root around, you can probably find out.
[via jed]
I’m not sure if friend Kafkaesque is trying to tell me something by linking to this, but I’m feeling a little nervous, I must say.
Says he :
If I should go missing, you know what to do…
Edit : I see your chickenmachines, Kaf, and raise you what would appear to be a device for cutting out the assholes of dead pigs. Pleasant, huh?