Monthly Archives: March 2006
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AllTunes It’s not iTunes. It’s not necessarily illegal. But they are selling music downloads for nine cents a pop. That ends up being about $1.50 an album. (tags: mp3 music shopping downloads) GreenCine Movie Primers If you’re like most people, you’ve probably heard of the French New Wave or Dogme95, but when asked at a [...]
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Shopsin’s Another restaurant I want to visit – Shopsin’s has moved to 54 Carmine Street in NYC, but they’ve still got that big old menu. If you dare, feast your eyes on this menu tour de force, all 11 pages of it. (tags: restaurant nyc food) The Brick Testament There are those who believe it [...]
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Kicking My Teeth In
If you have read this crap for any length of time, then it will come as no surprise to you that I’m an incredibly efficient procrastinator. That should be on my resume. Efficient procrastinator. Knowing this little tidbit about me, it would also come as no surprise that it has been seven plus years since [...]
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How To Fold A Fitted Sheet Making the bed is so much more pleasurable when your sheets have been folded properly – and not only do they take up a lot less space, they look great in your linen cupboard too! Follow this easy step-by-step guide on how to fold a fitted sheet. (tags: storage [...]
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Islands For Sale Worldwide I really need to think about buying one of these when I retire. Maybe geeting a group of people to go in on it with me. At a quick glance, this is the one that I would want. (tags: realestate travel dreams) The Obakemono Project A well illustrated database of the [...]
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What Deener Was Talkin’ About
First of all I have to give mad props out to Billy-Charles for making a favatar plugin that actually works with DreamHost. I wasted half my Saturday trying to get this working. It was definately a case of being too insistant. I have no idea how Billy-Charles got it to work, but somehow he did. [...]
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Denver Public Library Launches eFlicks
Hip hip hurray for the Denver Public Library! Today DPL becomes the first public library in the nation to begin a new eFlicks service (which is now available on the same site as the eBooks and the audio eBooks.) which will allow you download the library’s volume of digital movies. If you wish to download [...]
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Eight Inches Of Hot Italian Beef
I had my first Italian beef sandwich somewhere on the outskirts of downtown Chicago the first time I went out to visit my brother when he was going to school out there. It was probably on Clark Street. I don’t remember the name of the place, just the experience. You haven’t lived if you haven’t [...]
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Boing Bonk
I finally made it onto Boing Boing. Well sort of. This is what was published: UPDATE: Hubs writes, “In the alpine areas here in Colorado we have pink snow too. However, here it is an algae called chlamydomonas nivalis that gives the snow a bright pink hue. It’s called watermelon snow and surprisingly enough it [...]
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Welcome Back, Again
As you all have noticed, hubsville.com has been abandoned. I spent three nice years there. A pleasant little town hubsville was: gentle breezes, white picket fences, bright green grass that always smelled like it had just been mowed, hot women, strong guys, and the most obedient and cutelittle puppies you ever done seen. Did you [...]
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