Monthly Archives: June 2007
State Of Commercialization
I just got that excited/bummed out feeling you get when you see one of your bands on a major corporate TV commercial. I just saw an AT&T ad featuring Mates Of State. The ad features the beautiful song For The Actor. When my emotions boil down, I really am happy for their exposure though. Now [...]
Posted in asides, mp3, music, television Tagged advertising, asides, commercialism, mates-of-state, mp3, music, television, youtube Leave a comment
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Tetris Effect
The Tetris effect is the ability of any activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention to begin to dominate their thoughts, mental images, and dreams.
Dip And Dunk
There was a time when they dotted the landscape in five and dime stores, bus stations, roller rinks, and amusement parks from coast to coast. In todays world of digital photography, finding an oldstyle photobooth (original chemical chemical dip & dunk botths, not the digital ones) is like finding a soda fountain shop – I [...]
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Fictional Medicines & Drugs
As an anecdote (haha) to last weeks WWWoW, here is a list of fictional medicines and drugs. It should be noted that some of the items listed may be used as both medicine and drug, or in other capacities, but fictional works are often vague on such distinctions. Grouping is done by what seems most [...]
Some People Are Luckier Than Others Part V
The rest of the Lucky Series
1 Bit Audio Player
I recently added Mark Wheeler’s wonderful 1 Bit Audio Player to this here website. So now anytime you see this symbol just click on it and it’ll play the associated file (this time it is Thom Yorke’s “Black Swan”). I really like this plugin because it’s simple and lightweight. Thanks Mark! If you’d like to [...]
So I’m On The Run The Cop’s Got My Gun
And right about now it’s time to have some fun. I have my Beastie Boys tickets. Do you? If not, buy them a day early using the pre-sale code MIXUP at ticketmaster. Don’t say I never did anything for you.
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Let Me Ask You A Question
The website wis.dm is really pretty stupid but it is getting a ton of activity. This is how it works: you post a yes or no question, other people answer it. This was my question. I remember having posted to a website with a very similar idea in the past, does anybody remember what it [...]
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Fictional Diseases & Toxins
This is an exhaustive list of nonexistent, named medical conditions which appear in fiction which includes diseases that have evolved naturally, artificially engineered biological weapons, hereditary diseases, magical diseases, and technology-based diseases. I think my favorite is Primary Vocabularyitis, from a episode of Bewitched titled “Samantha the Bard”, that causes Samantha Stephens to speak in [...]
Manu Chao At Red Rocks
About a month ago I was giving my girlfriend a hard time about never taking me out on a date. Well it turns out that she actually took my pestering to heart. I’m surprised she bit, I was really just needling her, trying to get a rise out of her. (Wow there was a lot [...]
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Pizza A La Disgusting
Tired of the same old cheese and pepperoni ‘za? This website will generate a random pizza for you. Mine was a thin crust with red sauce and blue cheese, roasted garlic, squash, and smoked salmon as toppings. Yuck!
Panic On The Rocks