www.sfbacell.com: a comparison of bay area cell phone carriers. Thinking about switching carriers, and splurging for a Treo 600 in the bargain...
3-day GOES 12 and 10 X-ray Flux Monitor: hey kids, the Sun just gave everybody a dental x-ray!
Nah, this is the book:
Satan Burger.
God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossesing your souls and feeding them to a large vagina-like machine called the Walm - an interdimensional doorway that brings His New Children into the world. He loves these new children, but He doesn't love you. They are more interesting than you. They are beautiful, psychotic, magical, sex-crazed, and deadly. They are turning your cities into apocalyptic chaos, and there's nothing you can do about it ...
Featuring: a narrator who sees his body from a third-person perspective, a man whose flesh is dead but his body parts are alive and running amok, an overweight messiah, the personal life of the Grim Reaper, lots of classy sex and violence, and a motley group of squatter punks that team up with the devil to find their place in a world that doesn't want them anymore.
Electric Jesus Corpse.
"The twisted and surreal version of the story of Jesus Christ set in a bizarre version of modern day Earth that has been ravaged by war and cannibal zombie plagues, where the landscape is slowly mutating into meat and human flesh is transforming into machine. The novel follows Christ's twelve apostles. However, in this world the apostles are pimps, necrophiliacs, skinheads, and other assorted freaks. And they have no desire to follow Jesus Christ on his crusade to save humanity whatsoever. So this novel follows the lives of these never-been apostles on their separate epic journeys into the bizarre. An awkward and chaotic work of art that is like nothing you've ever seen"
Dang, my public library doesn't have it on their shelves.
I did a little more reading on
Structuralism and Saussure. It's like the liberal education I never got.
"Land Warrior Follows Simpler Path": the military clues in that Microsoft software is not sufficient for mission critical applications, such as battlefield equipment. The solution? Linux. Yee haw!
Reminds me of the quote from Wired's
recent interview with Linus, that "time has shown a strong correlation between a company's stock price and the vigor with which that company has embraced Linux." Not necessarily an accurate description of recent history, but perhaps a good predictor of the future...
KCRW is a pretty kick-ass independent radio station. Of course, it's no WFMU, but
Morning Becomes Eclectic is a great radio program.
I met
Ferdinand de Saussure on a night like this. On love, he said, "I'm not so sure I even know what it is. No understanding, no closure. It is a nemesis.
You can't use a bulldozer to study orchids," he said, "so
we don't know anything you don't know. Anything, I don't know anything about love. But we are nothing, you are nothing, I am nothing without love." I'm just
a great composer and not a violent man, but I lost my composure and I shot Ferdinand, crying, "It's well and
kosher to say you don't understand, but this is for
Holland-Dozier-Holland!" His last words were...
His fading words were...
Finally, a wiki that makes sense to me ...
FrontPage - MoinMoin Wiki
Sure to go down in infamy as one of as one of the worst interview train-wrecks in NPR history, Fresh Air's Terry Gross attempted to
interview Bill O'Reilly. Bill rants incessantly, accuses NPR lapdog Gross of "attacking" him, and finally storms out of the interview in a huff.
Somehow, this interview cheered me a little.
Because the world needs to do everything in SVG format:
Delineate - raster to SVG converter. Only a matter of time before somebody adds animation to SVG, anyway.
Lord help me, I'm being forced to program
GNU Emacs Lisp
Nikhila and I have been doing the Weight Watchers program for a week now, and tomorrow we start
Boot Camp. Wish us luck.
I just accidentally discovered a new Google feature:
Google Press Center: Zeitgeist. It's a bit like Adam's old "Rocks" idea.
Hey Adam, take a look at these
Indian Wedding Invitations. I really like the D57/SF/P36 design. The only thing that's wrong with it is that it would be really cool if it could somehow combine hindu and jewish symbology. What do you think about helping me and Nikhila print up a card very similar to this, that we design ourselves? Do you think it can be done nicely, yet inexpensively? A professional printer, or could we print them ourselves? What do you think?
