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The Bug Count Also Rises

I've updated my resume.

VST List: my blog for keeping track of electronic music resources online.

WebMailCompose: fix firefox so that mailto URLs work with GMail.

"We do not have all the fucking time in the world to draw up cost-benefit analyses on potential long-term pairings. If you're not swept the fuck away by your lady, move the fuck on. If you're not gritting your teeth and biting the palm of your hand like goddamn Squiggy every time she walks by, get over it. If you're not having the best sex of your life - and this is when you do that, dummies, in your mid-fucking-thirties, this is your big fucking shot at great sex, or at least this is where it starts - if you're not blown away, freaking out, breaking out, thrilled, shivery, talking a lot, sending stupid fucking emails to each other, rolling around, sighing, bragging, buying dumb little gifts - then how do you think you'll feel in a few years when you're fucking old and creaky and you have three little doo-doo factories in residence? You fucking dumbass honky-ass losers."

What Killed Off The GOP Deficit Hawks?

OK Soda

I'm so much happier than I was in 1946; I am not Amish, and I only have 6 jams to choose from.

Wal-Mart? Never. Not me. Outrageous.

Too cool: I just got a squeezebox so that I can finally listen to my mp3s in my bedroom. But to get network connectivity in my bedroom, I needed a 802.11g router. Well, oops, actually, what I really needed was a bridge, not a router. Can this router be configured to be a client instead of an access point? Alas, not with the existing firmware. Fortunately, a group of hackers in seattle reverse-engineered my router. Turns out the thing is running a MIPS-based linux kernel inside. Linksys recently GPL'ed their entire source code tree for this router, and free pirate firmware upgrades are available for the taking. Not only does the new firmware let me run my router in client mode, bridging my wireless network, but it has also turned my $60 wireless router into a full-service linux server, with busybox, ssh, apache, traffic shaping, etc. Damn, that's sexy. Plus, the music in my bedroom works now.

You don't want toenails growing in the brain; dance, you rat, dance!

God bless Professor Myers: And look at me! I’m a big ol’ grim poopy-headed atheist, and I’ve got a Christmas tree in my living room and stockings by the fireplace. When the pitchfork-waving mob descends on my house to pillory me for my anti-Christmas sentiment, they’re going to have to walk under the mistletoe, and then I’m going to have to kiss ‘em all. And serve eggnog. (working from a coffee shop today, sipping an eggnog latte myself.)

Salon publishes the best year-in-review article ever, on the complete collapse of human sensuality in the year 2004: "The rape charges filed against Kobe Bryant disappeared once we learned enough about his alleged victim (her name, that she had taken drugs and suffered depression in college, and that she had in fact had sex with other men besides Bryant) to know for sure that she was un-rape-able. An emotionally unstable young woman who has sex with multiple partners is, after all, penetration waiting to happen; it's just a matter of which professional athlete happens to walk by and fall helplessly into her gaping vagina first." Come on, Salon is only $35/year. I pay 4 times that amount just for the pleasure of listening to Terri Gross's dulcet voice in my car 3 days a week.

Bush Prepares for Possible Shutdown of GPS Network in National Crisis

Bill Moyers on Our Religeously Nutty Congress, Health and the Global Environment.

Google Answers: Making BreakBeat music

NPR: All Songs Considered

Why is this in the news in Sep 2004? it's a 2-year old book.

Take a Vacation from your Blackberry and other intrusive devices.

I just watched the first disk of Satoshi Kon's new anime series, Paranoia Agent. It's brilliant -- this is one of those rare works that is going to take anime up to another level of storytelling.

Review: Kon hints that Shonen Bat somehow works in much the same manner as that stomach ache you get when you don’t want to show up for an appointment, a kind of survival technique developed as the next step in evolution – a function of society that relieves stress through a violent outside agent.

Fansub torrents can still be found at anime-kraze.net.

Waste hours: HeroMachine

synthopia

Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com

Blogging from the future? For ground-truth reference, I'm blogging this on Dec 1, 2004 at 8:12 Eastern. What does the Blog Clock say?

Immersion Technology with full horizontal mobility. Imagine a 3-D version with ability to move up or down stairs. Tough to create an inclined smooth surface.

Today is World AIDS Day. And, hallelujah, a piece of good news: a vaccine-like treatment is showing positive results in human trials. Note that this isn't a vaccine, it's a vaccine-like therapy. It can't be used for prevention, and it's unlikely to be more cost-effective than anti-retroviral medication. So, once again the populations most at risk are least likely to benefit. Still, one more arrow in the quiver... Now, if only we could control human behavior. Look, if you are undergoing treatment for a life-threatening, incurable STD, please stop fucking people. Thanks.

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