It is a menacing shadow, and if it were available in a larger size it would be my desktop wallpaper right now.
From Christopher Baker, who has more details and a video of the image building up.
Monthly Archives: October 2007
links for 2007-10-17
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Unless you opt out by calling 1-800-333-9956, verizon will be selling your calling habits to anyone interested.
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Hello samples – if you learn by doing this is a good way to browse through some ideas and pick up the patterns.
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Nice bloc party remixes. Uses the little delicious mp3 player.
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Best emo sad song ever, live at austin city limits
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Should you rent or should you buy your home? It takes more than looking at your mortgage payment to answer this question. This calculator helps you weed through the fees, taxes, and monthly payments to help you make a good financial decision.
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via http://mixtapemaestro.blogspot.com/2007/10/klaxons-no-diggity-blackstreet-cover.html :
Play this one over and over. That giddy grin plastered all over your face will never wear off.
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This is extreme poverty in south africa, but don’t worry – it has a nice track and some good looking photos.
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Reminds me of the BBC documentary “The Trap” around episode 2 when they discuss the medication of society. People call thinking the honest solution to their problems might be “somebody to fuck with my grey matter” or “cut part of my brain out”
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This web site helps you generate the letters you need to send to the FBI to get a copy of your own FBI file. We can help you get your files from other “three-letter agencies” (CIA, NSA, DIA, …) too. It’s quick, it’s easy, and best of all, it’s free!
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Here’s an easy way to let Netflix know that you will not be using their DRM video service.
Just:
* Download, print, and cut out the mini-letters.
* Sign one and put it in the sleeve of the DVD you are returning.
* Mail it off.
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Like expensr, etc. web2.0 app that helps you visualize your finances. Seems everyone is getting in on this idea.
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expensr like.
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Expensr like – track money in various ways, get charts.
iPhone support.
Movies: Black Sheep
Dear Internet,
I am watching a random horror movie called “Black Sheep” that is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. It’s a New Zealand horror film about horrible mutant carnivorous sheep. Their bites turn victims into were-sheep.
Were-sheep. The bottom rung of horror monsters.
Also, the acting – it is surprisingly good for a concept this ludicrous. Much better than Peter Jackson’s “Bad Taste” and a thousand times funnier.
links for 2007-10-16
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Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources.
Endorsed by green orgs.How sad is it that my first thought was “It’s a trap!”?
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Steven Pinker helps us understand much that there is to know about cursing. Why, when, where, plus a few good excuses when someone objects and a few good objections when someone attempts to excuse it.
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Time to start fiddling
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Goes through 6 parts of learning about dlinq
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get stats on all areas of your build reports
links for 2007-10-12
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Very nice metaprogramming there sir. Examines your model for columns, outputs a header.
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Gems are system wide. In shared hosting, you can’t elegantly modify them.
Solution: unpack the gem into your app/vendor directory. Now it is local to your app like a plugin. in the vendor dir: gem unpack GEM-NAME -
code analysis tool that combines static code analysis and automatic refactoring to best practices in one application.
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16 classic Ramones tunes – in a style that would have done the Ventures proud! In other words, it’s all instrumental, baby! And with fuzz guitar legend Davie Allan along for the ride, it’s like a wild chopper ride through the surf of Rockaway Beach
Lets all go to the drive in
Hey, NYC friends,
Lets pick a night and go see a drive in movie at grand opening. This car seats six -maybe a triple date?
From their website:
Cruise downtown and park yourself at DRV-IN—Manhattan’s only drive-in cinema. Seven days a week, twice a night, passengers are transported
to another time and place. Under starry skies and the foliage of a potted oak tree, guests watch classic films in a one-of-a-kind 1965 Ford Falcon convertible. With seating for six and a full concession stand, this unique theater setting is one of the Lower East Side’s most intimate experiences. Starting with films from 1960 and progressing chronologically each night, DRV-IN speeds through four decades of cinematic achievement.
Any takers?
links for 2007-10-09
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“…the old janitor on his deathbed
Who demands to see the breasts of his wife
For the one last time
Is the greatest poet who ever lived.”
Books: The Heat Death of the Universe
So long ago that it seems like a dream – I was in a lecture about short stories.
The one thing that stuck in my head meat was a description of a short story called “The Heat Death of the Universe.” In it, the author alternates between describing a young, newlywed mother and the dismal rules of entropy. All closed systems tend towards disorder, and you see a parallel between this woman’s sealed life and our universe. Each tends towards disorder and the end of everything. It sounded amazing and I knew that I’d have to read it some day.
Years passed and it was never really the most important thing to do, but I would think of that story from time to time.  I noodled around on the New York Public Library’s catalog a week or so ago and I requested it. The first story is an instant classic, just amazing. The others are not. One, “Sheep” is a mish mash of repetitive images of sheep, cowboys, an examination of pastoral images, sheep jumping fences, stories collapsing into each other. I’ll save you the pain of it and give you the most amazing quote from it.
“Where the wolf feeds well, it will feed again.”
Right there, in a nutshell, is why it is important to right by the littlest folks, to stand up when you see small problems or small bullies, and to fix broken windows.
links for 2007-10-08
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That’s quite alot of rails tips.
links for 2007-10-06
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Find shows, share shows, stream them or download them. Also, some sort of widget appears to be involved.