Paranoia XP
I saw this morning in my aggregator that a new version of the classic game Paranoia is in the works. The press release is funny, written in the same style as the game itself, starting from the opening line:
The Computer says that failure to feature this announcement prominently is treason. Treason is punishable by summary [...]
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Referer Spam For America
Here’s a great way to not get my vote: run a presidential campaign and hire a referer spam company to put bogus links on my page. Fresh out of my access_log comes this:
172.144.61.107 - - [18/Feb/2004:17:34:22 -0600] “HEAD /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi HTTP/1.1″ 200 0 “http://blog.johnkerry.com” “StarProse Referrer Advertising System 2004″
It’s not like this is more important than [...]
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Paybacks are a Bitch
Joshua Whalen lays out a plan to let the media and the right wing know that the left is not taking the political assassination of Dean lightly. Wow. What does it say about me that I think this is a good idea?
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Epilogue
5 days after the Technorati experiment began, I see that The Contortionist’s Handook is still bouncing around on the Technorati products list. It’s been entirely off at times, but I just checked and it was back on. I’m thinking this has more to do with the other books than TCH, as the coordinated mentions relax [...]
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Cory Doctrow on eBooks, Me on PDAs
Last night I read the Cory Doctrow speech Neither E nor Books which is probably the most agreement I’ve ever had with Cory’s writing. He made a lot of points that I’ve been making here over and over, that ebooks are not a replacement across the board for paper and we shouldn’t force them into [...]
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“Science Fiction by Lou Reed or David Bowie”
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an interesting interview with William Gibson. One thing I’d never heard before is that the epiphany that set him off was seeing an ad for the portable (for the times) Apple IIc in a bus stop. The combination of tech and style got him thinking at it took off from there. [...]
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Low Tech Wins Again
Via Futurismic comes this low tech way to guarantee a winning cap in the Pepsi iTunes giveaway. It seems like this should actually work with almost any giveaway of any kind, as long as the losing and winning text are sufficiently distinguishable. Enjoy it while you can, as this will almost surely lead to a [...]
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Rip Off the Hood of Your Desoto and Send it In
Here’s a little on my friend, the late Fred Runde Jr, raconteur and DJ about town. Fred was a cute old man, and girls loved him in that way that they can only care for kindly old gents. He liked to surround himself with young female cohosts whenever he could, and for years he used [...]
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This Old Body
I haven’t been posting my fitness progress for one sad reason: there has been none! Coincident with the time I wanted to commit to my plan, I had a lot of changes in my life. Not the least of which is that instead of working in my home, spending most of my time in the [...]
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Today’s the Day
Like a fool, I did not do the voter registration when I changed my driver’s license. If you want to vote in the Illinois primary — which I do — you must be registered by today. I’ll be walking over to the Cook County office building at lunch time and taking care of that. If [...]
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End of the Line
I was going to make a blog post about the Technorati business, including mine and Taran’s email on it but on further reflection and after looking back over it all, screw it. I think most of this is based on his underreading of my original post - first he seemed to think we hadn’t read [...]
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Fred Runde, 1915 - 2004
Fred Runde, the long time host of WREK’s Desoto Hour big band jazz show, has passed away. Here is his obituary. Later today I’ll post some reminisces about the man, who was always extremely good to me and did me the honor when I was a young undergrad at Georgia Tech of considering me his [...]
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Bomb Blast
I consider the Technorati bomb experiment a success, but there is now a blogger who thinks I am an idiot or perhaps a scumbag for doing this. He left some feedback in the original post on the subject, to which I have responded. He also criticizes the whole thing in his weblog (her? I’m not [...]
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Live Each Day Like It Was the Last in this House
I’m getting serious about the mess and chaos that are my possessions. Although I’ve culled twice from cross-country moves in the last 4 years, there is still way more I could and should do. Not only am I throwing crap out, I’ve decided to sell off and/or give away some of my toy collection. I [...]
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Creative Commons Licensing
Perhaps I’m more stupid than the average person that uses the online Creative Commons license creator, but I’ve had a hard time getting it to express what I want. I looked at my own license, and realized it was more restrictive than what I was shooting for. I want people to attribute me for what [...]
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Mitch Wagner on DRM
Mitch Wagner wrote a piece on DRM for Security Pipeline that is getting some play [Update: also available on his weblog], from BoingBoing and Teleread amongst other places. In general I agree with the sentiment, but I think he uses seriously flawed logic to arrive there. I think it’s flawed in two big ways.
One: He [...]
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Really Last Word
I thought I was done talking about Clevenger and the Technorati bomb, but something exceedingly cool happened overnight - Doc Searls joined in the monkeyshines! His is the first link I didn’t beg for - thank you Doc. It’s also the first link from Doc to me that didn’t come from me emailing him, so [...]
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Spanish Class, Week Two
Whew, es muy dificil! This Spanish class is hard work, but I like how it is taught. Rather than sweating it and spending lots of time beating things to death, our teacher just throws us in the deep end and lets us swim out. Almost no English is spoken at all, just the bare [...]
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The Grey Album
Via BoingBoing comes a link to the “Grey Album“, a remix of Jay-Z’s Black Album with the Beatles’ White Album. I downloaded the album and am listening to it now. I’m emphatically not a fan of gangsta rap - by and large I hate it and the emphasis on thuggery and misogyny. Worse, I hate [...]
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Last word on Contortionism
Fun is fun, but I’m going to stop adding to the joke now. The Technorati bombing on behalf of Craig Clevenger’s The Contortionist’s Handbook worked better than I would have expected - right now it is at #3 on the Technorati product list. The downside is that this never really caught fire. As far as [...]
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