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  1. Poem in Your Pocket April 30, 2004

    To commemorate the end of National Poetry Month, blog about your favorite poem and provide at least one link to other poems and/or a bio of the poet.

    Posted in Books, Links.

    8 comments
  2. So very true April 28, 2004

    This is too nice a time of year to be fighting a war.

    Posted in Photography.

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  3. iTunes 4.5: Major iTunes Music Store update! April 28, 2004

    The iTunes website hasn’t been updated yet (as of 0:17 4/28/04), so I can’t download it yet, but if you open up iTunes and go to the iTunes Music Store, you’ll see a badge for iTunes 4.5. Update at 0:29: The iTunes website has been updated with iTunes 4.5.

    Posted in Music.

    5 comments
  4. Whoops! April 28, 2004

    Hopefully he gets back in his car without having to pay a cabbie to break in. In the meantime, my pizza has appeared, and it’s dinnertime for me.

    Posted in Life.

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  5. Toyota Volta April 27, 2004

    Italian design. Environmentally sound gas/electric hybrid. 408 horsepower. 0-62mph in 4.03 seconds, top speed of 155mph. Carbon-fibre chassis. Racing suspension. 31.7 miles per gallon. And it’s only a show prototype, not likely to be built. Such a shame.

    Posted in Links.

    3 comments
  6. Nightline on Friday April 27, 2004

    Now I want to tell you about this Friday’s [Nightline] broadcast. We’re going to do something different, something that we think is important. Friday night, we will show you the pictures, and Ted will read the names, of the men and women from the armed forces who have been killed in combat in Iraq. That’s it. That will be the whole broadcast.

    Posted in Current Affairs, Television.

    2 comments
  7. Well, that’s one solution April 27, 2004

    I love whatever algorithms Google uses for their AdSense program. Much of the time they’re dead-on, but every so often, you get some wonderfully bizarre and hilarious combinations. For instance, upon reloading my page after adding my last post, I got the following set…

    Posted in Humor.

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  8. Watch what you blog! April 27, 2004

    It was bound to happen — and realistically, it probably has been happening, just now we’re getting news stories about it — US intelligence agencies are starting to keep an eye out on weblogs.

    Posted in Current Affairs.

    2 comments
  9. Well, it was convenient… April 27, 2004

    Okay, so on the scale of stupid things Bush has done, this may not be right at the top, but it’s still a rather sad look at how little respect the man can have for other people when he’ll use someone else’s shirt to clean his glasses while their back is turned.

    Posted in Links, Politics.

    10 comments
  10. The greatest conspiracy theory ever April 26, 2004

    A link to a somewhat sloppy article on 9-11 conspiracy theories on Metafilter led to a very worthwhile discussion today, including one of the best comments I’ve seen on there in a while. I’m reproducing it in full here — hopefully mokujin doesn’t mind. :)

    Posted in Current Affairs, Links, Politics.

    2 comments
  11. Goodbye, Floyd April 26, 2004

    I just found out about some sad news for any Alaskans or expatriates: well-known panhandler Floyd died April 7, 2004.

    Posted in Life.

    5 comments
  12. More megapixels isn’t necessarily better quality April 25, 2004

    Something I need to keep in mind while continuing my search to replace my digital camera: 8 megapixels isn’t always better than 5.

    Posted in Photography, Science.

    8 comments
  13. One week notice: my b-day! April 25, 2004

    Consider this one week notice for any of you that might be in the Seattle area: next Monday’s my 31st birthday, so I’m making the yearly ‘haul your ass to the Vogue and hang out for a while’ call for Saturday night, May 1st.

    Posted in Life.

    6 comments
  14. Bottomless bathtubs April 24, 2004

    I have no idea when or why, but at some point in my youth, my overactive imagination seized upon the idea that there was no actual support structure underneath the bathtub. I was terrified that at any point during a bath or shower, the caulking would give way, or the bottom of the tub would drop out, and I’d go plummeting into the depths of the earth.

    Posted in Life.

    6 comments
  15. TypePad IDs are TypeKey IDs! April 24, 2004

    Apparently, anyone who uses TypePad to run their weblog auto-magically has a TypeKey login. Has this information been made public yet?

    Posted in MovableType, Technology, TypePad, Weblogs.

    6 comments
  16. Why not? April 23, 2004

    Simple questions, some not-so-simple answers.

    Posted in Life.

    10 comments
  17. Worker loses job over photograph April 23, 2004

    Sounds kind of familiar in these parts, doesn’t it? This time, it’s a bit more serious than a few computers, though.

    Posted in 15Minutes.

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  18. Word of the Day: Colposinquanonia April 22, 2004

    Colposinquanonia (KAHL-puh-SIN-kwah-NOH-nee-uh):  Estimating a woman’s beauty based on her chest.

    Posted in Life.

    3 comments
  19. Freedom! April 21, 2004

    Only in Seattle would buying clothing involve standing in the middle of the store lobby, having a large bald man stand behind you and wrap his arms around your waist, and then assist you in dropping your trousers to your ankles.

    Posted in Life.

    18 comments
  20. Neal Stephenson: Confusion April 21, 2004

    I so need to get to the bookstore soon — Confusion, the second book in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (which began with Quicksilver) is out. Salon has an interview with Stephenson and a review of Confusion up which both look good, though I don’t have time to read them right now. Argh! :)

    Posted in Books.

    1 comment
  21. Watch that apostrophe! April 21, 2004

    There’s a certain irony in a publication mis-using an apostrophe in an employment ad looking for an editor.

    Posted in Humor, Links.

    4 comments
  22. Safer nuclear missiles April 21, 2004

    Thank god for small favors — at least when Bush finally flips his lid and the nukes start flying, we won’t be damaging our atmosphere…

    Posted in Links.

    5 comments
  23. Donnie Darko coming back to Seattle! April 20, 2004

    How incredibly cool — Donnie Darko, which disappeared from most theaters practically before it was released, has become such a cult favorite that its studio is going to be re-releasing it to theaters, starting right here in Seattle!

    Posted in Film.

    1 comment
  24. Romeo + Juliet r0xx0Rz! April 20, 2004

    Worth a few minutes of cheap amusement: Romeo and Juliet presented as ‘L33T-speak’. Somewhat painful, but funny.

    Posted in Humor, Links.

    2 comments
  25. Garage Sale: DVDs April 20, 2004

    Okay, here’s part two of my online garage sale: the majority of my DVD collection is going up for grabs.

    Posted in Film, Life.

    25 comments