Like millions of other braying sheep, I am a Twitter user, although I could care less about what celebrities like Oprah, Ashton Kutcher or Taylor Swift are up to.
Despite its reputation as a vehicle for mundane douchebaggery, Twitter can be an incredibly useful tool for disseminating information. I follow friends and family and some interesting [...]
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More like virtual awesome!
The other day, during one of my many sojourns on the Internets, I came across a site that instantly transported me back a quarter-century and restored my faith in humankind all at once. First, some background…
Back many many years ago, my dad used to take us out to the Illinois Bell building on Hazel Dell [...]
Got my Mojo workin’
One of my favorite euphemisms for stealing music online is saying you’re “sharing.” Rose by any other name and all that.
But damned if I’m not hooked on a little application called Mojo. Developed by Deusty Designs, Mojo is a sort of hybrid of an instant messenger and file-sharing application. You have a buddy list of [...]
Apparently, Ludacris has never been to central Illinois
Another gem from the brilliant Strange Maps blog:
(click map for full size)
A geography major with a sense of humor submitted this awesomely-titled cartogram to Strange Maps based on the Ludacris song “Area Codes”:
In this song, Ludacris brags about the area codes where he knows women, whom he refers to as “hoes.”
One then could reasonably infer [...]
Hip-hop from back in the day
I have become what I loathe.
I’m one of those music curmudgeons who complain that Music Was Better Back Then. For me, music (meaning alt-rock and hip-hop) reached its zenith in 1992, slowly declining before falling off a cliff in the late 1990s.
Fortunately, I’ve found a blog that indulges my close-mindedness. When They Reminisce… offers links [...]
You’re entering a world of pain
Following the lead of other local bloggers, I hereby present you with an official Anonymous Communist plug for (and the exhortation to attend that a plug implies) The Lebowski Experience.
Set for Saturday at Strike N Spare, The Lebowski Experience is a celebration of the finest movie of all time, “The Big Lebowski.” Registering at the [...]
Give your loved one Chlamydia today!
Thanks to the unmitigated genius that is Where Dave Is, now there are gifts I will be glad to give someone.
The fine folks at GiantMicrobes.com “make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes—only a million times actual size!”
Many kinds of microbes are available: Black Death, Common Cold, Heartworm and of course, Chlamydia:
Playing doctor is a [...]
My new band
Go follow Tim’s instructions and you too can have your very own band, complete with an album and album cover. Here is mine:
The band: Tabby House
The album: “Infinite to the Finite,” from “Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite,” Oliver Wendell Holmes
The cover:
This isn’t about Christmas music
Diggity Dan at BFS has a fun new meme going: The BFS Holiday Music Exchange:
I just want everyone to recommend their five favorite new songs from the past year. Now when I say new, I don’t mean to restrict your selections to cuts that were released in 2007. What I’m looking for our songs that [...]
Zing!
And so the war of words between The Eleventh Hour and BriBlog escalates.
Background here.