2007/5/20
YouTube video of the day: "Amateur", by a Scandinavian fellow named Lasse Gjertsen, who, despite not knowing how to play the drums or piano, recorded video of himself hitting drums and piano keys and assembled it into a song through the sheer power of video editing:
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@metaphorge: Or if you have a Java-enabled phone, you could just grab Cellity Twitter. http://www.cellity.com/twitter/ (17/5)
Am standing in a chapel of some sort watching Valgeir Siguresson and ensemble. Quite atmospheric. (17/5)
At home, though on way out to see Valgeir Sigurðsson soon (17/5)
Just got invited to someone at work's leaving lunch, at a tapas place. That's tapas twice in 24 hours. (17/5)
Waits for Disk Utility to finish unfux0ring his iPod (17/5)
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2007/5/15
Arizona sherriff Joe Arpaio, who has won acclaim from law-and-order types and opprobrium from liberals by keeping prisoners in harsh conditions, is now bidding to add heiress, serial unlicensed hazardous driver and all-round waste of oxygen2006/5/17
Web 2.0 photo-sharing site Flickr has finally made it out of beta . Of course, it didn't do anything quite as gauche and pre-Web-2.0 as declaring itself to be a final release, so instead, it has2003/5/16
Rational Ministries could well be the next Time Cube . He goes on about communism (in a quasi-religious sort of way, mixed in with bits of Wagnerian Viking mysticism), LSD, sex and psychiatric medication, expounds