(printed by fortune in one of my terminal windows today) A prominent broadcaster, on a big-game safari in Africa, was taken to a watering hole where the life of the jungle could be observed. As he looked down from his tree platform and described the scene into his tape recorder, he saw two gnus grazing [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2006
Linux Games
Here’s a list of Linux games I stumbled upon recently.
The St. Louis Arch affects the weather
(from the “Is it Bullshit or Not?” dept.) (via email) Can We Control the Weather?: The St. Louis Arch, a 636 ft. monument on the west bank of the Mississippi River, has stood for nearly forty years. It is a shining monument built to convey St. Louis’s role as the Gateway to the West. Only [...]
Evil DCP
Check out Evil DCP, an unmoderated evil alternative to Drum Corps Planet.
Friday Random Ten: 2006-01-27
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up | Frank Zappa | Joe’s Garage (Disc 1) | Alternative & Punk |
| 2. | Jumbo Go Away | Frank Zappa | You Are What You Is | Alternative & Punk |
| 3. | The Ascent Of Man, Parts I-VI | Thomas Dolby | The Gate To The Mind’s Eye | Alternative & Punk |
| 4. | Devil’s Tapdance | Vittorio Schiboni, Massimo Giuntini, Rodrigo D’Erasmo & Mariano De Simone | Gangs Of New York | Soundtrack |
| 5. | It Can Happen | Yes | 90125 | Rock |
| 6. | Fuego Cubano (Cuban Fire) | Stan Kenton | Cuban Fire! | Jazz |
| 7. | Instrumedley | Dream Theater | Live At Budokan [Disc 2] | Metal |
| 8. | More Than This | Roxy Music | Avalon | Alternative & Punk |
| 9. | The Return Of The King | Howard Shore, Sir James Galway, Viggo Mortensen & Renée Fleming | The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King | Soundtrack |
| 10. | Lines In The Sand | Dream Theater | Falling Into Infinity | Metal |
Futurama Return to DVD Seems Likely
(via gotfuturama.com) The other day, Billy ‘Fry’ West posted on his message board that he got a call, saying that production for up to four Futurama DVD movies will start around July or August: [The] Futurama project is a done deal! [...] There are 4 DVD movies that we’ll start recording at the end of [...]
The Road to Changtse
(printed by fortune in one of my terminal windows today) Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: “You are the Yin and I am the Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast sums of money.” And so the pair set forth together, thinking to conquer the world. [...]
Wow! Mallard Fillmore can actually be funny…
Check out: Gipper, the Talking Points Duck
Just the kind of thing you want to read on your birthday…
(via email) Monday, January 23 gloomiest day of the year: academic LONDON (AFP) – Watch out: Monday, January 23 is going to be the unhappiest day of the year, according to a British university researcher. Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at the University of Cardiff, specialising in confidence-building and stress management, told AFP the prediction [...]
Friday Random Ten: 2006-01-20
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Parallels | Yes | Going For The One (Expanded & Remastered) | Rock |
| 2. | A Series of Left Handed Remarks | Terry Bozzio | Solo Drum Music (Disc 1) | World |
| 3. | Cinnamon Girl | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Greatest Hits | Rock |
| 4. | Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) [Live] | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Greatest Hits | Rock |
| 5. | Black Light Syndrome | Bozzio,Levin,Stevens | Black Light Syndrome | Rock |
| 6. | Eastern Bloc (Sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins, 1981) | Thomas Dolby | Astronauts & Heretics | Alternative & Punk |
| 7. | The Prophet | Yes | Time And A Word | Rock |
| 8. | Flying North | Thomas Dolby | The Golden Age Of Wireless | Alternative & Punk |
| 9. | Wanted | The Cranberries | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? | Alternative & Punk |
| 10. | Itaipu: IV. “To the Sea” | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Chorus: Robert Shaw | Itaipu, The Canyon | Classical |
