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This just showed up on Futurismic . I thought more stuff would be showing up in Brazil, until I realized that Blogger's RSS feed still hasn't been folded into the free service, and this site uses RSS as part of its polling.

Clever, funny commentary on the ever-looming RSN techonology: micropayments offa "The Slumbering Lungfish Dybbuk Hostel and All-Night Boulangerie."

Not stuffing with socks; stuffing the actual sock -- fake calves . Great -- where's my prothestic forehead?

I love this essay so much, I'm posting it again: O'Reilly Network: The Street Finds its Own Use for the Law of Unintended Consequences . Just in case.

A lot of stuff about Friendster is still impressive, but a number of things about it continue to alienate me. The bulletin board delivers a message to the poster's 1-degree friends, and any responses only go to the original writer, condemning any chance for thread-discussion. The personal-picture guidelines are overly strict, and unevenly enforced: a self-portrait I sketched for use on the site (prior to the inclusion of the current, draconian guidelines on the Add Picture page) was deleted from my profile. Without knowing the roolz, it seemed arbitrary. After reading the rules, and proceeding to see pictures of Bruce Lee, Brad Pitt , and the Rubik's Cube in use as other's image, it seemed a particularly lame move on the site's part. It's clear that there is some reasoning behind the people controlling it who want it to remain a form of valid reputation-through-association, which in turn may lead to some form of trust-based-system for like minded friends, or mem...

I have abandoned both rational thought, and budget simultaneously in my desire for this monitor .

Johnny Cash died of diabetes-related complications on September 12, 2003. I grew up listening to a lot of good country music. Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, ...it was already "old" when my parents played it for me. As the nature of country music turned ever more toward formulaic, predictable, and standardized formats, I discovered a whole different realm of music. I got into new wave music instead, later, "alternative" and techno-industrial. Still, I've always had a soft spot for the music of my childhood, which was actually the music of my parents' youth. Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly would have to be the two I heard the most. Recently Johnny Cash's American Recordings series of albums came to my attention because of his cover of Nine-Inch-Nails' (Trent Reznor's) " Hurt ." I think it's better than the original by leaps and bounds; an opinion that is reinforced by viewing the video . From recent personal experience, I can attest ...