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Monthly Archives: August 2007

links for 2007-09-01

Natural Water Slides - Home Page
Welcome to NaturalWaterSlide.com and thanks for visiting! A natural water slide is a water slide that occurs in nature — where you can go kayaking, rafting or just sliding.
(tags: outdoors water)

links for 2007-08-31

LastGraph: Welcome
LastGraph is a wavegraph generator for Last.fm, the online social-music-network-tracking site. Give us a username and some dates, and our highly-trained rendering servers will crunch away and produce a lovely graph of your listening habits.
(tags: last.fm awesome design graphics)

Motor City Madman Attacks Dems
Let it go. People say all kinds of crazy things when they’re [...]

links for 2007-08-29

Why Washington Post Radio Died - Raw Fisher
…general manager of WAMU, the third-most listened to public station in the nation, after outlets in New York and San Francisco.
(tags: radio npr wamu)

links for 2007-08-27

Kausfiles
(tags: boring blogs politics policy)

links for 2007-08-25

Grindhouse Breakfast
Because original ideas are hard to come by, this week I tasked the Something Awful Forum Goons with giving the grindhouse treatment to breakfast cereals.
(tags: funny photoshop)

Live From Congress: The Skull F–king Bill Of 2007
U.S. Representative Benjamin Sinclair (R-Ohio) has a plan to reduce skull fucking levels in America by 5 to 7%.
(tags: funny [...]

links for 2007-08-24

David Lynch goes digital: Inland Empire on DVD. - By Dennis Lim - Slate Magazine
For Lynch, who has likened low-res video to film stock before the emulsion process was perfected, the murkier the image, the more “room to dream,” as he puts it.
(tags: film)

Caribou: Andorra: Pitchfork Record Review
Snaith finally and fully inhabits the 1960s, specifically [...]

links for 2007-08-23

Impudent Domain :: Clean up and Speed up your PC
Courtesy of a site called OCModshop, see the link here. I have reprinted the list here of programs you might want to disable.
(tags: windows tech)

Greed is Good, Power Bad
Able, industrious, imaginative and creative people— the top 5% of mankind—divide into two broad categories: those who make [...]

links for 2007-08-22

The New Pornographers: Challengers - PopMatters Music Review
(tags: records)

M.I.A.: Kala - PopMatters Music Review
If indeed Arular was the best UK debut since Dizzee Rascal’s Boy in da Corner, Kala must be the best UK follow-up since, maybe, A Grand Don’t Come For Free.
(tags: records)

links for 2007-08-21

Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Joel on Software
A box that many people can’t figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design.
(tags: design)

links for 2007-08-20

San Jose Semaphore’s message atop Adobe building is . . .
And for anyone who thought a simple message was being transmitted by the rotating disks atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose, boy, were you wrong.
(tags: pynchon art)