Meta
Archives
Categories
Blogroll
- Armed and Dangerous
- Bill the Lizard
- boingboing
- Cato Unbound
- Craphound
- Curious Creature
- Dan Gillmor
- Dave Barry
- David Byrne
- Decrepit Old Fool
- Defective By Design
- Digital Cuttlefish
- Doc Searls
- Don Marti
- Factory Automation Software Blog
- Fark
- Freakonomics
- Freedom to Tinker
- Good Morning Silicon Valley
- Groklaw
- Hanford Lemoore
- Homeland Stupidity
- Leibson’s Law
- Monday Evening
- Neil Gaiman
- Rudy Rucker
- Russ Nelson
- Schneier on Security
- Science Comedian
- Slashdot
- The Volokh Conspiracy
- This Mind Intentionally Left Blank
- Tin “Man” Le
- Wil Wheaton
- xkcd
Category Archives: Entertainment
Mama Get Your Hammer (There’s a Fly on Baby’s Head)
I was listening to the “Theme Time Radio Hour with your host Bob Dylan,” and he played “Mama Get Your Hammer (There’s a Fly on Baby’s Head)” by the Bobby Peterson Quartet. Aside from being an amusing song, it was … Continue reading
Strange new online game
A friend is playing a strange new online game, “TaxCut Free File.” I’ve only observed for few minutes, but it doesn’t actually look like he’s having much fun. The rules seem to be incredibly complicated, and it’s not clear how … Continue reading
Stones in His Pockets
Richard and I went to see Stones in His Pockets, presented at the Hult Center Soreng Theater in Eugene, Oregon by the Willamette Repertory Theatre. Actors Jeff Pierce and Darragh Kennan play fifteen roles in the Irish dark comedy writtten … Continue reading
Posted in Theatre
Leave a comment
Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton
In a forum I read, someone posted a link to the song Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton. He makes his works available under a Creative Commons license, so you can legally share them. I liked this song, so I purchased … Continue reading
Taking NASA TV mainstream, and funding a Mars mission
People do crazy things for love, and apparently NASA astronauts are no exception. On a mailing list, a friend wrote “We’ll never get to Mars at this rate.” Actually I think we can fund the Mars mission(s) via advertising by … Continue reading
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Space, Television
Leave a comment
Waiting is NOT the answer
As I drove home late last night (actually early this morning), there was some annoying advertisement on KUFX, so I switched to KFOG. KFOG plays some stuff I like, but they play an excess of new “whiny rock”. I caught … Continue reading
Posted in Legal & Political, Music
1 Comment
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Tonight’s film, Rabbit-Proof Fence, was about children who in the 1930s were forcibly taken away from their aborigine mothers under Australia’s half-caste “education” program. Two sisters their cousin, ages 8-14, were taken to a boarding school 1200 miles away from … Continue reading
Posted in Film, International Films
Leave a comment
Oh by the way, which one’s Pink?
R.I.P. Syd Barrett, 6 January 1946 — 7 July 2006 Shine on, you crazy diamond!
Posted in In memoriam, Music
Leave a comment
Precious bodily fluids
Seen on a mailing list: I’m sure I’m not the only one to have observed that the new nominee for DCI shares a branch of service (USAF) and a surname (Hayden) with the actor who played the nutjob general who … Continue reading
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Film, Humor, Legal & Political
Leave a comment
Gish – novel computer game, using 2D physics
Hanford Lemoore recently wrote about the low sales figures for the indie game Gish. in which the player controls a gelatinous blob of tar, navigating subterranean coridors and traps, dealing with monsters, etc. They actually have a Linux version (as … Continue reading →