October 2010
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Today is a sort of palindrome, if you think of month-day-century-year as the units: 10/20/2010. In U.S. form, anyway–it always throws me for a complete loop when I see something like 20/10/2010–month 20?!?
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Bad hurricane/typhoon on the way. As long-time (in Internet terms) readers of this blog know, we have a reader and friend in the Manila area, though she hasn't commented for a while.
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Weekend Music I picked this over several other clips on YouTube because it’s the song that is probably most strongly identified with them, and because the bit of dialog at the end is so charming. Mimi is the sister of Joan Baez, and actually I always like her voice better. Theirs is one of…
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Perhaps you've heard of the Darwin Awards. I think the idea began as only a joke of unknown origin: a Darwin Award was proposed for people who brought about their own deaths in strikingly stupid ways, thus, according to evolutionary doctrine, improving the human race by removing their stupid genes (I mean, the genes that…
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"I haven't seen a person yet that it didn't bring a smile to their face." I was no exception. You have to watch the video to appreciate it.
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"dot" = "period" = binary 00101110 in ASCII, or 10/11/10. So, Happy Dot Day, or: 01001000011000010111000001110000 01111001001000000100010001101111 01110100001000000100010001100001 0111100100100001 This is so exciting. We'll have some more binary days in November. (Yes, those ones and zeroes do say "Happy Dot Day" in the text coding format used by your computer, but no, I didn't work…
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"star" = "asterisk" = "*" = binary 00101010 in the ASCII coding system (almost universally used). Ignore the leading zeroes and you have 101010 or 10/10/10. Not that it matters in the least, of course.
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Weekend Music I thought I remembered reading that Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon were married, so I checked, and they are. Moore is the one singing. Gordon is the one in the dress. This is one of the more accessible Sonic Youth songs from their earlier years. Then: Almost twenty years later: There’s something…
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On the way to work a week or two ago I was passed by a Prius with a bumper sticker that said SIMPLIFY. It made me chuckle, because if there is one thing a Prius is not, it’s simple. There’s a huge disconnect between the pastoral imagery of sophisticated advertising directing us to be more…
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