December 2007
21 posts
The Rocky Horror Picture Show of Christmas songs
(posting this a couple days late, I know.. or maybe it’s incredibly early for next year) “Merry Christmas from the Family” - I know the cover version of this song by Jill Sobule off a 1995 Atlantic records compilation CD “You Sleigh Me”. I just heard the original by its author, alt. country singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen Jr. and I think I’ll take the cover...
Bassline Baseline, 2005 →
Can I Get An Amen?, 2004 →
leeni, AKA Colbert Girl, Electro / Indie / Pop... →
(The Britney parody is kinda funny, but it seems to not be representative). “I make 8 bit music with old Nintendo gameboys. How? By using an ingenious sequencing cartridge called nanoloop. Nanoloop was created by Oliver Wittchow of Germany and it turns your gameboy into a step-sequencer/synth. By using just the controls built into the gameboy and the storage functions on nanoloop, I wrote...
Merry Christmas to all (all who celebrate Christmas) and to all a good night (all who are not vampires - instead I wish all vampires a kinda-starvey night).
Impressive design highlights of the XO Laptop →
It’s not too late for the Give One Get One program in the U.S. & Canada, extended until the end of 2007. I’m thinking about it.
Why Low Def is the New HD →
Sounds so wrong, but is so right. A funny reader comment follows the article: “You took the thoughts right out of my head and wrote them down!” :^)
Lithium Ion batteries with ten times longer life?! →
Movies - Ruining The Book Since 1920 →
i’ll take an size L please
“Ask me about my apathy. Or not. Whatever.”
– Jayson Dougherty for Threadless T-Shirts
Why did it take me so long to hook up my bookshelf speakers? Listening to Blade Runner soundtrack now, I don’t care what anyone else says.. it has its own timelessness, it’s not dated at all (ok, maybe a little).
Pocket-sized dry-erase board :^) →
Mutant Enemy Day on the L.A. picket lines →
For sale: Daryl Hannah's biodiesel El Camino →
This has been my best year. And in that best year, November - early December has been the best month. Thank you everyone, I love you all.
“I realised I don’t play games for the challenge. I don’t need or...”
– http://penny-arcade.com
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis,... →
A documentary from 20 years ago. Apparently not much was learned.
A very impressive speech →
I wanna go here! →
"Oh... um, ground up and stored in the freezer?" →
Perhaps I should stop watching “Dexter”
Dinosaur mummy! →