RIAA targets mashups
“Mashups are a really dumb target for the RIAA. There’s just no universe in which someone who downloads a mashup of Prince’s 1999 and the Benny Goodman orchestra performing ‘In the Mood’ thinks, Well, now I’ve heard that, I have no need to buy the CDs tho
(tags: music stupid censorship fascist)
Teen With Peanut [...]
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Widget Watch: Page Opener
“This widget allows you to open any file or URL simultaneously in any or all of your installed browsers.”
(tags: reupgrade mac useful reference)
Basura: Spanish for Treasure
“The boxes were filled with all kinds of strange tech stuff: old monitors, unidentified pieces of computers, old toner cartridges, broken mice, [...]
Boing Boing: Coffee table with integrated book-shelves like hanging files
“This Turkish coffee table has integrated bookshelves beneath sliding surfaces; the books slot into vertical slots, like hanging files”
(tags: cool goodideas)
365 Tomorrows » The New Formula
“You’ll have just the right formula, just the right mix: enough a—— to make a girl feel needed and enough humanity [...]
MSNBC: 75-year-old jewel thief looks back
“This was how Doris Payne went about her work as an international jewel thief.”
(tags: interesting reading)
Ask MetaFilter: Martial arts for fatties?
An overweight woman asks whether she can still successfully sign up for martial arts.
(tags: reference interesting)
Firefox Extension: How’d I Get Here
“Go ‘back’ even after opening a link in a new [...]
Paizo: Box Bands (4-Way Rubber Bands) - Set of 6 (for $4.50)
“FOUR WAY RUBBER BANDS are a great new way to hold boxes
or books or large stacks of paper together.”
(tags: interesting)
iPod Mittens
(tags: interesting music mac)
Business Week: Sony’s Escalating “Spyware” Fiasco
Artists are seeing their sales plummet and complaining to the label. “Overnight, Get Right with [...]
As quoted in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune:
Truly, we should be thankful. And we do try to be. But the English language is so rich in terms of complaint and insult and groaning and rather sparse in the Exaltation Department, so the Lord doesn’t get praised as he should.
Instead, we bellyache, we kvetch, we get our undies [...]
A Chicago man dies and goes to hell.
When he gets there, the devil comes over to welcome him. The devil then says, “Sometimes it gets pretty uncomfortable down here.”
The man says, “No problem. I’m from Chicago.”
So the devil goes over to the thermostat, turns the temperature up to 100°, and the humidity [...]
I ran across an article in the New Yorker about C.S. Lewis that was really quite interesting. Here are a few excerpts:
He loved landscape and twilight, myth and fairy tale, particularly the Irish landscape near their suburban home, and the stories of George MacDonald. Now too easily overlooked in the history of fantasy, MacDonald’s [...]
Rep. Schmidt: “I am thankful for the thousands of supportive messages I have received from the people I represent and others across the nation since Friday.”
Yeah, right. You never meant to attack him — just call him a coward. And you’ve got THOUSANDS of supporters. Yeah, right, you stupid b—-.
(tags: stupid neocon [...]
Chicago Tribune Man uses turkey to rescue 2 from car
“I said, ‘Hell, I’ll just use the damn turkey.’ And that’s what I did.”
(tags: chicago seasonal cool)
Chicago Tribune | ‘World’s Ugliest Dog’ Dies at 14
“The pooch with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head died Friday, just short of [...]
What Captain Nicole Janeway would have looked like — alternate scenes from the Voyager pilot.
(tags: scifi tv interesting images)
Chicago Tribune: Cats multiplying like rabbits
“Found under houses and on back porches, a bumper crop of unwanted or stray cats is overwhelming shelters across the Chicago area”
(tags: cats chicago interesting)
I wanted to memorialize a bookmarklet I just ‘created’ by combining two bookmarklets together. One bookmarklet looked for the ‘text/xml’ link in most webpages that indicates the address of that page’s RSS feed, but it would then just display that in a prompt. The other would append the ‘feed://’ protocol prefix to whatever [...]
I must admit, I love when President Bush makes a complete and utter fool out of himself. He does it so well.
Q: Respectfully, sir — and you know we’re always respectful — (laughter) —
DUBYA: Most of the time.
Q:— in your statement this morning with President Hu, you seemed a little off your game. You [...]
I just caught “Spanglish” on HBO. High recommendations — very sweet comedy, well-written and touching.
It’s so easy to challenge the courage of a decorated former Marine when you’ve never been over there, huh, Jean?
(tags: politics dumbass video)
“Several of the students said the government should be focusing on eliminating poverty and improving education instead of jailing kids who download movies, music and software.”
I’m glad to see that some kids have [...]
![[Obama '08!]](http://www.windycitymike.com/images/obama-08.jpg)
