Another interesting post from The Shifted Librarian. In the second part she talks an article in Wired that talks about people using messaging on their mobile phones for telling people where parties are.

The Wired article is actually even a bit behind the times. It mentions people calling 800#s to find out where raves were. But even going back four years kids ago were using text pagers to let people know about parties. A friend of mine was telling me of how they’d have a couple of kids just typing in the same message over and over again to send out party directions to people from their pagers (and back then the interfaces weren’t anywhere close to as nice as they are now). I would imagine they are still doing it now, but with an even nicer interface.

The Shifted Librarian posted a link to a news article about talking margarine. It seems that Parkay is going to be putting talking margarine in supermarkets to get people’s attention.

I have to agree though that this could be the start of a very annoying trend. The idea of walking down the aisles of the supermarket and having various products trying to talk you into buying them just seems horrifying to me.

David Letterman. “Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.” [Quotes of the Day]

It’s been a slow weekend as far as any DVD watching (I still haven’t had time to sit down and play with the Special edition of Memento). But I was able to pick up the first volume of Excel Saga. Of course I had to watch it right away. ADV did a wonderful job with it. The show is as hysterical as always, but seeing it on TV with a clean transfer to DVD was so much nicer then seeing the DiVX version. They also have a feature with ‘popup video’ style notes explaining various Japanese cultural references.

While i was at Tokyo Kid I noticed they also ahd a copy of Miyuki-chan in Wonderland. Being a fan of CLAMP, and seeing that it was only $12 I figured what the hell. Watched that this weekend and really wish I could get a hold of whatever drugs they are on. Wonderland with a CLAMP spin. It’s so wrong it must be right.

Once again I logged the songs as they played while I was lounging around this afternoon. I wonder if my Audiotron reads my mind because most of the time it’s playing things that I’m in the mood to hear.

• Generals and Majors – XTC

• Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant

• The Sentence – Eric Serra

• Melt – Siouxsie & The Banshees

• Babooshka – Kate Bush

• Violence – Pet Shop Boys

• Football Tonight – The Rugburns

• Sooner than you think – New Order

• Dancing in the Kitchen – Andrew kerr

I just checked the weather for the week over on wather.com and discovered that it is mostly going to be rainy and cloudy this week. Feh. Need more SUN!

In the tradition of sites like amihotornot.com comes whatsbetter?com. You are given two images and select which one is better. Then, based on the votes received they have a ranking of what things people find better. As of this writing the top three are: The Simpsons, Milla Jovovich, and Natalie Portman.

I keep finding myself checking back here every few days and then getting caught up for a few minutes voting on things. I usually vote till I find two images that I really could care less about and move on.

The Most Common UNIX Commands For Webmasters [The Shifted Librarian]

This is actually also a good reference for any UNIX beginner (especially folks who are new to OS X for instance). I’m always on the looking for things like this for my friends. I know a lot of people who want to try unix, but just aren’t sure of where to start.

Jean Kerr. “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” [Quotes of the Day]