For all those aspiring evil villains out there. I give you VillainSupply.com: “your best online source for everything EVIL. If you are a supervillain, mad scientist, warlord, dictator, or despot, then this is the place for you.” This site has everything. From Secret Bases to Doomsday Weapons. Along with helpful hints like:

A Secret Lair isn’t so secret with a couple of hundred ex-construction workers wandering the globe, telling bar patrons about the secret shark trap you built into your underwater grotto. That’s why it’s vital to mind Helpful Tip #12:

ALWAYS KILL OFF YOUR CONSTRUCTION CREW ONCE YOUR LAIR IS COMPLETE!

In my experience, the best way to do this is to offer them all a trip home on a luxury liner — a luxury liner with a hull lined with C4, that is. BHA HA HA HA ha ha ha ha ha!

— Lord Vilhelm Von Superschuft, Committee of Evil

I want the Subterranean Island Base with optional Volcano Upgrade.

(– Found over on Electric Papyrus –)

Some people yak on cell phones or munch on burritos while they drive. I, on the other hand, often meditate on the weekly horoscopes I write for you. Just recently, I was pondering your astrological aspects while motoring around Santa Cruz, CA. “How can I convey the rebellious but expansive spirit of the time for Scorpios?” I thought to myself. “What metaphor might serve to portray the value of being playful yet precise while thinking outside the box? Is there any image that’ll inspire them to be unpredictable for the liberating fun of it, not as a means of gaining power over others?” A perfect omen arrived as I came to a stop at a busy intersection. There up high, hanging from a wire connecting the traffic signal to a telephone pole, was a pair of sneakers, spray-painted gold and tied together.

(– From http://www.freewillastrology.com/ –)

I brought my TiBook in for service today. It’s DVD drive was a little flakey. It didn’t always reliably mount CDs I put into it. I should have it back by late next week. I suddenly realize how much I rely on it. I do all my personal work on it.

The cool thing I did was back up Radio to my iPod and that is currently hooked up to my G3 and runninig Radio over there. I love firewire.

One of the best features of opera makes it to Mozilla:

Mouse gestures in Mozilla. If you’re running Mozilla — my new bestest friend — you should immediately install the Mozilla Gestures add-on. Gesture support works like this: hold the mouse down and zoom right to go forward, left to go back, up to open a link in a new tab and down to open it in a new window. Booyah!

Link Discuss

(Thanks, Dan!) [Boing Boing Blog]

I’m off to check it out now.

Besides having one of the cooler names for a show, Boogiepop Phantom is one of the more complex shows I’ve seen. I really do need to do another viewing to get more of a feel for what is going on. Over on Anime On Dvd there is a wonderful Thematic Analysis of Boogiepop Phantom. For anyone who has seen the show it’s a very interesting read (at least so far, I’m about halfway through it).

At the beach party last weekend I had the funniest thing happen. I was about halfway through my set and I pulled out a record to play. I started it up and noticed that the record looked warped. Cursing to myself, I grabbed another record and it looked like it was warped too!

At this point I was getting a little worried. Did a bunch of my records get warped? I pull off the second record and grab another. As I go to put it down on the turntable what do I see? A MOTH. Somehow the damn thing had slipped in there under the first record (not that hard since there were TONS of them out at the beach). Of course at this point there was no chance of me mixing into this track. Luckily, it was one that worked well to just start after a brief silence. It worked well and I’m starting to wonder if it would work to every once in a while drop a track that way. Let the song in front of it run out and let there be just a moment of silence before the next one starts. For some songs the effect would be amazing.

The runner up for one of the best headlines ever:

Pubs angry at vomit tax   [sysrick.com < FARK] [jenett.radio]

Burning Man sues over Boobies-of-Burning-Man video. Burning Man’s organizers are suing a girls-gone-wild video maker for releasing a “Boobies of Burning Man” video of the playa’s topless residents.

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(via New World Disorder) [Boing Boing Blog]

This is just so wrong. They aren’t asking permission of the people they filmed. They certainly didn’t get permission to film there. And making a profit off of it is just seems so anti-Burning Man. Ick.

Walt Kelly. “Now is the time for all good men to come to.” [Quotes of the Day]

It’s been a while since I was up in the middle of the night like this. Here’s a taste of what the audiotron has been playing for me.

• Gotta Knock a Little Harder – Cowboy Bebop Knockin on Heaven’s Door soundtrack

• Bass – Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians

• Blueski – Underworld

• It’s Everything – China Crisis

• Sinequanon – Hybrid

• The Overload – Talking Heads

And on that note. I think I may try and get some sleep again.