Still yet more proof that monkeys are evil.

A friend of mine is responsible for one of the best reviews of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou ever. Go read and laugh.

I haven’t been blogging too much lately, my brain has kind of been scrambled lately. But I’ve had a number of tabs open to Boing Boing about things I’d wanted to blog about, so I’ll just list them here.

• Cory has discovered Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy. I’ve read the first two books so far and need to grab the third one. So far I’ve really been enjoying it. Sometimes I’m amazed that it gets put in the teen section in bookstores. This also makes me think of some of the other wonderful series of books I read when I was younger. Things like A Wrinkle in Time (and the books after it), The House With a Clock in Its Walls, and the True Game books are all books that dragged me and wouldn’t let go, and I’m happy to say that Pullman’s books have joined that list.
• The “Loo Roll Browser” lets you send pages to be printed out on your toilet paper roll. I hope the ink dries quickly or you could end up covering your ass in printing ink! [Boing Boing]
• Cory also posts about this very neat wooden mirror (Link is down at the moment. I’m guessing because of the blackout). I think it would be a cool thing to have hanging in your house/apartment.

As usual, I love so many of the links posted to Boing Boing. I have to be careful or I’d link to 85% of the things they have there.

Thanks to colubra over on LiveJournal I found The Museum of Techno. This site chronicles the history of techno through the ages.

The museum exists to preserve, research and celebrate our shared techno heritage. The museum was founded in 1837, around founder Sir James Soame ‘s unique collection of badboy kickdrums . It moved from its original location in Manchester to premises in London in 1863, opening its doors to the general public for the first time.

Amazing. It appears the history of techno goes back even further then I’d realized, even as far back as the Jin dynasty.

The Museum has received news that a complete early 303 has been found by archaeologists from Nanjing University conducting excavations in the Luoyang district of China.

The age of artefacts found in close proximity to the Bassline suggest that it dates back to the Jin dynasty (CE 265 – 420) and as such may be one of the oldest intact asian acid boxes discovered.

And on a final note, when you visit the site, make sure you check out the Journal of Charles Franklin. Franklin gives his own account of his experiences with the 19th century equivalent of the rave scene. I can’t wait for them to publish more of it. This site is sheer genius.

Immanuel Kant: “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” [Quotes of the Day]

Today has had some of the oddest weather. It was warm and humid earlier, then was pretty damn hot, then it poured, now it’s sunny out, but I haven’t felt how the air is yet. The downside to this is I got a raging headache when the storm ran through and normal headache remover isn’t touching it. Bleh.

So I was showing someone some neat OS X software today and went to show them Hydra, this cool collaborative editing program. But when I hit the site, something was weird, everywhere where you’d see Hydra, there was #####, and the name of the program had been blurred out in the graphics of it. My first thought was that maybe they got hacked. Then I looked in their news and saw:

13.08.2003
Due to legal issues we removed any occurance of the application’s former name and replaced it with “#####”. As of now we are trying to resolve the issues and are searching for a new name, if you want to help us feel free to drop us an email .

Well that sucks. I hope they come up with another cool name. ##### is hard to say.

Okay. I like kitchen gadgets. It’s kind of like an addiction. But even with my love for kitchen toys I just can’t see spending $1,500 for a mixer. No matter how good it may be. [found via Blah Blah Blog].

The Register is reporting the first win by Habeas in the fight against spam. Habeas is a company helping to stop spam by identifying which messages aren’t spam. Users can sign up and put the text of a copyrighted haiku into all their messages. By signing up you agree that you will not use this to send spam.

“The system worked exactly as designed,” Mitchell said in a statement. “We filed the lawsuit as soon as we received and verified the complaints, and Mr. Heller immediately stopped using our warrant mark, and it’s safe to say that he will never use it again.” [The Register]

Pretty damn cool. I signed up with Habeas a few months ago, I actually have my mail set to color-code messages that have the Haiku in it. So far though, no spam with it has reached me.

Is it just me or is Onegai Twins the anime version of Three’s Company? We’ve got two girls living with one guy. And I just watched episode five and we even had wacky hijinx started by Miina and Karen mis-overhearing something Maiku was saying to another girl. Hmmmm.