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  • Tune of the Day 07/19/2004: Arizona Sky

    coverToday’s song is one from back when I was in College. I used to hear it on WXXP in Pittsburgh, one of my all time favorite radio stations. I recently picked up some CDs by China Crisis that I’d been looking for forever, and on What Price Paradise? is the track Arizona Sky. The track is in AAC, so use an appropriate player.

  • Things You Discover Looking at Referrer Logs

    fotdLooking at my referrer logs this morning I noticed that I had a link or two from Feedster’s Feed of the Day Page. When researching more I discovered that my site had been the feed of the day back on December 15, 2003. Pretty cool, I wish I’d noticed it before that. I’ve added the little Feed of the Day button to this page in celebration.

  • Dance, Voldo, Dance

    Here’s a music video made my synchronizing Soul Calibur with a dance track:

    Music video made with Soul Calibur video game footage

    dancevoldodance
    Dance, Voldo, Dance is a music video made by synchronizing the movements of gladiators from the game Soul Calibur with a dance track, so that they appear to be getting down with their nasty selves to the music. It’s quite good!

    11.2 MB Quicktime Link

    [via Boing Boing Blog] [via Waxy]

    There’s also notes about it linked to from the video. Pretty cool.

  • Supersizing

    Alton Brown saw “Supersize Me” and had some interesting things to say about the movie and eating out in general.

    Here’s what it comes down to kids. Ronald McDonald doesn’t give a damn about you. Neither does that little minx Wendy or any of the other icons of drivethroughdom. And you know what, they’re not supposed to. They’re businesses doing what businesses do. They don’t love you. They are not going to laugh with you on your birthdays, or hold you when you’re sick and sad. They won’t be with you when you graduate, when your children are born or when you die. You will be with you and your family and friends will be with you. And, if you’re any kind of human being, you will be there for them. And you know what, you and your family and friends are supposed to provide you with nourishment too. That’s right folks, feeding someone is an act of caring. We will always be fed best by those that care, be it ourselves or the aforementioned friends and family.

    We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. We hand our lives over to big companies and then drag them to court when the deal goes bad. This is insanity. [Alton Brown’s Rants & Raves]

  • Feeling Things In Your Ass

    Gizmodo always has some of the coolest things out there. Here’s one I wouldn’t mind having as part of my home theatre system (though I’m not sure I’d want to feel Jet Li’s punch in my ass, I’m not into that kinda rough stuff):

    Crowson TES 100 Couch Shakers

    TES-100If you’ve ever said, “You know, I just didn’t feel Jet Li’s punch right in my ass,” when watching a DVD — this is an especially strange thing to say if it’s not even a Jet Li movie — then Crowson Technology’s TES 100 “tactile transducers” might be worth keeping an eye, or ass, on. For $650, the TES 100 Couch Kit fits under the four feet of your couch and converts the low bass rumble of your stereo system into a physical rumpshaking effect that replicates the effects of a giant subwoofer without actually producing any (on-purpose) sound. CNet has a fairly technical and fairly positive review, although for $650 (a $350 one-transducer version is available) you’d hope Crowson would include the wire necessary to connect the thing. [Gizmodo]

  • Apple Blows It Again

    So Apple has information up about their new iPod and I’m kind of pissed. A few years back I’d bought a 20GB iPod, right before the release of the one with the dock. I didn’t mind not having the dock, but it quickly became apparent that Apple was going to ignore their older iPods. They got just enough updates to make things run better, but none of the new features like on-the-go playlists.

    Fast forward to a month ago when I bought a new 40GB iPod. It doesn’t bother me much that they now are $100 less. I’ve had things like that happen to me all the time. What bugs me is that all the new iPod features announced today are only available for the new iPod. I’m afraid they’re going to stop adding new features to this iPod. The even more annoying thing is that many of the new features don’t seem to be hardware based features. Features like Multiple on-the-go playlists, tweaking playback speed, and one click shuffling are not things that I’d expect to need new hardware to do. Bah, thank you Apple for screwing me over again.

  • Tune of the Day 07/18/2004: Pushing the Sky

    Starting a new feature today, inspired by some of the cool music blogs out there. I’ll be trying to post a song a day, usually something from what I’ve been listening to in the last day or so. Sometimes I’ll write extra stuff about it, sometimes not. Songs will stay up for around a week or so then come down, so as not to piss people off too much. I’ll also close comments at that time I think. Also, most songs will be in unprotected AAC, since that’s what I have them encoded in. I’ll be sure to mention what format the song is in when posting. There are programs that can play AAC on just about every platform out there at this point.

    The first song in this new area will be Pushing the Sky by Yoko Kanno (I’m assuming performed by The Seatbelts) from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. It’s a pretty rockin’ track and just seemed fitting for today. The track is in AAC.

  • QOTD 07/18/2004

    Robert Morley
    “Anyone who works is a fool. I don’t work – I merely inflict myself upon the public.”
    [Quotes of the Day]

  • I Like Free

    #!/usr/bin/girl links to a very cool site that has a list of restaurants that offer free food on your birthday. I think I’m going to have to make note for my next birthday and eat as much free food as I can:

    Free Meal(s) on Your Birthday!
    Everyone loves something for free. I’m sure most people have experienced the “free dessert on your birthday” at a restaurant before. Let’s take that a step further. It’s your birthday, after all! You should get more than just a free dessert!

    Check out the Cheap Stingy Bastard’s List of Free Birthday Meals. (And desserts. And coupons. And a few other things.) Yum. You could eat all day!

    (Seattle residents: there at least a few Seattle specific places on the list!) [#!/usr/bin/girl]

  • She’s Like Mandela

    nihilistic_kid links to an article about how Martha Stewart is comparing herself to Nelson Mandela. He also offers a song for the occasion:

    Free ol’ Martha Stewart
    Free, Free, Free, ol’ Martha Stewart
    Free ol’ Martha Stewart
    Nearly six months in captivity
    Her shoes too gauche to fit her feet
    Her body still hot but her mind is crazy
    She is so blind that she cannot see

    I say Free ol’ Martha Stewart
    I’m begging you
    Free ol’ Martha Stewart

    Fourteen new tips to decorate Christmas trees
    Suburban housewives are her army
    She is so blind that she cannot see
    She’s like Mandela; takes it seriously

    Free ol’ Martha Stewart
    I’m begging you Free ol’ Martha Stweart
    [the rest here]
    [via Nick Mamatas’ Journal]