Sundries for Culture

Entrepreneurial Proverbs

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PotGSL Teaser Trailer

Yarrr! A short (and shorter) teaser trailer for Pirates of the Great Salt Lake be back online!

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Speed Limit Disobedience

Some Atlanta students risk their lives by driving the speed limit, and videotape the carnage.

“We were dangerous because we were obeying the law.”

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Pirates of the Great Salt Lake

Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! This looks so totally awesome!

Don't miss The MacKay's review, too.

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The Perfect Martini

Tested and approved.

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Geek Prom 2006

Holy crap, we're going big-time. It's at the Science Museum of Minnesota this year!

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Chuck Norris Speaks!

He seems pretty good-natured and well-humored about the whole thing.

Yay for Chuck!

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Brain Training

Wow.

Nintendo, you sure are something.

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The Doug-man is back!

And he's engaged, too!

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How to Do What You Love

Double yay.

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Tuning OS X Performance

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Crash Course in Learning Theory

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US Brewery Map

Oh my god, beautiful. I could stare at this for hours.

Via The Brew Site

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Zosia is on a roll.

Her writing has been spectacular lately, but her life has been far too eventful. Go wish her well.

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The Insider Scoop

Greg knows what to expect from MacWorld. Standing under power lines and reanimating the dead are mentioned.

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Moleskine

These guys sell the best damn journals you'll ever find. I've been writing in their plain pocket books for over a year now. Perfect size for trail notes, too.

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Amazon Album Art Widget

I've been aching for something like this for so long.

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The Areas of my Expertise

This is the funniest book I have read in a long time. I especially enjoy all the facts about hobos.

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Wikipedia on Festivus

The entry is almost as funny as the episode itself.

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Google Zeitgeist 2K5

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Sock Puppet

Following the trail of the ever-enthusiastic Christoph.

Heh. He responds in the comments, too!

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Chuck Norris

Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask, fearing a roundhouse kick to the face.

And here is a full list.

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Google's Master Plan

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Jumping the Shark

Heh.

I knew what it meant, but I never knew its origin.

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One Red Paperclip

Heh. An awesome lesson in economics.

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The Yooper, eh?

Heh. The "Say ya to da UP, eh?" bumper stickers were a parody of the state's tourism slogan, "Say yes to Michigan."

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PhotoMatt goes Indie

We're in good company.

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Opera is Free!

Free as in beer! Whoo-hoo!

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Hire the Better Writer

Well I mean duh.

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PostSecret

The interweb done gone went and growed a confessional.

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The Kanamara Festival!

Next year they're booking Billy and the Grazing Phalli to perform their most popular hits.

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Kanpai Sucks Ass!

Snub not the bloggers. You know not who you deal with.

Meanwhile, Jon had a lovely time at Zydeco, and someone is listening.

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Memories of UMD

Preach it, sister.

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Busted Tees

For the good stuff. I love the "Greece" shirt.

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A Peek inside Pixar

Rockstars work standing up. Why can't you?

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FREEBIRD!!!

Geez, I do this all the time!

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Dukes of Hazzard Movie!

Holy crap!

With the likes of Willie Nelson, Johnny Knoxville, Burt Reynolds, Jessica Simpson and "Stiffler" on board, this movie is gonna suck or not-suck!

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iPod Shuffle RAID

Shoot. I'm gonna be three short.

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Spirit of America is Hiring

Help spread freedom, democracy and peace throughout the world.

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Color Photos from WWI

As you've never seen it. Remarkable.

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Star Wars Episode III Crawl

Ruthless! Stunning! Beseiged! Valuable! Desperate! Captive!

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Team Building

Thanks, Drew!

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Power Vacuum

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I am a fool to leave

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This One's for Luke

I'd say this one even beats out Gorm and Bumerang.

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Trillian 3.0 is out!

Finally, a chat client to end all chat clients.

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The Quirkyalones

Romancing the world, as they say.

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One Million Birds!

I love my Thunderbird email client. You will too.

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How Berkeley Can You Be?

Great pics from a great parade. Note pink unitard, space bunny and Klingons.

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Open Source Mirrors

Need some software free and now? They've even got Slackware!

These guys have stuff too, and their organization is more colorful.

Props to my host Pair Networks for the bandwidth.

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Firefox 1.0 is out

Get in there and take back the web. Opera is still my tool of choice, but hotness is as hotness does.

Via Spread Firefox

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Fun With Autosummarize

I had forgotten how much I love McSweeney's. You should give them money.

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More Zim in Three Days!

Volume 2, and then Volume 3 comes out in October!

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Uberman's Sleep Schedule

Sleep two and a half hours a day. Feel great. Crave grape juice. End up in weird social situations.

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Peasant's Quest is Out!

The best computer game since 1986! Survive the burnination, vow revenge, toss the baby in the river!

Watch the Trailer if you don't know what the hell I'm talkin' 'bout.

Via Homestar Runner

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Another SpaceShipOne Launch Gallery

Courtesy of Richard Seaman, an excellent photographer with an excellent camera.

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SpaceShip One Photo Gallery

Fresh bits from Scaled Composites.

This image sums it up for me. This one is just sweet, as is this one.

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Spaceship One: A Photo Diary

Follow Dale Amon as history is made and beer is drunk. It's freaky-deaky!

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Infectious Websites Dog IE

For the love of god, people, get a different browser.

Via VodkaPundit

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Free Speech Kicks Ass!

The story of a high school student raging against the system

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What am I?

Den Beste, tripped out on Ghost in the Shell and atheism, entertains The Question.

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Map of Springfield

Yes, that Springfield.

via Chuggnutt

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Photos from the 2004 Geek Prom

EEK! Klingons, again! I wish I could have been there!

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Build your own steady-cam

$14. A must for all synchronized swimmers and other XXX-TrEmE Sport Enthusiasts©!

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McSweeney's for College Credit

If this is where we're goin' I could so go back to college!

Via Kottke.org

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Bend Blogger Bash!

May 12 @ the bend brewing company - 7:30 PM - all ages

...the same day my parents are comin' to town!

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what a sassy jerk

Release on mpPA's Emblems has slid to May 18th.

That's a week after I wanna be a mongoose dog.

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Motorcycle ride through Chernobyl

A haunting yet beautiful story.

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The Penny Arcade Remix Project

HERE THERE ARE JAPAN STUDENT WRITES THE COMICS OWN. BACK HOME ONLY YOU!

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Geek Prom Cubed!

The only place on earth where I will find true love, but alas this year I am 1,600 miles away.

Go get your geek on, you spastic nerdwads, you!

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I want this shirt!

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Big Dead Place

Crazy stories and stuff from Antarctica.

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Hack Super Mario Bros.

Make your NES cartridge display nothing but gently scrolling clouds. Great if you're an über-geek, or if you're stuck inside for six weeks with a broken leg.

Via Kottke

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Hokey beer that sucks is now popular

Duluth News Tribune: Dedicated to the news that matters most.

Let's hear it for Pabst Blue Water! Tastes like hot tub water!

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Invader Zim on DVD - May 11, 2004

Between episodes of Invader Zim, Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons and Transformers, I could never see daylight and still lead a happy life.

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Mr. Beer Home Brewery

Brew your own rotgut! Recommended by Old Man Kroiss himself.

Get the kids involved and make brewing a family activity with Mr. Rootbeer!

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Update from Commander Chainsaw

New urban spelunking link for Subciety.

Also, don't miss out on The Wraiths. Early March has been media blitz week for 'em.

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Hoboing the Hemispheres

The Noble Hobo has graced the South Pole, Antarctica, New Zealand, and is now braced to return home.

Three people I know, Annie, Motoshi and Miho, still cling to the Earth's underside.

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Lavasoft Ad-aware 6

Detects and removes those super-secret super-evil spyware programs from your computer. Because let's face it, you can't touch them no, cuz they're all spies.

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Opera 7.50 beta 3 is available

Improvements to chat, better email, system tray mail notification, and a couple other fixes.

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Opera 7.5 beta 2 is available

Test drive the new Opera web browser / operating system. Tabbed web browsing, email, address book, notepad and chat functions. w00t!

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