Music Choices

An amusing parlor game, as suggested by Timmer: sort your iTunes music library alphabetically and post the first song in each letter/number category:

1-2-8	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
2 Turntables And a Crate of Skint	The Bassbin Twins
3 A.M. Eternal	The KLF
40'	Franz Ferdinand
5/4	Gorillaz
7	Moby
911 Is a Joke	Public Enemy
A Better Man	Clint Black
B.O.B.	Outkast
C'mon N' Ride It	Quad City DJ's
Daffodil Lament	The Cranberries
Earn Enough For Us	XTC
Fade Into You	Mazzy Star
Galvanize	The Chemical Brothers
Half Day Closing	Portishead
I'll Be Gone	Clint Black
Jack-Ass	Beck
Kalandero	Cirque du Soleil
L-L-Love	Astaire
M1 A1	Gorillaz
Naked Eye	Luscious Jackson
O Death	Ralph Stanley
Pacific Coast Party	Smash Mouth
Que Me Quedes Tu	Shakira
Rage Against the Coke Machine	OPM
S'Wonderful	BBC Big Band Orchestra
Take It From Here	Justin Timberlake
U Can't Stop Me	Basement Jaxx
Val Vedral	Cirque du Soleil
W.M.A.	Pearl Jam
X-Files Theme	DJ Dado
Yeat's Grave	The Cranberries
Za	Supergrass

I have no idea what (if anything) that says about me.

Mile Zero

Hey! It's the Carnival of the Gamers! Now with a new improved presentation format!

PBS | I, Cringely . June 9, 2005 - Going for Broke

Like all good conspiracy theories, it (barely) hangs together, but is so amusing you cheerfully get past all that: Apple and Intel are going to merge.

The Volokh Conspiracy - -

Well, at least we've got that going for us.

The Belmont Club: The Sound of Silence

How's your blood pressure? The Belmont Club: The Sound of Silence

TCS: Tech Central Station - The Collectivist Feeling

First, let me say that I liked this short essay about thinking v. feeling quite a lot. I wonder, though, at Mr.Kling's use of "libertarian" (lower case "L") as a rough analog of "good". Maybe it's my personal distaste at the obvious counter-productive antics of the Libertarians (upper case "L"), but I'd really rather use a completely different adjective to emphasize my distance from Harry Browne et al.

Anyway, go read it.

ScrappleFace: Dean: Dem Poll Workers Can't Tell GOP Voters Apart

BWA ha ha ha ha! I agree with The Professor(tm): Howard Dean is the Scrappleface full-employment act made human.

ScrappleFace: Dean: Dem Poll Workers Can't Tell GOP Voters Apart

OKCupid! The Cowboy-Ninja-Pirate-Knight Test

a Pirate You scored 4 Honor, 5 Justice, 3 Adventure, and 11 Individuality!

Arr matey. You may belive in honor, and justice, and you certainly have a sense of adventure. But mostly, you play by your own rules. Your code is your own and you are flexible in most situations. Dress flamboyant and look into a parrot. I think you'll do fine.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 4% on Ninjinuity You scored higher than 56% on Knightlyness You scored higher than 0% on Cowboiosity You scored higher than 91% on Piratical Bent

Link: The Cowboy-Ninja-Pirate-Knight Test written by fluffy71 on Ok Cupid

Transterrestrial Musings

BWA ha ha ha ha ha! You're absolutely right; clearly that's a quagmire.

Elitist Parents and Their Sappy Class Delusions

Cathy Seipp rips elitist parent a new one. Woo hoo!