Category: Digital Culture

I'm torn between thinking this is really freaking cool, and mildly insulting.

The Good:
“The Distributed Library Project is an experiment in sharing information and building community in the San Francisco Bay Area.”

The Bad:
“Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like – you'll probably get shushed.”

The Distributed Library

Happiness is:

Sitting down and flipping on the TV to discover MTV2 playing Living Colour: Cult of Personality, followed by Guns-n-Roses: Sweet Child o' Mine. Ah, the memories.

Just in case any of you were wondering where to find me:
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell – The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test

Ok….all I wanna know is: Who is interested, and how soon can I buy tickets:

From The One Ring
 “…a worldwide Dec. 16 daylong marathon, during which all three films will be shown back-to-back. Exhib guidelines call for a 3 p.m. showing of “Fellowship” followed by a 7 p.m. screening of “Two Towers” and then an 11 p.m. screening of “Return of the King,” which will carry over into Dec. 17 — the day of its global release.”

All three LOTR in a theater at the same time! Hook up the catheter and bring on the Junior Mints!

In other news, evidently the head of Earthstation 5 has great big brass balls. Of course, he/she's in Palestine, out of the range of the FBI.

Check out the Manifesto.

Found an interesting website that somehow I have missed in my www travels.

The Jenville Show
Cooking with Indie Rockstars

Especially good is the bit with Jack Black (of the Greatest Band in the World)

A very odd idea, found on boingboing. A contest site which rewards bloggers for linking to it by giving away the prize to the winner AND to the blogger who the winner clicked through to get there. It uses the refer logs to see how people are getting to them. If the prizes were better, I might think about it.

http://www.blogstakes.com/

Well, I finally purchased a bike yesterday. I've been looking at them for some time, trying to find something that wasn't as expensive as my first car AND would be better than the piece of crap Huffy I rode for a few years at my first master's institution. Found one on closeout at Performance Cycling yesterday, and my dad offered to go in for half with me…so I buckled and bought it. Hopefully this means that you'll see me tooling around campus on it this fall, instead of catching the bus.

While this will almost certainly be hit by the slashdot effect before anyone gets to see it, this is freaking hilarious.

The Star Wars Scout Walker Kama Sutra

Just back from an evening in Winston-Salem at Ziggy's, seeing the Gin Blossoms in concert. After the opening band (Atheneum) played, it seemed to take 4 years for the Gin Blossoms to hit the stage, but when they did, it was good. The lead (Robin Wilson) was a bit smarmy (sample quote “We've been playing air-conditioned clubs all summer..this is _such_ a welcome relief”. Ziggy's is open to the outside, so it was like 103 degrees or something in there). But they did bring down the house with a lot of their older songs…they finished up the main set with Hey Jealousy, and the guitarists and drummer just ate it alive. Wonderful energy.

Two best things in life right now, on this Friday in August:
1. A peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich on wheat bread
2. The new Jane's Addiction song and video (which I bet is making Jean's page refers real fun to read)