yet another reason I no longer play online. Really though, poker bots are the least of your worries.
From MSNBC: Are poker ‘bots’ raking online pots?
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Monthly Archives: September 2004
Picture of the week/month etc.
To liven up the blog a bit, I’m going to have a photograph or painting in the sidebar on the right. The first one is by René Magritte and titled La condition humaine, (1933)
oil on canvas, 100 x 81 x 1.6 cm (39 3/8 x 31 7/8 x 5/8 in.)
If you’d like to see it up close and personal, visit the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. You can read their writeup of it here.
Wikipedia
When I first saw Wikipedia about a year and a half ago, I wasn’t impressed.
Flash forward to september of 2004 and now I’m sold.
Wikipedia is the future. Count on it.
Pet Shop Boys present Battleship Potemkin in Trafalgar Square
I don’t know about you, but watching Eisenstein in London with the PSB orchestrating sounds kinda cool to me:
FT – New York London Paris Munich
Apparently, Finlo Rohrer of the BBC didn’t like it though.
Liveblogging of Libertarian candidate Badnarik
Jody and Thason give their co-commentary over at PolySciFi Blog on a speech that Bruce Boxleitner, er Michael Badnarik gave at Virginia Tech on Thursday. (Interesting that the first image one notices on his page is a roulette wheel.
My favorite line from the commentary is: “Was that a heckler on the issue of eminent domain? Have those words ever been typed in the same sentence before?”
Kids and private enterprise.
Man, they never had these suckers when I was a kid. I feel left out.
Top Ten songs of the Moment (in my head)
1. Bohannon “Let’s Start to Dance Again”
2. Afrika Bambaata “Metal”
3. Plastic Operator “Folder”
4. Jay-Zeezer “The World has Changed Clothes and Left Me Here”
5. Sir Mix-a-Lot “Game Don’t Get Old”
6. Terror Squad (f/ Fat Joe, Mase, Eminem, Lil’ Jon) “Lean Back (Remix)”
7. Morrissey “My Love Life”
8. Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon “Breaking Down The Walls of Heartache”
9. Kanye West “Thru the Wire”
10.Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun”
Music blogs
Ok, so I’ve really been into music/mp3 blogs. here are a couple to check out and choice songs:
Bohannon’s “Let’s Start II Dance Again” can be found at The Number One Songs in Heaven, great site filled with a lot of fonky stuff.
An interesting song by Plastic Operator called “Folder” , it’s a dance/love song about a computer or shared network romance.
Tofuhut, this guy post songs according to a theme, i think. curernt one is
drinking, or as I like to say “drunk drinking.” Scroll down and check
out number 7. It’s a Tupac live track where he’s drunk in the studio:
7. Tupac Shakur – “Untouchable Freestyle (‘Drunker’n a Motherfucker’)”
and for the bubblegum lovers, head on over to the bubblegum-machine:
Here’s a song called Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) – Reunion ,
a 1976 chart hit which was an ancestor of “It’s the End of the world as we know it”, “we didn’t start the fire” and “one week.” Aka, all those ultra-fast name droppers that you either think are catchy as hell or as annoying as all f***.
That should keep you busy for a while. hehehehe. happy listening and let me know if you dig.
Yo quiero un PUTA computadora?
or as Gizmodo put it Product Branding is a Bitch
Furthermore, it’s odd that the company is called Atacama, you’d think they’d have more of a Spanish language sensibility. Let’s hope they aren’t gonna try to market it in Spanish or Tagalog speaking locales: PUTA
Also, I wonder if anybody in the marketing department ever read Gulliver’s Travels
The New York Times > Week in Review > A Global War: Many Fronts, Little Unity
I think this article touches on some important points. e.g. that Hamas and Al Qaeda have two very different aims/outlooks. Lumping all these movements together might in the end be counter-productive.
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