In an effort to keep myself (and some of my co-workers) amused, I've started drawing little cartoon faces at work using Microsoft Paint.
I've also created an image set on Flickr with all my doodles thus far.
A good video for a rainy Sunday:
And you can download two Jesus and Mary Chain MP3s here for "Happy When It Rains" and "Just Like Honey".
Been neglecting the blog lately...
Here's a song that many of the music-bloggers have linked to already. I've heard it on dirtyradio once or twice, and I like it too:
- Ellen Allien & Apparat - "Do Not Break" (mp3, 7.19 MB) (courtesy of Orchestra of Bubbles)
It's a fun bit of electro, with a beat that dares you to defy the title.
Meanwhile, Freak Girl's Pew links to this quick list of Six Tips for Happiness.
And, just because, here is a drawing of a cute small rodent holding a giant cherry:
I love these guys. Especially how they react when they're freaked out by something.
(Video and link blatantly stolen from bob, who had them on his site a month ago.)
It's been one of those weeks that has afforded me plenty of opportunity to practice patience, compassion, and restraint.
And how.
I caught the Bodyworlds2 show (Wikipedia entry) tonight, its final night at the Ontario Science Centre. I hauled myself out early yesterday morning (!), hoping to get in before it got too crowded, but it was still too late. The only available ticket slots were for 3.30am last night/this morning, and 7.30pm today.
So, I enjoyed it (flashbacks to 3rd year anatomy class at UofT and all). The exhibit has not been without controversy, whatwith all the posing and manipulations of the corpses, but in a way I think it shows that developer Gunther von Hagens and his team have a deep understanding and appreciation of how the body works in order to portray it so wonderfully and imaginatively. I did find it bothersome that one of the signs referred its accompanying exhibit as a "plastinate" -- no, it's a person, and should be recognized and respected accordingly.
During the inevitable gift shop stop at the end of the exhibit, I did briefly ponder picking up one of the souvenir exhibition catalogues, but then remembered that I have a perfectly good set of anatomy textbooks kicking around somewhere that I haven't read in a gazillion years anyway.
I also wound up seeing Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film The Passenger (IMDb info), starring Jack Nicholson, yesteday. The premise is certainly enticing enough -- escape your life by exchanging your identity with someone else's. I thought it was OK. The narrative is vague and highly symbolic, which -- if you like that sort of thing -- makes this film worthwhile. But it's not really a thriller. (PopMatters review here. Metacritic roundup here.)
Other than that, it's more of the same. Got an achy-head-and-scratchy-throat thing going on, that I'm hoping will not tip over into a full-blown cold. We'll see...
Wow, would you look at the time. It's Sunday night already! How did that happen?
Please tell me tomorrow isn't Monday! The weekend can't be over yet! Nooooooo!
Aw, rats.
(Pic via pandafix, who got it from this page of cute animal pictures.)
Further to yesterday's video post....
I went and set up my own account over at YouTube and have begun putting together a playlist of Punk, New Wave, & 80s Videos that I find there from various sources - lots of good/nostalgic viewing for you retro fans out there.
Addendum 07 February 2006: The playlist count is presently up to 85 videos. More likely to be added as time goes on.
In lieu of my own content, ladies and gentlemen, may I present The Go-Go's (apologies if the embedded video is a tad slow):
Aaah, the 80's. Yes, boys and girls, we really did dress like that. (Admittedly, I didn't go in so much for the off-the-shoulder sweatshirt number that Belinda Carlisle wears in the video, but I did have a plaid shirt or two not unlike the one that drummer Gina Schock is wearing.)
(Idea blatantly lifted from Shatnerian, who posted the video for "Going Underground" by The Jam.)
Despite the whimsical tagline "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards", the scribblings done by Hugh Macleod over at gapingvoid often capture a truth that is both pithy and precise.
Twenty years ago, this cartoon would have had people scratching their heads.
Today, it is a way of life.
Same old, same old...
Finally breaking free of the grid for the first time in a few months, I chose to populate this week's board mostly with avatars and buddy icons (little images that users of Instant Messaging applications and bulletin boards or forums use to represent themselves online).
Besides being a convenient source of visual micro-content that I can plunder (no cropping or resizing needed to fit them on the board), I also happen to like avatars because they can say so much in so little space. OK, so there are a lot of avatars out there that are crap -- and why do so many of them have spelling mistakes -- but in theory these little 100x100 pixel (or smaller) squares are personas writ small.
Think about it -- how would you capture yourself in 10,000 pixels? Could you?
(And of course, what does my choice of these images say about me?)
Incidentally, the mood board from two weeks ago and Friday's post also use avatars.
One musical acquisition of note: The album OK Cowboy by Vitalic was added to eMusic's catalog this week, and I snapped it up as soon as I saw it there (I've teetered on the brink of purchasing it from Bleep.com several times over the last six months or so). You can view the video for "My Friend Dario" (Flash, 14.7 MB), a song that's a fantastically catchy slice of electro dance-punk. The video's lots of fun too.
Just because I can, I set up a flickr account and uploaded my weekly mood board images to it (sans commentary). I should probably dig up my old keychain-cam pix and do the same.
I couldn't help but be amused at the resulting view of my 'Mood Boards' set -- namely a grid of grids...
Continue reading Flickr'ing.
Frigging !*#!@!!*%@^!!!!! course assignment is due at midnight.
Aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!
(Addendum, 11:53:57 PM -- Fired off something vaguely coherent. What the hell...)
The holiday season means that a lot of people do all sorts of baking. However, it is wise to avoid leaving all those sweet goodies unattended.
Especially when there are bunnies around.
(Pic found at Cute Overload, a blog which lives up to its name pretty well. Link to Cute Overload found via tripledoubleyou.com.)
UrbanDharma has a Buddhist calendar for 2006 available for free download as a PDF.
The calendar features serene black-and-white nature photography and quotes from the teachings of the Venerable Ajahn Chah.
Another week of not-much-to-report, so I decided to go with a comics theme for this week's mood board. Actually, I wound up doing two boards.
Some comics that I enjoy reading online include:
- Dilbert -- brilliant deadpan delivery on the pithy truth of office life
- toothpastefordinner -- slackers, office drones, and lots of coffee
- Calvin and Hobbes -- an oldie but a goodie; grownups are either mundane or sinister -- Calvin does his best to escape
- Non-Sequitur -- sharp jabs at mass media and the hypocrisy of a certain Republican government
- Cat and Girl -- class warfare and jabs at liberal hypocrisy
- explodingdog -- drawings based on phrases that people send in; often whimsical, sometimes sad
- Get Fuzzy -- cats are evil and dogs are trusting and adorable
- The Joy of Tech -- mostly for Mac-o-philes, but will appeal to geeks of all stripes
I also read these comics (which don't appear on the boards) regularly:
- Bloom County -- an 80s relic 'fer sher, but some of the humour is timeless
- Gaping Void -- Hugh Macleod's (in)famous "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
- Spamusement -- clever twists on spam subject lines
And I keep track of most of the comics in the above lists using Comic Alert. Set up an account and have updated links to many of your favourite comics sent to you via RSS or email. (They've also started offering a web-based version.) Loads of fun.
Comics that I would read a lot more often if I would remember (or could subscribe via RSS):
Random things in my head and elsewhere:
- There's still two weeks left in October, and I'm already chomping at the bit for the new month so that I can get my mitts on another 40 MP3s from eMusic. I've even organized my wishlist in an Excel spreadsheet so that I can sort my picks by artist or by track count with a few clicks of the mouse. (That's either incredibly obsessed or incredibly geeky.)
- Theme song of the day is "Seether" by Veruca Salt. I have an MP3 copy squirrelled away on DVD or CD backup somewhere, but I'm tempted to just buy the track from iTunes for some instant gratification. (Addendum: Yep, I bought it. Goodbye $0.99. Guess I'll just skip the morning coffee at Tim Horton's tomorrow.)
- Speaking of iTunes, they have a "Just For You" recommendation engine currently in beta. It recommends a bunch of albums (and songs) based on what you've bought from them in the past, and you can tell the engine "Don't Like It" or "Already Own It" in response to the album suggestions (which is a pretty sneaky/smart way of doing market research, if you ask me). But why, after I repeatedly keep telling it that I'm not interested in albums by Jay-Z, does it keep pushing different releases by him on me?
Lastly, this cartoon by toothpastefordinner is so true:
In response to a post I made over at Clicks & Notes, "N" sent me this link:
The Conceptual Space of Collage
Collage is a critical paradigm of the information age because it opens the range of possibilities through which we interpret information artifacts. Cut and paste enables semiotic construction that simultaneously leverages and detourns the means of production embodied by particular media elements. The recombination of genetic codes of meaning creates hybrid forms. Through these cross-currents, culture, and even knowledge, evolve.
Of course, with my weekly mood boards, I've been getting into the whole collage thing a lot lately. Sure I could just stick with a textual laundry list of things that I've been seeing/hearing/reading/doing/thinking all week, but the mood boards just feel (to me) like they capture it all so much better...
Anyway, the article above talks about some sort of application called "CollageMachine", which unfortunately seems to be no longer available online. So, I did some hunting around and turned up some other online collage applications:
- National Gallery of Art NGAkids collage machine -- choose from various shapes and pictures; you can flip things around, resize elements and adjust their transparency; or if you're feeling lazy, just click the "Auto" button and it'll generate a collage for you; very neat
- Collage Machine 1.0 -- a few different galleries of images to choose from; you can rotate and cut pieces, as well as add your own scribbles with the mouse
- typoGenerator -- I've linked to this one before; not so much interactivity here, but the results are very cool
I also got to thinking about a few online news sites that rely heavily on a collage effect to transmit many news items in a visual way:
- Yahoo! Buzz Images and News -- splays out a bunch of photos for you; mouse over them to get the textual summary
- 10 x 10 -- 100 keywords and 100 pictures
- newsmap -- no pictures, but relies on size and placement of textual elements to convey importance or magnitude of coverage
Are we going to rely more on interfaces like this to cope with information overload? When are we going to get RSS aggregators that look this?
Slightly off-topic -- but also very neat -- are these visual works that reprocess other visual information (found via swens blog):
- MTV's 10 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, as manipulated by Jason Salavon -- "Each of the videos in the top 10 of this list were digitized in their entirety. The individual frames from each video were then simplified to their mean average color, eliminating overt content. These solid-colored squares were then rearranged in their original sequence and are read left-to-right, top-to-bottom."
- 50 people see... -- blends together different photo images from Flickr that all bear the same tag
Props to All Things Christie for introducing me to the Flashtoon Neurotically Yours.
Neurotically Yours features the antics of Foamy the Squirrel and his human friend Germaine, as well as lots of ranting. And coffee. And cream cheese.
(Obviously, because these are Flashtoons, you need Flash installed and sound enabled on your computer.)
Meanwhile, it is already after Noon and I am still in my pyjamas. Really must try to get out of The Hovel while there's still some daylight left in the sky.
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
Addendum 14 January 2005: There are also a handful of Foamy the Squirrel MP3s available for free download at Amazon.com (registration required), including the 'Fat-kins Diet' rant. Oh, and I did get out of the apartment before sundown yesterday. Today too. Go, me.
You've seen it linked to on MeFi and Boing Boing and a bazillion other blogs... Oh, you haven't? Well, here 'tis.
Scared of Santa photo gallery: Nothing says Happy Holidays like a photo of sweet little toddlers screaming at Santa.
Still alive. Been doing some other... stuff... yeah.
Should there be any doubt lingering in anyone's mind, winter is here.
That was the weather reading around 3pm this afternoon. For our American friends, -15 Celsius is +5 Fahrenheit, and -28 Celsius is -18.4 Fahrenheit. However you want to measure it: BRRRRRRRRRRR!
Of course, it is one of those twisted jokes of nature that, whenever it's that damn cold, it's also marvelously sunny. My light-starved eyeballs and I were compelled to venture outside.
Venturing out, in this case, basically meant a quick-march to the Lettieri coffee shop at Bloor & Bathurst, wherein I snapped these pics of my fellow frozen citizens from the comfort of an indoor window seat with a nice warm cup of coffee:
And tomorrow promises to be equally frigid. Yippee.
Will try to get my shit together and post some more...
Also did a bit of tweaking to Circadian Shift: The Outpost, and uploaded following file:
"Revenge of the Photocopier"-- funny TV commercial (WMV video; 1,298 KB)
And that's all for now...
BTW, I'm still soldiering on with drawing classes.
As I've mentioned/claimed before, I can do linework, and I can also handle colour. However, trying to render stuff in monochrome has been a real bugbear for me.
I've also been struggling with finding a drawing medium that I'm really comfortable with. As much as I love the look of Conté, I've had very little luck in getting it to work for me. I've had better luck with charcoal (having tried a couple different kinds), and suprised myself this past Wednesday by producing not-too-embarassing results with good ol' graphite pencil. Evidently, I need to spend a lot more time practicing with this stuff.
Meanwhile, N has been attending the classes with me, and has turned out to be the star pupil of the group:
(Again, I reiterate -- this is N's work, not mine. Bravo, N.)
Lastly, a rambling post of mine such as this one wouldn't be complete without some links:
- ArtLex is an "Art Dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education"
- Here's a site called Drawing Materials and Drawing Techniques -- an Introduction
- Notebook is an interesting-looking, if somewhat convolutedly organized, collection of "Visual Arts References and Resource"
- About.com has a newbie-friendly guide to Drawing and Sketching
And here are two more that I dug out of the Circadian Shift archives:
- Ideography has a tutorial titled "But I Can't Draw" available for download
- Art Studio Chalkboard offers a bunch of lessons on drawing and painting
Friday is drawing to a close, but you can still enjoy this week's selection of animal pix (invertebrates too!), courtesy of The Modulator.
First drawing class tonight.
I can do line, but I can't shade. Tonight's subjects for drawing (oversized face parts in blocks of plaster) required lots of shading.
I wound up drawing several pages of what appeared to be mutant toast. Angry mutant toast.
Drawing things that don't look like anything is much easier.
*sigh*
I signed up for some drawing classes, which start tomorrow. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to use the part of my brain that doesn't wrangle spreadsheets.
Meanwhile, I've managed to dug up the stylus to my old Wacom tablet, so I once again have an alternative to my mouse for GUI-based computing.
Said tablet and stylus also allow me to easily make little scribbles like this:
Yes, I am cranky once again.
Go find some music to listen to.
For those of you who go all ga-ga over pictures of cute 'n fuzzy animals (and some creatures who are neither), The Modulator has taken to compiling a bunch of links each week in his new 'Friday Ark' segment. Find the first two installments here and here.
Meanwhile, Sonic Sunset has been piling on the good tunage in their latest sets of DJ mixes. Much enjoyable listening awaits.
The MP3 Blogs Aggregator has been steadily adding to its roster of feeds. The resulting onslaught of music links is both delightful and fatigue-inducing, but at least I will never again lack for new music to listen to.
Meanwhile, from a couple of sites that are not featured on said aggregator:
- Graig is featuring a 21 minute retrospective of The Beta Band
- Torchomatic has retro goodies from Sharpe & Numan, OMD, and The Monroes
On the visual side, Low Morale has a new Flashtoon up. I think we've all been in meetings like this:
Go and see the whole thing.
Here's a little something I whipped up using typoGenerator, IrfanView, and Microsoft Paint.
Just because I can.
Don't remember which MP3 blog I found this on. But it works.
The sidebar now stretches out longer than the main body of the blog frontpage, which means that I haven't been posting much lately.
Anyway...
Just because, here's a photo of Shirley Manson from Garbage, taken circa Version 2.0. I like the pic, and it fills up lots of space.
Have a nice day.
del.icio.us tipped me off to this Flash puzzle called Gridlock. It's one of those deceptively simple games that draws you in with increasingly difficult levels. No doubt, it's been gridlocking productivity everywhere.
For those who prefer something less mentally taxing, there's Fly Guy. You're just a guy in a suit, waiting for the bus, but you can fly around and do stuff. Just because. (Thanks to my friend Eric for the link.)
Don't know your Latte from your au Lait? This should help clear things up:
(click through to see the full-size pic)
(photo is courtesy of noise between stations; spotted via del.icio.us)
Am presently listening to Eternal Fusion, an eclectic weekly online "radio" program, as recommended by dj martian. How eclectic? Check out the Eternal Fusion blog for playlists of the current and previous shows. Good stuff.
Meanwhile, thanks to Jimcat for sending along word of Clubbo Records, the greatest music label you've never heard of. Check out the anthemic 70s-era stylings of Rockfinger, the synth-powered 80s energy of Bleep, and the cutting-edge present-day work of The Lazarus Project. Much, much fun to be had all around.
On the visual side, Totally Fuzzy points to a Webjay listing of Avant Garde Cinema, including films by Hans Richter, Harry Smith, and Man Ray, plus Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's (in)famous Un Chien Andalou. Many of the files are very big, so if you're on dial-up, don't even bother. Be sure also to check out the supplementary linkage from the Webjay list for even more goodies.
Bob points to this Reuters item about an incident from Bush campaign HQ:
Unhappy Workers Should Take Prozac -- Bush Campaigner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign worker for President Bush said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones -- or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.
What struck me in particular was the advertisement that ran alongside the article...
Continue reading Savvy ad placement in action.
Continue reading On and on and on....
"typoGenerator is a random generator for 'typoPosters'. a typoPoster is a poster, created from images and letters/text that doesn´t have any sense, just to look good"
(via MetaFilter)
Not being at the office means that I can web-surf with impugnity. And play simple, addictive little games like this.
(via Milk and Cookies)
Addendum: Oops. Fixed bad HTML tag. Sorry.
I know I just posted a 'toon from toothpastefordinner yesterday, but I laughed out loud when I saw this one:
I got these in an email, and of course, I must share...
Continue reading Gratuitously cute animal pictures in lieu of more meaningful content.
The facilities people just mounted a picture on the support column nearest to my cube.
This seems relevant:
Carnival of the Canucks #22 is online at PolSpy. The week's theme is Canuck Photography.
Enjoy.
Not only can Microsoft Word be used to produce valuable marketing reports, it can also be used to draw cartoons.
Continue reading Fun with Office software.
- Bunker Holds a Mountain of Movies -- "A Cold War emergency bunker nestled in the side of a mountain will soon house one of the largest movie and music collections in the world."
- geometric paperclip sculptures -- mangle office supplies in new sophisticated ways (via kottke)
- Netflix offers abstract reworkings of some well-known movies (violent stuff, actually) as Flash animations (ibid.)
- The End of the World is a sizable Flash download (3.7 MB), but also worth a look (via plasticbag)
- The Observer runs a review of 50 Years of Pop (yet another link from kottke)
- Wired reports that, despite the success of legal online music download services, the record industry still wants more
- Signal vs. Noise recommends some cool music to check out
Go on and look. You know you want to.
- You Are Here is a very neat stop motion animation video (spotted chez kottke, and elsewhere)
- the folks from National Geographic bring you Map Machine, an online dynamic atlas (via xBlog)
- xBlog also links to the news that the MP3.com archive is not lost
- DigitalWeb reviews Computer-Based Music Production on a Budget
- The NYT has an article on Web Sites for Music Playlists and Baby Blogs (via Seb's Open Research)
- The NYT also reports that Sony is entering the online music market (via Tomalak's Realm)
- Festival Takes Stock of Old Films -- "the Stockstock Film Festival showcases films made from stock footage -- those old educational films, forgotten commercials and other random movies freely available in the public domain"
- Andy's Early Comics Archive -- "A History of Picture Stories : Over 350 scrolldown pages of comics, or comics-related illustration, dating from 300 A.D. to 1929" (via xBlog)
- Howtoons -- "one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids "How To" build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all, including the pre-literate" (ibid.)
- Album covers by famous cartoonists (via kottke)
- Record labels want to raise online mp3 prices to $3 per song (ibid.)
- Top Movies About Music (ibid.)
- Kill Bill movie references guide (via a klog apart)
- RIAA Singing the Same Old Song -- "Online file-sharing and other digital piracy persist, but a gradual turnaround in U.S. music sales that began last fall picked up in the first quarter of this year, resulting in the industry's best domestic sales in years."
- A quick primer on music theory from Ask MetaFilter (via Anil Dash's Daily Links)
- Music Gurus Scout Out Free Tunes -- "After receiving e-mails from friends filled with lists of URLs pointing to songs on various websites, programmer Lucas Gonze thought there oughta be a way to listen to the tunes in one continuous stream... So Gonze built Webjay, a site where users can build their own playlists of free music -- like a mix tape -- and share them with other fans." (via Seb's Open Research)
- Music Sharing is Viral Marketing (via Jon Udell)
There seems to be no end to the amusement that people derive from looking at pictures of cats with funny haircuts. Here's another one (you might have to scroll down a bit).
In absence of more meaningful content, I will share with you a shot from the keychain-cam that I took last Sunday:
Although the photo would suggest that I was actually getting some writing done, I can't say it was very productive. Or coherent.
Oh well...
Yes, I live.
Today is feeling an awful lot like an exercise in cognitive dissonance.
Here are some images, just because.
Thanks to Monkeymagic for indirectly pointing me to these virtual pages from Leonardo daVinci's Codex Arundel (Shockwave plugin required to view). Very neat stuff.
You can also look at some pictures of lifesize models made from daVinci's designs.
Did some spelunking through the Circadian Shift archives, and came up with the following additional linkage:
- Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman -- an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
- page with a number of drawings by Leonardo daVinci [Addendum: sorry, forgot to make sure the original link actually worked before posting it; the link works now (goes to a mirror page)]
- the complete translated text of The Notebooks of Leonardo daVinci
- a BBC site on Leonardo
Yeah, it's getting late. Just one link before the clock hits midnight:
This is too late for the holiday season, but is gosh-darn cute nonetheless:
Real content will be forthcoming later today.
Shot with the keychain-cam, from the comfort of indoors, of course.
Continue reading Scenes from a cottage.
New 'toons up at Gaping Void.
Meanwhile, the aggregator is backing up again. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Went to Grand & Toy at lunch today to buy a highlighter (I seem to be unable to get any serious reading done if I can't highlight passages in what I'm reading), and these were sitting next to the cash register:
Yes, that photo is bigger than the actual camera itself.
Anyway, I couldn't resist playing with my new keychain-cam on the way home:
Obviously, I'm not going to be winning any photography prizes with this little gizmo, but it's still hella fun.
And this is the same pic, reduced to half-size. I rather like the lo-res postage stamp effect. Yeah.
Here's a bunch of Calvin & Hobbes cartoons about snowmen.
This one's my current favourite:
Feel free to to substitute "Mom and Dad" in the above cartoon with the authority figure of your choice.
Film links:
- Movie Review Query Engine (via Seb's Open Research)
- An interview between Lars von Trier and Paul Thomas Anderson (via kottke)
Brain links:
- Abyssal Mind, and the companion linklog (via Reflections in d minor)
- Brainworld, "A Weblog on Brain Sciences, Society, Arts and Culture" (linked to by Abyssal Mind)
- Arts and Minds (via Seb's Open Research, again)
And then there's:
- Cinebrain, "A weblog on Brain Sciences and Cinema" (another link from Abyssal Mind)
- Everybody and their grandmother has already linked to this blurb on how PowerPoint makes you dumb. It's a New York Times bit (free registration required); go read it before it disappears into the for-pay archives.
- And, a lot of people are also linking to this Q&A with Edward Tufte.
- IDblog has still more Tufte, as well as a pro-PowerPoint rebuttal.
Thanks to Mookie for these links:
[insert quasi-apologetic whingeing about being busy and too brain damaged to post here]
More cartoons from Gaping Void.
For all two of you who actually enjoy the cartoons from Gaping Void, Hugh has posted some more online for the members of his special syndicate.
So, you're a real motorcycle enthusiast. You've got the latest riding gear and all the accessories. So what do you need to make your bike rides complete?
Aerostich RiderWearhouse sells this delightful item -- just run a search for "Mr. Happy Puppet", and you can order one too.
(Thanks, Mookie!)
The Virtual Colour Museum documents colour order systems in art and science, as well as colours and cultures.
(Via Metafilter.)
This time, your task is to select the correct colour button. You're shown a word, which is the name of a colour, but what you have to do is click the button representing the colour of the letters which make up the word, not the colour which the word spells out. Do it 8 times, with only 4 seconds to choose each time.
Damn, it's harder than it sounds. And damn you, Mookie, for giving me another way to waste my evening.
(BTW, the Flash plugin is required to play the game.)
Some work-related blogs that I must remember to visit again:
Other stuff:
- Pattern: An Interdisciplinary Course in Textile Design and Elementary Group Theory is/was a course that combined the study of mathematics and art; very cool (via MetaFilter)
- some supertiny free fonts (via paranoidfish)
- Fingertips provides pointers to free and legal music on the web (via The Shifted Librarian)
Completely forgot to mention yesterday that that are some more Gaping Void cartoons online.
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Just kidding. That's a real bunny. Really.
(Via MetaFilter.)
BTW, I did go back to bed. Sleep is good.
This week in Dilbert, guest cartoonists are stepping in for creator Scott Adams. Today, it's.... Nah, why don't you go find out for yourself?
(The style did look kind of familiar, but I couldn't really place it.)