Where’s the peanut butter?!

Sad news from
Cory - Desmond Dekker died of a heart attack on Wednesday. I’ll remember you every time my parents call.

Br_200,
originally uploaded by bpx.

Now showing on flickr:

a collection of Soviet Union propaganda and advertisement posters from 1917 to 1991

I’ve never been as sad as I am now to be allergic to href="http://www.tcob.com/funny/smirking_revenge.html">feathers.

Its a small world…,
originally uploaded by SloppyJoe.

Super cool - this weekend we hiked with some friends on Mount Rainier to Camp Muir. Muir is at just over ten thousand feet and is the base camp from which people usually summit Mount Rainier. After posting my pictures from our trip on flickr, another user found them and created the links between our shots where you can see Tanya in the background at the base camp in one of his pictures. This reminds me of a similar flickr coincidence I read about a year ago.

SurvivaBall,
originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

The brilliant Yes Men have just engaged in identity correction for Halliburton in Florida. The slides (where my new avatar - the survivaball - comes from) are especially awesome. If you aren’t familiar with the Yes Men you should immediately rent the documentary covering their unique and important work.

MedWlan,
originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

A screenshot of available SSIDs from my PDA at a recent trip to the doctor’s office.

href="http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/albright.html">Ladies
love cool href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/jeff/default.mspx">Jeff.
I just saw Madeline Albright leaving my building at work - presumably
vising the local VP? What a pimp!

Now might be a great time to add some disclaimer about my views not
representing anything but one very particular world-view. Certainly
nothing representing my employer (who, as far as I know, doesn’t
really have any href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/132303_momentwith25.html">pimps
in the ranks).

I’m making some ringtones for my phone and found that it’s
interestingly easy to tell how much a song rocks just by looking at
its waveform in Audacity. Take
some known, non-rockin song like “Karma Chameleon” by the Culture Club:

And compare it with one of the most blisteringly rockin songs ever
written - href="http://dropdead.swizcorp.com/sounds/2nd_LP/18Dropdead-WhatOncewasLife.mp3">“What
Once Was Life” by Dropdead (if you don’t know this song you should
immediately turn up your speakers to maximum volume and kick out these
jams):

The incredible thing is how Dropdead manage to take this tune from its
initial skullcrushing ferocity to the interplanetary destruction. This is eleven.

The good news is that the vending machine in your workplace has had a special mechanical bug implanted which, when you make your final snack selection, will cause it to vend a second item at no additional cost to you!

The bad news is that the second item will always be O’Berto beef jerkey.

Enjoy this offer while it lasts!

Perfect theme song for a Monday morning commute #206: “The Abandoned Hospital Ship” by the Flaming Lips, played loudly enough on your headphones to let your busmates sing along, or at least to draw a few conspicuous glances.

Well it took some time
Cause its a lot
God, it's a bunch
It's such a big, old, black golden buzz

And yeah it took some help
With lots of machines, the experts could tell
With their equipment pushed to the max...

And sure it seems easy now but I tell you what
We were perplexed finding the needle
In the needle's disguise

And now that it's conceived, the station has all
Settled down, and I'm sort of relieved, and I'm
Getting over it now...

god i’m going to miss Sasquatch this year. anybody want to rendezvous in Chicago for Lollapalooza? It’d be just like 15 years ago!