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Entries for week beginning September 24, 2006

September 30, 2006

The Complete BBC Peel Sessions

CD Purchase: The Delgados - The Complete BBC Peel Sessions

CHEM087CD+DVD

CD Purchase: Various Artists - CHEM087CD+DVD

Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K Running Plan

How hard could it be?

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September 29, 2006

SNL Transcripts: Nelson Baby Toupees

“Hey, look at Mr. Popular! Now he’s king of the play date.”

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BabyToupee.com

Life imitates SNL sketch.

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Official Google Blog: Your inbox for the web

The new Google Reader UI is a vast improvement over their initial release. Still not something I’d use, but definitely recommendable to feed-reading newbies.

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stereogum: New Gnarls Barkley Video - "Gone Daddy Gone"

Computer-animated insect upskirt action!

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Sling - An Edis Brothers Game from Ezone.com

A splendidly simple little flashgame.

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indexed

Venn diagram humour. Pretty good.

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Steve Jobs: "And Boom!"

And Boom!

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First Look - Times Reader

Odd move by the NYTimes: They appear to have re-invented feed-reading using proprietary Microsoft technology.

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September 28, 2006

Schwag!

Schwag!

I worked the Penn State Career Fair this week for RhymesWithNose. As is traditional, around closing time, I went around the other companies and traded branded tchotchkes. Here's my haul.

The Math Works probably win the prize for coolest toy -- A branded Rubik's Cube -- but I'm also pretty proud of my collection of morally reprehensible pens from Halliburton, Philip Morris USA and the CIA.

And because I picked up some "Gloop" and "Funny" Putty, I'll have to check my bag on the trip home, so sadly, no toothpaste-based security hijinx tomorrow.

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September 26, 2006

Something I Learned Today Going Through Security at Logan Airport

When they say that, due to relaxed heightened security measures, you can only take “travel sized toothpaste” through the security checkpoint when flying, offering to squeeze out the excess toothpaste from your regular sized tube until it weighs less than 3oz won’t cut it.

But the unamused reaction to my offer from the TSA agent was fun, so I think I’m going to purchase another full sized tube and offer again on my flight back.

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That OK Go treadmill video + Lego =

It’s thinks like this that remind me that I don’t actually have too much free time.

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September 25, 2006

BBC NEWS | Question Time video podcast

Sizable chunks of Question Time are being made available as a podcast. Hooray for Auntie Beeb and her new media tendencies. Grumpy arguing politicians is hawt.

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Comic Book

Comic Book

Passing the time at the Cambridge Apple Store, playing around with the "Photo Booth" software on the Macs.

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Blue Screened

Blue Screened

Clearly the presenter from Traineo had not performed sufficient sacrifices to the god of demos before getting up at the Web Innovators Group. Within 10 seconds of starting, his laptop bluescreened.

And all the Mac fanboys in the crowd smiled to themselves.

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webinno8 [WebInno Wiki]

Tonight’s Web Innovators Group meetup looks like it’ll have a really interesting mix of startups presenting. Came along if you’re in the neighbourhood.

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FREE BEER

“Free as in free speech” — Beer whose recipe is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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September 24, 2006

The Family

The Family

You can start to appreciate from this photo just how much larger Clyde is than Bacon.

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Bookend Bassets

Bookend Bassets

Pooped out after a runaround the dog park.

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Drool!

Drool!

Clyde produces a steady stream of drool -- it really is quite impressive.

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Introducing.. Clyde!

Introducing.. Clyde!

Picked up from New England Basset Hound Rescue, Clyde is a 9-year-old male, and a gentle sweetheart.

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Bacon and Clyde

Bacon and Clyde

It's like Bonnie and Clyde, but with approximately 87% less Warren Beatty.

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saute-swinish