heard that sound

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"I don’t think I got this upset from Joey Ramone, Joe Strummer, and my cat dying combined."

Adam LaRue from Queerpunks.com on the histrionics of Chris Crocker

playlist

The band: better-than-average indie fare.
The site: clever emulation of an 80's era IBM green-screen mainframe terminal.
The Raconteurs

movie trailer redux

Back to the Future

The Shining

Blog of the month: Waiter Rant

Waiter works for what sounds like a very nice little Bistro in New York. It's got the usual stories about bad tippers, cheapskates, and the really clueless cheapskates. But it's not all complaining -- this guy loves what he does. He's perfected the art. Some people call it upselling, he calls it seduction. He gets to practice Jedi mind tricks and bring the bitchy young waitresses back down to earth. He even gets tipped in porn.

waiterrant.net

And you thought Google's satellite images were cool...

High-res aerial photos of the enitre California coastline. Pretty sweet.
californiacoastline.org

Blog of the month: Boingboing

Boingboing is a general all-purpose blog, with a handful of regular contributors, one of whom is Cory Doctorow, my new favorite science-fiction writer. Self-described as "a directory of wonderful things", topics are all over the place, but they seem to center around...

• San Francisco
• Blogging
• Wi-Fi
• Sci-Fi
• Any type of "community" presence or effort
• Sticking it to The Man
• Open Source
• Networking
• Mobile lifestyles
• Any creative, quirky, or otherwise interesting web content

If you're a fan of Wired, or your name is Craig and you have a List, you'll feel right at home here.

http://www.boingboing.net

Google envy?

For the most part, I'm trying to stay out of the Google vs. The World debate, but I can't help but draw attention to Yahoo Search. Even when someone tries to emulate Google's minimalist design, they can't help but %*@# it up with needless page elements, like these news headlines.

five things

Five terrible fake Dickens characters
1. Henrietta Troubleknickers
2. Jackson Splotch
3. Prof. Wiggenstodgy
4. Pennyfarthing Mushroomwater
5. Felch Cracksbottom

Five bands I don’t think I’m enjoying as much as I’m supposed to
1. Radiohead
2. PJ Harvey
3. Sleater Kinney
4. Liz Phair
5. Scissor Sisters

Five terrible names for local retail stores
1. Pricey McMarkup’s House of Suspicious Deals
2. Hot Fence Electronics Village
3. Kostly Kornerz
4. Chez Ripoffski: A Retailerié
5. Misleadington’s Big Box

www.5ives.com

Updated:

1. The stupider your ringtone, the longer it will take you to answer your phone.
2. The twin miracles of childbirth and pet ownership render you unable to share one photo of anything.
3. If your vanity license plate makes any reference to the make of your vehicle, the people you work with despise you.
4. Ph.D.s who ask to be called “Doctor” should be prepared to refer to every college graduate as “Bachelor.”
5. If you own more than one Enya record you might as well buy all of them and make a little fort.

Blog of the month: Anonymous Lawyer

"I took a new first-year associate to lunch yesterday. His table manners are terrible. First, he used the wrong fork for the salad, which is just about grounds for termination, although I was in a generous mood so I chose to ignore it. We ordered some pasta that we shared, and when he reached to take some pasta and put it on his plate, he somehow carelessly dropped a pile of spaghetti on the tablecloth, in between the bowl and his plate. Of course, he instantly recognized the inappropriateness, and attempted to divert my attention and place a napkin over the offending spill. But my attention is not easily diverted, and I refused to look away. I just stared at the pasta, and stared at him, and stared back at the pasta, and stared back at him, and stared back at the pasta, and stared back at him, until he was sufficiently shamed and couldn't bring himself to engage in any real conversation for the rest of the meal. I think he also swallowed a bone in the fish to avoid having to deal with finding a delicate way to remove it from his mouth and place it securely in his napkin. He won back some points with that."

http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/

Overheard in New York

Queer #1: We are going to the Kelly Clarkson concert in two weeks, you should come.
Queer #2: I have to go home that weekend. They are having a memorial for my grandpa who died. Maybe I can get out of it.
Queer #1: Seriously. I mean people die all the time, but Kelly Clarkson only comes to New York like twice a year.

--Splash, W. 17th Street

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com