Someone posted this on IRC, and I thought I’d share: YouTube – Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show – Part One YouTube – Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show – Part Two YouTube – Frank Zappa on Mike Douglas (w/ Black Napkins) 1of2 YouTube – Frank Zappa on Mike Douglas 2of2 And just [...]

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Dear Roadrunner Records, You may not know me, but I’ve been a huge fan of your artists, like Fear Factory, Type O Negative, Sepultura, and many more. The reason I’m writing this letter is to let you know that there’s several releases in your pipeline that are of interest to me. I’m really looking forward [...]

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fighting the process meetings continue yet still customer is king gather up papers fill out excel forms in full glad I got degree quiet lays the net machines brought back from slumber productive at last hurry bits through wire strange behaviour from within hard drive sounds the bell information stops trapped on fucked up disk [...]

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Goodbye, Lawson Deming. Few people may remember your most famous work unless they were growing up in Metro Detroit in the mid-70s, but there are some who will never forget the man who gave us “Sir Graves Ghastly“. I remember touring the set for the show back on a cub-scout field trip and thinking “That’s [...]

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I just updated my copy of Rhythmbox on Lister (my home machine) to 0.10.0. Since Lister is a Fedora Core 5 machine, that wasn’t a small feat, but I managed (and will post RPMs and instructions if anyone wants them). One of the cool new features of the newer Rhythmbox builds is the integration with [...]

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The results from the voting for Pyweek #4 are in, and I’m happy to report I placed 11th out of a bunch of individual entries. I’m pretty excited about this. One poor soul played the game until level 122, which is amazing to me since the game stops getting harder after level 20. The server [...]

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I’d like to apologize to anyone out there who was hoping the rain would be held off for another day. You see, I loaned my umbrella to JoDee when we were under the threat of some rather severe thunderstorms. Fortunately, I didn’t need the umbrella while she had it, because even though it looked like [...]

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Caress of Steel: You’ll be hard pressed to find a Rush fan that lists this album in their top three favorite albums, but more likely you’ll find this album near the bottom of the favorites list. But, even being at the near bottom of my favorites list, it’s still a damn fine album. “The Necromancer”, [...]

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Create Digital Music » BabyGrandMaster: DJ/VJ Studio Packed into a Piano “Sure, honey, we can have a grand piano in the living room. ” This is either one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while, or… nah, it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while.

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Slashdot | Is Windows Vista in Trouble? Oh, I dunno. Seems they practically have to give it away. Slashdot | Michael Dell Using Ubuntu Linux At Home And he uses OpenOffice, too. A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection Also available as a podcast from Cory Doctrow (1, 2, 3, 4).

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