Monthly Archives: April 2006
I developed film!
Sam bought a weird camera called a Holga. It’s plastic, cheap, and really cool. None of the parts are automatic, nothing is done for you, even the lense is plastic. It only costs about $30 and shoots large format film – 120 I think. She got the idea from Daniel – that’s the camera he [...]
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I moved to new york from the south to get away from crime.
Just kidding. But I just noticed on Statemaster’s profile of SC that SC leads the U.S. in aggravated assaults and violent crimes per capita. Sounds like someone needs to get even way more ultra-mega-tough-on-crime!
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Bad news, beautifully presented
It almost doesn’t hurt to look at Seed Magazine’s series of State of the Planet graphs. Oh, if only all information was so well presented, wouldn’t that be nice? Seed: State of the Planet
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Great headphones on sale.
http://www.dealhack.com/archives/2006/04/electronics_spring_sale_quick.html Saw this in my feeds. I’m using these headphones and they’re great. Couldn’t tell from a $150 pair of Shure E4C’s. Tags: shopping audio headphones
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This american life goes MP3
My favorite NPR program “This American Life” has made the move from awful real audio to mp3. This is good and bad. It’s good because mp3 works more places, it’s bad because it breaks my greasemonkey userscript. Here is a workaround: Right click on the link-> save as. Change the file extention from .m3u to [...]
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Nerdvana: games bigger than your house.
This weekend my neighbor, Matt Scott, hosted a bbq in the backyard. We had a good time and then as the day wore on, I dismantled the divider in our backyard. Next, I ganked his whole party by setting up the projector in the backyard for huge tekken projected on our back wall. This was [...]
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Working Stiff, at Masochuticon
I don’t know which makes me like this story more, my corporate job or my love of the zombie novels. Working Stiff, at Masochuticon: “It was a matter of some pride to John Parr that he had never taken a sick day in his life; the sudden and violent cessation of life did not seem [...]
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Urban Exploration in south carolina
I was reading ED’s myspace (btw – does anyone know how you can get an rss feed off of myspace?) when I found this link from him: Welcome To Abandoned South Carolina They go to all of these cool creepy places and take pretty good photos. Unfortunately the site is all done in flash, so [...]
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Daniel on flickr!
.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } River Irwell, originally uploaded by ‘flute. Daniel’s gotten started in his flickr page by uploading some great moody shots from Manchester. Everytime I go to London it is sunny and nice and [...]
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Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers