One question for John Kerry

George Will writes The 1st 28 Questions For Kerry.

I'd like an answer to this one:

You say the rich do not pay enough taxes. In 1979 the top 1 percent of earners paid 19.75 percent of income taxes. Today they pay 36.3 percent. How much is enough?

I wonder what George Will would be like at Passover?

Michael Holley Fails the Wonderlic intelligence test.

Michael Holley writes in today's Boston Globe: Plans come together at NFL combine.

Every player has to take the Wonderlic intelligence test. Here's a sample question:

A plane travels 70 feet in 1/10 second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in 3 seconds?

You can't take too long to come up with the correct answer (which is 2,450) because 50 questions have to be answered in 12 minutes.

Hey Michael,
You're wrong!

The correct answer is 2,100. ( 70*10*3)
--Steve

Taking your Wonderlics.

Good test scores enhance draft-day status.

News of the Future: U.S. Senator Howie Carr

What happens when John Kerry wins?

January 28, 2005
BOSTON-- Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney fulfilled one of his constitutional duties yesterday when he named the replacement for former Senator John F. Kerry, who was elected President last November. Romney came through on a promise he made on air at WRKO and selected one of the station's talk hosts to be the Commonwealth's new junior senator.

Ha!

Hey You! Don't Shake it!

Polaroid FAQ on "shaking it like a Polaroid picture."

I knew that shaking it was wrong.
via [ fimoculous ]

Anatomy of a Fake

How to make four people look like a huge crowd.

"Nothing So Strange" is a feature-length faux documentary about the investigation into the assassination of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

Nice How-To video about the making of Brian Fleming's documentary.
via [ boingboing ]

Woman denies Kerry relationship

Rumor wanes as Drudge backs off earlier Internet report.

A rumor that was circulated widely on the Internet and in the British press, purportedly linking Senator John Kerry to a much younger woman, crumbled Monday as the woman issued a strong denial and the Internet site that launched the report changed its story.

Moral of the story - Drudge was wrong.

What is North Korea really like?

NKzone.
Behind the headlines. Behind the hype. What is North Korea really like?

My Favorite David Letterman Valentines Day Card

I Love You Darling, However...

Jo likes Nick who likes Gail, or does he?

A Short Film I Wrote...

INT. DANCEFLOOR - LATER
Gail and Nick are talking on the dance floor, their dance is pretty much non existent. They don't have much space, and have to avoid people behind them knocking into them. This, in a way, brings them closer to each others. The song playing in the club is OutKast - The Way You Move

Nice.

Ralph Nader Wants Your Opinion. Give it to him.

Ralph, Don't Run.

I posted this a while back, but now Nader says he will make up his mind in the next few weeks, so here it is again.

New Address for Grow-A-Brain

Hanan Levin's got a new home for the Grow-A-Brain blog.

Check it out.

Tori Spelling's getting married...

... and her bridal registry is online at Willams-Sonoma.

Now lots of people are buying her gifts and writing about it.


What struck me funny was the citrus trumpet... what we used to call a JUICE EXTRACTOR... back in the good old ZAYRE days!

John Kerry's Brother

I just emailed John Kerry's brother Cameron, with a suggestion for his web page. He emailed me right back from his Blackberry.

That's cool.

Now I've got a direct link to the future president.

Cameron F. Kerry - Biography.

Cameron Kerry and his in-laws talk of the Democratic frontrunner.

Brookline banks on Kerry.

Photos of Boston

Ben Yosef's Boston.

Just get in, sit down, and keep quiet

Ryanair 'to cut frills further':

Ryanair has confirmed it is taking "no-frills" flying a stage further by ordering a fleet of planes without reclining seats or window blinds.

That'll solve the problem of the inconsiderate moron in front of you pushing his seat back all the way!

Losing Their Religion

Children to study atheism at school.

Non-religious beliefs such as humanism, agnosticism and atheism would be covered alongside major faiths such as Christianity or Islam under draft guidelines being prepared by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, which regulates what is taught in schools in England.

What is humanism?

What is agnosticism?

What is atheism?

What is Christianity?

What is Islam?

What is Bad Religion?

Hey NECN, this is how you report a story.

In today's Boston Globe, Peter DeMarco reports on the story of missing student, Maura Murray.

A student vanishes, and none knows why.

At about 7 that night, while taking a sharp turn on Wild Ammonoosuc Road in Woodsville, N.H., Murray lost control and slammed into a snow bank. Shaken by the accident, and apparently intoxicated, Murray told a witness she didn't need help, local police said. The witness went to call the police and by the time they arrived Murray was gone.

NECN reported on the same story but neglected to report that she was in an accident last week and that she might have been drinking. Also, when one of her friends said "Right now reasons don't matter as to why she went up there," the reporter didn't seem to see any need to follow up.

I hope she's found safe soon.

Mother of four children rebuilding Iraqi Stock Exchange

Del. woman helps Iraq's exchange:

"We're starting with a clean slate - I think," said Starr, who took with her a miniature replica of the Liberty Bell - a gift from the Philadelphia exchange intended to be used to start and end the trading day when the Baghdad Stock Exchange is back.

How cute.

There's a "To Disturb Would Be Illogical" sign on T'Pol's door

T'Pol stops his mouth with a kiss. She then pulls away and disrobes. THAT'S why she wore a robe tonight -- easy access. Trip stares her up and down, and they make out some more.

The preview showed more.

A Pint of Smithwick's

Smithwick's is now on tap at Doyle's in JP!

A nice Irish Ale from the maker's of Guinness.

The tent card on the table said I could be one of the first to try it. So I ordered it and the waiteress said, "Oh, I didn't even know we had that."

So I was the first!

It went down smoothly after ice skating at Larz Anderson rink.

It was my first time skating in a lot of years. One time around the rink and my feet killed! After a while I did get my skating legs back and skated around the rink pretty well.

My finger is now feeling better after the Chinese torture I experienced this morning, by getting a splinter under my fingernail, while trying to get the ice skates out of the basement.

Ouuuuuuuuch!

I was sure that I was fgoing to have to make a trip to the emergency room.

The only way to get the splinter out was to cut under the fingernail and get the splinter out with a needle.

Yikes.

Beer is a nice cure to help in the healing process.

BeerTender: Draft Beer At Home

Heineken and Groupe SEB join hands and create home draught beer system.

Your new roommate is a BeerTender.

Not Really Kerry and Fonda

Snopes: Not really pictured together!

Nice photoshop work.

Waiting for other people to join Kerry at the podium...

New Blockquote Formatting

I just copied blogbandit's style of doing blockquotes.

It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool.

Sweet!

blogbandit went to a Sales Rally for The Passion of Christ on Wednesday where they passed out a guidelines sheet:

WE MUST NOT SCARE ANYONE AWAY from seeing the film. Let's face it - people don't talk much in movie theaters, just like they don't talk much in elevators. If we violate the social norms, we run the risk of ruining our chance to speak truth with credibility.

Go together as a group, but SPREAD OUT in the theater for maximum contact with people.

DO NOT BOW your heads in prayer in the theater.

DO NOT PREY UPON PEOPLE as they try to leave.

Ha Ha!

This guy flies!

flyguy.

Make sure you fly high enough to have him play the guitar and dance.

Get up on the seesaw. That helps.

William Hung is my American Idol

For some strange reason I was up late last night and caught a repeat of Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.

It was a repeat of his 8:00 PM show.

The last segment was with the most popular contestant never to make it to American Idol finals, William Hung.

William Hung deserves so much more than 15 minutes of fame!

William has a wonderfully quirky personality and even sang She Bangs at the end of the interview. Nice job.

I hope he makes it back onto American Idol as a wildcard, or at least gets on there to sing again.

It's time for a new political party that doesn't nominate candidates

Dave Winer writes:

Let's call it the Rational People's Party, or RPP. We'd meet every month to talk about local and national politics, to start new weblogs and meetups, to broadcast our ideas and invite political leaders to pitch themselves. If they wandered off-topic we'd ask them to get back on track. If one broke a campaign promise, this would appear on a public list, for every local RPP chapter to access.

Dowbrigade calls it Breaking Out the Big Tent Movement

It seems to the Dowbrigade that there are all of the necessary elements in place to see an effective Movement coalesce and emerge from the dashed dreams and bruised egos of the Dean disaster. There is a large base of people out there who are deeply dissatisfied with the direction this country is taking, and they are gradually finding each other, and a voice, in the Blogosphere. They are motivated, educated, and ready to put their money where their keyboards are posting.

I hope it could be as fun as Dilbert's New Ruling Class, the DNRC.

create_general_protection_fault();

Source Code to Windows 2000.

Buy 867-5309

Jenny's New York Phone Number is up for sale on eBay!
via [ boing boing ]

The Tommy Tutone song "Jenny (867-5309)" drove the phone companies (and their customers) nuts.

Paris Hilton and LeBron James

NBA All Star 2004 has some interesting games scheduled tonight:

NBA All-Star Celebrity Game presented by 989 Sports and McDonalds - ESPN at 7 p.m.

Ashton Kutcher and Paris Hilton will be filmed.

10th annual Got Milk? Rookie Challenge - TNT at 9 p.m.

Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James and Denver Nuggets' 14K Carmelo Anthony and their rookie team go up again Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets and Phoenix Suns' forward Amare Stoudemire and their year-ago rookie team.

In God's home with Lanny and his Mom, the Virgin Mary

Reality TV World has this wrapup of last night's Bachelorette:

Mom: What church do you affiliate with? (OH NO!!!!!)
Mer: I'm open ? I definitely believe. (translation ? church? huh?)
Mom: I want to know that my grandchildren would be raised in a Christian home.
Mer: Christian Dior? Oh that will work?.

Religion is really important to Lanny and hopes Meredith is 'willing to embrace things.' Shouldn't you have had this conversation a while ago? Kiss of death is when Mom launches into how Lanny would be head of household and Mer would have to respect that.

Yikes.

Sounds more like Hell on Earth.

Who Should be the next James Bond?

They are discussing it over at FARK.

My favorites from the discussion:

Ricky Gervais

Simon Cowell - "That is quite simply...the worst Orbital Laser Array I have ever seen."

What do you think?

Update: Make that the next James Bond after Pierce Brosnan is done playing Bond.

Illegal Art: Jay-Z and The Beatles Remixed

The Grey Album

DJ Danger Mouse's recent Grey Album, which remixes Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles White Album, has been hailed as a innovative hip-hop triumph.

EMI wants it out of stores.

Illegal Art has the download here.

Maybe it would have been better if Jay-Z did the remix.

Maybe not.
via [ boing boing ]

Do you have a useless old broken Airport Base Station?

Donate it to the Tech Superpowers Airport Donation Program.

Tech Superpowers has a plan for the betterment of the world through free WiFi.

Donate your airport base station and they'll promise to use it for the good of the free WiFi community.

Bush Kerry Debate Preview

Electablog has it:

Bush: War on terror

Kerry: Vietnam

Bush: Evil doers

Kerry: Band of Brothers

Bush: (pounding a fist) The Almighty, Faith-based, Mel Gibson, God Bless

Kerry: Ketchup fortune, good hair, tall, I can still drink

Cheers!

Who has the Kerry story?

WatchBlog had the Kerry story last Friday.

They suggest watching this Google search: kerry affair OR infidelity OR intern

Laura Dekkers

Laura Dekkers was on the Today Show dating segment this morning.

She's very attractive. Turns out that she's been a model for 10 years.

MTV Russia

Tutta Larsen - MTV Russia VJ

MTV Launches as a Free-to-Air Network in Russia.

mtv.ru

Dangerous Madman! Dangerous Madman!

Jon Stewart's dissection of President Bush's appearance on Meet The Press. [ QuickTime Video ]

This is both sad and funny at the same time.

Very funny.
via [ fimoculous ]

Atkins Wasn't Fat!

The Business 2.0 Blog, B2Day, tells us that contrary to what news reports are saying Robert Atkins was skinny in February.
via [ Boing Boing ]

TurboTax for Macintosh Tax Year 2003 turned all my pdf icons to hats!

Stupid TurboTax!

After installing turboTax, all my pdf icons turned into little TurboTax hats!

The way to change them back to Preview Icons is to select a pdf file, choose [ Get Info ], then under [ Open With ] choose [ Acrobat Reader 5.0 ], then select [ Change All ] , then go back and select [ Preview ] , and choose [ Change All ] again.

That sets your pdf icons back to the Preview application.

Stupid TurboTax!

Installing TurboTax for Macintosh Tax Year 2003

Every year TurboTax makes filing my taxes easier but the installation always has it's quirks.

And that's putting it mildly.

This year there's a folder on the install disk that's called "put in System Folder"

Sounds simple.

When you drag the folder into the System Folder you get an error saying that the System Folder can not be modified.

What's up with that?

So I went over to the Intuit web site for help.

Unfortunatly, the help page references 2002. :-(

I think I need to start a TurboTax 2003 Issues Weblog....

What's Your Law?

That's the Annual Edge Question for 2004.

Here are some of my favorite answers from smart people:

David Bunnell

Bunnell's First Law of Retrievability

Everything is retrievable.

Bunnell's Second Law of Retrievability

Everything is stored somewhere. The secret to retrieving things is simply finding out where they are stored.

Karl Sabbagh

Sabbagh's First Law

Never assume.

All the mistakes I have made in my life—not that there are that many, of course—have been because I failed to follow my own law.

Sabbagh's Second Law

The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.

Irene Pepperberg

Pepperberg's Law of Comparative Cognition

Any behavior exhibited by young children that is taken as evidence of the early emergence of intelligence will, when subsequently exhibited by nonhumans, be interpreted by many humans as a set of simple stimulus-response associations lacking cognitive processing, whereas the stimulus-response explanation will rarely be used to re-interpret the behavior of the child.

Gotta start working on mine.
via [ Jack Hodgson ]

Welcome Yamila Diaz Rahi

Welcome Yamila Diaz Rahi to my page banner!

Bring William Hung Back as a Wildcard!

PHOTO/MICHAEL SMITH
On Tuesday's American Idol 3, Ryan Seacrest [ Official Talking Website ] said that William Hung could potentially return to as a wildcard contestant!

My picks from last night:
Diana DeGarmo - she went first and set the standard that only one other constestant could match.

Fantasia Barrino - she went last. After she was done I said that she had a quirky voice and generated a lot of excitement. Same thing Simon said.

Why do some of the contestants pick songs that mean something to them? Picking a boring song might mean a lot to you, but what it means to me is that you aren't going to get any votes.

Bye Bye.

An Open Letter from Michael Moore to George "I'm a War President!" Bush

Michael Moore writes:

Look, I'm sorry to have put you through all this. I was just goofing around when I made that comment about wanting to see a debate between the general and the deserter. I had no idea that it would lead to this. And there you were, having to suffer through Tim Russert on Sunday, saying weird things like "I'm a war president!" I guess you believe that, or you want us to believe that. Americans have never voted out a Commander-in-Chief during a war. I guess that's what you're hoping for. You need the war.

But we don't. And our troops in the National Guard don't either. I know you see the writing on the wall, so why not come clean now? We are a forgiving people, and though you will not be returned to White House, you will find us grateful for a little bit of truth. Answer our questions, apologize to the nation, and bring our kids home.

He's a war president?

Everything you know is wrong.

Dean Landsman looks back at the Democratic campaign, and forward to the general election.

It is certainly time to ignore the polls, the pundits, and everything you've been told is the truth as of this moment.

It sounds like he's right but if you believe his premise, maybe he's wrong.

How the Wes was lost.

Tom Brady's Girlfriend and Wil Smith

I Robot: Still photo.

Luke Wilson goes into hibernation until 3001

Mr. 3001
Director: Mike Judge - He directed Office Space.
Starring: Luke Wilson
*An average citizen is frozen and awakened 1000 years later to find he is the smartest man alive.
via [ filmfeed ]

Reality TV Isn't Real

A new polywogg blog I'm playing around with.

We have a winner!

Michelle Lombardo is the the winner of Sports Illustrated's nationwide swimsuit issue model search.

Michelle Lombardo Gallery.


Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover 2004 featuring Veronica Varekova.

Hey Penguin! Look out!

Penguin Smack!

New Blogging Tools

Squarespace by Anthony Casalena, a Hinman CEO student.

ExpressionEngine from the makers of pMachine.

MindSay by Adam Ostrow another Hinman CEO student; and Brian Klug.

C Monks wants me to link to him 11 times

C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks C Monks

Bird gets foxed

Get Firefox

Branding Firefox.

EditCSS in Firefox.

George W. Bush vs. John Kerry Timeline

Brothers in Arms?
Mother Jones has a timeline comparing the military experiences of George W. Bush and John Kerry:

George W. Bush and John Kerry both spent their mid twenties in uniform. The similarities end there.

January, 1969:
Kerry takes command of a new Swift boat, completing 18 missions over 48 days, almost all in the Mekong Delta area.

November 1969:
Bush is flown to the White House by President Nixon for a date with daughter Tricia.

via [ bloggerheads ]

Looking for a photo of John Kerry with Jane Fonda?

[ photo removed by request of copyright owner ]

Read about the photo in A Face in the Crowd March 2004 by Leif Skoogfors.

Canon unleashes cameras and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)

Canon just released 7 new PowerShot cameras at the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas.

• $1,000 PowerShot Pro1 (8 megapixel CCD);
  
• $500 PowerShot S1 IS (3.2 megapixel CCD with 10x optical zoom);
  
• $500 PowerShot S500 Digital ELPH (5 megapixel and 3x optical zoom lens);
  
• $400 PowerShot S410 Digital ELPH (4 megapixel with 3x zoom lens);
  
• $300 PowerShot SD110 Digital ELPH (3.2 megapixel with small form factor and 2x zoom lens);
  
• $300 PowerShot A75 (3.2 megapixel with 3x optical zoom lens with enlarged LCD monitor);
  
• $200 PowerShot A310 (entry-level camera with 3.2 megapixel CCD and 5.1x digital zoom).

How are you supposed to be able to decide between cameras with all these options?
via [ Cool Tools ]

Mars Rover: Disk Full Error. D'oh!

Technology, Java and the Mars Rovers.

The great news is that they have resurrected the Mars rover "Spirit". Turns out it was just a 'disk full' error. By deleting a bunch of old files they were able to reboot.

It must be all those high resolution photos filling up some old 5 MB disk they've got up there.

My Date With Drew

Well, not my date. It's Brian Herzlinger's documentary of his attempt to get a date with Drew Barrymore.

Herzlinger's film My Date With Drew has been selected for the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival.

Check out the trailer.

Good luck Brian!

Beyonce and Prince Rocked!

Wireimage has all the photos from the The 46th Annual GRAMMY Awards Show.

Whatevs has one blogger's recap.

It's an Interactive Electoral Map

This Interactive Electoral Map shows you how the Electoral votes of each state come in to play when deciding the presidential election.

You can look at past elections and try and determine hte outcome of this year's election.

It's be a lot better if they did away with The Electoral College anyway.

It's time to abolish the Electoral College.

Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock is available at Gary's Liquors in Brookline!

I just grabbed a bottle of Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock. It's in a wine shaped bottle with a pewter label. Cool!

Tased it this summer at the brewery before it was available to the public. Looking forward to having it again.

Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock (Limited Edition)

One of the best beers Samuel Adams has ever made! Get one before they are gone (only 50,000 wine sized bottles were made!!).

If it's love, give chocolate beer

Cheers to Chocolate

Bock-ful of chocolate

Chocolate Bock

Go in that direction until you hit a wall or run into something.

"Nethack is one of my all-time favorite games, one I've been playing since 1200 baud was smokin' fast."
-- Actor Wil Wheaton

Guidebook for Nethack.

The guidebook gave me enough information to decide not to play Nethack.

Infocom made my kind of game.

Now I want to play Infocom games on OS X.

You could try to download some of them at Infocom Downloads but they seem to run on Mac Classic.

Zoom is a Z-Machine, which plays text adventure games written in ZCode. So with this option, you'd need to download some ZCode and then figure out how to run the game.

Since I'm looking for an easy way to get this done, I tried this site that says you can play the Infocom games online. Here the games run on a Java window. Too slow though.

Infocom archive - tons of stuff here.

Play The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy Game Online - found over at [ Mindgazer ].
Note: Click in the window to allow the game to accept your keystrokes. It's kinda slow though.

A Letter Home From Northeastern

Dear Mom and Dad,

Things are going really great here at Northeastern. All the guys in the dorm are really friendly. We always do stuff together.

After the Patriots won the Super Bowl, went went out to Kenmore Square to celebrate. Lots of kids did.

I really felt a sense of community when we banded together to overturn cars. Cars are heavy.

We needed about 20 guys to help. Lots of kids jumped in.

We also started fire with just the possesions we had with us. Kinda like Survivor. One guy even set his own Northeastern hoodie on fire to keep us all warm.

These guys are so generous.

Hope all is well at home.

Please send money.
Love Sonny.

Northeastern says tip website inundated.

It's a Beatles On Demand Weekend.

Over at Oldies 103.3FM in Boston it's a Beatles On Demand Weekend.

They're playing all Beatles, all the time.

Sounds great!

Beatles '65 was my first Beatles Album.

A battle between people with a title, a camera and something to prove

filmfights.com

Welcome to the brand-new FilmFights.com. Why do we exist? Because people with video cameras, talent, and spare time need an outlet for their creative energies! Because making something that the masses agree is better than the other guy's stuff is honorable, and means you are THE MAN, with SKILLS.

We're like a democratic filmfestival that anyone can enter, 3 times a month.

I've gotta get into this.

It's time to play some ICE GOLF!

Jack's gone back up to NH to play some Ice Golf at the 12th Annual Pawtuckaway Open.

They must use up a lot of golf balls.

I wonder if it's a qualifying tournament for The World Ice Golf Championship in Greenland?

Maybe Drambuie will sponsor him for The 2004 Drambuie World Ice Golf Championship that's happening on the remote Arctic Island of Spitsbergen.

It's a blog that reposts stuff from other blogs.

reBlog:

A web site republishing the best blog posts from around the web.

Hmm. Not the newest idea, but they do have a nice logo.

MacBand.com - It's Not Scottish

MacBand.com just launched today.

It's the online directory of songs and loops made by artists using Apple Computer's GarageBand software.

This is the top rated song right now:
State of the Union by Lonestar.

It could be today's Yeeaah!

When you care enough to send the very least

Be My Anti-Valentine.

I have feelings for you, but I thought I'd let this card do all the work because I haven't got the imagination or energy to let you know in my own words.

via [ Sore Eyes ]

Holy Gobstopper!

Johnny Depp is Willy Wonka!

Everlasting Gobstopper!

Terror Alert Banana

The Terror Alert Banana, features the current Department of Homeland Security color-coded threat level in handy and convenient Dancing Banana form.
via [ The Illuminated Donkey ] who got it over at [ Luna ]

Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden

Kim Davis recalls discussing evil fruit with his Sunday School teacher:

Me: What kind of fruit was it?
Teacher: Forbidden fruit.
Me: Yes, but was it a peach, pineapple, a mango? ( I was going to say ketchup, since this was during the "Ketchup is a vegetable" thing, but that would have blown my cover. )
Teacher: The important thing is that they broke God's commandment.
Me: So, the commandment itself didn't really mean anything. There was nothing wrong with the fruit, per se.
Teacher: You misunderstand me. The fruit was evil.
Me: Oh, evil fruit. That's different. And that's what God called it, evil fruit?
Teacher: Evil Fruit.
Me: (pretending to look this up) Actually it says here it's both Good and Evil Fruit.
Teacher: It was mostly Evil.
Me: But it's actual name was Good and Evil Fruit.
Teacher: Technically, yes.
Me: Wait a minute, I got that wrong. It actually says it's the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
Teacher: Something like that.
Me: That's a direct quote.
Teacher: Okay. So you have your answer.

Ha.

Boobahs fart when they fall down

Here are some Irish step dancing Boobah's.

My friend Dan just got HD from Comcast and what did he watch? Boobah. A kids show.

Boobahs fart when they fall down, he tells me.

A 45-minute soundwalk from the waning moments of Sunday's Super Bowl

Book of SFX is a weekly performance of field recordings and sound experiments gathered during the previous week. Most, but not all, of our material is culled from common events occurring in the Boston area, so we like to think of these sounds as "natural", or what you might hear in your everyday life. We bring the
raw sounds into the studio and manipulate them live on-air for approximately an hour. We typically have a different theme every week.

In this week's volume in the ongoing Book of SFX series:

A 45-minute soundwalk from the waning moments of Sunday's Super Bowl to its glorious aftermath. The walk starts with five minutes left in the game right outside of the Haymarket subway and onto the street, and then moves to Bar 1, back outdoors (with a denial of entry into Bar 2), back into Bar 1 for the final ticks of the clock, back out into the street, and down in the subway. We won't play the walk in its entirety, but will take sound-rich snippets from each singular minute of the walk and play/manipulate those snippets in (approximate) chronological order to create a new hour-long product.

Tonight on WZBC, 90.3 FM in Boston and online.

Senator John Kerry's Band: The Electras

On Deborah Norville Tonight, Norville is going to do a segment on John Kerry's band The Electras.

Kerry played bass in The Electras while at St. Paul's preparatory school in Concord, NH.

"We made a lot of noise," Kerry said yesterday before a campaign stop in Fargo, N.D., where he took a few minutes to reminisce by phone about his band. "It was a very good time."

It all started with a very simple idea, said Andrew Gagarin, the group's co-founder and maraca player and one of Kerry's prep school classmates.

"The whole idea was to meet more babes," he said, calling from Watch Hill, R.I., where he's in the real estate business. "At that time, life wasn't worth living without a girlfriend, so we spent every waking moment of our lives looking for ways to meet girls."

Look for Erik Lindgren of Arf! Arf! Records on tonight's segment.

Mac OS X Mail 1.3.3: How to display the actual email address

I just upgraded to Mac OS X Version 10.3.2 and my mail was upgraded to Mail 1.3.3 in the process.

With the upgrade, Apple has improved the Mail experience by hiding people's actual email addresses.

I wonder why they feel that it's better that way.

I wanted to change the display of the To/From field, in the header, to display actual email address.

Right now it displays: Lisa Smith

It used to display: Lisa Smith <lsmith@mail.com>.

I just figured it out how to change it back:

Go to [ VIEW ] [ Addresses ], then select [ Show Name and Address ]

David Letterman on the Janet Jackson FCC Investigation

My friend Chumworth wrote this joke for Dave's monologue last night:

The FCC is going to investigate the Janet Jackson incident during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Former President Clinton has already volunteered to lead the investigation.

I was watching and laughed out loud at that one.

Today is February 5, MMIV

Convert Arabic Numerals to Roman Numerals.

What? Now we're converting their numbers too?

Opus Dei: Fact or Fiction?

I started reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown today.

It's a work of fiction with a lot of facts thrown in. The first fact I had to look up was Opus Dei. Was it real or fiction?

Here's what I found:
Opus Dei.

Josemaria Escriva's Writings.

Opus Dei Information.

Opus Dei - The Unofficial Homepage.

The Opus Dei Awareness Network.

Counterpunch - Scalia and Opus Dei.

Edit Style Sheets on a Mac.

CSSEdit 1.5

A whole new world of blogging?

Polywogg is a simple-to-use personal journaling ("blogging") service for the Mac community.

polywogg blogs.

via [ vlog 2.1 ] by way of [ Mike Sloan ]

Knee Surgery Postponed

My mother-in-law went in for knee surgery today, but came home because she had a cold with a cough.
via [ The Multimedia Exchange ]

Hot Abercrombie Chick!

Amanda has an awesome blog:

I have to wonder how many of the people who click the link to my Blog are expecting something vastly different from what they actually find here. But really, why can't a person identify herself both as a "hot Abercrombie chick" and at the same time as a thinking, intelligent person? Maybe I help to dissolve the blonde-preppy-girl stereotype somewhat, and maybe not. But in either case, I am the same person, and I can continue to be amused people's reactions.

via [ Lindsayism ]

Rob Schneider and his nipple shield

Schneider exposes himself in this popular Yahoo! News photo. [ nswf - not suitable with food ]

Backup isn't backing up!

If you were using Apple's Backup software to automatically back up your important files, make sure you go to the .Mac site and download Backup 2!

I just ran Backup to do an extra backup before upgrading to Panther, and Backup gave me an error: "This version of Backup has expired."

Yikes!

After upgrading, it looks like my old version just expired last week.

There was a presidential primary yesterday.

CNN has a nice table of results.
via [ Scripting News ]

Vote for Bloggerheads!

My friend Tim's weblog, Bloggerheads, has been nominated for the Guardian Unlimited Political Weblog Awards.

"Tim [Ireland] runs darkly humorous campaigns from his website: to get Blair on email, to guide protest against Bush during his recent visit, to raise awareness of the Guantanamo prisoners. No injustice or infringement of human rights seems to go unnoticed. And it's all done with a humanity and compassion which, if they could be bottled, would make the world a better place overnight. The Bloggerheads website is probably one of the most innovative examples in the UK of how activism can be stimulated and nurtured online."

Go check out the nominees and visit Tim's site.

Mark Francis Roberts - Superbowl Streaker

Here's the web site for international streaker Mark Francis Roberts.

Do not say anything against Kim Il-sung, or his son Kim Jong-il, or else.

Olenka Frenkiel writes for BBC News: Within prison walls.

He witnessed chemical experiments being carried out on political prisoners in specially constructed gas chambers.

"How did you feel when you saw the children die?", I asked.

His answer shocked me.

"I had no sympathy at all because I was taught to think that they were all enemies of our country and that all our country's problems were their fault. So I felt they deserved to die."

via [ Doc Searls ]

Janet Jackson's Bare Breast Sparks Probe

Ha Ha. Nice headline.

Get it?

Janet Jackson's Bare Breast Sparks FCC Probe.

Janet Jackson's Nipple Shield. [ nsfw ]

Update: No way that was an accident. [ nsfw ]


Bryan Adams has some nice coverage of the 'celebration/wave of destruction' in Kenmore Square:
YEAH! PATRIOTS! FIRE!

Worshiping at "Temple" Bethel Johnson

Jeff Novack writes in Nickname nonsense.

New, more creative nicknames could open up a whole new range of expressions for commentators. A simple "Touchdown!!!" could be replaced by "Mazel Tov!" when "Temple" Bethel Johnson scores. Or if Johnson escapes the defense on a kick return, previously inaccessible expressions like, "Johnson just said Shabbat Shalom to the defense," would now be available for use. This is clearly an improvement for formerly linguistically stymied commentators and fans alike.

Oy Vey!

Help the poor advertisers get their $3.5 Million worth

All the Super Bowl 2004 ads are online at ifilm.

Post Game Patriots Superbowl Celebration Photo Gallery

We saw a great win!

Time for another T-Shirt

New England Patriots Super Bowl Champions

NFL: "We're sorry about the half-time show"

Statement by NFL Executive Vice President Joe Browne regarding the Super Bowl halftime show:

"We were extremely disappointed by elements of the MTV-produced Halftime show. They were totally inconsistent with assurances our office was given about the show. It's unlikely that MTV will produce another Super Bowl halftime."

I guess that stuff about getting hot and taking off clothes wasn't appreciated.

I know that I was disappointed.

That they remained clothed.

Ha.

Update from The Times of India:

Justin Timberlake sent the half-time Super Bowl show into X-rated territory by tearing off half of Janet Jackson's bra.

After two touchdowns in the real game, the evening's "top-down" came at the end of a show headlined by Jackson and including the wild man of pop, who was the show's secret special guest, reports an Australian website.

The astounding stunt appeared to have been planned all along, with Jackson sporting a strategically placed star over her right nipple, which had been exposed to the watching millions.

Later it was confirmed that CBS, which broadcasts the Super Bowl and the half-time show, had approved of the tear-of strip.

How could I have missed that!

Blogging the Super Football Game: Part II

Hey: Show us the streaker! WBCN reports that he had on a red bikini, and that he travels around the world doing stunts like that.

Sierra Mist: Ha.

Expedia: That husband is a liar! And he is a worry wort. He's a very very bad man.

D E F E N S E!

Bud Light: Talking Monkey. Ha.

Staples: Half a donut - Half a folder. Riiiiiip. Ha, Ha. Nice one.

Cialis: Erections lasting how long?

Monster: I feel Love. Nice tune.

HIDALGO: Looks boring despite hte exciting music.

Mach3 Turbo: Boring

Where are all the super commercials? Huh?

BRADY TO GRAHAM!

BRADY TO SMITH!

Century City: Looks interesting. Kinda like Futurama. Ha.

Dunkin Donuts: Hello. He should have skipped the coffee and asked the girl out.

Comment on the touchdown pass that was called out: His two feet were IN!

BRADY TO SMITH! TOUCHDOWN! 21-10.

Budweiser: This isn't mine. Ha.

Mastercard: Homer Simpson! Oh yeah! Yes! That commercial was so good that I totally forgot what the commercial before it was.

That CBS Vision thing rocks. Nice replay on the Panthers touchdown.

Look at Kevin Faulk run!

Shards O Glass Freeze Pops. - Ha Ha Ha Ha! If that ad could run, why couldn't the MoveOn Ad run?

Now back to the game and the Panthers just took the lead.

It's a 1 point game.

Let's go Pats!

Survivor All Star: Jeff Probst! Don't fall out of the helicopter!

BRADY TO GIVENS!

BRADY TO VRABLE! TOUCHDOWN!

Direct snap to Kevin Faulk and he runs it in! 29-22!

TIED? 29-29?

Let's go Pats!

8 SECONDS LEFT!

ADAM ADAM ADAM

IT"S GOOD with 4 seconds left!

4...3...2...1!

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS AGAIN!

Blogging HALFTIME

Century City: 2030? What's up with that?

jetBlue: Whatever. Ha.

Guiness! Make St. Patircks Day a real holiday. Nice.

Janet Jackson can shake her booty.

Hey P. Diddy?

Nelly: It's getting hot in here. Everyone is cheering for the girls to take their clothes off.

Oh, hey look. They are taking their clothes off!

Kid Rock- head banging with a desecrated flag? Is this patriotic?

The flag should never be used as clothing

At this point I'm wishing that they'd get Aerosmith and Beyonce back.

Justin Timberlake wants Janet Jackson as a girlfriend.

Joan of Arcadia: God is a Hot Dog?

Sony: Why do they pronounce WEGA as Vega?

Blogging the Super Football Game

Who's that chick on the Aerosmith guitar? I think it's Joe Perry's wife.

Pre-Game: Hey, I knew they faked the moon landing! Ha!

Beyonce!

Bud Light: Real watery taste.

Pizza: Jessica Simpson is cuter than Miss Piggy.

They've got enough people out there for the coin toss. Hear it all on WBCN 104.1 FM in Boston! Y.A. Tittle wanted to keep the coin! Ha, Ha.

Oops, It's Ok. We'll score later.

FedEx: Jenkins, "Use FedEx." Ha!

Monkey on your back. Ha.

Sack!

Pepsi: Stupid bears should be looking for beer!

Hey Troy Brown, pinch your nose just above the bridge of the nose, that might help.

Troy: Brad Pitt is Troy Donahue?

Grammys: Brintney live on the Grammy's next week? I'd say more like Britney on tape.

Chevy Aveo: Ha Ha.

1st Qtr 0-0.

Miracle: Hey, It's Dream On again!

Levitra: Hey, It's a Norman Rockwell paining come to life.

Budweiser: Hair Extensions on a donkey! Ha, Ha!

The Alamo: They need more troops. Maybe the Troy troops can help?

Let's Go Patriots, Let's Go!

Sack!

Pepsi iTunes: Seen it online already.

Levitra again?

Mitsubishi: Huh? What were they thinking? http://seewhathappens.com/ = not responding, that's what happens when you put up a URL during the Super Football Game.

Bud Light: Gross. Use the watery beer to put out hte fire. Ha Ha.

Charmin: Stupid.

These ads are an insult to ad loving Super Football Game fans everywhere.

Starsky and Hutch: Nice! Finally a great commercial. And more Aerosmith too! Ben Stiller shot a pony!

F U M B L E !

TOUCHDOWN!

Brady to Brown!

Brady tackles Brown in celebration!

VISA: Yes! Chicks in bikinis playing volleyball on the beach, in the winter! Another good one.

Secret Window: Scary.

Chevy: Stupid. Soap in a mouth is not healthy.

Lays: Old people need not be tripped.

Tie Game. Nice pass.

CBS promo for Cold Case and all their shows. I like Cold Case!

BRADY TO BRANCH! WHOA! Nicer pass!

Brady to Givens. Yes!

Here we go Patriots, Here We Go!

Brady to Givens again! TOUCHDOWN! 14-7 PATS!

CBS MATRIX VISION on the touchdown. WHOA!

HALFTIME: 14-10.

Go Pats!