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Supposedly the “perfect” EQ settings for iTunes
August 2007
Monthly Archive
links for 2007-08-29
XKCD again
XKCD swings for the fences and connects…
links for 2007-08-22
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The LA Times revisits the Father Yod/Source Family cult.
iPhone MAME
It was only a matter of time before someone got MAME running on an iPhone. You’re not going to be playing Hard Drivin anytime soon, but I’m damn impressed.
This just in, Frotz has also been ported. Get your text adventure on!
How to make money in the stock market
I’ve thought of a sure fire way to make money in a dubious looking stock market. If this ILX thread is any indication, there’s a growing need for stock photos of anxious and desperate stock exchange traders. Imagine an entire disc of photos like these:
Add in some generically important looking graphics of downturned arrows and shrinking bar graphs, all with liberal amounts of blood red ink, and you’ve got a best seller on your hands! Every news web site would be in your debt.
Of course the “Desperate Brokers” disc would only be the first volume of an entire stock photo series of 21st century desperation. Volume Two, of course, would be “Mortgage Mania!” and have pictures like these:
I’m calling the entire series FailureFotos. I don’t quite have the time to pursue it, but I encourage any QC readers to run with it. My only price is 10% off the top and a free license to use any of them for album covers.
links for 2007-08-18
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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams had a cameo on “Sesame Street” today, introducing the word of the day, which was “squid.” Just in case there was any confusion, he said the word “squid” 19 times. Squid squid squid squid squid!
links for 2007-08-17
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“a nightmarish and kind of apocalyptic presentism”
Ex-Detectives update
Short Ex-Detectives update. We finished up all the recording for the album and we’re on the last go-round of letting the making sure the angles are straight, letting the paint dry, and sweeping up the dust. Some of this will show up on the MySpace page and a new website that is still undisclosed.
In the meantime here’s some overdubbed ambience courtesy of Yours Truly…
Merv Griffin!
R.I.P. A sad day for Botany 500 and game show fans like me. Also, credit is due for inspiring one of the greatest one page comics ever…
links for 2007-08-10
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Maria Tosi, who runs a tobacconist, said tourists could do simple things to try to get a better price such as saying hello when entering a shop or restaurant, or learning a few words of Venetian dialect. “It really offends us when they walk in, make their
