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 [Slackers.net] Tell me, where all past years are (I'ma lasagna boy!): Anna was sweet to pick up a book for me from the Children's section of the San Francisco Public Library. The book: "Archer's Goon", a masterful work by British novelist Diana Wynne Jones, whose books I've loved since reading "Howl's Moving Castle," with its conceit from a Donne poem, and its milliner's-daughter heroine.

 [Pwi.blogspot.com] Pregnant Without Intercourse: TO Five Oh . . . One Five: According to this piece, by 1998 it had sold 50,000 copies - making it, if this is true, what I would imagine to be the most successful novelty record in Canadian history (Bob and Doug's collaboration with Geddy Lee, Take Off, maybe besting it, though I think there should be a clear distinction between "comedy" record and "novelty" record). It also is, if nothing else, probably the first piece of vinyl a young, but remarkably worldly, Aaron Wherry ever owned. Won at some town fair or another, I think.

[Woebot.com] WOEBOT: Thoughts Archives: "Instead it's fanbase is comically polarised. At one extreme, it's sonic experimentation has attracted the kind of people who run music Blogs in which records are referred to as "texts" and lengthy essays are posted on such burning issues as the differentiation between Humean and Kantian views of motivation in the lyrics of Bonnie Prince Billy. At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner city teens who appear to communicate in an impenetrable mix of street slang and patois. "Gial like me can be flossin' of dis rite 'ere." offers one participant in a chatroom discussion about Grime" Another informs us that Wiley in "Nang standard no doubt", well of course he is."

 [Dev.null.org] the null device: Instructions on turning an iPod and a radio transmitter into a pirate radio station. Not quite a latter-day Radio Caroline, but enough to pull various pranks, such as jamming obnoxious motorists' boom cars (hang on, don't most of those bring their own music; after all, if it's about showing what a mackdaddy you are, you want the beats you blast from your ride to be the absolute illest, and not necessarily what FOX-FM is currently playing) and transmitting bogus news reports over CNN at your local gym. It doesn't mention that, in this climate, doing any of those things could probably get you charged with terrorism, or at least ten kinds of crap pounded out of you by the gorilla whose boom box has suddenly started playing birdsong or Icelandic glitch-pop or the Village People or whatever.

 [Grotto11.com] Peeve Farm: Mockery of Apple is not a new thing. Ever since 1984, the Mac has been made fun of; first for its toylike GUI in a world of command-prompts; then, after Windows killed that comparison, for the Mac's supposed "ease of use" advantage (only wussies used Macs); then, once Windows 95 came along, for the Mac's instability; then, once Mac OS X came along, for the Mac's bright candy colors; then, once every PC in the world adopted iMac translucency, for the Mac's slowness and high price and lack of games and so on. There's always something. And these criticisms are never constructive in nature, but rather a defense-- a means by which Windows users can assure themselves that Windows is the only reasonable solution for rational computer users.

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