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• Ars Technica Review of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
  Insanely in-depth review with lots of fascinating stuff. Now I just have to wait for my copy to arrive… on MONDAY. Not that I’m BITTER or anything.

• How many Darth Vaders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
  Looks like about fifteen…

• Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal [Design Principles]
  “Copy the inspiration, not the outcome.” Fun read.
• An tInneall Mallachtai
  The Curse Engine - Generates a curse in Irish using the English words you choose. Awesome, and rather funny as well.
• Of Course Macs Are More Expensive… Aren’t They?
  “… the errors have led to the general impression that comparable PC’s are cheaper than comparable Macs…. it ain’t true today and hasn’t been for the last 2-3 years.” Indeed.
• i am 8-bit: Opening Night
  Pictures of just about every piece from the show. So very very cool.
• CandyBar 2.5 Upgrade Page
  “Tiger is here. CandyBar is excited.” I find this page way more entertaining than I probably should.

• 50 Random Observations on Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger”
  Some cool stuff here that I hadn’t heard about before. I can’t wait until Friday!
• del.icio.us Tag Schemas
  Database schemas used by various del.icio.us tools. Mentions MySQLicious and how poorly storing tags in a single field scales. Indeed. Since I don’t use the tags for anything right now, I stored them that way as a (lazy) afterthought. :-)

I try to avoid jumping into memes unless they’re pretty interesting, and I think this one fits the bill. It’s borrowed from Ebby, and the idea is for me to list twenty of my favorite artists. Then you have to guess which song by each is my favorite.

For a few of these, it was quite difficult to pick a “favorite,” so I some have more than one correct answer. Underworld, Sigur Rós, Starflyer 59, and Everything But The Girl were especially hard to narrow down.

Here’s the list. Start guessing!

1. Underworld - Dirty Epic (Ryan)
2. Bic Runga - Drive (Bryan/Courtney)
3. Spiritualized - I Didn’t Mean To Hurt You (Courtney)
4. Sigur Rós - Untitled 3 (Bryan)
5. Way Out West - Mindcircus (Bryan)
6. Starflyer 59 - The Party (Courtney)
7. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Chad)
8. Björk - Joga (Courtney)
9. BT - Somnambulist (Ryan)
10. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Bryan)
11. Basement Jaxx - Feels Like Home (Courtney)
12. Daft Punk - Fresh (Ryan)
13. The Album Leaf - Wet The Day (Courtney)
14. Everything But The Girl - No Difference (Myke)
15. Coldplay - Spies (Courtney)
16. Fischer’s Folly - This Time (Courtney)
17. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Eric)
18. The Mars Volta - Televators (Courtney)
19. Slyder - Sky Fell Over Me (Courtney)
20. OK Go - There’s A Fire (Bryan)

Scoreboard Courtney - 9.5 Bryan - 4.5 Ryan - 3 Chad - 1 Eric - 1 Myke - 1

♫ Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

• Pepsi x Nintendo
  Pepsi bottles in Japan are coming with tape rolls of Super Mario Brothers levels. This is just ridiculously cool on so many levels.

Just a reminder to make sure you’re either logged in to nanovivid.com or reading through your LiveJournal friends page. Otherwise you might be missing some entries, such as the rather hilarious one I posted this past week.

Also, it’s still snowing. And tomorrow it’s going to be 50°. God. This weather needs to figure things out.

Oh, and this is my 500th entry. Neat!

♫ Elkland - We Share A Heart

One of my friends recently emailed me about a cute boy that came into the store at which she works. Unfortunately, he appeared to have a girlfriend. This was my reply:

Ok, here’s the solution. Lure the girlfriend into the back room with the promise of additional exclusive merchandise that aren’t available to the general public. Then you get her into a large box, because I’m sure you have plenty of those lying around. Sedate her, and tape the box up good and tight. You might want to put some food and water in there with her too. It might not hurt to put this box inside another and then another, because after all, it’s only cardboard. Even if it was wood, like a coffin or something, she might go all Uma Thurman on it and get out anyway. I know, when you heard me mention a cardboard box, you were all “a coffin would be so much better!” but see, it’s really not worth the extra effort. Once she’s all taken care of, you go back out and erase the cute boy’s memory so he doesn’t know that he ever had a girlfriend. Then you charm him and ask him out. Voila! Instant boyfriend, with minimum effort.

Yes, yes. Thank you. I’m already fully aware of the brilliance of my advice.

♫ Elkland - It's Not Your Fault

Today, the weather chose to ignore the fact that it’s nearly May. Although none of the snow has stuck (yet), it’s been doing the rainy snow thing all day. ::sigh::

At least I have a lovely spring-y theme for my cell phone. Not that it makes it any warmer. Stupid Ohio.

♫ Björk - Who Is It? (Vitalic Mix)

• I am a Japanese School Teacher
  These stories bring the funny. Don’t get Kancho’d!
• Toothpaste for Dinner
  Daily (very funny) drawings by Drew.