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Really. I do.

Thus ends filler blog #358.

♫ AP2 - Heroin Hate

Comics and foxes and misc, oh my! (Random jank I’ve been surfing lately.)

her! [girl vs. pig] … sometimes deep but mostly strange. Ones I liked:
her president!
her darkness!
her plot!

A Softer World - pictures with captions:
dec 19
july 15
june 20

Death to the Extremist is definitely special. Circle 1 and 2 talk to each other. I didn’t read all > 200 episodes, but episode 2 really makes me laugh. (Comic links via web zen).

And I know I’m way late on the bandwagon, but Firefox 0.8 came out last week. I probably wouldn’t like the new name if it wern’t for the amazingly beautiful new icon. More on the new visual identity team over at MozillaZine.

Marc-Anthony’s entries frequently make my day, especially his Instructions for watching M-A’s apartment. Freaking hilarious stuff.

Xander pointed me to Best pictures of 2003… so pretty. If only they were higher res.

Have fun on your trip around the web, but remember not to flip the light switch of total devastation!

♫ Radiohead - Optimistic

Great article here: IKEA Walkthrough. Funny stuff (via MF).

♫ Vanessa Carlton - Ordinary Day (Live)

Since I’m fresh out of witty banter, I’ll throw some links at you.

Found Typography… this is seriously hot. Like… want to make out with the screen hot. Aaaaah.

Discover mathematically how good or evil a given website is using The Gematriculator. This Ivan Panin guy sure knew what he was talking about… after all, according to his system, the fuck word is 99% good. (nanovivid.com is 70% good… maybe I need to say "fuck" more often).

The evils of D&D are revealed. Could it beeeee…. SATAN?

Matthew linked me to Color Scheme. It’s an incredible tool for generating sets of color… and really really fun to play with. It makes pretty colors.

Moby kicks ass.

♫ Bette Midler - The Rose

As before, someone else has already summarized the weekend (part of it, anyway). So instead, I’m going to write about some movies I’ve seen lately.

Last weekend I saw Boondock Saints for the first time. While it’s definitely an enjoyable action flick, the movie also touches on some questions about dealing with criminals who somehow seem to escape the law.

That same night, Donnie Darko was also viewed. To come close to understanding the film, you need to read The Philosophy of Time Travel (but don’t read it unless you’ve seen the film because it is a bit of a spoiler). I really need to watch the movie again, because I’m sure I’ll get more out of it the second time around. I watched the movie on Adam’s recommendation, who described it as the "strangest movie I’ve ever seen." Donnie Darko is strange sort of in the same way that Pi is strange. It’s a definite sci-fi time travel head trip that hides in the guise of a high school teen angst drama. The way everything comes together in the end is beautiful and sad and weird and just… ooooh.

Yesterday, Big Fish was the entertainment of choice. Wow. What a beautiful movie. It’s a wonderful exploration of the relationship between story and truth. The stories that make up the movie are whimsical and fascinating, and the ending is so poignant (it made me tear up :-). Go see it if you haven’t.

As a side note, these chalk drawings blow my mind (via Metafilter). The depth is incredible. My brain is left twisted every time I look.

♫ The Bens - Bruised

Ry and I have been hitting reload on the slogan generator for way too long now.

♫ Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

I think this has been around for a while, but I just came across it today. How to Hide Your Ninja Lifestyle From Your Co-Workers. It’s funny, go read it.

And of course, the best and most reliable source of ninja information is always The Official Ninja Webpage.

♫ Something Corporate - Walking By

First, music. Army of Robots is not only a great name for a band, they make great music. Gold Star is one of my favorites from them.

The other day, I ran across OverClocked ReMix. They host remixes of video game music. I haven’t actually listened to enough tracks to decide if I think it’s worth spending much time there, but it seems entertaining enough.

Today, I added a couple blogs to my list on the homepage. Chris and Jessy are both very entertaining reads and thoroughly worth your time. Did you like how I made that decision for you? You’ll thank me when you’re older.

Because I know he’d appreciate it, here’s a some linkage to my roommate Steve’s site. There are even some pictures of me there. Yeah, I thought that would get you to go.

Finally, some humor. Stealth Disco is completely hilarious. Go click on "Best Of," and after you watch that, click on "Bageldonut." I’m still laughing about bageldonut.

Heh… bageldonut.

And a big hug to Ney who isn’t feeling well right now. *Waves feel-better wand*

♫ Sarah McLachlan - Witness

Yesterday we were 100% power free because of Isabel. I have two songs in my library called Isobel, one by Björk, and the other by Dido… but none called Isabel. I felt so unprepared to welcome Isabel. If only the hurricane naming people would have changed that one vowel. I wonder if there’s one guy who gets to decide hurricane names. "What do you do, Bob?" "Well, I name the hurricanes." That would be fun… if it were up to me, I would have named this one Isobel, because then I would have been able to welcome her with two songs, and maybe my street wouldn’t have lost power. I’m going to go talk to Bob. Next time, I’ll make sure this isn’t an issue.

The really odd thing about it us losing power is that 95% of the city had power, but not my street. My candles served me well, both last night and while getting ready this morning. It’s a good thing I had candles… and my iPod also made a spiffy temporary flashlight.

Work today was 76% more relaxed than yesterday due to the canceling of classes. Lots of people didn’t come in, so we got to have a nice quiet day without many interruptions. I’ll thank Isabel for that. Thank you Isabel.

I went with Jenni and David to see Underworld tonight. When we got into the theater, we found it to be about 30% hotter than we expected, since the AC was out. After waiting half an hour for the next showing in a much cooler theater, we got to enjoy the film. I found it to be a fairly fun and stylish movie, if perhaps lacking in substance. I really wish we had been going to see this Underworld instead. :-)

This entry has 25% less content generated by me! Let the link mooching commence… The latest works is a spiffy series of visual illusions (courtesy of Dooce). And this flash cartoon about Mario is funny (thanks to Nick for the laugh).

Now that I have 110% overdone the percentage gimmick, I’m just going to mention that the listening links on the nanovivid.com homepage have been rotated. I think it’s about time to get a few percent more sleep than last night.

♫ Mac IX vs. Carbon Community - Antigravity (Daisykutter vs Paradigm Shift Remix)

how did this get in my eye?