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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Hype Machine

I see that Dana’s also sucking on the MP3 blog RSS feed firehose (how’s that for a string of attributive nouns?) that is Hype Machine.

I can’t keep up with it. In the last 24 hours, it’s given me more than 24 hours worth of music. I need an iPod capable of folding space-time.

Monday, January 30, 2006

Rule 2

The cost to read an archived news article should always be less than the cost of an entire copy of the same newspaper at a newsstand.

Model horse fun

There’s no fun as fun as model horse fun. (Source Link)

Bad Pitch Blog

In a time of war, a hero: Bad Pitch Blog, revealing the slab-handed and two-anused world of public relations.

—http://badpitch.blogspot.com/

Sunday, January 29, 2006

A man opens a wooden crate with the help of a bird

Despite its clichéd title ("Speaking in Tongues"—my God, has originality forsaken every headline writer on the planet?), this article by J.M. Coetzee about translations and translators of his work is worth reading. (Source Link)

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