Shepard Fairey (the man behind Obey Giant among other neat things), is having a one man show at the White Walls gallery starting tomorrow night through the end of the month. I sometimes think it’s kind of weird to look at street art in the context of an art gallery, but there will be new stuff so it should be interesting!
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They say:
We believe that fires on Ocean Beach are an essential part of San Francisco’s culture!
I couldn’t agree more. These guys have set up a form that makes it really easy to send a letter…so go do it!
Link to Save Fires on Ocean Beach Snail Mail letter generator.
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Shag helped me add reverse-menu-complete to my bash setup. It’s really easy, but undocumented. To get shift-TAB to menu-complete backwards, add the following line to your .inputrc:
\C-y:"\M--\C-i"
The \M-- is actually a -1 argument to menu-complete (aka TAB, aka Ctrl-I). The info for Readline arguments describes how to pass numeric args to readline commands.
Reverse-menu-complete is useful to me since I have a FingerWorks keyboard with gestures for tab and shift-tab. The gesture stuff saves a ton of typing, which is good if you have RSI.
Here is my full .inputrc:
\C-y:"\M--\C-i"
TAB: menu-complete
set completion-ignore-case On
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“There’s not much here besides animals wearing underpants.”
(okay, it’s my second favorite almost naked animal.)
This is so great! Our project to do the same thing was going nowhere. Looks like they are using the iPod just as a hard drive, which is probably the only was to get pitch control short of running your own firmware.
There are some wicked new drawings up at fudge factory comics. Check out these cross sections!
Cross Section of Los Angeles Air Outside My Kitchen Window
Magnified Detail of My Mustache
Detail of My Stomach Lining
Detail of My Inner Ear
I’m pretty sure a cross section of my now-dead-laptop keyboard would likely reveal cause of death.
You have to check out this *crazzzy* video (direct link) of a tabla machine that decides to abandon its roots and move to the big city, only to get involved with the seedy glitch-tech scene. His parents must be so disappointed!
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Every time you hear a Higher Intelligence Agency track on groove salad, you have to drink a Pomegranate Martini.
yeah, we’re *always* drunk!
Check out this Bollywood Funk mix that PJ put up! If you love funk, you’ll love DJ PJ’s other mixes. He puts a new mix up every week!
um well, no, this post isn’t about sex…sorry to disappoint. It’s the title of an essay by Scott Berkun that I thought was pretty well put.
The wise and happy throughout history have found ways to avoid situations that demand divided attention. They convert the fractured experience into the meaningful (and perhaps magical) by investing their attention wisely.
There isn’t a single great work in the history of civilization, no novel, symphony, film, or song that was completed as a 1/5th time-slice between e-mail, IM, cellphones and television. Despite the modern drive to consume things made by others, time will always be our most finite resource and it crumbles when split into tiny little pieces.
So true. Anything I’ve made that I feel happy with required me to really focus. In some ways I sort of miss the days before DSL and high speed connections…when it was actually painfully slow to surf the web. I don’t think I had ADD issues then! (I know I know…can’t blame technology…must blame miserable lack of willpower…and who knows, I’m sure some new genre / art form will emerge from all these 1/5 time slices)
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Check out this book published in 1831: Life of Mohammed, written by Rev. George Bush.
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Every so often a project comes along where you say “Wow. That is awesome. I could have done that. When I quit my job and was bumming around doing nothing I could have made the world a better place and created a project that pushes the envelope of software, art and civil society.”
Today we honor Sven and his sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! project. Word up, Sven. This is great stuff.
Check out the self-produced video documentary on
YouTube or QuickTime video.
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I found this lobster-related Penny Arcade comic on the awesome Laughing Squid SQUID BLOG, which I found via mikey’s staus message!
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For all you lobster fetishists…Killing My Lobster will be performing 2 shows next week at Thee Parkside Tuesday March 28 and Thursday March 30!
Noise Pop proudly hosts the Bay Area’s favorite sketch comedy group, Killing My Lobster, as they bring their intelligent and irreverently whacky performance to the Noise Pop headquarters!
Praised by the Contra Costa Times as “the freshest and funniest comedy group going,” and hailed by the SF Chronicle as “the closest thing we have to Second City,” KML has created original work for HBO, is a two-time winner of the Best of the Fringe Award at the SF Fringe Festival and was voted “Best Comedy Group” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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Here is an amazing pic of a Japanese obnoxicator. This obnoxicator was used by protesters opposing a law that would ban the sale of of old electronics and music gear.
Jess and I have been watching this totally fantastic series of documentaries called The UP Series. It starts in 1963 by filming fourteen British 7-year-olds from various backgrounds. They then follow up with a new documentary every seven years. Serious dedication!
I put the series on our netflix queue sometime last year, and we just now finished watching 42 UP. It’s absolutely mesmerizing.. you get to watch 14 very different kids all grow up and become very different people. After 7 UP you think you have it all figured out, but then life gets weird..
42 UP was filmed in 1998, and I was sad that they didn’t follow up with 49 UP, which was supposed to be filmed last year. I just found out that they *did* film it, but it’s not on dvd yet! I can’t wait!!!!!
Everyone should watch this series so we can all watch 49 UP together when it comes out!
Add the UP Series to your netflix queue, or buy the box set!
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This Wednesday, everybody’s favorite club Mighty is hosting a qualification round of the Freestyle Olympics. For all you white folks, Freestyle is when someone gives you a list of words and you have to make up a rap on the spot without looking like a dork. Go ahead and check out the videolicious freestyleolympics myspace page to see what you’re getting yourself into. (and no, audience participation is not expected or required).
Link to flyer. 10pm at Mighty, 119 Utah at 15th St
Vinay posted a bunch of pictures from Goa, including this picture of Pokemon Holi color! Total culture mashup!
Jess and I had a great Holi too! Check out the flickr holi tag for some amazing images!
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Check out this cartoon by Rita and Dave! Here is some of Dave Cherry’s other work. I like “A Washington Bestiary”..
If only this shirt came in this guy’s size….I think I’ll call the Giant Robot store on my lobster phone to suggest it.
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here’sa nifty site that teaches you to examine a heart. Use the tutorial to look at some anatomy, or test yourself with the quiz! Just in case you were wondering what your doctor is listening for..
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Mike made this 
