Last night, my friend Margot had an extra ticket to this show and asked me to come along. I had no idea what it was about (except for some vague notion that puppets were involved). It was the BEST SHOW I’ve seen all year!
It looks like it’s only playing through Sep 2nd at the Orpheum though, so hurry and see it if you can.
» more info about the musical and you can listen to some of the songs here.
The KLF is maybe the world’s most enigmatic band. Once known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, their lyrics are filled with references to Discordia, and their crazy exploits are too numerous to mention. When Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond retired The KLF, they went out with a bang. They won the award for ‘Best British Album’ at the BRIT awards in 1992, and while playing on stage, fired a machine gun (with blanks) at the audience (the entire British music insdustry), and a few months later left the music biz for good, deleting their entire back catalog. After retirement, they set up the art organization K Foundation, and in 1994 they burned £1,000,000 in a fire on a Scottish island. Although only four people attended (Drummond, Cauty, filmmaker Gimpo and journalist Jim Reid) and all evidence of the event was supposedly destroyed, Gimpo kept a copy of the video. One year after the burning, the K Foundation screened Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid, which chronicled the whole thing. This BBC video, A Foundation Course in Art, has excerpts, and gives a view of the K Foundation mindset.. linky:
Via BB.
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Paul Addis was arrested today for burning the man, four days early. We are left to wonder.. was is art, or was it arson? And why Tuesday instead of Wednesday??
This post needs a omgwtfbbq tag. Just look at his mugshot:
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I just stumbled upon Wholphin, a DVD magazine full of weird stuff. They have some clips online that you can watch. Issue 1 has a piece written by Miranda July and a strange Al Gore documentary by Spike Jonze. Issue 2 has a film about gothic steampunk airships. Issue 3 has a piece called Walleyball: a friendly volleyball game between Americans and Mexicans, over the border fence. There’s a ton of great stuff here…. must subscribe!
Wholphin is a McSweeney’s publication, of course.. It seems like the kind of thing that Tyrone would put together..
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It’s a site full of mp3s of Awesome Tapes From Africa. How awesome is that??!!!
I found it linked from mudd up!
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This actually happened last weekend but I unfortunately missed it. My friend Jesse and some friends of his decided that Austin needed an ice cream festival, so they put one together! Here’s a video of the making of the ice cream truck (he’s the one driving it)…and a linkie to the website.
Ice cream is my all-time-favorite-food-group and drug of choice (all my attempts to OD on it have failed miserably though) so I wish we had an ice cream festival here too!
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The King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters starts playing in SF on Friday at the Lumiere. It’s a documentary about Donkey Kong nerds. I love Donkey Kong and I love documentaries about nerds! When should we go see this??? It’s playing for a week… (via BB)
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Meanwhile is awesome.. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure style WebComix full of inventors, time travel, Killotrons, and sekrit codes!
Also check out Fleep, by the same author.
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Energizer A23 12V [[batteries]] sell for under $2 for a pack of two. Inside each A23 are eight 1.5V button cell batteries. Perfect for tiny LED projects :)
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Shoes is a new project by the infamous why:
Shoes is a very informal GUI toolkit. It’s for making regular old windowing apps. It’s a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling of cross-platform widgets. (More in the README.)
Check out the book reader tutorial on Hackety.org
simple screenshots:
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lest your butt prints cause irreparable damage…
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I wrote a WordPress plugin that turns any CamelCase word into a link to our DokuWiki, assuming a wiki page of the same name exists.
For example, you can link to RanchTronix or KiteSurfing or whatever, just by typing a word in CamelCase. The wiki is really out of date, so please update it!
DokuWiki is not case-sensitive, so you can use RaNChTroNiX style capitalization :)
You can also use double-square brackets to surround a non-camelcase word to turn it into automagic wiki link like so: [[AVR]]
If you want to use it on your own site, the source is here.
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Pics from the slide.com party at Medjool… The Slide peeps throw the best parties, so of course we had to show up! It must be a blast to work with the Slide crew :)
The pics are also on flickr.
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A couple years ago, I bought a CamelBak with a hydration bladder that started to leak within a couple months after I bought it, but was too busy at the time to return it. Last month I finally decided to contact them about it, so I fired off an email and within the next day they got back to me and told me where to send it. Within a week of sending it in, i got a brand new one in the mail which I just picked up today. That was all I had to do - no paperwork or receipt required. The hydration bladders have a lifetime warranty and according to their website, they will replace them even after extended use. I’m happy to say that they definitely delivered on that promise in a timely fashion and would highly recommend them!
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For a long time now, I’ve wanted to come up with a way to make looking for used furniture on craigslist easier and less tedious. So last night, I came up with this.
If I had programming chops, I would have created some bot-thingy that automatically pulls stuff out of craigslist and formats it like you see on the site I came up with. But, since I have no programming chops, I used something called wists, which is a visual-bookmarking-tool that creates thumbnails of things I bookmark and organizes them into a nice little grid. It’s pretty neat. Although it’s still tedious for me to go through craigslist, since I have to bookmark something in order for it to appear on the site…but look! I’ve made it less tedious for you! :-)
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This article in the NYT a couple days ago is so sad.
“You look around…and the pressures to spend more are everywhere.” Children want the latest fashions their peers are wearing and the most popular high-ticket toys. Furniture does not seem up to snuff once you move into a multimillion-dollar home. Spouses talk, and now that resort in Mexico the family enjoyed so much last winter is not good enough when looking ahead to next year. Summer camp, a full-time housekeeper, vintage wines, country clubs: the cost of living bloats.
To Mr. Milletti, it all looks like a marathon with no finish line.
“Here, the top 1 percent chases the top one-tenth of 1 percent, and the top one-tenth of 1 percent chases the top one-one-hundredth of 1 percent,” he said.
“You try not to get caught up in it,” he added, “but it’s hard not to.”
The only things that give me hope are people like Craig Newmark
Newmark’s goal is just to live comfortably and not become a dot-com multimillionaire…Newmark calls his philosophy “nerd values,” which he explains as making “enough for a comfortable living, at which point you do something fun like changing the world.”
Hooray for world-changing-nerds everywhere! :-)
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Last night I had dinner at Estampas Peruanas, which is my favorite place in the Bay Area to get peruvian food, even though it means driving all the way to Redwood City to get there. It’s not a fancy place - the restaurant sits on a block that includes a XXX porn shop, a smoke shop, a liquor store, sad and empty looking dive bars, a tacky lingerie shop, and a really big costume shop…kind of like a slice of the Mission minus the scene. But the food is awesome. I had the Picante de Mariscos which is a plate of seafood (fish, octopus, squid, and giant shrimp with their heads still on) in a chile tomato sauce on rice and it was great. I’ve also had the lomo saltado before (grilled steak, tomatoes, onions and french fries on rice) which I highly recommend. yum.
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Bob sent me an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Neither of us have read the article (although Bob insists that he has read the Journal and even understood several of the words). This particular article might (or might not, we haven’t actually read it) claim that having fat friends can kill you. It includes a pretty animation.
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You know how they have Camel Bookmobiles in Kenya? Well, in Venezuela they have Mule Bookmobiles! Bibilomu-u-u-u-las!!!
via BB.
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Here is a short video of Zara and Annie snuggling while Ziggy looks on from the saftey of Jess’ lap:
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Art says:
yesterday, I got the sad news that our remaining Bernal Hill great horned owl was found dead under a pine tree near where this picture was taken on June 16th, concluding the story of the beautiful pair of birds that chose to live by the top of the Esmeralda steps this winter.
Bronwyn and Aaron have taken the body up to Wildcare in San Rafael for testing.These beautiful wild birds were embraced by the community. They made the hilltop a better place as people gathered to see and talk about them.
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So, what happens when you stick a bunch of Star Wars stamps on a beach ball, write an address crossword-style, and drop in it the mail? Unbelievably, the post office will deliver it.
Sometime I’ll have to tell you about the Presidio post office, which is something straight out of Office Space. Their vending machine still only has 39 cent stamps, even though the first class rate went up to 41 cents three months ago. Who knows how many people walk in, buy “first class” stamps, and then have their mail returned for insufficent postage… The guy who works there is a dead ringer for Milton, and whenever I mention the vending machine, he tells me “we’ve had disscussions about putting in 41 cent stamps”. Um…. what?
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I haven’t yet made the perfect lemondrop, but now that I have a tree full of lemons and the recipe for perfect lemonade, maybe I can concoct a perfect lemondrop recipe :)
