Finally my dream has come true… I’m getting paid to blog, for part of this week at least…
Take that Jason Kottke!
Author: Greg
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AskJeeves To Be Sold For $1.85bn
AskJeeves to be sold for $1.85bn. It’s getting harder and harder to figure out who owns what nowadays…
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Music Midtown 2005
Music Midtown 2005. June 10th to 12th in Atlanta, GA. The White Stripes, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Kid Rock, The Pixies, Keith Urban, Loretta Lynn, The Killers, Alan Jackson, Lou Reed, Keane and more… Hmmmmm…
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Flickrhoo!
And so it begins, Matt Haughey threw this together at the end of February when the buyout talk all began, now it’s a reality…
The funny part is the thumbnail of it looks like “Fuckr!”
Originally uploaded by mathowie.
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John DeLorean Dies
John Z. DeLorean, an automotive innovator who left General Motors Corp. to develop a radically futuristic sports car, has died at age 80. If it wasn’t for the Back To The Future series, I seriously doubt anyone would care…
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Yahoo! Actually Does Buy Flickr
20 days later than expected, but Yahoo! has officially bought Flickr and it’s parent company, Ludicorp…
Oh well, I guess we sit and wait to see how it all goes down, will it be like Picasa after Google bought it or will it remain as is?
What will happen to pro accounts?
So many questions, so little answers, so far…
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Freebird!
FREEBIRD!!!!!!! It’s a request, a rebuke, a cry from the heart… “If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?”
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Brackets Busted
My March Madness brackets took a hell of a pounding today, one they might not ever recover from, mainly thanks to Bucknell Bisons 64-63 win over Kansas Jayhawks, who I predicted to make it to the National Championship.
I imagine most people’s brackets took a beating there…
That followed up the Syracuse Orangemen’s 57-60 overtime loss to Vermont Catamounts earlier in the day, a day that seemed to start so well too with North Carolina State burning Charlotte and Iowa State overcoming Minnesota…
All I have left is pride and the hope that Illinois will continue to win, anything else is just good fortune.
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The Big Mirror
This comes via Gordon McLean, and it’s a bit of a mind-fuck, but so insightful nonetheless… It’s The Big Mirror and it invites you to step back, turn off your monitor and what do you see?
Yourself, if the light is right…
I call this The Big Mirror and it might help explain why Steven Levy, a white guy, looks into his monitor and sees only white guys. At least, it’s the only explanation I can think of for how he might have missed all the fantastic blogging women out there. (I could go on and on and on.)
The Big Mirror also explains why pissed off angry people look into the web and see only pissed off angry people. Why sad depressives see sad depressives. And why boundless optimists see through a rose-colored monitor. We see ourselves – our fears and hopes and insecurities – everywhere we go.
That faint reflection of ourselves is always there, both literally and metaphorically. So the next time someone tells you about how everyone online is a freaky child molester, ask yourself, what do they see when they look in the mirror?
Ain’t that the truth?
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Who Will Free Fiona Apple?
Fiona Apple’s CD “Extraordinary Machine” has been on the shelf for over two years, but it’s been “leaked” onto the net recently. Is this a marketing ploy to see how a 2 year old recording will go down in current music conditions? Find out for yourself here. [via]
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Star Wars 3D?
Could we be seeing all 6 Star Wars films in 3D soon? “While appearing at ShoWest, Lucas said that he would go and 3D up all 6 Star Wars films, starting with the original A New Hope in 2007 to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary.”
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Man-Made Black Hole?
A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said. Moments later, the Earth was sucked into oblivion…
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Interesting Use of API’s
People are finding more and more great uses for API’s everyday it seems, like the Flickr Postcard Viewer and AmazType. You have to wonder what they’ll come up with next…
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An Apple Two Button Mouse?
Rumours suggest Apple are developing a two button mouse. In other news, Hell has not frozen over yet, but it very well may. [via]
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Bitches Ain’t Shit
Ben Folds comes back with a cover of the old Dr. Dre song “Bitches Ain’t Shit.” Now I’m really looking forward to the new CD “Songs For Silverman” which is due towards the end of April… In the meantime, enjoy.
Ben Folds – Bitches Ain’t ShitEDIT: For some inexplicable reason it’s playing at a slowed down speed, damned if I know why…