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What the hell is going on?

Charlie Rose on technology.

I used to work in a bookstore, and spent my share of time in receiving, so I know that every good-sized bookstore has tons of cardboard boxes coming in every day. These book boxes are particularly good for packing your own books in, since they’re a slightly heavier gauge cardboard and they’re smaller than [...]

Before I lose the link again for another couple of years, here is Strindberg & Helium.
(There used to be an embedded video here of one of my favorites, Absinthe and Women, but the embedding was totally fucking with my site, so I took it out. You can find it easily at the link above [...]

Two stupid things caught my eye in today’s news – one gently stupid and amusing, one horribly stupid and tragic.
Patrick Agin, a high-school senior in Portsmouth, has submitted for his senior yearbook a picture of himself in chainmail, wielding what can only be described as a big-ass sword. (Patrick is an active member of the [...]

So. How would you feel, if you came home to spot this in your In Box?

Click to open fullsize image. And yes, my given name is Eric, but don’t tell anybody.
Good thing I checked my Junk folder – I almost missed this.
So um. Talk about confirmation links you probably [...]

Remember Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM (digital rights management) technology?
Well, it doesn’t play for sure on the new Microsoft Zune.
Word is (though I can’t find a link right now) that Microsoft spokesbots are actually recommending that Zune users break Microsoft’s own DRM (and by extension, violate the DMCA) in order to use PlaysForSure media with [...]

(Okay, well, I was mostly responsible for this one.)
[Insert random discussion of Sam Jackson in Snakes on a Plane here.]
J: Motherfuckin’ snakes on a motherfuckin’ plane!
T: Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson… you know I always get him mixed up with Morgan Freeman.
M: Well you know how to tell those guys apart, right? [...]

Like many people, I often dream vividly of strange situations. But while some people’s dreams are populated with the images or sights or sounds of those situations, and sometimes mine are too, the most common features of my dreams are extended conversations. Often the conversations are incidental to the other events, but [...]