Not sure where we would put it (Pike Place Market?) but there are so many photographers here. The colors in this thing are amazing. Toy cams rule at that.
Month: September 2007
links for 2007-09-26
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textbook smackdown.
Well, this is convenient
Flickr: Discussing KEXP’s “Rockabilly car show” Sept.29th in Seattle Flickr Meetups:
This is the 20th anniversary of KEXP’s “Shake the shack rockabilly ball”, and as usual the weekend ends with a hot rod show at the Shanty Tavern on Lake City Way. It used to be at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard, but after too much street racing and burnout contests (the hood of my car was covered in shredded rubber!) they had to move it.
the Shanty is pretty close to me, and if the weather cooperates, this could be fun.
some rough beauty there
Port cities look so different by night than they do by day. A lit-up crane looks like sculpture, a tank farm takes on a sacred appearance, all clean and white.
The generous and talented sparkrobot threw me a lifeline with the gift of his now obsolete Moto RAZR (he’s moved on to the iPhone).
Many thanks for the phone and the excuse to get out of the house and see Georgetown.
Amazon creates gigantic DRM-free music store!
Amazon creates gigantic DRM-free music store!:
Amazon is selling 2,000,000 tracks as DRM-free MP3s! [and they’re 256 kbit files, from what I have seen — ed]
But not all of them as tracks. As noted earlier, Radiohead still insist on selling their material as complete albums (as if we can’t then shuffle or skip the tracks we don’t like as much). Whatever. Don’t know who else does that, actually.
And Led Zeppelin? Still a pure analog hold out.
Interesting that the tracks are the same price –US$.99 — while the albums are a dollar (or more) less that at iTunes. Is that competition stuff we keep hearing about?
You have to use their downloader application to get your stuff, but you get a free track as an inducement to download it and set it up (and for them to keep testing and verifying).
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links for 2007-09-25
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well, that was easy.
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probably not the last, either
your tax dollars at work
deal with it
no one made you go to law school, punk:
The law degree that Scott Bullock gained in 2005 from Seton Hall University — where he says he ranked in the top third of his class — is a “waste,” he says. Some former high-school friends are earning considerably more as plumbers and electricians than the $50,000-a-year Mr. Bullock is making as a personal-injury attorney in Manhattan. To boot, he is paying off $118,000 in law-school debt.
Sure doesn’t sound like the law is his true calling, does it?
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better to stay silent and be thought a fool
For those of you who can’t watch video clips from work, a student asked about the treatment of gays in Iran — as a rule, they’re executed — and Ahmadinejad responded, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
Did you notice the crowd’s reaction? The students were laughing at him. Ahmadinejad became the subject of mockery and ridicule, simply by showing up and stating his ridiculous beliefs.
It’s exactly why Columbia was right to extend the invitation. What better way to make a fool of Ahmadinejad than to offer him a microphone?
Exactly.
links for 2007-09-24
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thinking about doing this ourselves once our lodger from Kyrgyzstan goes home.
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run, Newt, run. he offers a greater challenge than the rest of the GOP field, but I think his negatives may finally derail his ambitions.