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Never forget.

Apr 1st

The Pope May Be Right About Condoms in Africa

Mar 31st

Academic Earth

Mar 31st

Alberto Gonzales, King of Irony

Mar 31st

Quick scratch about the GM CEO who got...

Rick Wagoner : GM :: Detroit Lions : Football

Mar 30th

Office kitties: pawing at success.

Mar 30th

Why don't they make whammy bars for...

I mean, really.

Mar 30th

Today

I went to the bike shop to get a new tire and inquired about a tune-up. The bike guy said...

Mar 29th

Well hot damn.

Mar 29th

Old Man from Psychedelic Horseshit Yells at...

Mar 29th

Listen

Was listening to some old booty bass mixtapes and found this on a DJ Funk tape. The song is built...

Mar 28th

Some good news

The one doctor in America (the guy in Kansas, his name escapes me at the moment) who will do...

Mar 28th

I downloaded Auto-tune

and am now trying to recreate most T-Paine songs while watching hockey.

Mar 28th

Party on, contest winners.

Mar 27th

Watch

I’m doing my weekly check of the Fools Gold blog this morning to see if the Kid Sister album...

Mar 27th

And Another Thing

I upgraded my Make subscription when I renewed and now have full access to the archives. Fuck yeah,...

Mar 27th

Watch

The Yahoo hockey blog posted this top ten video from SportsCenter of ‘Famous Moments in...

Mar 27th

My Favorite Part About Looking for Jobs

is getting nervous whenever my phone rings and it’s a 202 number. (This time it was the...

Mar 26th

and there you have it... [Obama on marijuana]

Mar 26th

Christianity in General, Also...

There is this Bay Area band called Negativland, masters of turning sound collages into political...

Mar 26th

And about time, too.

Mar 26th

Make Music With Your Tongue

Mar 26th

Mar 26th

Overdue Policy Changes vol. 5: Obama issues...

Mar 25th

EFCA Scratch

Mar 25th

famous people from my hometown

muppetpants: realrealsoft: tublickpastry: calcium: carrot top … 1. Ed Norton 2……….. 1....

Mar 25th

Hack NES games for weird video fun time

Mar 25th

Happy Ada Lovelace Women In Technology Day.

Mar 24th

The Rise and Fall of Culture 11

Mar 24th

Georgia Tech hosted this conference...

Mar 24th

Mike Huckabee compares abortion to...

JEFFERSON CITY | Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee...

Mar 24th

Listen

Collaborating with M-Chris, here is our 30 seconds of contribution to the 100 Tape Loops in Rock...

Mar 24th

The Advocate: Rising Tennis Star Engages in...

Mar 23rd

Judge Orders FDA to Reconsider Limits on...

Mar 23rd

notthatkindagay: think4yourself: soupsoup: ...

Mar 23rd

Terrell Owens' career highlights

Mar 23rd

Infinity Plus One

So I downloaded the teaser from A-Trak’s tumblr (of all places) to see if it was any good or...

Mar 23rd

Cookies got me Cat Fancy magazine and they send out the...

Mar 23rd

Dear Internet Nerds in the DC Area (lend...

I am, in partnership with a good friend of mine, part of an upcoming exhibit in early April called...

Mar 22nd

I have found the greatest metal blog in the...

Mar 22nd

I figured out how to wav edit in...

Which means I will be uploading a whole bunch of 7” records throughout today.

Mar 22nd

bleep bleep bleep blorp Finished and buttoned up. Went...

Mar 22nd

Front plate of the thingamakit, buttoned up and pretty with...

Mar 21st

Guts of the Thingamakit, all assembled except connecting...

Mar 21st

Morning activity: distracting myself from finishing the...

Mar 21st

On Facebook

a) So I friended Don Brashear of the Washington Capitals a week or so ago; Donald Brashear’s...

Mar 21st

Wisconsin girls doing DIY abortion using...

Mar 20th

Michigan gets legal medical marijuana in...

Mar 20th

Listen

Since there’s a lot of talk about AIDS today due to the pope’s remarks on condom use,...

Mar 20th

Harvard AIDS Expert Says Pope is Correct on...

Mar 20th

This is a piece hanging up in a museum in Massachussetts; it...

Mar 20th

Fun fact: For awhile, the Gibson budget brand was called...

Mar 20th

Un-Fuck Yeah

Soooooo I may have wired up the s/r lines on the detector circuit wrong. In which case I will be...

Mar 20th

Mar 19th

OH FUCK YES

a) I made tentative arrangements to get ahold of a DOD Death Metal pedal via craigslist. If you play...

Mar 19th

This is a blog about cats.

Mar 19th

LRB: Judy Butler on criticism of Israel as...

Mar 19th

Birthmothers' experience after submitting for...

Mar 18th

Breast-feedin'

a) I think a lot of what Amanda Marcotte writes at Pandagon is kind of overblown and uses feminism /...

Mar 18th

muppetpants: It’s amazing how much better a job my Samsung cellphone does than my iPod driving my...

Mar 18th

Assault Capitalism: GM says 'give up the cash...

Mar 18th

Ticketmaster gouging blah blah blah

Mar 18th

Congratulations Mr. Marty Brodeur on breaking the record for...

Mar 18th

Other People's Scratches on that Shelby...

Mar 18th

Pfeiffer's Hardware in Mount Pleasant

are hooking me up with a step drill bit, because they are great. No cast aluminum project box is...

Mar 18th

Watch

I love the midwest.

Mar 18th

Best picture of the cover art I could find. This album is...

Mar 18th

The Red Cross report on US-delivered...

Un-fucking-believable.

Mar 17th

Some shit about noise records

Here’s my haul from this weekend CDs: Carlos Giffoni / Fe-mail - Northern Stains Fool’s...

Mar 17th

“The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts...”
— vainglorious: Why the GOP...

Mar 17th

I am back from Snoo York pt 1

a) A-Trak was pretty good. Cookies and I stayed for about three hours of a four hour blast of club...

Mar 17th

This is a platinum plaque for ‘2001’ by Dr. Dre....

Mar 17th

Noise content

For some reason, NYC’s Academy Records has a ton of Michigan related experimental and noise. I...

Mar 16th

A-trak was fun.

And that’s why I didn’t wake up until 11:30.

Mar 15th

Speaking of which

I will be going to the A-Trak Infinity + 1 release party. Infinity + 1 is the name of the...

Mar 13th

a) A 12” for ‘Get Fresh’ by Kid Sister...

Mar 13th

The current piece on NPR / WAMU

a) I’m not kidding about this: b) The NPR guy is talking about how he decided to stop...

Mar 13th

NPR just did a piece on dumpster diving...

uhhhhhhhhhh

Mar 13th

hannah-arendt.blam.gif

Mar 12th

notthatkindagay: mandalay: daydreamsonvinyl:...

Mar 12th

On Set Screws

Well, I got them, and was able to mount them to keep the lasers in a permanent “On”...

Mar 12th

goddamn fucking cheap ass unreliable...

Draft one of this harp is likely going to be a five pointer version unless this one laser starts...

Mar 12th

I just friended Donald Brashear on the...

America #1

Mar 12th

Ross Douthat to the NYTimes Op-Ed page

Mar 11th

Gingrich: Pay Pregnant Teens To Stay...

Mar 11th

Important People on the 42 Bus: Marc Ambinder...

Mar 11th

Scratch on Madoff and i-banking in...

a) I heard some rumblings about people getting hired with liberal arts / gender studies / generic...

Mar 11th

This prize-winning guinea pig wishes Donald Brashear of the...

Mar 11th

Scientific American piece on pig odor...

Mar 10th

Report: 'Dirty bomb' parts found in slain...

Mar 10th

lol @ David Addington

Mar 10th

The lady who interviewed me at...

Fuck @ me for not landing that one.

Mar 10th

The harp frame from a distance, plus part of my living room...

Mar 10th

Harp frame base, with lasers and IR sensors mounted....

Mar 10th

Also I realized I haven’t posted any pictures of the...

Mar 10th

I needed a break from the harp after running into a snag...

Mar 10th

Quick scratch about 'Going Galt' and...

a) It takes a pretty inflated ego and opinion of your ideology to assume that the macro-level system...

Mar 9th

Don't NOT Didn't Did Not Do It Yourself

Mar 9th

I could work on the two draft posts I have on Rawlsian...

Mar 9th

“You’ve got to want the president to succeed. You’re irrational if you don’t...

Mar 9th

Make: Neko Case used a Make project on Middle...

Mar 9th

Mar 9th

Laser harp woop

a) The power supply, microcontroller, and MIDI port are all mounted. b) I wired the filter circuits...

Mar 9th

The power supply is working. The lasers are all working except for a wonky one (lol @ me, half the...

Mar 8th

Laser harp this and that

Almost ready to lay down the power supply. Almost ready to lay down the IR sensors. But, in what...

Mar 8th

SMD soldering with a normal iron

I hate doing it. Two sensors down, four to go!

Mar 8th

Watch

A series of short clips of Maru, Japanese celebrity cat.

Mar 7th

Week to Do List

a) Rip all those 7”s b) Mix that tape for Nick from Kalamazoo that I never got around to...

Mar 7th

A scientist on NPR was just able to...

Apparently, this guy who runs a nature-science-environment local NPR program in his small town got...

Mar 6th

Watch

The hardcore band Integrity… plus cats.

Mar 6th

I’ve been listening to a bunch of old Sonic Youth...

Mar 6th

College kids wearing keffiyehs singlehandedly...

Mar 6th

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your...”
— Friedrich Nietzsche (via...

Mar 6th

Saucy!

Mar 6th

Megan McArdle predicts that GM is going down

Mar 5th

President Taft’s pet cow, Pauline.

Mar 5th

I'm going skateboarding this weekend.

 Because I can.

Mar 5th

“Did XM Satellite Radio.They want more twittering.We’ll try...”
— Twitter / Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)...

Mar 5th

Flosstradamus interview, blah blah blah

Mar 5th

On Hoping Other People Blow It Part 2,...

“I want Barack Obama to fail and I want to help ensure he does. If Barack Obama is successful...

Mar 5th

Catbus will play for you the symphony of space.

Mar 5th

Watch

This quarter’s Make mag has an Arduino-driven beat sequencer that operates by moving marbles...

Mar 5th

Holy Fucking Shit, Dirty Hippies Were Right...

Mar 4th

Small Miracles / Getting to Work on Time

Despite a surprise 15 minute green line delay and emergency track work on an orange line spot, I...

Mar 4th

This is a Will Oldham 7” released in 1997 called...

Mar 4th

Here is a Songs Ohia Fun Pack! The following 7”s are...

Mar 4th

This NEXT one is called 'ripping vinyl'

Zip files to be posted shortly.

Mar 3rd

Arguing on the internet: marijuana sin...

Because I like fighting on message boards on my precious time off, I crunched a bunch of numbers on...

Mar 3rd

This next one is called 'Looking up hard...

All hail unplanned day off. The bush by my stairs is covered in icicles. Also, my front steps are...

Mar 3rd

Watch

Phoning it in today. Here’s a video of a stuffed cat singlehandedly ruining hip hop.

Mar 3rd

muppetpants: The Golden Ticket. Phish sucks.

Mar 2nd

I am putting bearings into skateboard wheels. The year is...

Mar 2nd

It seems that people think about DJ Funk roughly as much as...

Mar 2nd

YES, TODAY I WILL SOMETHING SOMETHING CAPITALISM

Mar 2nd

Yesterday

I went to a college party up at AU and wound up getting into an extremely detailed conversation...

Mar 1st

Laser Harp Progress / Completed off the...

a) Drill holes for the lasers themselves. Also drill set screw holes. (Holes drilled but I...

Mar 1st