Monthly Archives: June 2006

Oops! I Covered It Again

June 30, 2006 – 12:43 am

I don’t know why it is that I love bad knockoffs of cheap pop, but I do. That’s why, when I heard a folksy rendition of Oops! I Did It Again playing between segments on some NPR program a while ago, I had to go looking for it.
As it turns out, it was Richard Thompson, [...]

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June 28: Tony Day

June 28, 2006 – 12:37 am

In the two years Joe spent researching and writing Two Ton: One Night, One Fight — Tony Galento v. Joe Louis I’ve heard a lot about this guy. Tony Galento was a most improbable opponent for Louis, who by then had regained the world heavyweight title from Max Schmeling, but Joe’s description tells it best:
Beetle-browed, [...]

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Burning Patriotism

June 27, 2006 – 8:45 pm

My feelings on the Flag Burning Desecration Amendment should have been clear from my Flag Day story. Still, let me offer the t-shirts above as confirmation.
america, burn, citizenship, civil liberties, civil liberty, first amendment, flag burning, flag desecration, flag desecration amendment, free speech, liberty, patriot, patriotism, rights

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Sealand Burning

June 25, 2006 – 12:33 pm

A comment from TroublePup alerted me that the Principality of Sealand burned Friday.
The Evening Star explained:
Witnesses watched in amazement as a huge plume of smoke started to rise from one of the legs of Sealand — and boats raced to the scene.
Seafront worker Bruce Harrison said: ?It was quite spectacular. The amount of smoke was [...]

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American Diplomacy

June 24, 2006 – 11:43 pm

I don’t collect stamps, but this set caught my eye. First there’s the irony that the USPS is celebrating American diplomacy at a time when, well, there’s not much to celebrate. Then I get a further chuckle when I notice the postal service can only scrounge up six examples to celebrate, but found 40 ?superlatives? [...]

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The Twig’s Grand Opening

June 23, 2006 – 12:18 am

Wendy sent out this invite last week:
Last month the Monningers quite suddenly became restauranteurs. Six weeks later, Wendy, Joe and Pie are excited to announce the Grand Opening of ?the Twig?– an ever-so-cute restaurant in their hometown of Warren, NH.
On Saturday, June 24th from 11-2 come to the Twig for free pizza and cake. Win [...]

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Context, Language, Systems

June 21, 2006 – 12:17 pm

?Bagged products? is little better than ?cookery.? I’m gonna bet that no customer has ever asked the sales people for ?bagged products,? that nobody’s ever checked the yellow pages for ?bagged products,? and without context, nobody would come close to answering a question on what the heck ?bagged products? are all about.
But we do have [...]

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Free Markets, Bad Products, Slow Change Rates

June 20, 2006 – 12:19 pm

Point A: John Blyberg’s ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights.
Point B: Dan Chudnov’s The problem with the ?ILS Bill of Rights?
Response: John Blyberg’s OPACs in the frying pan, Vendors in the fire
While there’s some disagreement between John and Dan, I can’t help but see a strong concordance between their posts: Both are an attempt to educate potential customers. [...]

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Scooter By Sunset

June 19, 2006 – 11:31 pm

The light Sunday evening was golden, so I stopped to take way too many photos of the meadow in the sunset. Just before filling my memory card with all that, I got back to my scooter to find this scene with a haze settling on the field and the sun just ducking behind enough of [...]

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Spark Fun’s GPS Data Logger

June 18, 2006 – 12:23 pm

Engadget alerted me to this GPS data logger from Spark Fun Electronics.
The device records up to 440 hours of data to a 256MB SD card in either a simple text file or KML-compatible format that you can display in Google Earth.
I like it, I want one (actually, I want three, and I’ll eventually post [...]

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The Pope vs. The Da Vinci Code

June 17, 2006 – 11:41 am

The above image and following text are circulating the web, tickling funny bones.
This man (on the left wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lamé gown over a silk Vera Wang empire waist tulle cocktail dress, accessorized with a three-foot beaded peaked House of Whoville hat, and the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the [...]

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From The Memepool

June 16, 2006 – 8:09 pm

Memepool has more than earned its place in my aggregator. Where else would I learn of The Monkey Chow Diaries (and blog), or the plot structure of Fight Club in Legos, or this flying dude?
amusing, funny, memepool, odd

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Happy Bloomsday

June 16, 2006 – 12:35 pm

Thanks to an aside in a sad/angering story at Copyfight, I’m now up on Bloomsday. Here it is, as explained by Wikipedia:
Bloomsday is observed annually on June 16 to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and commemorate the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in [...]

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Google Geo News

June 16, 2006 – 11:07 am

This post started with Ryan sending me this link demonstrating a KML overlay of county borders of his bifurcated state in Google Maps.
Then I found this Roundup of Google’s Geo Developer Day (btw, I so wanted to be at Where 2.0) with tales of the new geocoding feature of the Google Maps API, more details [...]

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Donald Norman — Everyday Things

June 16, 2006 – 12:11 am

I was especially young and impressionable when I discovered Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, but I still claim it’s required reading for anybody who’s read more than one post here at MaisonBisson. That’s self selection at work, but let me put it this way: unless you’re the only consumer of the things you [...]

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