Monthly Archives: December 2006

New Year’s Fireworks

December 31, 2006 – 7:00 pm

PES offers these fireworks for any occasion, but when better to celebrate than the new year?
And thinking of that, if all these clocks are correct, the new year has already started in GMT, which means I’m probably a few drinks behind and need to catch up.
PES, eatpes, video, new year, fireworks, celebration

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Holiday Violence

December 25, 2006 – 3:57 pm

By the end of it, all the wrapping paper and other material affects of the holidays really do take on air of violence. Well, at least they do in PES’s Kaboom.
And if you’re amused by that, you might want to see how it was made.
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Happy Holidays

December 25, 2006 – 12:00 am

tree, holidays, liquor, nips, happy holidays

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One Goat Down, One Goat To Go

December 24, 2006 – 7:02 am

Cliffy got excited about the Gävle Goat when his pal Derek emailed him about it all. Derek was in town, or something like that, and got caught up in the frenzy first hand: ?Last year some other guy was a bit smarter, hitting it with a flaming arrow from a bow, and he wasn?t caught. [...]

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Great White Solstice

December 22, 2006 – 12:47 pm

While northern-hemisphere inhabitants are enjoying their first day of winter, our cousins in the southern hemisphere are just beginning summer. And in South Africa’s Shark Bay, near Gansbaai, the great whites are departing for other waters.
The great whites make their way to Shark Bay annually between September and January, though they are not hunting, and, [...]

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Competition, Market Position, and Statistics

December 19, 2006 – 12:42 pm

Watch this video a few times. It’s funny. It’s catchy. It’s kitsch.
Now watch it a few times more. The ad, for a Lada VAZ 2109, appeared sometime in the 90s. It reflects the influence of MTV and other cultural imports from the West, but the details betray it’s command economy provenance. The snow appears trodden [...]

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Welcome To Your World

December 18, 2006 – 12:22 pm

In pointing this out to me, Lichen noted ?if this isn’t evidence that Web2.0 is an undeniable force, I don’t know what is.?
?This,? of course, is Time Magazine’s announcement of the 2006 Person of the Year. And the answer is you. Yes, you.
Michael Stephens was right on top of it, pulling this quote:
…But look [...]

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Helsinki Complaints Choir

December 17, 2006 – 12:46 pm

Though some people prefer the Birmingham choir to Helsinki’s, there’s certainly something to be said about complaining in song, and something more when it’s in a language I can’t begin to understand. One blogger remarked of the video:

To think of what might of been. What if I’d moved in with a bunch of angst [...]

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Wish I Could Be There…

December 14, 2006 – 12:53 pm

Harry Shearer and Judith Owen are performing their holiday sing-a-long at the concert hall at the Society for Ethical Culture in NYC with guests TMBG and others. It’s a go on Friday, but why can’t these things happen closer to me? Actually, maybe they should all come to Warren afterwards.
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Memcached and Wordpress

December 13, 2006 – 12:17 pm

Ryan Boren wrote about using memcached with WordPress almost a year ago:
Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system. WordPress 2.0 can make use of memcached by dropping in a special backend for the WP object cache. The memcached backend replaces the default backend and directs all cache requests to one or more memcached daemons. [...]

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WordPress 2.1 + WPopac

December 12, 2006 – 9:58 am

I’ve been following WP2.1 development, but Aaron Brazell’s post in the development blog wrapped up a lot of questions all at once.
The short story is that 2.1 is going to bring some really good changes that will allow more flexibility and better optimization of WPopac. Of the four changes Brazell names, the last two, the [...]

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Woot! Woot!

December 4, 2006 – 2:00 pm

The press release:
Making Libraries Relevant in an Internet-Based Society
PSU?s Casey Bisson wins Mellon Award for innovative search software for libraries
PLYMOUTH, N.H. ? You can?t trip over what?s not there. Every day millions of Internet users search online for information about millions of topics. And none of their search results include resources from the countless libraries [...]

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Flightplan

December 3, 2006 – 9:39 am

Perhaps it’s just because I’m in the air again today, but I’m fascinated by Aaron Koblin’s animation of aircraft activity, illustrating the pulsing, throbbing movements of aircraft over North America. Nah, this is hot. You’ll love it too.
Also worth checking out: Koblin’s other works.
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