Category Archives: Blogging

marc broussard’s “Home,” bayou soul interlude

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I’ve got a fair number of friends who are more musically inclined and musically sophisticated than I am, but I stumbled across this all mine own self (well, I found it on Taylor is the Boogie mine own self, well with the help of WordPress Hot Posts), so I feel very proud. This is worthy of going up against the best.

UPDATE: and fuck Universal Music Group, who took down the video. If they cared enough about their artists to read the comments, they’d see this video sold them an album. And now they have two official versions, embedding disabled on both. Why? Because you want your artists to be less widely known and less popular? Perfect strategy, guys.

underground version:

culturekiller’s Dub O matic

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I’m addicted to this man. He could film a bloody sock puppet video, drunk, and it would be the early–Warholian apotheosis of sock puppet videography. Here’s his video for sunlightsquare‘s song Dub O Matic.

just in time for Halloween

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Jack O'LanternThis is one of those unfairly neglected posts that are clicked once and then forgotten. A moving work of art by the team responsible for Chad Vader, Night Shift Manager, this piece suffered earlier by being somewhat ahead of its time.

That time has now come.

Behold The Life and Death of a Pumpkin, by some Wisconsonian guys channelling Bergman.

an infallible self-esteem booster!

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Found a great way to game the Technorati Blogworth Calculator, and since it’s been broken for quite some time and hasn’t increased my blog’s value I feel no compunction whatsoever in giving it a nudge. If it’s going to artificially depress my blog value by not counting the 30 more blogs that have linked to me since it last upgraded me, I’m not going to lie awake at night tormented by guilt that I input Gawker to the calculator, grabbed the resultant code, changed the URL and came up with a slightly revised figure for the ol’ raincoaster blog:


My blog is worth $4,025,170.20.
How much is your blog worth?

SETI totally harshing our screaming, giggling high

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 stop smiling, you smug bastard!

Bummer, dude.

from SETI.org Spaceref.com which if I’d realized back when I posted the first one, I’d not have posted them at all. So much for trusting Fark. I knew there was a reason I hadn’t blogrolled them.

Here is the actual Tuesday announcement. And below is the hold-your-boosters post from Spaceref.com.

Major SETI Institute Announcement

Editor’s update: For all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released – under press embargo – to reporters last week. A press release about the announcement will be issued on Tuesday by the SETI Institute.

Editor’s update: To those of you who have been speculating about what will be announced tomorrow: The original calendar posting on this page simply had date, time, and location. Nothing else. It was posted here a week ago – on 9 October. A detailed – but embargoed – media alert was sent out at the same time to reporters by the SETI Institute in which no mention is made of signals from outer space. Yet, the announcement is indeed a major one for the SETI Institute.

Please ask yourself this: do you (1) really think that the SETI Institute would issue some sort of major announcement i.e. detection of a signal from another civilization – a week ahead of announcing it formally – and then (2) expect the media to sit on such amazing news – for an entire week? The next time y’all start to whip up a frenzy – out of thin air – use a little common sense before you hit [send].

10:00 – 11:00 am PDT

Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Location: SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, US

Web Site Address: http://www.seti.org/