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+ Mon, January 31

→ Feeling scorned by Pitchfork’s resistance to RSS?  Scorn back!
→ Grandma Eats Cannibis – Coming to a bookstore near you

+ Sun, January 30

→ Party Til You Start Freaking Out

+ Sat, January 29

→ Monkeys pay for monkey porn – What monkey business!  Always monkeying around!

+ Wed, January 26

→ The list of unusual articles on Wikipedia – I would’ve figured it’d be about 10 times longer… (thanks, TMN)
→ Engadget’s extensive guide on how to turn your Mac mini into a personal media server
→ A torrent of 165 Apple commercials – 800mb worth!

+ Mon, January 24

→ C-3P0’s - A New Force At Breakfast – This is one of the most marvelous things I’ve ever seen on the internet.  Commercial at the bottom of the page!
→ The legendary video of the intro of the Macintosh surfaces after 21 years to the day – Absolutely amazing clip, much talked of and rarely seen before Kottke has a list of mirrors for the video.
→ Jan 24: The worst day of this year – Check out how the picture looks like hung bodies on first glance, nice touch, BBC!

+ Sun, January 23

→ Brilliant critique (with visually astounding touch-ups) of the crappy characters in The Polar Express – Be sure to see how one man with Photoshop added such visual weight and life to screen shots of this multi-million dollar movie.

+ Sat, January 22

→ The Boy Who Pierced His Labia – When this was written about 4 years ago I laughed so hard I cried.  Spread the word.
→ Term 2, Day 1:“Condi, get NASA on the phone, tell them to kill that stupid Hobbes Space Telephone thing immediately!”

+ Thu, January 20

→ Canadian loony invents x-ray vision; kills hand.

+ Mon, January 17

→ iTunes-Pepsi promo again? – Here’s hoping!
→ Bill Gates in 1983: “Ooh baby, let me toss my floppy at you!”

+ Sat, January 15

→ Wired interviews Monster (Delicious Library authors) – Check out the talk about Version 2 and its sharing!

+ Fri, January 14

→ For the future when I have 13 remotes: Jason Zada’s writeup of a really sweet - internet enabled - remote control
→ Powerbook G5 in Q2 this year? – Bullshit, I wouldn’t expect them before Q4.
→ Pitchfork redesigns and it’s… nicer – And hey, what’s a little semantic jibberish and misuse of Flash between friends?
→ waferredesign

+ Thu, January 13

→ Napoleon Dynamite located! And he’s playing rhythm guitar in this live Arcade Fire video.
→ Petra “Holy Sweet Goddamn” Hayden joins The Decemberists! – What great, great news

+ Wed, January 12

→ No Macworld Expo coverage better than Ars Technica’s
→ Apple’s Tipping Point, by Paul Nixon
→ Apple sold 4.5 million iPods in the last 3 months – Keep in mind that in the last 3 years there have been 10 million iPods sold total.

+ Tue, January 11

→ Borat does the rodeo
→ The entire Marathon Trilogy is now released free of charge – Oddly enough, I’ve been addicted to these games via the magic of Aleph One for the last few weeks.

+ Mon, January 10

→ CRAB VS. 2700PSI: FIGHT!
→ Matt Haughey no likey Bill Gates
→ Remember the rumored iHome Media Centre? – Definitely fake and here’s where they found it.

+ Sat, January  8

→ Griffin to release two really spectacular iPod accessories next week – The SmartDeck looks especially useful

+ Fri, January  7

→ Opera releases Opera 8 for Mac. – And despite years of effort, the interface still both sucks and blows!
→ “Ashlee’s singing sounded like a cross between a political prisoner being tortured and a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.” – Well, yeah, but holy sweet goddamn man, them’s fightin’ words!

+ Thu, January  6

→ Apple sues ThinkSecret over published rumors – ThinkSecret responds by claiming Apple is going to release an flash-based tiny iPod next week.
→ LiveJournal enters the Six Apart group – Sounds great to me.

+ Wed, January  5

→ Track your packages via RSS

+ Tue, January  4

→ Hertford, England: We got yo’ Grail

+ Mon, January  3

→ Watch ex-Fugazi vocalist Ian MacKaye sing about the fun, fun world of vowels!