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Reverse-Engineering a joke

When I was a kid in kindergarten, my dad had a few friends he would regularly hang out and drink beers (and do shots) with.  Most of these excursions were distinctly not for kids, and I would be dropped off at my grandparents’ house for the night. …

i know it’s several years old now, but i’m thinking about finally doing a full-on year zero remix album…unfortunately, my remix of “the beginning of the end” was done in garageband and i didn’t save (or i can’t find) an original lossless version, which means the only surviving version of it is a single ogg […]

YouTube – OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – RGM version this via @neilhimself‘s blog

This month’s calendar wallpaper (and non-calendar companion) has a mysterious, vintage feel.  Dark shapes and strange symbols and half-forgotten memories drift across the periphery of your awareness and you’re not sure if those strangely familiar shapes are ominous or welcoming. This wallpaper comes in all the usual sizes, with and without calendar, as well as […]

via @johnonolan

sure it’s cool that photoshop has been around 20 years and that most of the tools have been around from the beginning, but all i’ve got to say is: imagine having to do design on that screen.  i think i’d claw my eyes out. Happy 20th anniversary to Photoshop! from Giovanni Antico on Vimeo.

the entire catalog of the once-great and world renown experimental rock band, the loafmen is now available in its entirety for free download. okay, i lied about the world renown part.

taking the book in a new direction.  rather than being a straight confessional (and probably a fairly boring read), now that the details and facts and whatnot are laid out, i’m going to make it into a (hopefully) more entertaining, snarky, faste…

this was a big deal on twitter a couple weeks back and i never had time to check it out.  you can watch the full film (it’s 35 minutes) on hulu, and i recommend it.  it’s a great look at the emerging economy of new startups that are coming out of people who’ve been laid […]

a few months ago, i posted a link to a hack that revealed how to do an in-place “upgrade” (although it’s really a downgrade) from Windows 7 RC-1 to a lesser version of Windows 7.  as the nag alerts saying i need to backup my stuff and reinstall have started cropping up, i decided to […]

i’m still somewhat undecided on the cover.  i sort of go back and forth between liking it and thinking it’s too abstract or hard to recognize (and then i go back and forth about whether or not i care about recognizability).  i was playing…