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Oct. 7th, 2004 11:19 am
The "How Berkeley Can You Be?" Parade photojournal, complete with "sarcastic interlopers" taking the front spot.
Warning: Naked hippies near the start. Funny, not work-safe.
Oct. 7th, 2004
The "How Berkeley Can You Be?" Parade photojournal, complete with "sarcastic interlopers" taking the front spot.
Warning: Naked hippies near the start. Funny, not work-safe.
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Oct. 7th, 2004 11:36 am
Extended-exposure moonset with lightning storm. Click for a gargantuan high-resolution version.
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Oct. 7th, 2004 11:49 amStealing from Mike Hoye:
This is what a Michigan ballot looks like.
This is what a Florida ballot looked like last election.
Mike says: "Insanity. Deliberate and verging on malicious."
I says: Check out the Presidential election printing. This looks like a machine-read ballot. Notice how there's no way to mark Bush directly - but, just looking at that, if you want to mark Kerry, you punch the button beside Kerry without examining the rest in detail - which votes for Bush. If you want to vote Bush, you notice that it's displaced by one, and you vote for Bush.
Oh, of COURSE this is just an accidental misprinting, in a swing state coming from *that* bunch of Republicans.
Also stealing from Mike, this is an Elections Canada standard ballot.
This is what a Michigan ballot looks like.
This is what a Florida ballot looked like last election.
Mike says: "Insanity. Deliberate and verging on malicious."
I says: Check out the Presidential election printing. This looks like a machine-read ballot. Notice how there's no way to mark Bush directly - but, just looking at that, if you want to mark Kerry, you punch the button beside Kerry without examining the rest in detail - which votes for Bush. If you want to vote Bush, you notice that it's displaced by one, and you vote for Bush.
Oh, of COURSE this is just an accidental misprinting, in a swing state coming from *that* bunch of Republicans.
Also stealing from Mike, this is an Elections Canada standard ballot.
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Oct. 7th, 2004 11:55 amThe family of a Georgia fifth-grader found bones of a child under the floor of their home and the child believes the bones belong to her imaginary friend.
Stephanie Ogden said a friendly black girl in a white dress began visiting her room about five years ago.
"She told me that somebody put her in the floor," Ogden said. "She said he had a mask on, and that he chopped her up. She didn't know who the person was, because he had a mask on."
Stephanie Ogden said a friendly black girl in a white dress began visiting her room about five years ago.
"She told me that somebody put her in the floor," Ogden said. "She said he had a mask on, and that he chopped her up. She didn't know who the person was, because he had a mask on."
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Oct. 7th, 2004 03:21 pmFinal results on the "Most Overlooked Band" competition.
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That being said, you all need to hear Bobnoxious's "Big Cannons". It is now on the required listening list for anyone who likes hard rock. There's a short sample on the site, and a full copy included on the CD with BW&BK #83. The rest of the CD is no great shakes, not even by BW&BK standards (they're *fans* of atonal scream-and-beat stuff, but I still usually pull 4-5 tracks I like from bands I've never heard of off each sampler. This one gets two.)
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That being said, you all need to hear Bobnoxious's "Big Cannons". It is now on the required listening list for anyone who likes hard rock. There's a short sample on the site, and a full copy included on the CD with BW&BK #83. The rest of the CD is no great shakes, not even by BW&BK standards (they're *fans* of atonal scream-and-beat stuff, but I still usually pull 4-5 tracks I like from bands I've never heard of off each sampler. This one gets two.)
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Oct. 7th, 2004 11:57 pmWarren Ellis is arranging a new art stunt.
"Brothers and sisters, I have a scheme.
It is now Friday October 8 in GMT. My next LJ arts-related stunt will begin on Friday October 15, probably around noon GMT. Set your timezone relationships accordingly.
Here's what we're going to do. For roughly a 24-hour period from noon GMT on Friday the 15th, you arty people are going to show off.
You've got a week. Produce either a 200-word piece of prose, or a photo or photo-manip, or a drawing, or a painting, or a fucking whatever so long as it fits on a LiveJournal entry.
The theme is FUTURITY. The future. Our future, your future, someone else's future. A thousand years from now, ten minutes from now. What it's going to be like, what you're going to be like, what you want to be, what the rest of us are going to be, fucking whatever. What colour the sky's going to be. What happens when you can phone your own liver -- and the line's engaged. What an RSS-feed seventh sense GPRSd into your forebrain feels like. Whether kissing is different. Whether you're going to be here tomorrow. I don't care. The theme is as broad as it can possibly be. Do what comes to you, what moves you -- from 200 words on having an Tivo-equipped womb to a photoshopped webcam pic of who you want to be after the Giant Space Penis plugs Mt St Helen to save the world, I dunno.
Now, if you're going to make art, that's great -- but you'll need somewhere to host the image. I can't do that for you. So, for those of you who want to make art but have no access to hosting, maybe you could talk in the comments.
You've got a week to make this.
And on Friday October 15, you will await orders as to what to do with it.
Because you're not sending it to me this time. Not quite. Oh no.
I have a scheme.
24 hours to talk about the future. This could be really good."
"Brothers and sisters, I have a scheme.
It is now Friday October 8 in GMT. My next LJ arts-related stunt will begin on Friday October 15, probably around noon GMT. Set your timezone relationships accordingly.
Here's what we're going to do. For roughly a 24-hour period from noon GMT on Friday the 15th, you arty people are going to show off.
You've got a week. Produce either a 200-word piece of prose, or a photo or photo-manip, or a drawing, or a painting, or a fucking whatever so long as it fits on a LiveJournal entry.
The theme is FUTURITY. The future. Our future, your future, someone else's future. A thousand years from now, ten minutes from now. What it's going to be like, what you're going to be like, what you want to be, what the rest of us are going to be, fucking whatever. What colour the sky's going to be. What happens when you can phone your own liver -- and the line's engaged. What an RSS-feed seventh sense GPRSd into your forebrain feels like. Whether kissing is different. Whether you're going to be here tomorrow. I don't care. The theme is as broad as it can possibly be. Do what comes to you, what moves you -- from 200 words on having an Tivo-equipped womb to a photoshopped webcam pic of who you want to be after the Giant Space Penis plugs Mt St Helen to save the world, I dunno.
Now, if you're going to make art, that's great -- but you'll need somewhere to host the image. I can't do that for you. So, for those of you who want to make art but have no access to hosting, maybe you could talk in the comments.
You've got a week to make this.
And on Friday October 15, you will await orders as to what to do with it.
Because you're not sending it to me this time. Not quite. Oh no.
I have a scheme.
24 hours to talk about the future. This could be really good."
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Oct. 7th, 2004 11:59 pmAn error over a calendar means that Rathlin Island could have fewer days next year.
The publication - backed by Moyle District Council together with some islanders - has been found to have a certain shortcoming.
According to an island calendar for 2005, there will only be 362 days - with just 28 in March.
Islander Margaret McQuilken said she would be having a party at the end of next March.
"It will mean that there will be no hangover - because there will be no next day- I will have escaped a hangover."
However, Rathlin is not unique. A book, The History of the Calendar, records that during calendar reform in 1582, 10 days had to be shaved off October.
Peasants across Europe were so upset about losing what they thought were 10 days off their lives that there were widespread riots.
But, Iggy McGovern said he did not believe residents on Rathlin would resort to that measure.
"They would see it as a bonus," he said.
"As long as everybody gets paid for the three days, I think everybody is going to be quite happy."
The publication - backed by Moyle District Council together with some islanders - has been found to have a certain shortcoming.
According to an island calendar for 2005, there will only be 362 days - with just 28 in March.
Islander Margaret McQuilken said she would be having a party at the end of next March.
"It will mean that there will be no hangover - because there will be no next day- I will have escaped a hangover."
However, Rathlin is not unique. A book, The History of the Calendar, records that during calendar reform in 1582, 10 days had to be shaved off October.
Peasants across Europe were so upset about losing what they thought were 10 days off their lives that there were widespread riots.
But, Iggy McGovern said he did not believe residents on Rathlin would resort to that measure.
"They would see it as a bonus," he said.
"As long as everybody gets paid for the three days, I think everybody is going to be quite happy."