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TurboTax is giving a $25,000 cash prize for the person who submits the best rap about taxes. Somehow I wasn’t surprised by the famous rapper TurboTax picked as their judge. (thx, smiling dork)
(0) #4/11/2007
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There are reports that Grindhouse will be rereleased as two films in the US. Well, that pretty much negates my entire commentary on the film.
(0) #4/11/2007
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The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo is a museum of mummified corpses and skeletons, many preserved in their everyday clothing. I will be flying into Palermo at the end of August, and am thinking about checking it out.
(0) #4/11/2007
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Kurt Vonnegut died this evening. It would be hard for me to put into words the influence Vonnegut had on me during my teenage years. If you haven’t read Cat’s Cradle yet, now is the time. (thx, steve)
(0) #4/11/2007
Grindhouse
I haven’t been entertained like I was watching Grindhouse last night since my college film series days, when my friends and I were the ones physically attaching trailers and shorts to reels of film.
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Umberto Eco (paraphrased): Places like Las Vegas help preserve cultural artifacts. He’s actually writing about a proposed theme park in Italy with shiny reproductions of ancient buildings.
(0) #4/4/2007
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The trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV borrows music and visual themes from the great documentary Koyaanisqatsi. (thx, smiling dork)
(0) #4/1/2007
Advomatic is Right
I’ve mentioned here before that I’ve been working for Advomatic, a company devoted to building tools and web sites for organizations with missions we support.
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Music for one apartment and six drummers. (thx, phaelam)
(0) #3/30/2007
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Oprah has picked The Road , Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, as her latest book club choice. This is probably the first Oprah book selected that involves eating babies. My thoughts on the book are here. (thx, sh)
(0) #3/29/2007
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A giant Michael Jackson statue in Las Vegas that shoots laser beams into the sky? It could happen. (thx, flea) Update: Link fixed. (thx, slater)
(0) #3/27/2007
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The LA Weekly has an interesting interview with the sole survivor of the Heaven’s Gate cult, known for their Hale-Bopp-inspired mass suicide of 39 members. The 10th anniversary of the suicide is this Monday, and he’s still a believer.
(0) #3/24/2007
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Pictures of the Grand Canyon skywalk opening up at the end of this month. I hope the glass doesn’t give off as much glare in person.
(0) #3/21/2007
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Magician Criss Angel tears a woman in half in Las Vegas’s Sunset Park, not too far from where I live. It’s more of a prank than a magic trick, but I like it. (via movable buffet)
(0) #3/20/2007
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(0) #CartoonishCartoonist Chris Ware animated a sequence for the new Showtime series of This American Life. For those who know his work, it looks pretty much exactly as you would expect. (via bb)3/20/2007
Zowie Bowie
Ever since the Red Rock Casino opened last year, they’ve been heavily advertising Zowie Bowie’s weekly performance there. I had always assumed that this Zowie Bowie was the child of David Bowie, AKA Duncan Jones, but never really looked into it.
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(0) #Sphere, a point-and-click game with a single goal: escape from a room. It’s annoyingly arbitrary at times, but I like the simplicity of the objective. If you get stuck, here’s a walkthrough. (via [game life](http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/03/help_me_figure_.html)) 3/14/2007
More on the Stardust implosion
I’d like to write a little more about my experience viewing the Stardust implosion. Before I get to that, check out some videos of the implosion (thx, alina) – as I mentioned before, my video did not come out because they turned off the lights right before the building went down. Evidently, I’m not the only one annoyed about that.
