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This Mefi post compiling intermission films [1] may be my most favorite thing this week. Certainly top ten.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/137494/The-refreshment-stand-is-closed-forever

Listening between the lines

I’m guessing there are at least two other members on Metafilter that listen to Do or D-I-Y on WFMU. How else to explain this and this popping up as threads so soon after they were featured on the latest show/podcast?

Or maybe it’s just a bit of synchronicity and the world really does appear to revolve around what I’m doing at any given time.

And, yes, Vicki is an Internet crush of mine. Has been for nearly ten years now.

[1] http://peoplelikeus.org/tag/do-or-diy/
[2] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PL
[3] http://www.metafilter.com/136786/Sometimes-I-feel-Ive-got-to-zzzt-zzzt
[4] http://www.metafilter.com/136800/Abusing-old-hardware-to-make-music
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Like_Us_%28musician%29

Drone

This is eerily great and horrible all at the same time. Conference call ambiance [1]. I’ve listened to it for a few hours and it totally enhanced my flow since working felt like I was ducking a horribly long meeting.

http://conferencecall.biz/

What have you done for beer today?

Awesome story ripped from Metafilter [1]. WWII vet learns his gesture has been immortalized in a Belgian town. Makes me smile.

…except for the latrine helmet thing. Maybe didn’t need that detail.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/134178/That-time-a-beer-wasnt-just-a-beer

Steampunk WWW

Overheard in re: a Metafilter conversation [1] about the original cross platform web browser; a line-mode application which is essentially a TTY [2] interface.

Imagine that… a typewriter that types by itself like some kind of terrible player piano. You read what it’s writing while it chatters away. And then once in a while it stops and you press a key that tells it what to type next. There’s fanfold of dead trees a thousand feet long under the desk, slowly being transferred into the trash bin behind it. And that’s you browsing the web.

Downright depressing, that.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/132359/There-is-to-top-to-the-World-Wide-Web#5210791
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal

International radio

Because I lack a good bookmarking system, here’s a few Internet broadcasts I want to remember. Perhaps you will as well.

FIP [1]
Planet Nova [2]
AskMefi Question on international radio [3]
AskMefi question on eclectic radio [4]

[1] http://www.fipradio.fr/
[2] http://www.novaplanet.com/
[3] http://ask.metafilter.com/225547/NonUS-radio-please
[4] http://ask.metafilter.com/248260/Eclectic-music-Radio-recommendations-please

Turtles all the way down

The highest calling of any form of life is to exterminate all other forms of life, reshape the universe in an image of itself, and then to die.

*poof*

Powerbawl!

Ran across a Powerball simulator today. I played six sets of 20 year runs and the best run turned every dollar I played into one thin dime. Most runs turn my dollar into a lucky $.07.

In 120 years of playing two tickets a drawing I netted exactly 1 $100 prize. So, yeah, depressing/sobering.

Time to stop daydreaming and get back to work.

Time machine

Mefi time machine posts are a great way to relive that simpler way of life on the Intarwebs. Case in point: Canadian McDonalds Employee Simulator.

Calling Nemo

Is it pretty cool to listen to real-time underwater acoustic observation platforms? You bet it is!

Problems encountered

Very few of the listening posts are currently active
Some of the listening posts didn’t load in a timely fashion
Godforsaken, stupid, Flash-only interface to whole damn site

But the site is probably bandwidth heavy and currently experiencing the Slashdot Effect.