KILLED IT

THURSDAY

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In honor of health, family, friends and happiness. Give thanks for what you were given.



For some reason, i think you guys should have a listen to Rick Danko & Richard Manuel from the group The Band

Here is an excerpt



you can download the show here.

CONTAINERS

i really like the colors on shipping containers, apparently this guy does too.

C'EST VRAHMEN QUELQUECHOSE ÇA!

this is the scene referenced in this post, roughly nine months ago. random HD discovery.
as you can see, the camera is on its last leg.

RANDY SAVAGE SAYS WHAT?

new pithcas on flicka

pizza in the evenin' pizza in the mornin'

the more one wants, the less one gets.

jai guru deva om

LITMUS TEST

What are you feelings on Star Wars?

CHI-TOWN STENCIL

via wooster

REFRESH REFRESH. REDUX

this short story Refresh Refresh is truly amazing. it was written by author benjamin percy. i think anyone would love it, but especially if you grew up in a rural area, or the pacific northwest. it was originally published in the paris review in fall/winter of 2005. i heard it while taking one of many drives down the I-10 corridor between jacksonville and louisiana this summer. percy's short story has garnered much praisem including being included in a volume of the best american short stories. listen to it here.

THUNDERDOME UPDATE

GOOGLE will launch a new tool that will help federal officials "track sickness".
"Flu Trends" uses search terms that people put into the web giant to figure out where influenza is heating up, and will notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time!
GOOGLE, continuing to work closely with government, claims it would keep individual user data confidential: "GOOGLE FLU TRENDS can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week."
Engineers will capture keywords and phrases related to the flu, including thermometer, flu symptoms, muscle aches, chest congestion and others.
Dr. Lyn Finelli, chief of influenza surveillance at CDC: "One thing we found last year when we validated this model is it tended to predict surveillance data. The data are really, really timely. They were able to tell us on a day-to-day basis the relative direction of flu activity for a given area. They were about a week ahead of us. They could be used... as early warning signal for flu activity."
Thomas Malone, professor at M.I.T.: "I think we are just scratching the surface of what's possible with collective intelligence."

Eric Schmidt, GOOGLE's chief executive vows: "From a technological perspective, it is the beginning."

i don't even know what to say about this. i am an internet GEEK and willingly use google reader, gmail, facebook, and google searches. what DON'T they know about me?

::fashions tinfoil hat, buys heirloom vegetable seed::

PILOOSKI

CRAWFISH EDIT


normally i would just leave this link without any commentary. but apparently, my posts are a bit too abstract. so, listenn to this edit(remix) of the elvis presley song crawfish. it is done by pilooski of dirty sound system

NOV 4TH

OH SHIIIIIITTTTTTT.......

PROSPECT.1 - NOLA PEEPS

On November 1, 2008, Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1], the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans.

This looks awesome, if you are down in NOLA anytime soon, make sure to check out some of the really cool projects that some of these contemporary artists have installed. Mind boggling that NOLA got something right for once, something tells me that Nagin had nothing to do with it.

Here is a short NYT article that blurbs some artists and projects.