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Archive > May 2004
I loves me some zepplins. So when I read about a zep twenty five times larger than the Goodyear, capable of flying into space and staying aloft for a year, I knew that not all was wrong in the world. Lookie here and here. If it could then dive underwater and be a submarine too then all my childhood dreams would be met. Well, as long as it could be mine, too. Then I’m done.
Pleasant is a popular enough blog that when we link somewhere, people notice. One might call it the ‘pleasant effect.’ Sometimes they write to us and say thank you for the links. Sometimes they replace an image that we linked to with something… else. Something much less pleasant. Unfortunately, Tom, this occured with your most recent post. I’ve taken it upon myself to delete it to shield the sensitive eyes of our readers, but feel free to post it again with either an archived graphic or just text links.
Nothing in the world is better than Mutafukaz. Thanks as always to the everlasting blort.
“Fatti non foste per viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.” You were not made to live like brutes, but to seek virtue and knowledge. Dante, Inferno 1321.
In the future, bands will release their recordings as ring-tones for telephones. Here in the future.
I have become a contributor to the textbook on Visual Language Interpreting at Wikibooks.
I grew up watching Star Trek. In it, a space man who landed on previously untouched planets punched stupid people right in the jaw. I now know that I live in the future, because two years ago in real life a space man who landed on previously untouched planets has punched a stupid person right in the jaw.
There are several services that offer shortened URL pointer thingies, but this one has value added.
First, laugh for the last time. Ha. Ha. Next…
The Toronto Star claims: “The chief of the U.S. Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services. The proposal, which the agency’s acting director Lewis Brodsky presented to senior Pentagon officials just before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, also seeks to extend the age of draft registration to 34, up from 25.” Confirmed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and World Net Daily and elsewhere.
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Children of the modern age may enjoy J. LeRoy’s blog entry on what blogging was like in the 1980s. “I started my blog in 1981 when I started writing BVI-Central in Grand Island, Nebraska. It was on paper. Then we called them Zines (pronounced like means and not mines). A PerZine was later coined to separate out personal zines from silly zines or political zines or art zines or sex zines or fan zines or zine zines. The biggest Zine zine was Factsheet Five. It was the Blogdex of Zines. You’d get your copy every month and read about all the zines and send off for ones that you wanted to read. The result of your ‘click’ generally took about 2 weeks to pay off.” J. LeRoy was the first – the very first – zine person I contacted, circa 1980. And look at him now, here in the 21st Century, composing music with lyrics based on spam.
