OVO

For immediate release!

OVO has recently added the contents of two older online projects that I was a part of: my links at delicious.com and my first blog. OVO now has 18,689 posts from June 2001 to the present.  Later I hope to import all of my flickr images, BBS messages and usenet posts.  The earliest surviving evidence of my being online appears to be from October 1991.  OVO in zine form goes back to 1987, and I’ve scanned a few pages of an earlier zine going back to 1985.

Nobody likes press releases.

I’ve waited forever for some animation by / inspired by Kim Deitch. Here it is!

Swingstyle-Syndicate-Reversknopf – für alle großen und kleinen Bastler.

Last Minute Auction culls the auctions from Ebay that are still under one dollar and have less than one hour to go.

Jennifer Viegas reports: Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song. [...] “The dolphin was reinforced for producing a specific rhythm to a specific object,” says [Professor Heidi] Harley. “For example, when we presented him with a Batman doll, he received a fish for producing a specific rhythm, in this case, a short sound and then a long one.”

Slashdot is a Web page that brought a number of readers to pleasant. But it sure hasn’t done much for me as a publisher or a reader in many years. Slashdot has lost its link at pleasant. But notice the very exciting and relatively new Digg is linked here – good stuff almost all the time.

“I Hate Horses!“

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Chris Bennett of World Net Daily writes: “About 80 miles off of the coast of Louisiana lies a mostly submerged mountain, the top of which is known as Eugene Island. [...] Analysis of seismic recordings revealed the presence of a “deep fault” at the base of the Eugene Island reservoir which was gushing up a river of oil from some deeper and previously unknown source. Similar results were seen at other Gulf of Mexico oil wells. Similar results were found in the Cook Inlet oil fields in Alaska. Similar results were found in oil fields in Uzbekistan. Similarly in the Middle East, where oil exploration and extraction have been underway for at least the last 20 years, known reserves have doubled. Currently there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 680 billion barrels of Middle East reserve oil. Creating that much oil would take a big pile of dead dinosaurs and fermenting prehistoric plants. Could there be another source for crude oil?

“An intriguing theory now permeating oil company research staffs suggests that crude oil may actually be a natural inorganic product, not a stepchild of unfathomable time and organic degradation. The theory suggests there may be huge, yet-to-be-discovered reserves of oil at depths that dwarf current world estimates.”

Hello friends near and far: I just got offered a job as a sign language interpreter for Portland Public Schools. This is a goal five or so years in the making, and a tremendous relief. Thank you all for your support and I hope we’ll be talking again soon.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you to Stanislav Petrov.

Where do donkeys come from? Here.

What happens if a woman shows up for a Counsel on American-Islamic Relations photo-op without a hijab? No problem! They’ll just draw one on – clumsily.

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