Do coat hangers sound as good as Monster cables? – Boing Boing The cables made by Monster Cable (the company that enjoys suing other companies that have the word “monster” in their name) sound no better than coat hangers, according to a man who ran a blindfold test to compare the quality of audio running
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The Smell of Space
HSF – International Space Station It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. That is the smell of space.
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Magarita The Movie
SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM Mikhail Bulgakov’s supernatural novel The Master and Margarita is being adapted for the screen by Stone Village Pictures and producer Scott Steindorff, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Master and Margarita begins in pre-World War II Moscow, where the devil appears as
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That's It.
I had a horrible moment on saturday morning, about 2:30a.m. where I woke up suddenly and couldn’t catch my breath. My temperature musta passed 40C. My hands, legs and feet were initially all pins and needles, then went plain numb and useless, which (along with the weakness and shaking) made it very difficult to dial
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Grow Flu
GROW nano vol.3 While I’ve been sat at home, cultivating this Flu (last night I thought I’d try that old party game of “Waking Up Every Hour Shaking Like A Leaf”) I’ve been playing the lastest in the excellent ten-minute GROW series, which Alec pointed out.It seems the series creator On is similarly bed-bound and
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One Flu Over The Cuckoo's Lungs.
Influenza can also be transmitted by saliva, nasal secretions, faeces and blood. F*ck you, G*d. I’ve not been near any of that shit which isn’t my own and yet you let me lie here, gibbering at the pretty elves dancing on the ceiling, while my lungs try and escape through my mouth. I wish I
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Family abt 1888 (2)
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Family abt 1888 (2), originally uploaded by Dimitri Kissoff. The Welsh side of my family, circa 1888.
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Harlan Ellison on the WGA Strike Settlement
Pinched in it’s entirety from Warren Ellis’ blog. Awesome vitriol. Warren Ellis » Harlan Ellison On The WGA Strike Settlement HARLAN ELLISON ON THE WRITERS STRIKE SETTLEMENT YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO RE-POST THIS ANYWHERE: Creds: got here in 1962, written for just about everybody, won theWriters Guild Award four times for solo work, sat
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Dream A Little Dream Of Me
deludedangels: 02/2008 jess and i have gone swimming. rich is there too, alternating taking work phonecalls with doing butterfly strokes. in the corner of the shallow end of the pool is The Greek from season 2 of The Wire, eating an omelette with fennel in it. i am translating the season into Italian for the
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Fargo Meets Woody Allen
SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM Sony’s Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to Michael Chabon’s alternate-universe novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and set Oscar nominees Joel and Ethan Coen to direct, Variety reported. I’ve not read the book but I will now. Wikipedia makes is sound