Month: March 2005
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Friday Cat Blogging!
action-cat edition! Part the second… Billie: Zachary: And now for the bonus round, Friday antique Noguchi Akari lamp blogging:
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CBGB MBGBB
From the “things-that-make-Joey-Ramone-cry department…” After the Plaza closes, what’s next? Well, CBGB Might-Be-Going-Bye-Bye. This due to a long-standing rent dispute with the current owners. The Bitter End went through similar gyrations recently, but managed to save itself at the last minute. Let’s hope we see a similar miracle here… This from the NY Times story:…
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Remember Googlezon?
Dexter writes “…you don’t think I really believe you work for a drug company, do you? EPIC 2014 Now, Dex, I assure you that I have nothing whatever to do with EPIC <evil-laugh src=”muahaha.mp3″>. But like many people, I am anxious about what seems to be our current trajectory towards one mega-monopoly controlling everything. When…
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New York: The Plaza closing its doors
So we were sitting in the Oak Bar, having cocktails with friends who had traveled from Toronto to see the Gates, when B. said, “it’s a shame about the Plaza closing, isn’t it?” “The Plaza closing?” I replied with my trademark incredulity, “no, you’re probably thinking of the Gramercy Hotel, which just closed to go…
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Friday Cat Blogging
Here’s the first installment… Billie: Zachary: And now for the bonus round, Friday Vancouver Sea Otter Blogging! (Props to Prof M. for this shot.)
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Sweety Das Küken and other weird iMemes
On my last few working trips to Europe, I would tune in to German MTV from time to time. Somehow inanity dubbed or subtitled into German is more engaging than plain old English inanity. But if you watch for more than a few minutes, you will see, endlessly repeated, these bizarre little commercials for special…
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There and Back Again
From the, “Then again, maybe I won’t… department.” Cyberkunk industry insiders have known since December 2004 about plans to re-locate the global headquarters of cyberkrunk Labs, Inc. to Paris. The cyberkrunk corporate communications department reports that cyberkrunk will actually remain in midtown Manhattan. This decision came after detailed analysis of a contract proposal that centered…