Or would that be break out the grog and cakes again?

Eric over on Websnark is updating again. Huzzah!

...

"we're fresh out of cakes"

What have we got?

"your fridge is full of condiments. not much else."

Hm. How we doing on the grog front?

"Beer's out. There are a few bottles of cheap ass wine, if you don't mind poaching from the roommate..."

I don't.

"How's some Trader Joe's Shiraz sound?"

Lovely. And let's hope we can buy replacements before he notices.

Who knew that a throw-away entry tag would eventually become a search heuristic? Web trawls, indeed: today's google fishing lure is "punish my liver". Let's see what we caught.

- A nice article over on thisisby.us
- the AnonymousCoworker
- scrotum.dk
- a t-shirt. (been there, done that, etc.)
- and the...

Best Web Site Name of the Week
for the week ending 25 February 2007

Malfunction Junction

...which also happens to be some sort of web comic. bonus! (this was particularly juicy google-bait -- I also snagged at least two other winners, which buys me a little lead time to write comic reviews, or um, sit around the flat punishing my liver.)

(about the award -- past winners)

O, the clarion call of le grande internets, how can one ignore you?

The sirens beckon from websites innumerable, the whole of the world made digestible for your crass consumption, every human experience imaginable boiled down to an image, a sound bite, a film clip, or a link. Productivity must stand aside in the face of a globally backed assault, goals and dreams will fall to the ditch after being run over on the information superhighway.

best of the hour:
knuckle tattoos
artificial blood, an article over at Popular Science

(both via Neatorama)

more fiction (hopefully) at the next two hour mark.
(the operational hypothesis is that one part of my mind is thinking of the next story point while I'm slacking.) ( I know... not too effing likely, but this is how I operate)

This may be yet another example of a left brain/right brain dicotomy:

Two sites, that I just can't stop reading lately. Each equally odd, and equally compelling, yet in two completely different ways.

Left brained, and previously cited, Armageddon Cocktail Hour. I posted this one almost as a joke, just based on the name (after all, I was using search engines specifically to find oddly named sites) but after keeping an eye on ACH for a week, I find QF's take on current events to be both scary, funny, interesting, and scary all over again. But then again, if it's the end of the world, then I should track down a likely someone and suggest that "maybe you and I should, you know, go out with a bang" (ah yes, even in the face of world-wide human society self destructing, it's amazing how easily one will give in to genetic imperatives.)

Right brained, and no less disturbing, is TV In Japan.

Yes. TV. In Japan. And all that entails. (submitted without further comment)

On top of this, let me just add that I'm suffering a repeat flare up of the inner ear infection that has left me, literally, off balance for the past day and a half. So it's been an odd morning.

"what, is the renfest in town again?"
Not so much.
"then why that title?"
A small celebration seemed in order; that's what popped into my head.
"your head is a weird place, dude."
You should know, you live there.
"eh. [shrug] well, if we're celebrating... [*cshk*]"
Hand one of those over here, will ya?
"what? it's 7am, dude."
And it's my day off. Fork one over, already.

Hell of a buildup for what is, essentially, just a one sentence post: Eric over on websnark is updating again.

"Huzzah! break out the grog and cakes!"
"do we have any cake?"
"I'll go check"

I've said it before, but I can repeat myself. Eric Burns is the wordiest mofo I've ever run into, on or off the 'net, and no matter what topic he cares to pick up, I find myself intrigued (almost always; at the very least I'm interested) in how he manages to illustrate, elucidate, and prevaricate on whatever the subject du jour happens to be. More often than not, it's comics. I like comics.

If you haven't yet read any snarks over on the 'snark, why, I'd recommend you get over there today, if only for the pointer Eric gives us toward Cheshire Crossing.

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no, I'm not really sure where that entry title came from.

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c'mon, how could you miss it? it's been one of my standing recs up there in the stickied post for like, ever.

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"We don't have any cake. or grog for that matter. We've got ramen, leftover burritos, and Icehouse."
" ...is the Icehouse cold, perchance?"
"well, yeah."
[in stereo] "Huzzah!"
mmmm.... burritos and beer for breakfast.
"That really isn't healthy, sir"
No. My burrito recipe is quite healthful, outside of the high sodium content.
[mumbled 'round a mouthful] " 'sgood, too. have some."

"Oh well, if you can't beat them..."
[*cshk*]

My deep and abiding love of all things funky ("play that funky music, white boy") can apparently be ultimately traced back to Sesame Street. This is a fact I knew, but was recently reminded of.

aside: I seem to recall from one reading or another that Henson, in addition to his puppetry duties, also created/directed a number of these animated bits. I can't corroborate any of this at the moment, but it would indeed be cool if my favorite bit was a creation of the Great One himself.

funky educational goodness

Found via needcoffee.com
But while we're at it...
check out this fantastic list o' links over at foldedspace.org. Highly recommended. I mean it. Go over there next. (well, not if you have work to do this afternoon... but if that's the case, bookmark it. You need to see this.)

Another one of them link-thingies. this is Trawl #12, for those of you playing along on the home game.

You know, by the time I get around to posting I never remember the damn links I meant to point out to you guys, or if I saved the links, the bookmarks are old, stale, and musty. And typing in links gets to be a pain in the ass if we're talking about more than just 2 or 3...

So this time, instead of a batch of funny links, I'll show you where I find the crap, and you can go see new & fresh articles for yourself. (this also means that this entry should be my last links-collection that I'll bother to post.)

My daily "newspaper" consists of several web pages and news sites that I check regularly, plus the occasional link trail that'll take me off my accustomed track and out to some norwegian or new zealandish newspaper's web site. (wait, new zealandish? that can't be right.)

Primarily, it's the beeb. Thank several gods and the British tax payers for the BBC. I'm not saying it's the best news organ out there, but it's a damn sight better than the crap I get here in my hometown.

(best of the beeb for today: mmmm.... tastes like global warming)

My second line consists of Yahoo, which as an aggregator of other news sites is comparable to google news, or msn or netscape or any other portals; mine just happens to be yahoo. I follow that up with NPR, Wired news, and then the Weather Channel & local lotto numbers. (I don't play every week, but it's nice to see the jackpots climb up, if only to daydream...)

The third tier is the fun stuff, and the sites I usually spend the most time on. Oddly, Fark.com isn't on that list. (there's no digg, del.icio.us, or slashdot in there either.... eh, just as well, I waste enough time online as it is)

Lastly, If I get to it, there's also the blog roll. Not my tabulas friends-- those I try to catch up with at least every other day-- but some other random odds and ends and local street-level stuff.

(if I get around to a dead-tree newspaper, it'll be the Loaf which is not only free, but better than the AJC. 'cause the AJC sucks.)

Since I use a tabbed browser, I just click the bookmark for a group of tabs and all the sites pop up. (it's handy. if you haven't already switched you need to try firefox or netscape 7.2) So here, read my 'local' newspaper [cut, paste]:

section A: the Beeb.
BBC NEWS | News Front Page
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature
BBC NEWS | Technology
BBC NEWS | Health
BBC NEWS | Europe
BBC NEWS | Americas
BBC NEWS | Business

section B: news - 2nd line.
Yahoo!
NPR : National Public Radio
Wired News
weather.com - Local Weather page
Georgia Lottery
BuzzFlash - Daily Headlines and Breaking News

section C: alternative 'news'
BoingBoing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
Neatorama
Needcoffee.com (needcoffee is the best site I've found since, well, BoingBoing.)
NPR : Mixed Signals
Drawn! The Illustration Blog
MAKE: Blog
Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools
BibliOdyssey

section D1: comics page
Schlock Mercenary
PvPonline.com
Websnark.com

section D2: the bad habit
Netflix
RentAnime
AnimeOnDVD
Anime News Network
The Right Stuf International

(speaking of the bad habit, I need to finish up that last anime-thingy I was writing. I've started and stopped like 3 times already...)

section E: blog roll.
(kind of a random selection, actually. I know I read more than this, I guess I just don't have them all on this set of tabs yet.)
Metroblogging Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia Livejournal
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here
Bookslut
Book Lust
life of riley mccarthy

So have fun. And if you know of something else that I just have to be reading every day, throw up a link in the comments.

I still have to wait 2 years (and more, for the eventual DVD releases) but they're finally getting around to making more Futurama. (You might have guessed, I'm a big fan. Bender is my personal life coach)

first seen on the Boing
articles:
NY Post
Billy West Forums
Animation Magazine
the Sun (UK)