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The Hubble Heritage Project collects some amazing pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Meep! Joseph says that the surf’s so bad in Hawaii right now that they’re reporting sizes in small dog proportions!

Don’t ask why or how, simply cower at the sinister PEZ?? copyright notice….

Robert Cringely asks perhaps the most thought-provoking question about the FBI’s new Carnivore system: “why the box?“

Good question. Carnivore is supposedly designed to be a sniffer, checking all inbound and outbound packets and forwarding those from badguys to the Feds. Um, guess what, people… routers do this all the time. That’s what routers do: look at packets and decide where they go. As Cringely says, “adding the Carnivore task is a simple matter of blind copying every packet to or from a bad guy to a third address at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. It’s at most a few lines of code and requires no additional hardware. ”

Can I congratulate Kevin yet? His job search has shown good fruits:

Shadowstitch: I had to talk to the 3 fates today

Buckethead RM: Yes, that’s a good thing.

Buckethead RM: woohoo

Shadowstitch: the Rendering, Art, and Development spirits

Buckethead RM: and?

Shadowstitch: I KNOW I got the developing and rendering guys on my side

Buckethead RM: Art guys are gay anyway. 🙂

Shadowstitch: NUH UH!

Shadowstitch: Well maybe

Buckethead RM: haha

Shadowstitch: I like boobies too much to be gay

Yippee! It looks like Bel Canto’s Images album will be released in the US. If you haven’t heard of Bel Canto, you’re missing out on one of the most hauntingly beautiful Progressive/Post-Modern singers in the world. I highly recommend two older albums, Birds of Passage and Shimmering, Warm, & Bright, as this band’s defining work. Look here for a sample from Anneli Drecker’s latest solo album.

Of course, you could just Napster it, but I’m not the kind of person to urge you to do illicit things.

Do you like to look at pretty pictures?
Here, you can find photographs of everything from the arctic (and antarctic) wastes, to massive tornadoes, in huge, high-res photographs. And the best part, it’s free!!

I’ve seen (and been slightly nauseated by) about four movies in the last two months. Each and every one has been preceded by a wretched abomination of a trailer featuring that noxiously cute little vermin, Hallie Kate Eisenberg. No, you don’t understand. Every movie I’ve wanted to see in the last two months has been proceeded by this roachlike bucktoothed little whelp, pathetically lipsynching to some unknown Western movie “star”. I hate this kid. Really.

my Corn Pops cereal alerted me to the website, eetandern.com.

Here, I can save and spend a certain number of points, determined by secret codes printed inside boxes of cereal.
let’s see…. I earned 35 points for this box of cereal….
And a Game Boy costs 6400 points…then……
If I don’t get any more than 35 points per box….
I need to eat roughly 182 more boxes of cereal.
Which, at current average supermarket prices, totals over 730$.

I was so impressed with the Bradd Pitt blog that I decided to create one of my own. So I thought about something that would be kind of cute to do, and I came up with a girl who is involved in some bizarre cult based out of Huntsville. This has nothing to do with my own life, and the characters are not modeled after my friends. I swear. No, really. And I am definitely not like Killer Ciara. Really, I’m not…