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28 posts with category “haha”

Firefox, video, MST3K

Feb 28, 2005 Jay

Joel

I still don’t get why Firefox is better and more popular than Mozilla ever was, but okay, I’ll play along. Especially given these enhancements:

Cookie Button: one of the best features of Mozilla that inexplicably didn’t make it to Firefox.
Flashblock: Only see Flash when you want to! This is a miracle.

Finally found a video player to be happy with: Media Player Classic. It’s also bundled with Real Alternative, which allows you to play Real format files without relying on the nightmarish RealOne player. This week I also discovered Net Transport, which does the best (i.e., quickest, easiest, and most free) job of saving streaming video I’ve seen so far. And finally, MST3K is still kicking: there’s this gigantic reference site, the still-existent info club, and a legally ambiguous ShoutCast video stream. Shhhhhhhh.

PBF, AS, RSS, LR, SS, NMH, CS

Dec 18, 2004 Jay

Zoe

The Perry Bible Fellowship is even funnier than Square Lake. Sorry.

Audioscrobbler is a plug-in compatible with most mp3 players (including foobar2000) and a website that, with registration, keeps track of the songs you listen to. It’s then capable of making suggestions, linking you to people with similar tastes, RSSing your played tracks, and streaming music tailored to your musical habits. My music is being RSSed at the top of this page, thanks in no small part to Tom and the fine people at this site.

I don’t know if little radio is any good, but one of its DJs is a little 14-year-old girl who has impeccable taste.

Detailed, Gray’s-Anatomy-esque sketches of the skeletal systems of various cartoon characters.

Going Neutral Milk Hotel crazy and finally getting my hands on a rare, mysterious demo tape with five brand new songs and an awesome early version of “April 8th.” Listen to all my NMH bootlegs here. Oh plus got a live Circulatory System show to appease me until their much-delayed new album comes out next year.

The Square Lake Vault

Jan 25, 2004 Jay

archivism Square Lake

Square Lake gravestone Well, it finally happened. There were hints that The Daily Illini’s staff weren’t competent enough to maintain archives of Dan Acton’s brilliant comic strip Square Lake forever. First Dan’s own site, squarelakecomics.com, forfeited to the whims of the German internet porn industry. And now the day has come when the images are slowly being stripped away from dailyillini.com’s servers.

Fear not. By some stroke of divine fortune, I was inclined no more than two months ago to mirror the whole series on my own hard drive. Rest assured: as long as I am alive, Square Lake will never die. The soon-to-be-even-more-revamped Square Lake Vault is up and running. And just think: we came this close to losing them forever.

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Menomena, Experimental Dental School, etc.

Dec 2, 2003 Jay

There’s this band, Menomena. They’re alright, but their website is especially brilliant. There’s this other band, Experimental Dental School, and they’re really good, not least of all because they offer their entire album for download at their website, as well as interactively bleeding robot insects.

Two albums I’m very happy with having purchased recently: Frog Eyes’ The Bloody Hand and The Unicorns’ Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?.

I just found out that Circulatory System released a new song, buried in a Wishing Tree Records compilation, and supposedly will unveil a second album at some point. I’d wait forever, I’m just shocked that there’s going to be another one at all. And if you’re into Elephant 6, you’re into Jeff Mangum, and if you’re into Jeff Mangum, you might be into viewing/hearing his setlists as a guest DJ on WFMU under the name Jefferson. You’ll also enjoy his drug-encumbered interview at some British radio station.

The raging popularity of Dan Acton’s squarelakecomics.com has finally led to its exploitation by the porn industry, relegating the preservation of the comic strip’s glory, once again, to me: Square Lake.

Manila envelopes from India are lined with printed cloth.

Snow last night. Wind always.