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I gotta get on that "internet".
One can only surmise that this List of seinfeldisms has recieved new currency from the DVD release.
And incidentally, what a lousy cover design. One of their standard promo shots on a blue field with the logo? C'mon, man, give me something spongeworthy. Each star on a black background, half profiles in shadows, looking morbidly serious. They could've just chopped the Entertainment Weekly "With the Beatles" cover.
But I guess Seinfeld, as wonderful as it was, was never cultish enough to warrant that sort of fetishistic treatment. While equally popular, smart-but-mainstream fare like "The Simpsons" inspired nerdly adoration, Seinfeld's equally instant quotability and vast minutae never seemed to draw the same caché among the asperger-prone introvert. I invite readers to submit theories on this phenomenon. My own guess: The humor and storylines of the show require an appreciation of, and experience with, social complexity and ritual. Compare with Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, each of which have like two women, tops. Frodo may have a problem getting rid of a ring, but he never has to buy a gift for a lesbian wedding.
And that said, here's one seinfeld blog worth looking at.
Where's the old guy from V when you need him?
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economic armageddon?
Remember Christopher Lydon? He used to have a show called The Connection on NPR. Now, it seems, he's involved in a group blog called The Blogging of the President, which seems to be a rallying point for the American moderate Left. And one of said bloggers, Oldman, has presented this chilling prediction of an oncoming Currency War.
But predictions of doom aren't only coming from the politically disgruntled. Stern business school of NYU has a site dedicated to the subject of the sustainability of the US current account deficit. And Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley predicts an economic collapse too. Not good bedtime reading unless your money is in foie gras and Toyota.
Revenge of the Nerds XIV: The Nerds go Hipster
Craig of The Vines has Aspergers' syndrome. This makes me like them 217.5% more. I also suspect that a collaboration with They Might Be Giants might result in several Nobel Prizes, or at least a good discussion about dinosaurs.
How Tron got his groove back.
A critical history of computer graphics and animation. Because you wondered when Phong Shading was invented. See the wonders of early CG, including a few pictures of early consoles and pen tablets. Unfortunately, the quicktime clips seem broken as of this writing, but I have a feeling they'll be fixed.
I'll have some vin, s'il vous plait
Transwiki has great -- and surprising -- pointers on how to learn a language.
My other car is a go-bot
Transforming car dances. Gotta admit, that's pretty freakin' cool.
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.
Upset about the outcome of the election? Read Salon's guide to dutifully debauching your way back to mental health.
Dubya: The Movie
Quicktime, a bit slow to load, but very worth the wait. If the traffic's as bad as it was when I first went, you might want to use the low bandwidth one, which is adequately large.
Operation Infiltrate
This makes sense to me. But for safety's sake, the margins would have to be greater, and I suppose the other side would try the same thing. Plus, apparently lots of red-state dems are moving to blue states.
Continue reading "Operation Infiltrate"
Local man says world flat. Opinions differ.
How ???Balanced??? Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality
Finally! A County-by-county cartogram
This set of county-by-county cartographs of election 2004 seems like a pretty good visual refutation of the "we're all purple on the inside" map that was going around a few days ago. Clearly the country is blue v. red along metro / retro lines. What to do about it, that's another story.
Continuing to propogate...
The secession meme: now on T-shirts. Here, for instance, on Betty Bowers' t-shirt page.
Shoulda let 'em go.
Antebellum US. Beige is open to slavery, green is free, red is slave. Look familiar? Via BoingBoing.
Sorry, world.
Please don't hate the blue states. We really tried. But we've got the red states around our neck like a giant semi-retarded albatross.
Revolution Error #9
A blogger tried to vote this morning, and got a "vote save error."So he took this pic. I don't know what's more disturbing: The fact that, as BoingBoing points out, there are at least 8 other "vote save errors". Or, that the voting machine uses the Chicago font. What says crooked voting machine better than Chicago?
This is it...
Well, here we are. Will it get settled today? Will we have a month of endless legal battles ending in the conservative Supreme Court? Or will Bush just squeak by, as he's done in school and business a million times before?
Well, Elle's horoscope for Mr. Bush suggests he should be prepared for a major change. But all voodoo aside, the key here will be two words: Record fucking turnout.
At the risk of clich??, It's all about the children. If they listen to Puff and MTV, just maybe they'll come out in droves and keep this thing short. Now, Puff Daddy says "Vote or Die", which is a bit misleading. According to most biologists, we'll all die someday. But for an 18 year old kid today, there's a bit of a more imminent threat, what with Bush's tendency to start wars.
And I hope they do come out. Not only for their fate, but for the next generation. Someday I may accidentally have children, and I've decided that with the possible exception of Barbarella, I don't want them living in bad science fiction. For instance:
- They shouldn't have to eat the elderly.
- They shouldn't have to wear radiation suits.
- They shouldn't be beasts of burden for our Orang-utan overlords.
- A trip to the Statue of Liberty shouldn't involve machetes or scuba gear.
- The term "thought police" should remain an irritating feature of rhetorically overblown internet threads, not an actual branch of the Justice department.
- They shouldn't ever have to fight anyone to the death in Thunderdome.
I wish I could think, seriously, that none of this would come to fruition under Bush's watch. But I figure it's only a matter of time before he fucks something up in a manner that would look good in an expository text scroll, before the beginning credits open on a hellish post-apocalyptic landscape.
And so, if you haven't figured it out already, I'm voting for Kerry today. And you should too.
