• the State of the Arcade Industry 2004 - it's in a very sad state indeed.



• if you haven't seen these sweaters yet, you need to. Not to mention those pants and that wonderful facial expression.
  
  



• you already got her diamonds for her birthday...



• February 24th, 2004 = GREY TUESDAY!



• these age maps are freaky looking



• some clips showing off the fancy new high definition Windows Media format



• et tu Vice Magazine? I never imagined you'd have that in you



• to all those from last night that were wondering about a cell phone virus... this isn't exactly a virus, but it talks about a security flaw in bluetooth. There's our in!

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stolen from the latest addition to my friend's list, babycola...

it's the the mp3 music meme:

Step 1: Open your MP3 player.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: Write down the first 20 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 4: Profit from seeing how lovely and diverse your friend's tastes are (hopefully)

1. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo (3:09)
2. Gimmik - le Ciel (5:20)
3. Sufjan Stevens - Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Heat!... (3:37)
4. Heiko Voss - I Think About You (Geiger Mix) (5:01)
5. The Shins - Kissing The Lipless (3:18)
6. Jaylib - React ft. Quasimoto (2:45)
7. Vangelis - state of independance (4:59)
8. Benny Benassi - Inside of me (3:52)
9. Gareth Mitchell - Komposition (5:20)
10. Liars - Hold And It Will Happen Anyway (4:50)
11. ADC - Welcome To The Accutrac 4000 (2:05)
12. Devo - Freedom of Choice (3:26)
13. Salvador Group - The Moon is Hig (4:04)
14. eddie flashin' fowlkes - stray dog (5:25)
15. Soul Position - Share this (5:38)
16. Unrest - Disko Magic (2:41)
17. herbie hancock - 12 the essence (dj krush remix) (5:48)
18. Woven Hand - White Bird (4:59)
19. KLF - Chill Out Remixed Track 03 (2:30)
20. Goldfrapp - Twist (Dimitri Tikovoi Remix) (6:30)

out of these 20 songs, I'd probably say I'm familiar with only about 8 of them... which speaks volumes about my mp3 collection & listening habits.

if you use WinAmp, it's really easy to make this list. Just load all the mp3s, open up the Playlist Editor, click "Misc", then "Sort", then "Randomize", then "Misc" again, and finally "Generate HTML Playlist"... from there it's just a copy and paste!

GET OUT OF THIS ROOM

also,

I want this:

• i want all these dvds. the protein store rocks too.



• Fog of War was cool, but I don't recommend watching it late at night after a large meal.



• this article talks about "celestial bling." I think I've found the title of my first album.
  
  



• I'm looking for software that will allow me to take a dvd and rip it to avi or mpeg (with various quality settings). Can anyone hook me up with such a thing?

• what do you get when you mix:
  
  + ?
  
  answer = the Grey Album:
  
  
  
  Grab the mp3s while they're hot.
  
  I thought it was going to be cheesy, but they work together well thanks to Danger Mouse's amazing sampling and sequencing skillz.



• Seattle Peoples... I highly recommend catching this show tonight:
  
  THE NOTWIST, THEMSELVES, PLAN B (Chop Suey) Although Data Breaker scribe Dave Segal gave headliner the Notwist a mixed review (see page 49), I highly recommend hitting this show for its openers. Themselves are part of the underground hiphop crew Anticon, and the group pairs vocalist Doseone with producer Jel for some truly fucked-up shit (their No Music of Aff's is psychedelic hiphop at some of its most interesting). Plan B also give hiphop a spin, mixing ambient laptop beats, live breakdancing, organic instrumentation, and a few other surprises into the mix. JENNIFER MAERZ
  
  Stranger review here.
  
  update: it's totally sold-out :( :(

i've got all my Boards of Canada mp3s playing on random today. I heard a rumor there'll be a new album this year... I can't wait.

There's also an effort to get them to come to Seattle for the Decibal Festival. For this, I can only pray.



also, a seattle times review of the 1984 play. looks cool.

click the pic for the rest.
info on convergence / db festival here.

I am in love with this album. Perfect blending of IDM and trip-hop.



sample track

• some amazing photography here taken in Iraq, Cuba, and other miscellaneous places. (make sure to turn your pop-up blocker off to view)
  
  
  



• neato Blade Runner collector's magazine scanned and hosted online



• the Visual Systems group does some interesting work in the field of multimedia. Check out some videos from their PenPets project



• that's what you get for selling crap on TV



• i can't wait to try this out. if it works, i'll be able to connect my laptop to the internet anywhere I get data reception on my phone



• the Seattle Arab & Iranian Film Festival starts tonight. I'm most interested in seeing this film and this film. There's also a solid line-up this weekend for the Northwest Film Forum's ByDesign festival.

1. Go here to find out your precinct



2. then find the caucus location here



3. then show up on Saturday at 10 am! Pass it on!

lolarennt

It's LIL G 'N R!!

(thx bostonsteamer, hotcrab, lickypants)

• hardcore man... hardcore. he totally looks the part too



• i have a new favorite Onion article. very auto-biographical



• Saturday, Feb 21, DAVID CROSS at the UW's HUB
  
  
• Thursday, April 29th AIR, Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theater. Presale tomorrow at 10 am!



• and my namesake owners come to town in May!
  
  
  do album covers get much better than this?

if you live anywhere near Seattle and you like electronic dance music, I implore you to attend Convergence tomorrow night.

Monolake was originally the headliner, but dropped out due to a bad case of the SARS. Luckily however, Sutekh has stepped in as a worthy replacement. I'm most excited to see Lusine.

the line-up features some of seattle's top talent for both music and visuals and the show is benefiting the upcoming seattle electronic music festival coming up in September.

Tickets are $13.31 and available online here ($15 at the door). Here's the nwtekno thread if you still need convincing. be there!

• Press Play on Tape is a Swedish band that covers Commodore 64 songs. They made a boy band video... as one would expect, it's cheesy as hell
  
  
  
  
• know any of these people?



• i wonder if bumper to bumper warranties cover acts of stupidity?



• hilarious review of daft punk's new remix album



• watch some LAN party gaming nerds get medieval on a cheater and his PC



• this is what happens when you let 320,000 ping pong balls loose on a decline



• Orkut is shaping up to be the new leader in the social-software race... although, I'm still not sure how to rate my friend's "trustworthiness" on a scale from 1 to 3.
  
  It's funny how as soon as orkut comes out, friendster posts a message about how they are going to improve the site's peformance and add some new features. Might be a little too late. If you're wondering where the name Orkut comes from, lookie here.
  
  On a related note, nomi posted some interesting info on the security of MySpace.com here.

There's been some slanderous invective about me circulating on the internet lately. I'd like to clear up the lies and misconceptions right here and right now.

There is an evil computer hardware company that has stolen my identity... here is their evil corporate logo:



some particularly nasty excerpts from this article:

"Ario began quietly shipping controller boards last year and has already nabbed design wins with eight OEMs, including two tier-one companies. "We shipped thousands of boards in the last quarter alone,” said Eric Herzog, vice president of marketing and business development for Ario.

Ario hopes to ease OEM product testing by keeping much of its hardware and software design common across the family of boards. “OEMs can qualify the first board, and subsequent boards can be handled by just qualifying the host interface. The firmware is all the same,” said Herzog.

Later this year, Ario will unveil versions of the board supporting the new 4-Gbit Fibre Channel and serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces."

for the record, I AM NOT:

• A DATA NETWORKING COMPANY IN SAN JOSE, CA


• QUIETLY SHIPPING ANYTHING BESIDES SOME DOPE MIX CDS TO FRIENDS


• EASING INTO OEM PRODUCT TESTING AT ALL


• UNVEILING A NEW VERSION OF A SCSI INTERFACE NEXT YEAR, BUT I AM UNVEILING MY PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION


• RECEIVING $17.2 MILLION IN VC MONEY, IT'S MORE LIKE $17.2 BILLION

• coachella's line-up is amazing this year. I doubt I'll go since I've already recently seen Radiohead and Kraftwerk is playing here in a few months. As for the Pixies... I can only pray they go on tour and hit the NW.



• the by now famous NY Times story on teen LJ usage. My favorite part:
  
  "Many posts are short, surrealistic one-liners: ''I just peeled a freckle off my neck. Does that mean it's not a freckle?'' Others are more like visual poems, featuring a quirky series of scanned pictures (monkeys and robots are popular), a quote from a favorite song or a link to a strange news story."



• michael moore's next film looks awesome and so does the one after that



• Strongbad's take on video games. make sure and wait after it's over



• the decline of fashion photography photo essay



• shapes gone wild! (be sure and catch the video clips)



• don't have enough money for an iPod but want to still be cool? ebay may have the answer