{"id":87614202,"date":"2007-08-27T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T05:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614202"},"modified":"2007-08-27T22:06:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T05:06:58","slug":"linkmania-things-i-havent-been-writing-about-abridged-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614202","title":{"rendered":"LinkMania: Things I haven&#8217;t been writing about (abridged list)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; life&#8217;s been a little weird lately, and I stopped posting my &#8220;Everything I bookmarked todays&#8221; lists, but I&#8217;m still here.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some things I&#8217;m not writing about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mom&#8217;s health.&nbsp; Happy thoughts towards speedy recovery, mmmmkay dear readers?&nbsp; KayThanks.<\/li>\n<li>Our firstborn son going to school in a week (didn&#8217;t we give him to someone as payment for something, already?)<\/li>\n<li>June&#8217;s 2nd Podcast (was going to do August&#8217;s Cover\/Prince double-barrel show, but mom went back into surgery again, &#8217;cause she seems to really enjoy DOING THAT, and so I drove out to the &#8216;wack to go see her afterwards.&nbsp; I sang my guts out while driving out there, does that count?<\/li>\n<li>Itty bitty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mini-itx.com\/2007\/06\/02\/via-epia-px-10000-pico-itx-review\">motherboards<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>James Brown WISHES he could jam with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JtVZhaZp6Ng&amp;feature=dir\">these guys<\/a>. (unplugged, too)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whisher.com\/en\/index.php\">Sharing your wifi<\/a> (without giving away your WEP\/WPA keys), and getting same from others.<\/li>\n<li>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/english\/disraeli.html\">I was using a computer<\/a> to play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adventure_game#Colossal_Cave_Adventure\">Adventur<\/a> when I was SIX on the mainframe at Queen&#8217;s (bonus points: why I heart encrypted communication so very very much).&nbsp; Mom must&#8217;ve been singing me to sleep with this stuff&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cduniverse.com\/search\/xx\/music\/pid\/6880074\/a\/Linienbusse.htm\">weird band from Holland<\/a> I might like, if I heard more.<\/li>\n<li>I should have watched more of those load screens and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pouet.net\/index.php\">DEMOES<\/a> on my C64, I might&#8217;ve become an artist instead of a techie&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>How would I say it?&nbsp; How would YOU say it?&nbsp; How would <a href=\"http:\/\/accent.gmu.edu\/browse_atlas.php\">they<\/a> say it?<\/li>\n<li>Yummy, yummy <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchgear.com\/2007\/08\/13\/idea-big-league-pc-makers-thinking-of-going-steampunk\/\">Steampunk<\/a>.&nbsp; (Oh, and Arwen and I are going to see William Gibson talk &#8217;bout his new book at CBC Radio 1.&nbsp; How Canadian\/Nerdy can we GET?)<\/li>\n<li>Videos that&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LKs8jVc1b9w\">just a bunch of people dancing<\/a> aren&#8217;t new&#8230;&nbsp; neither&#8217;s choppy editing to make up for visual narrative.<\/li>\n<li>Bears &#8211; Beets &#8211; Battlestar Galactica: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topsocialite.com\/the-top-10-scenes-from-the-office\/\">Top 10 Scenes from the Office<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Straw + Ink + <a href=\"http:\/\/344design.typepad.com\/344_loves_you\/daily_monster\/index.html\">Drawing in Monster Bits<\/a> = Good.<\/li>\n<li>Slipping Firefox past people who <a href=\"http:\/\/johnthejohnman.deviantart.com\/art\/Firefox-Extensions-Vista-Theme-52278577\">prefer Vista&#8217;s black<\/a> glass looks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/badkungfu.net\/moveoverjasonbourne2.html\">Tie someone to a tree<\/a> with their own feet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordwork.org\/gadsby\/index.html\">Lipogram<\/a>: Story of over 50,000 words without using the letter &#8220;E&#8221; (etc)<\/li>\n<li>Pretty.&nbsp; Weird.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasyartdesign.com\/3dgallery\/a-digital\/01pictures-3d.htm\">Pretty\/weird.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Photography, and eco stuff, with nerdiness and alsoplus &#8211; can <a href=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/\">Burning Man Go Green<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>The guy who droplifted the fake Parrots Hilt&#8217;n cds with titles like &#8220;Why am I famous&#8221; and &#8220;What have I done?&#8221; does all <a href=\"http:\/\/banksy.co.uk\/menu.html\">SORTS<\/a> of other art.<\/li>\n<li>Future Sound of London has come full-circle, and is doing what Kraftwerk used to: Breaking stuff, rebuilding it, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MFoCDlg93cU\">making it make noise<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Korea:Breakdance:Beatboxing:Turntablism&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CvkyjR4yk60\">Kickin&#8217; the Pachebel Cannon<\/a> OLD SCHOOL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and Ripley and I are gonna go see K-OS.<\/p>\n<p>WORD.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; life&#8217;s been a little weird lately, and I stopped posting my &#8220;Everything I bookmarked todays&#8221; lists, but I&#8217;m still here. Here&#8217;s some things I&#8217;m not writing about. My mom&#8217;s health.&nbsp; Happy thoughts towards speedy recovery, mmmmkay dear readers?&nbsp; KayThanks. Our firstborn son going to school in a week (didn&#8217;t we give him to someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}