What The Hell Am I Doing Here?

Monday, January 26, 2004

Dept. of Telecommunications
A little something for my pal Adam, who just got off the phone with Sprint:

Five ways I tend to feel after speaking with Sprint's Customer Service
1. Like I was just traded to another inmate for 2 packs of menthol cigarettes
2. Like I've been slapped repeatedly with a half-frozen sturgeon
3. Like I've accidentally just agreed to finish the homework of every kid in my middle school
4. Like somewhere in a big Sprint building, there's a fat man with a monocle and a top hat smoking a cigar while dancing a jig and holding a fat bag of five-dollar bills with my bewildered face on it
5. Very, very unclean
From 5ives
Link props to Boing Boing Blog

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Dept. of Regime Change

A picture named ashcroft4.gif Risky E-Vote System to Expand. The federal government wants to try out a new Internet voting system during the next presidential election and dismisses a report on its security risks. But a Canadian online vote indicates the risks are real. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News]

Oh, yeah, I trust them. This is the same Federal Government that brought us the USAPATRIOT act and Operation Iraqi Freedom (also known as "Kill Your Sons And Daughters For Haliburton")

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Sci-Fi Is a Splash at Sundance. Science-fiction films make a big impression at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Computer-generated imagery and grad students' physics projects help express the dark side of science. Jason Silverman reports from Park City, Utah. [Wired News]

I have seen the future and it is cheap, fast and hella cool.

Primer follows a pair of young scientists working in their garage who create a device with great moneymaking possibilities -- and some time-bending side effects. Shot and edited for $7,000,Primer is surely one of the cheapest sci-fi films ever made. It's also as tense and atmospheric as most studio movies, and far more distinctive.

I can't wait to see these pictures. Hope they make it to The Ross, so I can see them.

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Micro$oft News:

Teen gets Xbox for MikeRoweSoft. A Canadian teenager has agreed to hand over his website to Microsoft in exchange for a goodie bag. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

...and this item:

Microsoft creator to be knighted. Bill Gates is to receive an honorary knighthood from the Queen for his contribution to enterprise in the UK. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

I wonder if Lizzie got an Xbox, too?

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Dept. of Candy Apple Grey

Hey! Cool!

Bob Mould has a blog!

But man, if he can't afford the $49.00 for iLife (with GarageBand), then that's really, really depressing.

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