Steel White Table

Here’s a 3-minute video (2mb) of my girlfriend shaving my beard. Due to a time-lapse video effect (i.e., increasing the speed of the video by a multiple of 10), my face is transformed from a fully-bearded to a debearded state in about 30 seconds. Music provided by Andy Statman.
By the way, after a year, [...]

I’m playing nothing but non-RIAA Townes Van Zandt for the rest of the night on the Mud Radio webcast.
Update (Feb. 28, 7:00pm EST): I’ll be playing the blues for the rest of the night, both RIAA and non-RIAA — for the next 6-7 hours.

This is nice: The Best Things in Life:
2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.
8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
19. Laughing at yourself.
37. Swinging on swings.
(via lonita.links.log)

It Pays To Read License Agreements:
You didn’t really read the EULA. How do I know? Because hardly anyone does. To prove that point, PC Pitstop included a clause in one of its own EULAs that promised anyone who read it, a “consideration” including money if they sent a note to an email address listed in [...]

List of fictional curse words:
Fictional curse words are profanities invented by authors of fiction, often science fiction / fantasy.
These are the only ones familiar to me:

frak: from the new Battlestar Galactica series, which is the only television show I watch regularly now.
shazbot: from Mork & Mindy, of course.
skin-job: from Blade Runner.
smurf and derivatives: from [...]

The End of an Era:

Software developers, I’ve got one word for you: www.yourjobisgoingtoindia.com
They’re cheap. Everyone focuses on this. After all, eight developers for the price of one is hard to argue with — it’s a veritable Wal-Mart of developers over there.
Microsoft’s India Development Center (IDC) is growing like gangbusters [...] One of IDC’s [...]

Rare Bill Watterson Art.
Some amusing and interesting stuff there.

Larry Fast’s my work with Peter Gabriel site is an interesting glimpse into Peter Gabriel’s studio life from 1976 to 1986.
This photo is Gabriel selecting the cover art to be used for his 1980 album (i.e. “melting face”).

Russian scientists who invented hangover cure make pill that keeps you drunk:
The new pill, which contains grapevine extracts intended to slow down the oxidation of alcohol and keep the user drunk, has been criticised. The weight of criticism means the company may now reconsider introducing it to the market.
The company makes no secret of the [...]

What’s a “root kit”? No, it isn’t something for your garden.
The term rootkit is used to describe the mechanisms and techniques whereby malware, including viruses, spyware, and trojans, attempt to hide their presence from spyware blockers, antivirus, and system management utilities. There are several rootkit classifications depending on whether the malware survives reboot and [...]

I Park Like An Idiot - You suck at parking! Let the world know it!:
Dont’t stick I Park Like An Idiot Bumper Stickers on other cars like these people did!
With a few photos of parking by idiots, similar to the German site I posted about earlier.

As of today, MSN Search returns Steel White Table as the 9th hit for porn movies.

It’s a coincidence I posted this post’s title in Blog Entry Titles That Shouldn’t Be Published. Honest!
This reminds me of Sedition.com’s recent post, Young nude girls:
No underage nudes, only information about your general hunger for them. So if [...]

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense:
Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy.
The arguments that creationists use are typically specious and based on misunderstandings of (or outright lies about) evolution…
…the following [...]

How To Crack A Master Lock Combination:
As with any form of knowledge about how the world works, this skill can be used for good or for evil. I can’t say that I haven’t jacked my friends’ lockers numerous times, or even gotten into things I shouldn’t have, but it’s up to you to decide how [...]

Every Calvin and Hobbes comic, ordered by when they were published.
This site won’t be up long, once Universal Press finds out about them.
(via Waxy.org Links)