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myData:
Where a human is reduced to data, data is converted to values, values are transformed into art.

I’m a pretty boring guy.

Rare and Valuable Rock Albums:
Everybody has a crate or two of old vinyl records collecting dust somewhere in their hourse. Spend a weekend in the basement and hunt down these rare musical treasures.
An original, mint copy Bob Dylan’s Freewheelin’ album is worth $25,000. Holy shit.

adtunes.com:
“What was the music used in that television commercial?” Now you can find the answer at Adtunes.com - the weblog of information on music from TV ads, movie trailers, and more.
They identify songs in films, TV shows, and video games, too.
They list the Top 10 Ad Music of 2004. I haven’t seen most of [...]

Woman convicted of raping man via oral sex at a party in Norway as he slept. In other news, woman now invited to every party in Norway.
(Copied verbatim from Fark.com.)

The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster:
Have I mentioned before that I am surrounded by idiots? Let me cut to chase and just tell you up front: the rebels got away. All of them.
…You try to be an effective manager, you weed out the bad apples like the late Admiral Ozzel — only to [...]

Jenny and I will be seeing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy tomorrow at 2:20pm (Atlantic Standard Time). I’ll tell you what I think about it when we get back… maybe in podcast form.
Update. Phillip said:

I enjoyed about the first 30 minutes, laughing out loud at the absurdity of all it… until I got bored [...]

Simpsons mp3 music:
One of my favorite parts of The Simpsons is the music, and so I have made this page containing over 100 great songs from the show (including end credit variations and short skits)…
Over 100 tunes grouped into categories, featuring favorites such as:

The Stonecutters’ Theme
We Put The Spring In Springfield
Sending Our Love Down The [...]

SUV owners get free gas — courtesy of Uncle Sam:
Owners of gas-guzzling SUVs and other heavy vehicles who use them entirely for business can get Uncle Sam to pay for four or more years of fuel costs — in the form of tax breaks. It’s hard to think of a worse formula for wrecking the [...]

While returning some movies to the video store today, Jenny and I saw the guy who plays Julian on The Trailer Park Boys (you know, the guy who always has a drink in his hand). The second I saw him, I started to laugh because he looked exactly like he does on the show: [...]

URLinfo:
a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. To use it, type a URL (web page address) into the box in the top frame. Then choose a tab (such as General or Cache), and click on the name of the specific tool you wish to use.
Nicely done, [...]

Some cheat sheets for the IT industry. I like the UNIX ones. J-Walk posted a good PHP one today.
(via Rebecca’s del.icio.us feed)

Some real nice pictures over at Sol’s Triple-S Blog.
I have an occasional saying that goes something like: “If I could sing like that, I’d sing like that.” It can apply to anything. For instance, listening to a good song, I might say, “If I could write songs like this, I’d write songs like this.” If [...]

Welcome to the first episode of Googling Myself, a series of posts in which I Google myself and tell you what I found… Okay, it’s probably the only time I’ll do this, but I’m doing it now because the last time I Googled myself (that is, Googled ‘Phillip Cairns’), I discovered I was being referenced [...]

My brother sent me this picture of his hand next to his 4-year-old daughter’s hand (click to enlarge). They stuck their hands under the scanner and pressed the SCAN button. I looked at that picture longer than I look at most pictures people send as attachments, and it got me to thinking…
The Internet can be [...]

Oðblgshezi: Calculator Words:
pronounced /oth-blg-SHEH-zee/, with a syllabic /L/) is the name of a “language” consisting of English written with the digits of a calculator. You type in a number and then turn the calculator upside down to see the word. In order to make use of all ten digits, I persuaded the Anglo-Saxon [...]