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So today marks the completion of a twenty year radical turn towards a judicial theocracy. I don't know what makes me more upset: that soon scared teenage women will be turning to back alley abortions again or that smug, white conservative fatcat pukes are going to be celebrating their "success" now. I spent most of the 2004 election trying to remind people that the war in Iraq was important, but the bigger issue was that the winner was probably going to get to pick two Supremes. Mandate, indeed.

A co-worker in the art department does some really beautiful political posters and graphics. It feels appropriate to share today. I'll probably be buying one of those "Just Pretend It's Okay" stickers.

Above image from owwmyeye.com.

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In one of the more unusual developments I've seen in a little while, a friend of mine from work has quit his job to become a professional poker player. He's pretty good, if a little crazy - he used to own pet ducks and live in an airstream trailer (behaviour you generally don't see in IT types). I'm very curious to see how he does as I've been in a few dustups with him at work cash games. Sometimes he wins, sometimes I win. I am pleased to report, however, that I usually take his money on the golf course.

Anyway, here's his blog, treducks, which I'll be adding to my links list. Best of luck to you, Ben.

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OK, so a mailing list I'm on started getting into a thread war about who had the biggest geek cred. Inevitably, the topic drifted to Howard Chaykin Star Wars one sheets, Blade Runner issues of Cinefex and signed copies of the William Gibson script for Alien 3. I became more and more thankful that I had a real life spread amongst the geekness.

The competition officially ended when someone posted this guy, which as you go through the 9th and 10th pages just starts to get scary.

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So this winter I was going to join my wife and some friends in the snowboarding nation. We've all pitched in and rented a cabin in Tahoe City for the winter. Last weekend we got a foot of snow on Saturday and then the sun came out on Sunday. Hella sweet fresh pow-pow, bro.

For various reasons not worth getting into, I've decided to stay on two boards for at least the time being. Today I picked up some new boots and I can not wait to get out there and start shredding on them. The best part? The plastic shell is clear.

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In all fairness, Todd's not the only famous one these days. Our boy KP has been getting his gym on.

Nice ball, Kevin.

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Michael Golembewski has taken a large format camera and mounted a flatbed scanner where the film plate should be. Since the scanner records light across the frame over time instead of the relatively instantaneous click of a shutter, the results can be hauntingly Bacon-esque.

They're definitely beautiful and they're definitely more interesting than rolling my face across the scanner in college.

Note: the above links are to a mirror of scannerphotography.com, which is apparently taking a beating.

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My musical world has been metaphorically rocked this morning. A friend put me on to Pandora, which, in a nutshell, is a tivo-like rating interface for streaming internet radio.

Created by the "Music Genorme Project", you start a radio station by entering an artist or song that you like. It will start streaming a song by that artist followed by songs that are like that artist or in that style. You can then improve the heuristic by rating the new suggestions or adding more bands. It then provides links to buy an album from Amazon or the song from iTunes (where available).

The best part is that you can create an account (free, but you may get ads) and store up to 100 different radio stations.

I'm curious to see how far it goes. So far, I put in Swingin' Utters and I've heard the Dropkick Murphys, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Shipwreck Union (which I didn't care for), NOFX and the Ramones.

Sweet. Strike Anywhere just came on. I'm out.

Update: Wanna hear Rotomonkey Radio?

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First the New York Times and now Gothamist? She's everywhere. I suppose it's cool that her daddy is getting all this attention, but really. Her ego is going to get totally out of control. Next thing you know she'll be partying in St. Bart's....

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How interesting that on the day Apple launches its first Intel-based Mac, its stock closes at $80.86.

Tell me why that's cool and I'll buy you a cookie.

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An update? Can it be?

A rather odd souvenir shop in Klamath, CA. View more pics of California and Oregon at flickr.

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