Category: asides
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thanksgiving beard
the thanksgiving beard. it’s all coming off tomorrow.
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I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?. Gaiman. ’nuff said.
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i need to design more steampunk stuff
every week i look at the analytics for google traffic to arcanepalette.com and every week it’s clear there’s a market that i need to work on that i’m failing to meet: steampunk blog design. there isn’t much out there, and what i personally have found sucks, and because we have this, which has a couple…
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aaand this is why digg > slashdot
so, don’t get me wrong. i ♥ slashdot, i even like reading the comments for their biting snark, but it’s pretty much a given that if you post something stupid, lame, or sentimental, by anyone‘s standards, you’re asking for a lashing on the old /. sometime over the summer or early in the year there…
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Hack to In-Place “Downgrade” from Windows 7 Ultimate or Professional to Less Premium Editions
stumbled across this “duh” of a hack to allow up/downgrading (depending on your perspective) of a more premium version of windows 7 to a less premium version. why would you do this? if you were running a beta or rc version of windows 7 you can “upgrade” to a retail edition without wiping the system.…
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now a podcast…sort of
with the latest s3quence mix, i finally fixed stuff up to officially podcast teh s3quence. i had attempted it once before, but the enclosures were getting all messed up from my download permalinks, so that’s been cleared up thanks, in part, to spiral web consulting‘s podcasting plugin. it’s not in the itunes store (they actually…
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Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax To Tour Together | Billboard.com
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax To Tour Together | Billboard.com. i have one thing to say about this (besides what i tweeted, which was repeating @mmmaiko‘s comment of um, isn’t this like 20 years late?) Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is quoted saying: Who would have thought that more than 25 years after its inception, thrash metal’s…