{"id":1283,"date":"2008-07-04T23:37:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2008-07-05T00:58:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:58:32","slug":"things-on-the-net-that-please-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/things-on-the-net-that-please-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Things on the net that please me"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1030091\/Revealed-50-years-The-secret-greatest-student-prank.html\">the classic &#8220;car on the roof&#8221; trick<\/a> at Cambridge&#8211;my favourite bits are how they used skirt-hitching distractions, and the bit about the case of champagne the Dean sent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cRXC14HpJ4g\">Dawn Tyler Watson &#038; Paul Deslauriers performing Led Zeppelin&#8217;s classic Going To California<\/a>. Make sure to click the &#8220;watch in high quality&#8221; link.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/negativland1.netfirms.com\/index.php?opt=mailorder&#038;item=222&#038;type=1\">a new Negativland album coming out<\/a>! I repeat: <strong>a new Negativland album<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gdAKgJDahzw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/center>\n<p>(Yes, I am now getting Youtube links from <a href=\"http:\/\/cvillette.livejournal.com\/65497.html\">ficitional characters<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>What happens when the Canadian Space Agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080629.wastronauts0629\/BNStory\/National\/home\">advertises that they have two spots open<\/a> for astronauts?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/radioarchive.cc\/\">Radioarchive<\/a> keeps me in radio plays, and the occasional non-fiction piece. And every once in a while there will be something like&#8230; well, like <a href=\"http:\/\/radioarchive.cc\/torrents-details.php?id=2959\">a special<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Withnail_and_I\">one of my all time favourite movies<\/a>. Boy I love the Internet age.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yasminsethi.com\/pd\/Alice\/Alice.htm\">The Alice Chess Set<\/a>, which makes lovely use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.schott.com\/architecture\/english\/lightsolutions\/lightpoints.html\">LightPoints<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.schott.com\/architecture\/english\/products\/mirona\/\">Mirona<\/a>. Not just a terribly cool chess set, rife with lit&#8217;rary allusions, but also a real reminder that we are totally living in the future. I wish I could buy one of these in production.<\/li>\n<li>Those dudes who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krebsbachfamily.com\/robogir\/Home.html\">trying to build a real-life Gir<\/a> (the robot from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invader_Zim\">my second-favourite cartoon<\/a>&#8211;it used to be on top, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Venture_Bros.\">The Venture Brothers<\/a> recently pulled into first.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1227202\">Captain Tightpants versus Doogie Howser<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.automatedredemption.com\/flavorcountry\/\">Ferocious J<\/a>&#8216;s violin is powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/katedollarhyde\/2617716260\/in\/set-72157605886430114\/\">PURE WILL<\/a>. (If you get that, you&#8217;re a geek.) Also, he really should just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automatedredemption.com\/flavorcountry\/2008\/07\/this-still-needs-to-happen.html\">give out the notes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently the Internets are going to let me get my name (or more likely my daughter&#8217;s name) <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/livelongnmarry\/100178.html\">in Justine&#8217;s next book<\/a> for a relatively small amount of money&#8211;I am disappointed in the Internets, they should make this harder for me. Oh well, there&#8217;s still ten days.<\/li>\n<li>I read that if <a href=\"http:\/\/health.infoniac.com\/watermelon-found-have-viagra-effect.html\">you eat enough watermelon<\/a> it&#8217;s functionally equivalent to taking a Viagra. I don&#8217;t know why I find this so hilarious.<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/07\/04\/obit.helms\/index.html\">this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that should do it for tonight, since I&#8217;m not likely to top the closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The story about the classic &#8220;car on the roof&#8221; trick at Cambridge&#8211;my favourite bits are how they used skirt-hitching distractions, and the bit about the case of champagne the Dean sent. Dawn Tyler Watson &#038; Paul Deslauriers performing Led Zeppelin&#8217;s classic Going To California. Make sure to click the &#8220;watch in high quality&#8221; link. 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