Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies (LOC)
1/28/08
Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings @ The Granada, Jan. 27, 2008
she really brought the fever and the band smoked. totally worth the $18.50 door price.
1/25/08
ATTN weekend: we are almost in you
a rock/film quiz to pass a cold and rainy Friday afternoon. no using the internets to cheat.
Welcome to the Friday Brainteaser from Credo Reference (http://www.credoreference.com).
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Which Film?
Check your knowledge of cinema by naming the films in the clues below.
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Questions:
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1. Which 1954 film starred Marlon Brando as Terry, a former boxer who achieves heroic status in the struggle against the waterfront mafiosi?
2. In the 1976 remake of which 1933 film about a giant ape did Jessica Lange take the part originally played by Fay Wray?
3. Which 2000 film by Baz Luhrmann explored the Paris of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec through music and song?
4. Which 1981 film was about the rivalry between two British runners - Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell - competing in the 1924 Olympics?
5. Which 2001 computer-animated film was about an ugly smelly green ogre with a heart of gold?
6. Which 1970 film starred Mick Jagger as an Australian outlaw?
7. Which was the last film in Sergio Leone's "Man With No Name" trilogy of spaghetti Westerns?
8. Which 1978 film musical had its title changed to "Vaselino" in Mexico and to "Brilliantine" in France?
9. Which 2003 film brought screenwriter and director Sofia Coppola international attention? It earned her the 2004 Academy Award for best original screenplay.
10. In which 1999 film did Angelina Jolie gain critical acclaim for her performance as a charismatic, controlling psychopath?
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Answers:
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Find out the answers at http://corp.credoreference.com/quiz.
1/23/08
1/17/08
Telephony: Turn Any Phone into a Voice Recorder with Drop.io
Telephony: Turn Any Phone into a Voice Recorder with Drop.io: "file sharing site Drop.io has added a neat feature: the ability to record and share MP3 audio from your phone. Create a new voice 'drop' and get a phone number and extension. Call it, and start talking or recording a lecture, podcast, or interview, and when you hang up, the recording's available as an MP3 download for sharing at a custom drop.io URL"
Library of Congress dumps a ton o' pix on Flickr - Boing Boing
yay for lazy librarians!
Library of Congress dumps a ton o' pix on Flickr - Boing Boing: "The Library of Congress today launched a pilot project with Flickr -- of the ~14 million prints, photos and other visual materials at the LoC, they've uploaded about 3,000 copyright-free photographs from two popular collections to a new Flickr account. The big idea: get folks to tag 'em all." (via boingboing)
ball prank
"Artist Graziano Cecchini provided tourists and passersby with a spectacle for the eyes at Rome’s famed Spanish Steps Wednesday when he released an estimated half a million brightly colored balls down the 18th-century stairs. The artist transported the hundreds of thousands blue, red, green and yellow balls in three trucks filled with hundreds of bags and ended up in police custody after the stunt. The daring artist gained notoriety last October when he dyed the waters of Trevi Fountain red and remains under investigation for that little art exploit." Associated Press
Happy Bullets @ The Cavern - Tonight!
Happy Bullets, Peel, Fishboy.
early set, 9p. be there or be L7.
1/16/08
SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search - Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share. | About Us
SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search - Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share. | About Us
"Now, more than ever, it is important to be able to find, discover, and manage the wealth of information available on the Internet.
In the Life Sciences division at the U.S. Department of Energy.s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, a special Search and Discovery algorithm was born that mimics a portion of the process of human cognition. In other words, this technology imitates the way the human brain associates things with one another. This advanced search engine algorithm set and technology enabled biologists to discovery hidden relationships in genomic data, enabling connections to be formed between human genes based on immense amounts of context and associations. It was observed that this technology could be applied to matching, searching and discovering relationships between any objects located on the Internet. To move this effort forward, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory decided to take a 5% equity stake in an advanced search engine technology company now named SeeqPod, Inc. Co-founded by Kasian Franks, Raf Podowski and Shekhar Lodha, SeeqPod is a totally different breed of search and discovery technology company. In addition to its Finance, Entertainment and Wikipedia search and discovery engines, SeeqPod has plans to launch search and discovery engines within a variety of other verticals with a focus on search results that are 'playable'. We believe that one day, most things on the Internet will be 'playable.. SeeqPod understands that today and in the future search results will need to be played in order for a user to determine if they're relevant. These kinds of search results may include video, slideshows, audio, interactive presentations, Adobe Flash demonstrations, animated graphics, rich multimedia objects and other things in addition to simple text. Hence we have embraced the term 'Playable Search.'"
Songbeat. The music is mine!
Songbeat. The music is mine!: "Songbeat is the newest web-based music player for your Desktop. Songbeat allows you to search the web for music files by using an innovative search platform: just submit the song title or artist, and Songbeat finds the music for you! No illegal filesharing. No viruses. Just music."
broken water main @ Delmar & Goliad
a broken water main on Delmar and Goliad. apparently there was enough water to float away a small car. and the water was cold.
shut up, i meant to fall in....
shut up, i meant to fall in....
1/14/08
Close Guantanamo Event @ Federal Bldg, Dallas, TX. Jan. 11, 2008
welcome Dallas Air America visitors.
click on the picture above to see more.
video can be found here also.
click on the picture above to see more.
video can be found here also.
1/13/08
1/12/08
hairy rockers
hilarious.
via boingboing.net "Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels: these hairy parody rockers who showed up in the back of a truck after one of the sessions at last year's Picnic conference in Amsterdam, all spandex and Cousin It wigs."
The Theater Fire @ Sloppyworld, Jan. 11, 2008
damn, the lights in Sloppyworld make it really hard to get a good picture with a really fancy flash...oh well, it was a great set.
1/11/08
friday fun facts - les savy fav
"Les Savy Fav (pronounced lay-SAH-vee-FAHV) is a New York City band that produces idiosyncratic indie rock. Their style is heavily influenced by Art rock and Post-hardcore. The group's original line-up, formed in 1995, all met while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. The band is known for angular, abrasive guitar and bass melodies, complemented by singer Tim Harrington's educated, poetic lyrics sung or shouted over the instruments. Harrington's involved lyrics make broad-ranging academic references to such disparate topics as Stockholm syndrome, the architects of Carthage, and even palimpsests. The band has a highly-regarded live show due to the antics of frontman Harrington, including kissing multiple audience members and on-stage wardrobe changes. These antics, however, rarely seem to faze the rest of the band as they continue to play as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening." (via wikipedia)Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee (mp3)
Les Savy Fav - Hit by Car (mp3)
Les Savy Fav - Disco Drive (mp3)
Les Savy Fav - Pots & Pans (mp3)
Les Savy Fav
Friday, January 18, 2008
8:00 PM
The Palladium Loft
1135 South Lamar
Dallas, Texas 75215
brought to you by Glurrmann's Yogurt. what you don't taste can't hurt you.
1/8/08
LOLCat Bible Translation Project
this has nothing to do with anything, but i LOVE it!
Genesis 1 - LOLCat Bible Translation Project: "1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1"
moar funny pictures
Genesis 1 - LOLCat Bible Translation Project: "1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1"
moar funny pictures
1/6/08
1/4/08
friday fun facts - Mumbai and Bollywood
Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. With an estimated population of about 13 million, it is the largest metropolis in India and the most populous city in the world. Mumbai is one of the world's top 10 centers of commerce in terms of global financial flow. Mumbai is also the commercial and entertainment capital of India, and houses important financial institutions, such as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the corporate headquarters of many Indian companies and numerous multinational corporations.
The city is home to Bollywood, the largest film industry in the world. Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry. Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in the world, producing more than 1,000 films a year, with ticket sales of 3.6 billion.
sponsored by Glurrmann's Yogurt. 25% Nazi ownership!
1/3/08
The Year in Robots: Scientific American
we like robots
The Year in Robots: Scientific American: "Last week's announcement of Japan's 'Robot of the Year' for 2007—a mechanical arm capable of grabbing 120 items-per-minute from a conveyor belt—marked an anticlimactic end to what has otherwise been a good year in the advancement of artificial intelligence."
HandStamp: What to do about the "scene"?
good response. this goes for Dallass too...
HandStamp: What to do about the "scene"?: "What to do about the 'scene'?
From the emails this morning, a question posed on a Houston-music mailing list:
what do we have to do to get houstonians to start suppoerting there local musicans?
First, everyone involved could learn to spell."
HandStamp: What to do about the "scene"?: "What to do about the 'scene'?
From the emails this morning, a question posed on a Houston-music mailing list:
what do we have to do to get houstonians to start suppoerting there local musicans?
First, everyone involved could learn to spell."
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