After seeing that M83 are playing at The Empty Bottle in Chicago on their upcoming tour, I was remembering that it was the place I first saw Deerhoof, in the summer of 2003. I decided to retroactively add the show to Last.fm, and in searching for the proper date I came across this poster […]

“I’m as confused as a baby in a topless bar!”
“Kinky is using a feather Perverted is using the whole chicken”
“Dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!”
“All I need is some peace and quiet If I got a piece I’d be quiet!”
“DADDY FARTED And We Can’t Get Out!”
“Lord Help Me to Be The Person That My Pimp Tells […]

This word is used in Snickers’ new ad campaign, wherein they plaster these long, awkward neologisms (e.g., “Peanutopolis,” “Hungerectomy,” etc.) on buses and billboards and on their candy bar wrappers themselves.
What struck me about this one is that anybody reading it would promptly assume that it is a fusion of “substantial” and “delicious”; but wouldn’t that […]

Once described as being “pretty much perfect,” Scary Go Round is one of my favorite comics. As is the case with most things, I got into it kinda late, and it’ll probably die in the near future, making my weekday mornings cold and bleak. I wish I could remember where I learned about it.
One […]

Originally written June 30, 2007
There’s always been a significant faction of foobar2000 users whose primary attraction to the player is its appearance, or rather the level of control given to its users over its appearance. In its infancy, with the standard (and still default) UI, very little was possible — the main window consisted solely of a […]

Microsoft publicly released Windows XP Service Pack 3 yesterday, which means that it should appear in your list of available updates. To grab your own standalone copy of the update, download the EXE or the ISO directly from Microsoft. Lifehacker also has a tutorial on getting SP3 onto a Windows install disc to […]