Ed That Goes Ping

Kill Bill

clevescene.com | Kill Bill is the story of a vicious software giant which sends out photocopied, baseless lawsuits to harass and intimidate the wrong college student.

He didn’t have any money… but he had a lot of time on his hands and a willingness to do a little legal research.

Microsoft’s lawyers never knew what hit them.

You know, I’d respect the Bush campaign against frivolous lawsuits by ordinary people against large corporations more, if they’d recognize that a large corporation is much less vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits by ordinary people, than ordinary people are vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits by large corporations. The “sue them till they run out of money defending themselves” technique is pretty powerful. If this had happened to an innocent head of a family with a 40 hour a week job, instead of an innocent smart and courageous college student with little to lose and a lot of spare time, well, it would have been a victory for the bad guys.

Story via Adam Black in instant messages.

Tackhead in the area!

I never thought I’d see it — a live tackhead video on their site. Recently recorded.

“I take donations from all denominations! In any currency, big or small…”

I haven’t heard this song in years. Never heard it live. Wow.

And there’s a new Tackhead song in the “downloads” section too. I never thought I’d use the words “new Tackhead song.”

Wow.

And you can order their first album again for the first time in about a zillion years… shipping to the U.S. from Japan’s a killer though.

I swear this site was not up, none of these things were around, last time I looked for Tackhead stuff. Schweet.

OK, I’m really going to sleep now, I’m even going to save the new Tackhead track to listen to tomorrow.

If Bustin Rhymes Wuz an Arcade Game

DJ Format, Abdominal, and D-Sisive play the game. Sweet!

I’m familiar with Abdominal & Format from Ruben Fleischer‘s site. (Both that Abdominal and that Format video I highly recommend. The Format one has been widely linked as a “Furry music video,” but it’s so much more than that! MC’ed by 2 members of Jurassic 5, Chali 2na and Akil, whom apparently if I had any hip hop clues I would have heard of.)

All Quicktime videos.

Whoa… apparently one of J5’s DJs is Cut Chemist. Where have I heard that name before? Aha! Searching for Tackhead I ran across an album by “Cut Chemist and Shortkut” which includes the track “Fats Comet’s Tackhead Beat” — Fats Comet was the original name of Tackhead. Interesting. I have no idea what that Cut Chemist/Shortkut track is about, but that’s why I’ve heard of Cut Chemist before.

Everything is connected to everyone is connected to everything…

Having tracked that down, I need to sleep.

Overheard at _why’s

_why writes:

Truthfully, I refuse to absolutely believe in reality as the great circumscribing bound of our existence. Imagination lies within the borders and is assuredly larger than reality. Adobe Photoshop also.

A fun post, too, with some images that may never leave your brain.

Retheming

Decided to do a little theme switch. This one’s from the WordPress Theme Competition. (I’m not more specific because I’ve changed my mind which one to go with like twice since I first wrote this post.)

I was so, so, so tempted to go with Taft. (Shut your mouth! I’m just talkin’ bout Taft.) But I understand the images required by the CSS are like a half a meg download, and it only looks right if you happen to have the right fonts installed (I do). So I’m gonna back off on that one. (Oh, I’m also digging Museum but I’m not sure what tolerance my readers have for marble buttocks.)

I’d like to come up with my own someday but I don’t know if I want to wade into CSS that deeply. There’s a lot of structure to a WordPress page and it seems like it’d be a big headache to get it all looking nice.