| The Mix: talk about music |
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No Phone (Cake, Pressure Chief) |
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Check it out.
I'm looking for people to write about new music news and artists they like - feel free to register, and if you ask, I can make you a contributor. I'm planning on doing an Artist of the Week every Friday, so it should be interesting :)
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| Switzerland |
[04 Jan 2006|09:48am] |
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Good Day Sunshine, The Beatles |
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What do you guys think about this?
Switzerland has the lowest violent crime rate and murder rate of any industrialized nation, and have the absolute highest private ownership of firearms in the industrialized world (basicly, nearly all able bodied men have full access to military style weapons).
Not private ownership, most of those weapons belong to the government.
It also has the side benefit that without a military, they have pretty much been at peace for the last 200 years.
Ah, I see your misunderstanding. The Swiss DO in fact have a military, a rather large conscript military. Military service is compulsory but not necessarily full time. They do 17 weeks basic training and a refresher every year and are required to keep their weapons to hand (hence the large number of households with military guns in them). Imagine a country full of mountains which the locals all know backwards, now imagine they all have military training and big guns. Now picture an enemy force trying to invade. They'd be slaughtered and everyone knows it. Their incredible ability to defend themselves and their much vaunted neutrality add up to no-one sane wants to go to war with Switzerland, they're not a threat to anyone as long as they're left alone and invading them would be far far too expensive in terms of men to be worth it. - Slashdot
Is it true?
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| Chai |
[05 Nov 2005|07:44am] |
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Weezer - Pardon Me |
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My manager and his wife gave me a recipe for Chai that they swear by. Here it is:
( Chai Recipe )
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| base.google.com? |
[26 Oct 2005|09:08pm] |
This is pretty hot. If you check out the Digg screenshots, it seems to be the ultimate database.
Exciting. Can't wait 'til it gets up...
read more | digg story
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| Video Games Live |
[26 Oct 2005|06:36pm] |
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Argh. Just as I get Cassie's message.
"Video Games Live ('The first major North American concert tour featuring music from some of the biggest video games combined with video footage, lasers, lights, and live action') announced today that they have cancelled all tour dates in their national tour except for two scheduled for this weekend in Seattle and Vancouver. Fans across the country who have paid for tickets to these events must now manually request refunds and suffer convenience charges. The event was cancelled 'because ticket sales were slow and did not reflect the great interest expected.' This news comes after a previous tour-wide cancellation(with similar convenience charges) when the creators decided to increase tour stops and venue seating to match what they perceived as vastly more interest than they anticipated. As one person said: 'I've already paid enough convenience fees and facility fees to see a broadway musical. I wish I had.'" - Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
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| Programmer Analyst I |
[20 Oct 2005|11:51am] |
Sounds all technical, doesn't it? I just accepted an offer to be one over at Columbia Sportswear. Now all that must be done is the paperwork!
I'm excited. Thanks to everyone who was praying for me - you guys ROCK.
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| W00t. |
[03 Oct 2005|09:22am] |
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www.permission3000.com podcast |
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Frustrated because I can't get the MySQL ruby extensions to work. Grrrr.
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| DDR |
[30 Sep 2005|08:48am] |
Whoa. (video + sound)
For more of the same, hit up DDR Freak.
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| New Music |
[26 Sep 2005|02:42pm] |
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The linked piece! |
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Comments on this are much appreciated. (WIP = Work In Progress)
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