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• Desmond Hume is my Constant #

I am way too much of a nerdy novelty music fan. I can’t help but love all sorts of comedy music, especially this duo from New Zealand. Mock me if you must, but I will be laughing at you from the Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm show next week! 

Flight of the Conchords - A Texan Odyssey

• Worst Photoshop tutorial ever? http://www.photoshopbuddy.net/vineframe.html #
• El-P, Dizzee Rascal and Busdriver at 9:30 Club: http://tinyurl.com/22tq4f #
• Also, Atmosphere at 9:30 club secret presale link: http://tinyurl.com/2rmjo9 #
• @hooey Ai just upgraded to CS3… UB used to upgrade every two versions, so they are probably at CS2 still… that’s all I know #
• @hooey Or do you mean which version of Flash Player? If so, 8 is the safest, and 9 will probably be safe after this summer… #

These are the bookmarks I created on February 27th, 2008:

• Welcome to Pixish! - Buy and sell images — post assignments and leverage the community to crowdsource your image needs.
• OhmyNews International - This is an international citizen journalism site that has grown from a Korean-only version.

• *ding* Promotion! #

These are the bookmarks I created on February 26th, 2008:

• FriendFeed - A cool lifestream service, FriendFeed allows you to track your friends’ various public information feeds. Excellent integration with external sites.
• Common problems in mathematics - A good set of tips for students in any subject area from my friend Jaimos (who teaches Math).
• Rapleaf: Shawn Rider - My profile page on RapLeaf, which aggregates different info about people from the web based on their email address.

These are the bookmarks I created between February 22nd, 2008 and February 25th, 2008:

• AgileAgenda - Project Scheduling made simple - This looks like it might be worth a closer look for project management software.
• Google Analytics Adobe Air Frontend - This is an Adobe Air frontend for Google Analytics. It’s pretty snazzy.
• Welcome to twhirl | twhirl - An Adobe Air based Twitter client.
• The Pulse of Open Source - This site aggregates the Twitter feeds of various folks from the open source community.
• SXSW Showcasing Music Torrents - This page contains Torrent links to collections of every free MP3 released by the South by Southwest festivals since 2005. The 2008 archive contains something like 700 tracks and is nearly 4gb. Treasure trove for music hounds!
• Anti- » Featured Poet #1: Aaron Belz | February 2008 - A new online poetry zine my friend Jamerson let me know about.
• JoCo Forums - Better - chords and lyrics transcribed - Awesome! Jon Coulton tabs.
• Georgian history | City of Vice | Channel 4 - ‘Bow Street Runner’ is a Flash game set in London’s Covent Garden in the 1750s. Before the organised police force existed in England, local magistrates formed the Bow Street Runners and began to impose law and order.
• Pew Internet: Early Adopters - A really interesting report about early Internet adopters. The report points out that really not much has changed about how we use the Internet: people and information are still the big attractors, in that order! There’s nothing new under the sun…

• @cnordholm OK, OK, I’ll click the wedding photos! #

• Just for the record — I totally predicted that ending! #

• ZOMG! Polar Bear versus Whale on Nature! #
• Also: Worst. Commute. Ever. (morn & eve) #
• My Media Study course archive has been resurrected and reposted: http://shawnrider.com/ub_archive/ Harvest away for all your teaching needs. #
• We are experiencing technical difficulties… #
• @mikewebkist See, this is what happens when you don’t ‘import anti-disaster’ at the top of your code… #
• @mikewebkist So… any idea how best to clean the diet coke off my monitor Mr. Funnypants? hahaha #
• And… we’re back! #
• Long day at the webshop… Time for a relaxing winter eve. #