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I Hate Tết and Christmas too

Administrator — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:48:07 +0000

I’m so, so sick of people i don’t even know asking me for “li xi” (lucky money). A freaking garbage guy just put on a baleful look and begged for li-xi. He hadn’t even finished turning away after i’d turned him down and his usual jaded smirk spread across his face again.

And i can just imagine going to the estranged mate’s parents’ home and having the whole family stretching out their mitts for li-xi even while they’ve done their all to thwart my every attempt to fix up both myself and my marriage.

And this whole scheduled-giving-and-expecting thing extends to Christmas, too. The whole concept of scheduling some periods each year for charity disgusts me. Charity’s a daily, discretionary deed or nothing at all.

And having to deal with all the shutdown services of such holidays sucks just as much.

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Administrator — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:31:15 +0000

“erotica, sex ed, interviews and more with sex educator, Fleshbot Assistant Editor and bestselling sex author Violet Blue” [tinynibbles.com]. OSS episode 27 is #69 of 69 on odeo and “rather than tell you how to tie a knot or write a slave contact,” this ep, Violet flogs “BDSM for the Rest of Us”. LOLable.

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vietnamese blogs

Administrator — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:08:06 +0000

I ripped a couple lists of Vietnamese blogs, one from NoodlePie.com, the other from GlobalVoices Wiki, then splice them together and extended them a bit (via vim). The result is here (vietnamese blogs), where it can be updated as needs be.

Band sells 120,000 copies of album via online distro

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:33:44 +0000

The Arctic Monkeys sold 120,000 copies of their first album, making it the fastest selling album in Britain thanks to their Internet saavy. They promoted sites illegally playing their music and gave out demo copies which quickly fanned out across the Net. Take that RIAA.

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Girl undresses in 3D (The Digg Experiment)

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:25:33 +0000

A blogger put Digg to the test, a test which caused more than 11,000 Diggers to visit the blog within 3 hours, made its web server tremble, and which made the blogger wisely question the so-called “future of journalism and media”.

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IBM DB2 Express-C Open-sourced, Viper Bits Coming

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:06:12 +0000

IBM DB2 database released as a “light” open-source version, Express-C, along with free community training and support. Limited to 2 processor cores but no database size limit, it will run on Linux or Windows and include venom from DB2’s upcoming relational native-XML release, Viper.

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Malaysians seek jungle Big Foot

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:38:05 +0000

Malaysia confirmed it will mount an expedition hunting 3m-tall furry black jungle giants known locally as Hantu Jarang Gigi, meaning “ghosts with widely-spaced teeth”. So El Reg says the BBC said.

From MuseumOfHoaxes.Com

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Amuse Yourself with a Missing Webpage

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:38:37 +0000

Dugg up at digg.com: Error + Game = 404 Fun

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Historicial Hoax Pix

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:37:07 +0000

A century before Photoshop, they managed to falsify pictures, with some brilliant concepts.

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Get Flashed by Iconique Flash

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:58:04 +0000

some of the best Flash-work i’ve seen so far; certainly the best tunez i’ve ever heard from Flash to date.

that’s a screen cap from my SuSE 9.3 box