February 2003
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Discovery
I think I’ve discovered one of the worst possible ways to listen to my .mp3 collection. I made a smart playlist in iTunes of the 25 least played songs in my library. So it goes out and makes a playlist of 25 random songs I’ve never listened to, or maybe only once. I think I just heard Sting, then Miles Davis, then The Descendents, and now The Get Up Kids. Then once it plays a song that...
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Not Like Summer Camp
As reported by Yahoo! News, A North Carolina congressman who’s a member of a homeland security committee said that he supports the government’s decision during the second world war to intern Japanese-American citizens. I can’t believe (okay, well I can) that we entrust our well-being to people like this. I mean, after the Trent Lott thing, you’d think that our heads of...
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News Flash!
The Second Renaissance Part 1 is now up at theanimatrix.com.
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Fark links to a Yahoo! news article containing the following passage:
Judith Levine, author of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, said she, too, questioned using popular culture to convey messages.
“Did Shakespeare ever talk about safe sex? Do comic books?” Levine asked.”
Wow man. It upsets me (but does not surprise) that uptight people...
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Animatrix
The first short from the Animatrix is supposed to go online today. They’re going to web publish four of them and then release those plus five more as a DVD before The Matrix Reloaded comes out. Look for it on the What is the Matrix? website.