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l Wednesday - November 27 - 8:48am l

Philip Meggs has passed away. An amazing designer, writer, and teacher. He will be greatly missed.


l Tuesday - November 26 - 1:28pm l

Holiday Apple Switch ads featuring the genius of Will Ferrell:
Santa and Lawyers
Santa's iPod

and there's this one from the Mac Expo in NYC...

l 11:31am l
Here's a great article about the sorry state of McDonalds. It contains some good insight by Eric Schlosser author of Fast Food Nation (now in paperback) and a bit on the Beef Tallow settlement. Seems like the end may be near for the Golden Arches.

How about some more veggie links?
- A great Flash cartoon about Voluntary Meat Regulation
- Interview with vegan BMX rider Taj Mihelich
- OTSU, the new vegan clothing store in San Francisco
- Find out about Tofurkey...and skip the bird this Thursday.


l Friday - November 22 - 12:38pm l

Yup, the moron and his administration are on a roll.

Now he's helping Utility, Coal, and Oil dismantle clean air programs. I mean, it's only the air we breath right? And those corporations PAID for the changes in the clear air rules. They bought it with over 10 million in campaign contributions.

Fucking great.

l Thursday - November 21 - 12:58pm l

I've been sick. Really sick. Imagine hardcore food poisoning including a high fever and the chills. Tuesday night was a living hell. A huge amount of people at the office are sick. In fact, they are investigating the cafeteria food to see if anything might have somehow been responsible for the 'outbreak'. My guess is that it's just a serious stomach flu. Not fun.

In other news, the Homeland Security bill passed, and NATO is divided on the issue of war in Iraq.

THIS IS GENIUS. What a real AOL commerical should be.


l Monday - November 18 - 9:15am l

Since the elections a few weeks back, Bush has made it one of his top priorities to pass the Homeland Security Act. In case you were wondering what this means, take a quick look at this link, 'You are a suspect'. Under this bill Hackers could face life in prison. Murders rarely get life...sounds fair enough.

Worried? You should be.


l 9:15am l
There are perks when you work at a large dot com company...cool name badge, free soy lattes, cheap branded umbrellas, and sometimes use of the company's Mini Cooper S for the weekend.

Overall, it's a nice ass car. The interior had all the sweet BMW features like heated seats, steering wheel radio controls, simple climate system. etc. And the little car can move. It doesn't take long to get into 6th gear, that's for sure.

What I did learn is that if it's nice weather outside I'd rather be on my motorcycle than in any car...even one with a huge sunroof. Also, if you drive for over an hour and a half everyday during the week you want to stay far away from driving during the weekend.

Oh, and the 27K pricetag is too much. I'll stick with my Insight.

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EBay has a sort of redesign test up.


l Thursday - November 14 - 8:13am l

Exitwound has a great new redesign. I really like the Weekly List idea. I'm planning a major design and content change in 2003.

Unpluggedtv.com. Go right now and check out digital creation Ulf in the three Episodes of Kornspiracy Korner. He will haunt your dreams. The Flash work is stunning and I was crying by the end of Episode 1 : The strange case of Ouchy the Clown. Better than anything on television right now, that's for sure. Strangely enough, Episode 2 features ex Swell Art Director and action sports designer Jamie Muehlhausen talking about his site Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers.


l Wednesday - November 13 - 10:05am l

The Onion really nailed it this week.

Two standouts:
'Beltway Sniper' Video-Game Release Delayed Out Of Respect For Victims
and
Area Man Buying Not So Much A Soft Drink
As An Image


l Monday - November 11 - 8:13am l

Uneventful weekend. I tried to skate the Berkeley park Sunday morning and it was locked up due to three inches of water in the bottom of the bowl. Great. I should have driven to Vans.

Sunday night we saw Comedian and I was very impressed. The beginning had pretty poor sound quality, but once you got used to the whole digital video format it was very entertaining. A great look inside the way comedy is created and presented. Worth a viewing.


l Thursday - November 7 - 8:05am l

Show last night at Slim's:
The Blood Brothers really thought that with two vocalists you wouldn't notice how much they ripped off At The Drive In. They had some catchy emo meets hardcore riffs, but it was just a bit too trendy. Singer number 1 please keep your shirt on. Time in Malta were flat out awful. I really like their records, especially their early stuff, but they were boring and weak. Bummer. American Nightmare are fucking hardcore. Flat out assault on the audience. Bass players freaking out and jumping into the crowd, the singer spin kicking onto the floor and leading sing-a-longs. I knew nothing about the headlining band, Glassjaw, but there was an interesting crowd for them. Man, did their fans go nuts with buying merch. The few guys I was standing near were SUPER pissed that the bands took so long to set up and when AN played they looked like they had seen a ghost.

There is some heated political talk going on over at Redshifter. I've got to hand it to Raphy Orangefuzz. Defending the NRA, Jerry Faldwell, and Bush while bashing Michael Moore(on his site). Wow.


l Wednesday - November 6 - 9:15am l

I'm going to see Amercian Nothing (formerly American Nightmare) and Time in Malta at Slim's tonight. I'm expecting a damn good hardcore show. I also expect to be the oldest person there.

Speaking of hardcore...an old Four Walls Falling shirt just went for 89.88 on Ebay! I wonder how much my Four Walls Mt.RushCORE shirt is worth? Over a hundred for sure as that sucker is rare, rare, rare. I'm not accepting offers under a grand.

l 7:53am l
I'm moving to Canada.

l Tuesday - November 5 - 8:17am l

I've never been a Nirvana fan. I saw so much going on in the D.C. music scene at the time I just didn't get what was so special about them. Also, suicide is the act of a coward (he had a daughter and more options than 99% of the population).

That being said, this is a great article about the release of Kurt Cobain's journals as a book next week. I agree that it's a very distasteful and disrespectful thing to do. Cobain was completely against sharing his private journals...even going as far as saying, 'The most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catty gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts'. It's disgusting that his wife would go against her dead husband's wishes.

Anyway, there are some excerpts from the book here as well.


l Monday - November 4 - 8:48am l

Chances are if you visit my site you visit Redshifter. And if you visited RS in the last few days you would have seen the news on the new Sunny Day Real Estate spin off band The Fire Theft and the link to the download of their new song ' It's Over'. So the bottomline here is that I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.

The song is amazing by the way. So go get it.


l Sunday - November 3 - 3:08pm l

Yup, I'm a few days late on November. Sorry about that.

Tony Hawk 4 is simply the best video game ever created. The improvements from the last game include free-form levels (no time limit and multiple challenges)and MUCH better music (Avail. Sex Pistols, Public Enemy, AC/DC). It's impressive that Activision can keep improving the game even after 4 versions. I still want a 720 arcade machine though...

I'm off to try to get a better cell-phone...and I have a bad head-ache. Shuld be a great combination.