Daily Tidbits

Posted on April 21, 2008

Modern Drunkard has a list of the best drunks of the old west, including this awesome story about Wild Bill Hickock.

…One of the ruffians asked Bill if every bumpkin on the plains picked his teeth with a Bowie knife. Bill tipped his hat back and said, quite calmly, â€œNo, but we all know who our mothers are.â€ … The five hooligans rushed Hickok, he doffed his hat and turned his pool cue heavy-end-up. About 15 seconds later, Hickok stepped across the five broken, bleeding thugs, and resumed his drinking, picking up the story heâ€™d been telling right at the point heâ€™d left off.

Autoblog posts about a Fiero that’s also a boat. What can’t the plucky little mid-engined Pontiac do?

Jim Cramer, who’s show Stop Trading I watch even though I don’t understand the stock market, has this to say about a possible Apple product:

Cramer also said that a new Mac product, Conversation, will bring Apple to the forefront of instant messaging. He said the product will be similar to the iPod in its impact. “The analysts don’t see it because the analysts don’t use it,” he said. “I think this is a gigantic product.”

Cramer, not normally known for starting Apple rumors, may be talking out of his ass here, or maybe just discovered iChat on his MacBook and got confused.

Finally, Nebraska’s favorite band, Loup River Waltz & Street Choir, will be playing a show with the Bellflowers at the Zoo Bar tomorrow night. I will be sure to be there, with camera in tow. It will be awesome.

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Daily Tidbits

Posted on April 18, 2008

Pingmag has an interesting interview with the inventor of the Tenori-on, a sort of light box midi sequencer.

Today’s Diesel Sweeties knows the power of a good mustache.

Autoblog today points out the Chinese-built Lifan, a (very ugly) MINI knockoff. It’s got an 87hp 1.3l engine, five doors, and even rips off the MINI’s wheels.

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Daily Tidbits

Posted on April 17, 2008

At Francesco Explains It All, we reminisce over beloved ’70s tv episodes.

* Already in trouble for trying to bootleg a Doobie Brothers concert, Rerun is forced by bullies to illegally record a KC & The Sunshine Band show while Raj and Dwayne are left to wonder why only the whitest bands in America come to play South Central.

* Battlestar Galactica emphasizes its Egyptian mythology parallels with an awkward cameo from Anwar Sadat.

There’s a new Charlie the Unicorn. Shuuuuuuuuuun. (In case you missed the original.)

Boing Boing linked to an Arts Journal weblog post about the most unwanted song ever. Synths, tubas, bagpipes, kids, holidays, an advertisement for Walmart, it’s got it all. And it’s kind of catchy. The post links to a couple of mirrors of the mp3.

Free mp3! For a short time merge records has available an mp3 of She and Him’s “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here”. She and Him is a project with my future girlfriend Zooey Deschanel and some unimportant guy. It’s a catchy song.

Finally, at work, we got a bottle of root beer schnapps (the wrong kind of root beer schnapps, too, so we have to send it back). I put the call out for recipes and DB came back with the Glass o’ Shit. Thanks for that DB.

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