Download an MP3 of Phockal, a tune that’s been kicking around. Kinda slow, but interesting/weird sound.

The Tarot Plot Generator has been updated to be a stand alone HTML page. You can now save it to your computer and you don’t need to be online. The previous version was at Abulfia. The new Tarot Plot Generator was made using RandListGen.
Tarot Plot Generator is a writing tool, to inspire plot ideas, using the symbolism of the tarot. It details the main character and three acts with fourteen cards.

I decided to participate in the Wikipedia names your band (and album cover) game which directs you through randomizing sources for your fake album cover. And them you mash them up using Photoshop, or in my case, GIMP. All fun and games until Vic required me to make the music to go along with the art. This is almost what I had in mind, download the music here: Svibice - 511 Vibrations Per Second

[The song is hyper fast, 160 BPM is fast for me, with distorted bass and waves of fuzzy guitars. Chanty cut up drone vocal.]

(source photo by Joao Carlos Alves, licensed under creative commons)

Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life. [Text from Wikipedia]

You might want to listen to the BBC In Our Time special on Darwin.

It seems Google is reporting every web site as “This site may harm your computer”, including it’s own sites. Clicking on the No word yet on when this will be fixed, but I imagine it won’t take them too long.

Liam teaches How to Manga

Kim has a Kodak camera that makes movies in MOV format, with no option to save as AVI. We need AVI format video to use in Windows Movie Maker, because it WMM doesn’t like MOV (which is the default format of Apple’s Quicktime). So, after struggling with various converters that didn’t really work, I found (or re-discovered… I had used it before) MP4cam2AVI. It is free, as in Free Open Source, download from Sourceforge.

Awesomely hilarious fighting giant robot inspired video from Nobody Beats the Drum (Dutch breakbeat)

• All songs DRM free
• “… three price points—69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29—with many more songs priced at 69 cents than $1.29″

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I can’t believe it!
My son gave me World of Warcraft for Christmas with a free month. Everybody says the game is addictive etc, but I figure OK, I like this kind of game, I’ll try it out for a month or two. I install it before dinner and in installed fine. After dinner, I create a WoW account and start the game and sign in. It wants to install a patch. OK, I wait for the download, tens of megabytes, and install the patch. And it wants another. And another. Probably over 100 megabytes of downloaded patches. I joke “World of Patchcraft” (which I discover I’m not the first one to call it that). Am I done? Not even close. Now it is downloading a 2.6 GIGAbyte patch. Good lord. This is so worse that installing Windows. It is going download all night. It says “about 11 hours” now. Good lord.