Monthly Archive for July, 2001

SUCKAHS dot ORG is live.

SUCK­AHS dot ORG is live. Invi­ta­tions have been sent. apply here: ned at suck­ahs dot org

from wired: MIT’s Media Lab

from wired:

MIT’s Media Lab is exper­i­ment­ing with a tool for index­ing the most pop­u­lar hyper­text links across thou­sands of weblogs and has ambi­tious plans to turn it into a resource for the mass media.

Launched last week, Blogdex is like a search-​engine spider that visits about 9,000 weblogs a day look­ing for hyper­text links.

It extracts the links and ranks them by popularity.

suckahs dot org has been

suck­ahs dot org has been offi­cially reg­is­tered. Host­ing and the DNS shoould be set up within a couple of days. what is suckahs.org? check back for updates.

I have a Samsung pcs

I have a Sam­sung pcs phone that i have really liked – but I will buy their new color palm phone

speeding ticket

I had a hear­ing for my speed­ing ticket that i got in the ted williams tunnel, and i was found not-​responsible, so thank you very much.

Albany Dan provided me with another

Albany Dan pro­vided me with another great link – the Is Dick Cheney Dead Yet Weblog. He (Danno) and I are in the process of set­ting up a group blog for all of our friends from but­talo. The lead­ing domain choice is ’suckahs’, though we can’t agree on dot ORG or dot COM. What do you think?

Someone from Hamburg, Germany sent

Someone from Ham­burg, Ger­many sent me an e-mail asking for family tree infor­ma­tion on the my sur­name. Unfor­tunetely, i don’t have any infor­ma­tion. The only infor­ma­tion i have comes from my mom’s mom’s family – which is English.

saw the flickerstick video on

saw the flick­er­stick video on VH1 (pro­duced as part of their bands on the run prize).

Ok. you like Radiohead? and

Ok. you like Radio­head? and you have AOL IM? enter ‘Goo­glyMino­taur‘ as your newest buddy – and start talk­ing to it. no really.

Dick Cheney has his own

Dick Cheney has his own per­sonal energy crisis. Are these guys that dumb? Thanks to milch.

Danibat did something interesting– took

Danibat did some­thing inter­est­ing – took a famous paint­ing, and recre­ated it using text. This isn’t your older brother’s ASCII art…

The Flickerstick show was

The Flick­er­stick show was incred­i­ble. They pro­jected motion graph­ics type stuff from the back onto stage, and had cuts from movies like ‘Willy Wonka‘ play­ing in between songs. Rex ‘El Dangeroso’, one of the gui­tarists, was in true form – at one point he was solo­ing in the crowd.

This has been quite the

This has been quite the week­end for live music – Francine and the Fly Seville last night at T.T.’s, and Flick­er­stick (from VH1’s Bands on the Run) tonight at the Middle East Downstairs.

Oh and last night, we were on our way back from Portsmouth, when we got stuck in the traf­fic for the Mon­kees hatch shell con­cert. doh.

Gretchen told me about this

Gretchen told me about this go-​kart track in Brain­tree that fea­tures Formula-​One look­ing cars:

F1 Boston is New England’s hottest, most com­plete enter­tain­ment and func­tion facil­ity. Whether you’re build­ing cor­po­rate team spirit, launch­ing a new prod­uct, enter­tain­ing a new client or just want to come in and race at F1, power is at your com­mand. You’ll find state of the art exhi­bi­tion and con­fer­ence facilities…full-service restaurant…classic bil­liard parlor…shops…lounges… and, of course, racing.

there is a great animation

there is a great ani­ma­tion for the quiz show ‘You Don’t Know Jack” on its ABC web­site. (PEEWEE!)