ZodomaticaBits of Tzaddi's Life

Lately I’ve been sketching first thing in the morning (after a suggestion from Havi). It gives me the tug of Something Fun to get up early for, especially on days when sleeping in seems a better option than facing the pissing rain or pressure of things to do. This morning I sat staring at the [...]

Posted: December 12th, 2008 under Art, Goofy, Fun & Cool, Life.
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Here’s some quick fun for a good cause. Build yourself a beard, and the kind folks at Atto will loan a dollar to Kiva. You can even print one out instead of being a lazy git like me who photoshopped the thing onto my face. The beard I chose is called Poseidon, apparently god of [...]

Posted: November 13th, 2008 under Activism, Goofy, Fun & Cool, Life.
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After noticing how good the practice of being thankful feels, I figured I should do more of that. So here are some free things I’m thankful for today that y’all may enjoy. Figure I might as well spread some link love while I’m being thankful GrooveShark.com – Oh, my god I LOVE listening to this [...]

Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Goofy, Fun & Cool, Life.
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I found this interview with Tim O’Reilly on collective intelligence and Web 2.0 rather fascinating. (Does that make me a total geek?) Some tidbits: Google’s realization that links were a kind of user generated “voting” on the best site for a topic (i.e. Page Rank) and could be used to deliver better search results was [...]

Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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Recently we discovered an HBO series at our local indie video store: Flight of the Conchords, a series born of the comedy-music duo of the same name. (They bill themselves as “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”.) The show builds on their great stage act by using their satirical songs [...]

Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Culture Consumed, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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