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This is splorp.

Currently undergoing renovations. Mind your head.

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Thought colander.

The available domain name of the week is brainstrainer.com

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Link / Comments (2)

Top not.

Many of us feel additional pressure at the end of December. Don’t deny it, you know you’re one of those people. I can certainly feel something weighing on me, but it’s not necessarily due to the traditional year-end nonsense. Is it the implied deadlines associated with finishing up last minute projects or the well-intentioned resolutions to be tackled over the next few months? No, those are things I can manage … or simply ignore. The pressure I’m feeling is specifically related to compiling some manner of the annual “Top Ten List”.

How cool were the items I hunted? Were my playlists hip enough? How attuned were my references to culturally and politically significant events? Did I read everything I should have read this year? Does it really matter? Does anyone care?

Top ten reasons why I’m not making a top ten list.

  1. It’s pretty evident that the interwebs are clogged with top ten lists this time of year. Why add to the supersaturated muddle?
  2. Honestly, I don’t go to the movies. I don’t stream movies. I don’t download movies to my iPod. I barely, if ever, find the time to rent movies that I would have liked to have watched in the theatres when they were released. My cinematic excursions this year consisted of a single trip to see Wall-E … at the cheap seats. You can’t quite compile a list of your favourite films based on a data set of one.
  3. My favourite “new” music is more often discovered by scrounging old sources and digging through what I already own. I can’t keep up with the constant fire hose of current music, so why attempt to come up with a list of my latest faves? Even if I limited my sample to a single sub-sub-genre — high BPM chiptune electropop performed exclusively on un-circuitbent Game Boy devices, for example — there’d still be too much to information to review and parse.
  4. Last.fm
  5. I prefer listening to music, rather than telling people about it.
  6. I prefer listening to music, rather than going to movies.
  7. Top ten lists are basically year-end blog filler. Oops.
  8. They’re a bit pretentious.
  9. The humbling insignificance I experience every time I view the work of Mr Felton should be reason enough never to attempt a year in review.
  10. I don’t care. Nobody does.

Sunday, December 28, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

Future groove.

The available domain name of the week is previbe.com

Sunday, December 21, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

That snow way to avoid it.

The available domain name of the week is driftdodger.com

Thursday, December 18, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

No comment.

I had been wondering why it had been so quiet around here. It seems that at some point over the past month or so, the dumb ass Blogger-supplied inline comment form went kerflunky. I blame it on the non-validating markup generated by their templates and the flakey implementation of their requisite <iframe/> elements. Time to dive under the hood and see if I can’t get something working again.

Damn, I really need to move this thing to WordPress or something.

Monday, December 15, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

Like a bowl full of frozen jelly.

The available domain name of the week is crispcrinkle.com

Sunday, December 07, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

The art of complaint.

The available domain name of the week is bitchperfect.com

Oh, and thanks to a suggestion this week from the mighty Domainr, we’re now able to broadcast from a acronymonically correct address. You can now tune in the Available Domain of the Week via adno.tw … no complaints here.

Monday, December 01, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

Don’t believe the disease.

The available domain name of the week is inficted.com

Sunday, November 23, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

I take back what I said.

The available domain name of the week is unrespond.com

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Link / Comments (0)

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