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Oh, for the love of Pertwee…

Issue 2 of my personal zine is out!

I smile.

Call me a nerd, but I’m really digging the transparent screen illusions that are all the rage this week.

Happy Easter where applicable!

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senior U.S. officials say a deal to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan was approved and the United States will compete for contracts to provide Pakistan’s nuclear rival India with the same jets.

Isn’t that just too damned precious?

(Linked from Katrina.)

Swiped from The Doctor:

* enqueue all of your mp3s in winamp
* turn shuffle on
* list the first 30 songs that play no matter how embarrassing.

01 – Eric Prydz – Call On Me
02 – Sarah Vaughan – Summertime (UFO Remix)
03 – Fred Schneider – This Planet’s a Mess
04 – The KLF – It’s Grim Up North (club mix)
05 – Art of Noise – Island (Sieji Remix)
06 – dj BC and The Beastles – Word To The Mic
07 – Information Society – Over The Sea
08 – Queen – One Vision (instrumental)
09 – Powerman 5000 – Worlds Collide (Transformers Remix)
10 – Elmer Bernstein – Ghostbusters score – In Reverse
11 – The Knaves – Mary By The Way
12 – Queen – I Can Hear Music
13 – Kurt Harland – Soul Reaver Soundtrack – Necropolis (Spectral)
14 – Information Society – Chemistry
15 – The Kleptones – A Night at the Hip Hopera – Save
16 – Boney M – Daddy Cool
17 – Nobuo Uematsu – Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack – Ami
18 – Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante & Jane Wyman – Black Strap Molasses
19 – Alvin and the Chipmunks – Chipmunk Song
20 – Ome Henk – Ome henk viert feest
21 – Insane Clown Posse – Ain’t Yo Bidness
22 – Laptop – Yesterday’s Muse
23 – Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm – The Way You Used To Treat Me
24 – Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down
25 – Yo La Tengo – Five-cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)
26 – Wesley Willis – Jello Biafra
27 – Estradasphere – Super Mario Bros. 2 SuperBuckJazz OC ReMix
28 – David Bowie – Cactus
29 – The Evolution Control Committee – The Mighty Hamburger
30 – Ella Fitzgerald With The Chick Webb Orchestra – Everyone’s Wrong But Me

Yoinked from Hektik…

Name 4 books on your bookshelf:
1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
2. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
3. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (autographed by Mike Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Jim Mallon, Paul Chaplin, and Mary Jo Pehl)
4. When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops – George Carlin

Name 4 DVDs in your collection:
1. Back to the Future trilogy
2. Stay Tuned
3. Sealab 2021 vol 1-2
4. Cowboy Bebop (all eps + movie)

Name 4 things on your walls:
1. A metal “Firefly Crossing” sign
2. Llewellyn’s Witches’ Calendar
3. The old Nintendo poster you used to get folded up with new NES cartridges
4. My hats

Name 4 things in your closet:
1. A Gizmonic Institute jumpsuit
2. Lots of vests
3. A broken laptop
4. Tux shirts

Name 4 songs/CDs in your music collection (playlist or other):
1. Information Society – Don’t Be Afraid
2. Insane Clown Posse – Hell’s Pit
3. Bloodhound Gang – Hooray for Boobies
4. MC Chris – Eating’s Not Cheating

Name 4 real life stores you shop at regularly:
1. Salvation Army
2. Strand Bookstore
3. Circuit City
4. CVS

Name 4 animals that you’ve come face-to-face with in real life:
1. Gremlin (shih tsu, deceased)
2. Icarus (frog, deceased)
3. Hitchhike (grey cat, alive but smells bad)
4. Patty (white cat, alive and smells nice)

Name 4 things in your wallet/purse:
1. State ID
2. Joker playing card, found in Times Square on New Year’s
3. fake “this is not an actual credit card” card from AmEx junk mail
4. actual debit card

The best scifi zine ever releases their return-of-Dr-Who issue…

I have work to do. I can’t bring myself to do it.

Slacking off is what web quizzes are for… (yoinked from Wolfgame)

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While I’m on the Gallifreyan kick, I may as well post this.

Remember when Gmail came out, and I was highly dubious?
Remember when everyone was going nuts over invites, and I laughed at them all?
Remember as recently as last week, when someone offered up a bunch of gmail invites, and I made a humorous fart noise in reply?

Call me a sellout, I just signed on.

police.public.call.box@gmail.com

Please continue to use my normal addys to get in touch, as I’ll porbably be even lazier about checking this than I am about checking my old hotmail account, which cancels itself every so often due to my laziness. I may send from it when away from home, though. I’ll see how this goes.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about movie trailers.

(Thanks Brianbot!)

Episode 1 of the new Doctor Who series has leaked to the Internet.

I just finished watching it.

They got it RIGHT!!!

Without spoiling the specifics, suffice it to say you don’t need to be a fan already to dig this, but there’s still tons of goodies to give the Dr Who fans extra thrills.

Christpher Eccleston is AWESOME!!!

The TARDIS looks AWESOME!!!

They’ve even managed to make the damn AUTON DUMMIES scary!!!

Interested? You can find it anywhere on the usual fileshares, as well as alt.binaries.drwho on Usenet. Search for the episode title, “Rose.” It’s the complete episode, the only thing missing is new theme music. The original arrangement of the Ron Grainer theme is used instead, making me think this is an early reviewers’ copy that leaked out.

Waiting to see more new episodes may well explode my head.

Heading off to Citigroup, later Round the Clock diner probably, same old same old…