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query: UPDATE cache SET data = '<p >\nWalter, the man who said, \"Screw you Rolla, I\'m never coming back,\" now <a href=\"http://waltergr.blogspot.com\" title=\"W.Gr\">has a blog</a> (It\'s on Blogspot, which is blocked by the Great Celestial Nanny. Here\'s a link you can use from <a href=\"http://www.thevirtualbrowser.com/index.php?url=uggc%2Fjnygrete.oybtfcbg.pbz&amp;flags=001100\" title=\"W.Gr (virtual browser\'d)\">inside China</a>).\n</p><p >\nIt looks like he\'s infatuated with blogging. Here are some recent posts:\n</p>\n<ul >\n<li ><a href=\"http://waltergr.blogspot.com/2005/03/its-simple-algebra-really.html\" title=\"It\'s Simple Alegbra, Really on W.Gr\">It\'s Simple Alegbra, Really</a>:<br >\n<blockquote >\nI came pretty late to the blogging game.  But yesterday I realized <a href=\"http://waltergr.blogspot.com/2005/03/5-am-says.html\">the secret of the A-list bloggers</a>, and I was thinking all day about how to apply this new knowledge.  I\'m pleased to announce that I\'ve discovered the solution!<br >\n</blockquote>\n</li>\n<li ><a href=\"http://waltergr.blogspot.com/2005/03/are-you-friendly.html\">Are you friendly?</a><br >\n<blockquote >\nor: In which I present a brief and highly unscientific analysis of blog rankings<br >\n</blockquote>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p >\nIt\'s good to hear from you, Walter. What\'s been going on in your life?\n</p>', created = 1268272854, expire = 1268359254, headers = '' WHERE cid = 'filter:1:13ae4419e3fe70b29f01c0762fa56bfc' in /var/www/therobots/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.
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Surprise Birthday Party

So my birthday was two months ago and I totally forgot to post this. It's a photo / video collage put together by my bastard friend Luke aka Lou. This was from a surprise birthday party at my own house. Thanks for throwing that guys and you couldn't have asked for a better host, err wait...

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Chimpanzee Riding On a Segway

Dang you They Might Be Giant's-style song for getting stuck in my head all week.

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Nerd Anniversary

This week is the 40th anniversary of the "Mother of all Demos", Douglas Engelbart's presentation of a new computing system called NLS (or Online System) at the Fall Joint Computer Conference at Stanford University. Why is this important? Because it is the demo that first introduced the world to the concept of the computer mouse, hypertext links, and on-screen text editing. This demo is amazing in the fact that it combined video monitors and cameras with computer images. Check out the video of this historic demo.

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Poradova

Check out my friend Sarah's band Poradova. She also has some audio samples up on her myspace page.

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Buy Nothing Christmas

I stumbled across this link while searching for creative gift ideas. A Buy Nothing Christmas. This initiative was started by Canadian Mennonites and the website is tied in with Adbusters (just be sure that you don't go to buynothingchristmas.com because that will take you to a crappy online webstore that sells gifts). Too bad my friends and family don't participate in this.

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How to Look Like...

I wonder if wikihow knew about my Zombie Houseswarming party last year because today's How to of the Day is "How to Look Like a Zombie".

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Graffiti Murals

Here's a link to an awesome collection of photos of professionally-done graffiti murals in Kansas City. This guy also has some other cool pictures from around the city.

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Sasha Frere-Jones on Slint

Slow Fade - The afterlife of an indie band:

Then the album, "Spiderland," appeared. On its cover was a black-and-white photograph of the musicians swimming in an abandoned quarry, their smiling faces hovering above the water. But the record was not the product of feckless youths; it was a foray, both brave and frightened, into adulthood. Just six songs and thirty-nine minutes long, "Spiderland" was sui generis, a series of compositions so studiously arranged that they sound as though they might have been notated, like classical music,though they retain the rawness and intimacy of improvisation.

That's a show I'd like to see.

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Memorial for a BBS

It's something I never thought I'd see - a memorial service for a bulletin board.

China's cracked down on public discussion sites, as they did before with some of the blogging providers.

Jeremy Goldkorn at Danwei describes the latest update:

Some arm of the sour and corrupt Nanny authority has resticted access to Internet bulletin boards (BBS) hosted on servers at Tsinghua University, Peking University and Nanjing University to students and people with university Internet accounts. These BBS were formerly available to the public.

Furthermore, all students who still have access to the BBS will apparently have to register with their real names if they want to continue posting to the BBS. The above-mentioned BBS were previously sources of lively debate about social, economic and cultural issues.

Way to go Nanny!

This may not seem like much; after all, it's just a BBS, and the students can still post. But by blocking outside IP addresses, it will effectively kill the culture of the BBS. And without any hope of anonymity, there won't be much left for the students.

On Saturday Qinghua students gathered to mourn the BBS. One student took a lot of pictures, and posted them on flickr with the name "smth dying". Check it out.

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Attack of the Killer Walters

Walter, the man who said, "Screw you Rolla, I'm never coming back," now has a blog (It's on Blogspot, which is blocked by the Great Celestial Nanny. Here's a link you can use from inside China).

It looks like he's infatuated with blogging. Here are some recent posts:

It's good to hear from you, Walter. What's been going on in your life?

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