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The world demanded it, and lo it is here: a Japanese Queen medley.

Christ on a cracker that's good. Not sure how long that link will last. Via No-Sword.

http://www.quantum-link.org/

QLINK IS BACK IN THE HOUSE!

For those who don't know the history, America Online began as a dialup online service for owners of the Commodore 64 home computer. It was called QLink and was owned by Quantum Communications, which remained as the name of the company well into the AOL era.

Now we just need a revived PC-Link for all those Tandy customers.

Montclair gold hunter digs 60-foot-deep hole in front yard

MONTCLAIR, Calif. (AP) A homeowner digging for gold in his front yard said he got ``carried away'' and ended up with a 60-foot-deep hole, authorities said.

Henry Mora, 63, began digging two weeks ago after his gold detector picked up a signal near his front patio.

``I figured, well, maybe there's something down there you would logically conclude, right? So I started digging,'' the semiretired musician said Wednesday.

Mora said he only intended to go down 3 or 4 feet, but he started finding gold dust in the dirt and the detector kept hinting that he was getting closer.

``It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging,'' he said. ``I think it's a normal human reaction, especially when you think there might be gold down there.''

A neighbor who saw the mound of dirt growing on Mora's lawn became concerned and called authorities Tuesday. Fire officials responding to the home found two men inside the unreinforced hole, using a bucket and rope to remove dirt. Mora had hired the two men to help him.

``We told him, 'You're done,''' Montclair fire Capt. Rich Baldwin said. ``It's amazing no one got killed.''

Authorities fenced off Mora's property and ordered him to hire an engineer to safely pack the dirt back into the ground.

Mora acknowledged his search for buried treasure was getting ``totally out of hand.'' Yet when asked whether he regrets starting the dig, Mora was conflicted.

``In a way yes, and in a way no,'' Mora said, ``because I think there's still gold down there.''

A mad dutchman has memorized "Stairway to Heaven" in reverse, then filmed himself karaokin' it and reversed the film. The result is a mesmerizing video.

I audiohijacked the sound so you can have this artifact wherever you go in audio form: Backwards Stairway (8.7M .mp3). Please save to hard drive rather than streaming thx.

Thanks to the null device, and to eyeteeth for the transliterated headline.

The Exploding Aardvark, via her del.icio.us posts, has introduced me to the only televangelist the matters: THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH.

Note: extreme profanity in audio.

Bobby Isosceles points me to Becky's page about Conversational Ebonics for Japanese People. Yeah. Example below:

Also, insert bear joke here.

Bear Crashes Hockey Game

Thanks to do_not_lick

Via Mike Watt on Myspace:

Hi,

Here's the info for the upcoming performance of: "Symphony No.13 (Hallucination City)" for 80 guitars, 20 basses and drums. The original version premiered at the former WTC on June 13, 2001. The revised version, in four movements, premiered at the Kasser Theater at Montclair St. University, NJ. on Feb. 4, 2006.

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This is mesmerizing:

Grafik Dynamo is a net art work by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way: Together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal perameter that comprises its structure.

I SAID: MEAT HELMET.

Pneumatic 'air muscles' control the helmet, forcing the user to eat at intervals specified by a CPU located on a belt. The on-board program sends out commands to an electronic valve, which controls the supply of compressed air to the air muscles. A keypad allows the user to punch-in the amount of calories about to be consumed (Big Mac = 560), where the program will calculate how many chews are needed to burn them off (chewing = 70 calories/hour), commencing the forced-chewing upon the user (8 hour workout!).