Entries from August 2005

akaRaff Internal Heap Refurb 09

August 16th, 2005 4:42pm
Filed under: akaRaff Radio
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Much thanks to some of the sources for this weeks Drop:
Largehearted Boy
My Old Kentucky Blog
Enjoy.

Local Boston Band Of The Week - Mark Nelson (Machinery Hall)

August 16th, 2005 9:21am
Filed under: Boston Bands
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On Friday Aug. 19 Singer/guitarist Mark Nelson will be performing solo at the CD release party for his new album “World Gone Cool”, at the Sky Bar in Somerville, MA. As the frontman for the Boston based band Machinery Hall, Mark has made a name for himself locally for delivering raw, energetic performances, and his […]

Finally A Univeral Remote With Some Brains - Harmony 880

August 15th, 2005 12:01pm
Filed under: Hardware
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If you are like me then you probably have 10 different remote controls strewn throughout your living room (or if you are extremely tidy you have 10 remotes perfectly aligned on your coffe table in alphabetical order). It seems like everything today comes with it’s own remote. I just bought a 30$ Rotating Tower Fan […]

Never Have To Put The Seat Down Again - The Home Urinal

August 15th, 2005 11:42am
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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Thanks to our buddy adam over at slapjack.com for finding the 30 something guy’s Home Urinal.

The Lloyd Residential Urinal puts an end to the age-old battle over the toilet seat as it beautifully integrates in the mid-century modernist aesthetic of the Lloyd Bath Collection.

enjoy.

Droogle - Internet’s Best Alchoholic Search Engine

August 12th, 2005 3:30pm
Filed under: Stuffed or Drunk
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Droogle is great Google-esque Alcoholic Ingredient Search Engine. You type in any ingredient you can imagine and returns a tasty and many times potent drink to make with it. enjoy.

MIT’s Jerk-O-Meter

August 12th, 2005 2:28pm
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Looks like the folks over at MIT have created a device that has to the ability to tell you whether the person on the other end of the phone is an ass or not. God help me.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech patterns and […]

Boston Band Of The Week Show Announcement - Cheater Pint

August 12th, 2005 10:56am
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Just got this email from our friends over at Cheater Pint:

THURSDAY AUGUST 18
CHEATER PINT at THE ABBEY LOUNGE
INMAN SQUARE, SOMERVILLE
11:45 Scamper
10:45 THE PINT
9:45 Keys to the Streets of Fear
9:00 The Debutantes
Get a FREE copy of “MA, I’M TRYIN’”, our NEW CD
SINGLE!
If you haven’t visited our web site in a while, drop
in for the […]

The Days of Snorting Pixie Stix

August 12th, 2005 10:26am
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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Some say that Pixie Stix are the ultimate gateway drug. All I know is that when I was 15 and vazDeferenz, The Beave, Big Top Nate, and myself would play two on two hoops to 100 by 1 at vazDeferenz Gardens, there was nothing better than a little Pixie Pick-Me-Up to get you through the […]

While We Are On The Topic Of Coffee - Starbucks Bashing

August 11th, 2005 5:00pm
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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Now this shit is entertaining. This bloke at ihatestarbucks.com seems to really dislike Starbucks. Here are a few of his reasons:

1. The vast majority of the coffee is grown using underpaid third world labor.
2. Starbucks is spreading across the world like a virus, infecting cultures with their formula of what a coffee shop should be.
3. […]

Bored and Reading How Stuff Works

August 11th, 2005 4:46pm
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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I am sitting here at work watching paint dry and trying to keep my eyes open so I decided to check out How Stuff Works to see why the hell the boatload of caffeine in my system is not taking over the way i anticipate should:

Caffeine is an addictive drug. Among its many actions, it […]