The Skinny:
I recently realized that it has been far too long since the last Hip-Hop Only radio drop, so I spent this week building one. Since I say Blackalicious at Vegoose I have been trying to find some solid lyricists with good beats to listen to. With this drop 015 I offer you my best […]
Entries from November 2005
akaRaff Radio Drop 015
November 30th, 2005 2:33pm
Filed under: Music · akaRaff Radio
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iTunes Tweak To Ease M3U Pain
November 29th, 2005 3:46pm
Filed under: Software
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For anyone who listens to mp3’s streamed from the web and has iTunes streaming them for you, then you have probably encountered Apple’s M3U playlist issue. An M3U playlist is one of the “standard” playlist formats used to easily group or share a list of audio file links and most mainstream audio players can […]
Homemade Pork Fried Rice
November 29th, 2005 12:09pm
Filed under: Stuffed or Drunk
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For some reason over the past year my wok has been collecting dust deep in my cabinet. I guess I might have burnt myself out on the old stir-fry kick I went through when I first got it. Recently though I made a purchase that was aimed at getting the old standby out from the […]
Al Jazeera Staffers Speak Out
November 29th, 2005 9:23am
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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I found myself inadvertantly reading this site, a blog created by Al Jazeera Staffers, for a while this morning. Mostly I was watching the banter between the Americans and the Non-Americans in the comments section. The site is extremely hot right now bacause of the “Bush wanted to blow us up” shit going on over […]
Cooking For Engineers
November 28th, 2005 12:59pm
Filed under: Stuffed or Drunk
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Cooking For Engineers represents exactly how I feel about cooking. For me cooking is not a chore but is the art of chemistry taking place in a kitchen rathen than in a lab. The site captures what is the science behind the culinary arts in a similar manner as the Food Network’s Alton Brown. […]
Iron Crotch Pulls Truck With Crank
November 28th, 2005 11:47am
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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Yes that is what this article says. Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng, best known for his iron Crotch, pulled a truck with his package
He wrapped a piece of fabric around his waist to conceal his genitals from the crowd, but in the heat of the second truck pull, when he tied the cloth around his testicles […]
Folding@Home - akaRaff Computing Posse
November 28th, 2005 10:15am
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket · Software
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If you have never heard of distributed computing before, you are probably not alone. In short, there is research and such being done around the world by thousands of facilities . Most of these facilities, which tend to be on college campuses and other not so well funded locations, rely on massive computing power to […]
Christopher Walken Running For President
November 23rd, 2005 11:38am
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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It seems as thought the legendary actor, Christopher Walken, is making a run for the White House in 2008. Check out this link for the full version of his platform. Here are some snippets:
The War in Iraq:
“We are committed to Iraq now, and nothing can undo that. As President, I will not […]
Hockey Fight For The Ages - Ken Tasker vs Trevor Senn
November 22nd, 2005 5:24pm
Filed under: Sports
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Watch Ken Tasker — the big guy — vs Trevor Senn — the little guy.
In the words of Ken Tasker:
Well first of all I just want to say Trevor Senn is one of the reasons I ended up playing professional hockey. My rookie pro season I was up in Thunder Bay in the United Hockey […]
Express Yourself With A Quick Sketch
November 22nd, 2005 3:05pm
Filed under: Cool Art · Glorified Junk Bucket
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Here is a great little Web 2.0 site that I just came across. Sketchplanet is a simple yet effective site that allows it’s members to draw little black and white sketches with their mouse and submit them to the group. Here is one that I threw up there for a little test run. I like […]













