and we're back

welcome back everyone! .. well, me, anyway ... i had all of last week off, and i'd like to say i didn't look at a computer once, but fact is i pretty much only watched tv and dicked around on my girl's laptop while she was at work (got some freelance work out the way, but all i had to work in was photoshop 9 and i can't do that much with only the PS) ... watched a whole bunch of marathons ...

not having a working tv for several years now, i'm kinda outta the loop when it comes to the ol' antennaed oracle ... not only with programs but programming ... and, well, what i learned was that most channels opt for showing one program allday,

which was both cool and kinda annoying, cause variety is the spice of life right ? so i pretty much watched the discovery channel, well, more accurately, i had the discovery channel on allday for 3 days straight ...

the marathons played were mythbusters, dirty jobs and man vs nature (? i think thats the name of the show) ... anyway, since this paragraph was tedious and boring, i've tried to make it at least look interesting ... maybe the links to other people's content will be more interesting

methinks its time for a new look for the ol bluntest ...

but in the interim

ray guns! ... From the subtle to the sublime, these pieces of cold-war (and pre-coldwar) sculpture capture both the innocence of childhood imagination and the lingering fears of a generation venturing into a unknown (possibly sinister) future.

maps of africa ... This site features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid 16th Century to the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (or the Africana Library) at Northwestern University.

uhhhh ... can someone who is a bigger nerd then me explain once and for all wtf this is all about ? i see this on livejournal alot, and i don't understand a single thing about them ... is this people setting up sim worlds and then letting them run and seeing what happens? are these their sim "lives" ? just what in the holy name of the jolly green giant is goin on !?

aha! ... i almost had this right last nite ... just how does duck hunt work anyway !? in america, you shoot gun, in russia, gun shoots you!

tofu robot ... is there a law in japan now that states nothing can be made unless its uber-cute or so dark you ponder suicide ?

no one should be so excited to have just recieved a UB40 record