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For all you folks still in the Berkeley/San Francisco area, if you’re interested, go check out my friend Katie Saxon’s singing trio from the University of Oregon who will be performing in Berkeley this Saturday: “Real Gothic Death Metal: Secular Songs of the 14th Century.” 7:30pm, September 25th at the Dzogchen Community West 2748 Adeline Street, Suite D, Berkeley, CA 94703 $10 at the door, $5 students and seniors www.sospiro.org

“Macs are the shit,” Ledy said. “They’re the easiest to use and Apple’s interface is just so slick. [By comparison] XP looks like Fisher-Price.” “First iPods, Now Computers: Apples Are In” By Owen Hearey Columbia Daily Spectator September 22, 2004

From Boing Boing: WASHINGTON (AP) — A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam – formerly known as singer Cat Stevens – was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said. United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security…

Somehow, Sacha Baron Cohen, in the guise of a British would-be gangsta with a penchant for malapropisms and misunderstandings, managed to secure another passel of interviews with people like former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman (who conceded that, yes, whale feces “have got to be massive”) and archconservative Patrick Buchanan (who said that Saddam Hussein “was using BLTs on the Kurds”). In one episode, Richard Kerr, a former deputy director of the CIA, found himself debating whether terrorists could drive…

My first foray into photography. Wired News publishes my photo essay on the ArtBots festival in Harlem last weekend.

So courtesy of Lane, I got a quick trip up into Connecticut. He was taking some Japanese friends living in NYC to visit life outside the city. I hung with Heidi and Martin while the four of them went canoeing and various other things in the Litchfield, CT area. All went well on our way back in our rented PT Cruiser until we hit Armonk, NY and Lane’s friend who was driving said that the accelerator wasn’t working right, roughly…

Say what you will about Barry Bonds, but reaching 700 HRs is no small task. Congratulations, Barry. However, I bet this guy feels dumb now. Six months ago, the Dodgers sold Michael Mahan nearly $25,000 worth of tickets. Now, like an unwelcome home run ball hit by a visiting player, they’d like to throw the whole deal back. Mahan, 28, a Los Angeles investment banker and lifelong Dodger fan, bought every seat in Dodger Stadium’s right-field pavilion for two of…

Well, I didn’t make the Wind Ensemble. But I did hear some people who I think live on my floor playing chamber wind music last weekend, so maybe I can get together with them. So it goes. This week has been our first week of regularly scheduled classes and assignments and such. So here’s what my schedule looks like: Monday: RW1 (9 am – 1 pm) Tuesday: All-Class Lecture (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm) Wednesday: War Reporting (6 pm –…

Happy New Year to all my Jewish peeps! Courtesy Accordion Guy:

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