A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
Both Flickr and Upcoming.org just announced some really cool new features.
Neat.
Have you seen the YouTube video of the kid ripping up Pachelbel’s Canon on an electric guitar? It’s worth the five minutes if you haven’t.
The NY Times figure it was worth a bit more than that and actually tracked down the guy that did it.
Guitar fanatics are perplexed: “How the hell does he gets his harmonics to sound like that?� Some praise specific components of the performance, including the distortion, the power chords or the “sweet outro.� Overall a consensus emerges: This guy iz great.
“I’m shocked at how much you rock,� one fan said. “Funtwo just pure ownz the world,� said another. “Somebody just beat JerryC at his own song,� tinFold44 said. Carrie34 gushed, “funtwo’s version makes me want to hold up my lighter and *hug* my inner child! :)�
Nice.
Bruce Schneier: What the Terrorists Want
I’d like everyone to take a deep breath and listen for a minute.
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.
And we’re doing exactly what the terrorists want.
What a ridiculously good post!
Farecast.com is probably the coolest travel site I’ve seen yet. It tells you when airfare is going to be cheapest and whether you should go ahead and buy your tickets now for that trip to Las Vegas in November or if you should wait a while for optimum pricing. It can also tell you which departure days (or which destination) will get you the best prices, if your schedule is flexible.
When the beta first launched they only had Seattle and Boston as departure cities, so it wasn’t really useful yet. Now they’ve just added Denver, so they have 55 or so cities. All the destinations I’ve cared about recently are in there.
Check it out if you might be travelling anytime soon.
The second season of one of my very most favoritest shows ever, Prison Break on Fox, premieres tonight.
Tune in, yo.
I actually thought the Jeep Gladiator was a cool concept and probably would have thought at least a little about purchasing one myself.
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