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CYHSY on NPR’s All Things Considered
All Things Considered has a piece on the Internet hype surrounding Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Here is their timeline:* June 9, 2005: Dan Bierne writes about the band on his MP3 blog. * June 14, 2005: Pitchfork Media posts a review of the song “In This Home On Ice.” * June 15, 2005: Blogger…
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on the Office
Did anyone hear Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s “Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth” tonight on the Office? It was playing in the background at Jim’s party. Like I said before, I think the NBC Office is a great show even though the BBC version is the best TV show ever made. At first they…
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Buried Treasure
As some of you know one of my latest hobbies has been finding old stuff from my parents’ house whether it be old drawings or articles I did for the school paper. I found two things the other day. The first is a set of Wolfenstein maps I drew from the original game. The first…
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Chili
I made the famous chili on Sunday and it turned out great, but I definitely ate too much of it. My stomach almost exploded. Usually I have no problem locating the chipotle chili peppers at the Westmont Plaza Superfresh, but they didn’t have them so Jeanne ran out to Genuardi’s for me. Now that I…
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Bubble Boy
Wow, this is a great story. A guy spent 11 years trying to find the holy grail of toys: Colored Bubbles. He thought he succeeded a few times only to run into snags ranging from staining clothes to chemical burns. In the end, a dye scientists helped him perfect a disappearing dye and the rest…
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Age of Empires 3
Anyone who knows me, knows I’m a huge fan of the Age of Empires series by Ensemble Studios and Microsoft. Age of Empires 3 covers the colonial period and I’m totally hooked on it. Like the others it’s a Real Time Strategy game where you collect resources, build armies, and fight on randomly generated landscapes.…
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Cloud Gate Panorama
You guys know I’m a big fan of Chicago’s Cloud Gate in Millenium Park. Check out this panorama.
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There they saw a ROCK!
Wow. This might be the funniest thing the Family Guy ever did. Granted, it’s old but it’s still funny.
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PBF Brings Back Refridgeron and Magnimus
I don’t think my favorite web comic does this too often, but they brought back their Transformeresque characters Refridgeron and Magnimus. See the original See the new one.
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UTO – Ubiquitous Terrell Owens
I was away for a few days last week and as I was catching up on a few shows via TiVo, I felt like I was watching the same show over and over. Why? Because TV this week was non-stop TO. John Stewart called him a “dick” on the Daily Show Conan talked to him…