On How Three People Survive Living In The Middle Of Nowhere
Watching "The Thing" (both versions) is a tradition for the over-winterers down in Antarctica right after the last plane out leaves for the winter.
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On A Tour Of Korean Snack Foods
Choco Pies go nuts in North Korea:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2944430&cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist1
I had a massive thing for Choco Pies after the movie Joint Security Area came out:
Lee Byung-hyun: Hyeong…
Song Kang-ho: Thing is, I don’t understand why we can’t make stuff like this in our country.
LBH: Hyeong… hey, you don’t want to go down South? I mean, you could stuff yourself full of choco-pies.
[uncomfortable silence]
YBH: Geez, forget it then.
SKH: Listen, you little bastard, I’m just going to say this once so listen good. I dream of a day when our country will make cookies that taste a thousand times better than South Korean cookies. Got it? But until then, I have no choice but to dream about these cookies.
LBH: Ah, let’s forget about it. You’re all talk anyway…
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On Know Your Internet History! A Chat With Cockeyed's Rob Cockerham
I think it was 1995 when a list of instructions got sent around the university computer system on how to publish a web page, "chmod 755 *" to publish the directory. I recently tried to change the design template from one of my sites made in 1998 and Google rewarded me by flatlining my traffic, I had to go back to the old template? What?
I still use FTP to upload files these days as it is a lot quicker. Have moved on to using gallery software for my photos though, there are just too many of them.
I would cry if I had to migrate all the web pages on my site to a content management system (even though content migration is my job), no point for a personal site.
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On Now No One Is Up: Web's Champ Porno Pervo Finally Ceases and Desists
Dang! I was hoping he would meet his end at the end of sturdy length of chain attached to a boat anchor in San Francisco Bay. 4chan still exists in the world if you really want more of the same.
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On The "Long-Feared Asiatic Colossus" Attacks America's Theaters
I have had a website related to the books in some form for 10+ years - http://tomorrow.timchuma.com (I lost all the traffic when I tried to redesign it.)
Australia has already been invaded in 1788, this is what is discussed in the book and to a lesser extent in the film.
Also the book points out that despite the ANZUS treaty, the USA does not directly intervene in the conflict (New Zealand has to do most of the fighting.)
The last name of the main character is not even revealed until the last book in the original series (there was a follow-up series also though not as popular.)
The first book did make it onto the school curriculum in Australia, although the series' popularity went down after Harry Potter.
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On The Tetris Effect
This better not be a mash-up of "The Wizard" and someone's life story it seems to be. How is Fred Savage these days?
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On Why the Tea Party Hates Occupy Wall Street
This is a glimpse of what the end will look like for Occupy Wall Street
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/occupation-routed-by-enforcers-and-horses-20111021-1mckb.html
In the case of Melbourne, the Queen is visiting on Melbourne and they decided to clean up the square before next week. Could have done without running over people with horses though.
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On The 'NYT' Occupy Wall Street Front Pager Was an Inside Job
Also visible in "Occupy Melbourne" is the Chabad tent with palm fronds on the roof, I'm guessing the anti-Max Brenner protesters made themselves scarce after that.
There was the "convoy of no-confidence" a tea-party style movement led by right-wing commentators, but that only had a couple of hundred trucks and fizzled out after the speeches.
Some old farts turned up and yelled abuse at federal parliament when the carbon tax passed.
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On My Superpower Is Being Alone Forever
You left out the part about online dating sites being a huge sausage party to the point that any female members get perks like free messaging/profile upgrades that some unscrupulous users take a licence to rip people off.
You are still a youngster, 29? Meh! Try another eight years on top of that.
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On The Oddball 80s Magic Of "Battle Of The Video Games"
@SpyMagician Its too hard to find parts for the original Space Invaders these days. A lot of the machines are just MAME in a cabinet any way so in theory you could have any game.