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Would you take a look at that? It seems the Bare Naked Ladies are keeping a blog. I’m not sure why I think that’s so cool, but it is. Isn’t it?

More bands should do stuff like this. It seems like a good way to keep the “feel” of a personal relationship with the fans.

Thanks Biz.

Well, now there is a coincidence. I was just mentioning to somebody that I’d like to eventually go see Ireland, and what do I happen upon but a bunch of Time Lapse Road Movies that allow you to take a road tour of Ireland as well as Spain and Australia and a whole bunch of other places.

And, it’s all that funny, funny fast action stuff that the world has loved since at least the days of the little tramp.

So, I’ve got this Random Blog link. A lot of times, when I’m half watching TV, I’ll just randomly bounce around from blog to blog.

Thing is that persianblog and all of its various users have started pinging blo.gs (as well as weblogs.com) like a lot. So it seems like every 1 in 10, 1 in 5, I get a Persian blog.

That would be fine except that my browser takes forever to load that character set. Plus, I can’t read Persian, and the designs always totally suck so there’s nothing to see there.

If I’m not getting a Persian blog, I’m getting some high school kid who’s using their site as an extended chat board. These almost always feature some extremely non-optimized anime graphic, an obnoxious and unreadable color palate, and text in some frame somewhere that is impossible to read/scroll.

It seems I only hit on a site I even bother trying to read about 1 in 30 or 40, and I only find one I’ll bookmark like 1 in every 250. I need a better and more targeted random blog script.

The Dream Project looks like it has some potential. As near as I can tell, people write about and even narrate their dreams. These “tellings” serve as inspiration for artists who create images to go along with it.

The goal is to create a map of our collective unconscious in what must be some sort of Jungian, archetypal kind of thing.

I rarely remember my own dreams. I remember actually remembering a dream maybe a half dozen times, and most of those have faded with time. The few I do remember always seem to involve snakes. Any Freudians in my audience are free to make of that what they will.

Coincidentally enough though, a few weeks ago, I was drifting off in that boarder between sleep and waking, and I was startled back into awareness by a dream in which I was eating the brains of human babies.

Sick, I know, and as you might expect, they tasted gross and very unpleasant. It was sort of a green, bitter flavor. I’m pretty sure this is because that night I had stuffed myself at dinner, and although I was thoroughly full and even slightly sick, I still ordered and ate an ice cream sunday.

I think I must have been feeling guilty about giving in to my inner sweet tooth when I so obviously didn’t need any extra calories, so my brain took something delicious like ice cream and made it something disgusting like little tiny baby brains. Come to think of it, maybe it’s a good thing I don’t remember most of my dreams. My subconscious must be a remarkably dark and foreboding place to hang out.

Oh, now This I like. Yep, I like it a bunch. I’ve downloaded my PSD file, and I shall have to give the design of my appartment some serious consideration.

By the way, did you know that Quicktime will display layred PSD files inside of IE 5.1 for the Mac? No, I didn’t either. That’s kind of cool.

Thanks K10K for cluing me into my future, virtual home.

Nice to see medical science making progress with understanding Alzheimer’s. If there is a disease out there that scares me to no end it would have to be that one. I can’t even imagine how frustrating it must be to have something as fundamental as yourself betray you like that.

The Wired article also has this to say

In contrast, medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating Alzheimer’s merely boost a patient’s remaining brainpower.

Anybody know how I could get some of those. I’d like to boost my remaining brainpower. Can they also make a pill that will make me pretty and charming?

I’m not sure what’s going on with Indigen. Well, I know there’s some pretty graphic cartoon style violence, and some interestingly rendered 3D work (picture Wallace and Gromit meets Itchy and Scratchy, but in Africa), but outside of that, I don’t have any idea.

It’s a major download, so only try it if you’ve got a big pipe.

The Video for Bright Eyes song “Bowl of Oranges” is pretty interesting. It’s a little like claymation except they appear to be using yarn and cut out pieces of paper. Pretty cool, go check it out (site requires free registration).

I don’t know that I agree with this, but it’s interesting all the same. The premise is that we talk about navigating when we mean understanding.

I suppose it depends on the context, but generally, I’m not interested in understanding a web site. There are particular answer(s) to particular question(s) that I’m interested in finding, but that’s a very different thing.

Where I am interested in the complete navigation structure of a site, I think of it in terms of an outline, so regardless of how it’s layed out or how the nav structures are revealed to the user, I see it as a directory tree. I wonder if less experienced users approach it from a different perspective.

I would expect to find Look At me to be very compelling. But, most of the photos I ducked in to look at were all posed.

I find posed photos way less interesting than candids. Who wants to see people being self-aware? Well, unless they are VERY self aware (NSFW). Which is interesting in entirely other ways - though not the ways you might expect. Look At Me via amberglow Naked via MeFi.

Update: Both Two out of three times I typed “Look At Me” above, I capitalized “Look” and “At”, but not “me”. Freudian? The Angle of typing with my computer on my stomach and my arm in bent by the back of the couch in a weird way? Just thought it was interesting.