Santa’s on the move!

Santa Claus is on the move.  Finally!   He’s a bit delayed in his rounds as detailed at our site colossal-squid.com

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Colossal Squid is armed for the holidays.

Happy Holidays from Slivka and me.  All the gang got some nice weaponry for the holidays – Ninja sword, axe, brass knuckles among them.  Slivka got a Kill Bill replica sword signed by David Carradine – ideal for that obligatory turkey carving.  Happy holidays everyone!  Thanks for a great 2008.

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LSD and a no-hitter. One (or both) are drug terms. Here’s why they belong together.

Dock Ellis just died.  He was a interesting chap with a passion for social causes and, of course, baseball.  He once told a reporter he wouldn’t start against Vida Blue from the A’s because baseball would never start “two soul brothers” against each other.  He retired in 1979 with a record of 138-119.  

IMHO by far his most interesting achievement is that he threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres in June 1970 while under the influence of LSD (according to his autobiography).  And his most noteworthy achievement was running a drug counseling in Los Angeles.  I miss this guy.

Article on ESPN.com

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World of Warcraft, the President, and that darned shoe.

This thing is making the rounds on the internets.

The original URL is here.

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You’ve been Friended by the long arm of the law …

In what may be a world first, an Australian couple was served with legal docs via Facebook.  Lawyers from Canberra law firm Meyer Vandenberg persuaded a judge in the Australian Capital Territory’s Supreme Court to allow them to serve the documents over the internet after repeatedly failing to serve the papers in person.

Between stuff like this, not paying child support or alimony – you might want to think twice about Friending Mom.

Link to Telegraph.co.uk article

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Tonight I was using my nose on my iPhone. The screen is a mess. What next?

The DOTS iPhone Glove.

I’m ordering the wool model (in monochrome).  BTW – you’re screwed for Christmas.  Sold Out.

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Most Popular Hacks of 2008 (Wii, iPhone, and torrent stuff too)!

Any one of these items I could devote a post to.  Here’s lifehacker’s compendium of favorite mods (with instructions) for 2008.  I will be modding the Wii tonight to play movies.  The iPod Touch mod to telephone might happen after the holidays.  So much to do, so little soldering.

Link to lifehacker

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Social network Pownce was PWND.

Evidently this new economy of ours is now requiring companies to make money.  How uncool.

I find that any web news in mainstream media is noteworthy (versus Fred Shmedlap’s blog or similar) in that it usually gives a rather watered-down and somewhat neophyte read to what’s really going on.  This article actually provides some insights - particularly Microsoft’s play in social media.  Whatever.

Here’s the link to ABCNEWS.com

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If I Die a Bacon-Related Death, I’d Like It to be Because of This

The title to this article says it all.  I gonna try this over the holidays as a Porkmas Yule Log.

I am soooooo not kidding.  

Link to article @ holytaco.com

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Facebook, a boy, Michael Vick, and a cast of 100 Fake Friends.

Here’s an interesting story about a guy who started a Facebook page with a fictitious identity and made 100 “friends” four days.  And he used  a pic of Michael Vick as his profile picture.  It’s fascinating how people may trade their privacy to accumulate more “Friends” than their … well, friends have.

 

Link to anythingtech.net article

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