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115,261 people like Purina ONE? That’s more people than I would have ever though had TRIED Purina ONE, much less LIKED it. Do they share with their cats? Or do the cats get their own bowl? I wonder how they taste with milk?

Thoughts on Elitism and Speed Runs, or, My Dinner with Thrall

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Last week, Spinks mused a bit over on her blog about the tendency of WoW players to distill every activity down to its most efficient execution, even if some of the players would like things to go more casually. She suggested using some social engineering to gather like-minded players together: Maybe some kind of social … Read more

West Karana goes QR Code!

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[qrcodetag]If you can read this, then welcome to West Karana![/qrcodetag]
[qrcodetag]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat[/qrcodetag]

I’ve been trying to think of cool ways to punch up the look here at West Karana. Professional color schemes? Meh! An enlightened sense of design? BORING!
I had just the solution! What we really are all craving here in the 21st century are more BAR CODES! YES!
I read a LOT of science fiction when I was a kid. One thing that was mentioned again and again, more than flying cars and weekend rocket trips to the Moon, were bar codes. Gotta have them. On the skin of our wrist, or on our home bots, or on the slips of paper the company Compu-Tron used to answer the deep questions, like, what is the exact value of ‘pi’. Just before it spitzensparken and blew up. Blowing up was ANOTHER of those cool future things that happened.

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TV Recap: Mod Squad ep 1, “Teeth of the Barracuda”

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I think I missed a few weeks on my TV recaps. Well, tonight’s is a good one — Mod Squad’s first episode. Set in 1968 (though the novel on which it is based was set in the 50s), Mod Squad follows a mod, a cool cat and a hippie chick as they narc on their friends for Johnny Law. Richard Pryor and a very young Harrison Ford have cameos.
It’s a very sanitized version of the 60s, and it reassured viewers that beneath the beads and day-glo, kids of the so-called counterculture revolution were just good plain folks who would grow up to become Enron executives and investment bankers.
The people who ruined today’s world were the rebellious kids of the 60s. Maybe they should have been concerned?
While writing this, I wondered how this show escaped being turned into a movie. Turns out it WAS — in 1999. Who knew?
Click through for all the thrilling hippie action!

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