.: Above The Aether :.

May 25th is officially Towel Day, a tribute to the late Douglas Adams, writer of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Do something mostly harmless today. -Dave

What is woot? From the website: Woot.com is an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap. It started as an employee-store slash market-testing type of place for an electronics distributor, but it’s taken on a life of its own. We anticipate profitability by 2043 – by then we should be retired; […]

From Laughing Squid Blog: Improv Everywhere is a group of pranksters based out of New York City who have been “causing scenes” in public since 2001. Their lastest mission took place last month when 80 of their agents showed up at the Best Buy store in Union Square wearing blue polo shirts and khakis, which […]

If you haven’t checked out Google Notebook, you should check it out. It’s a pretty cool plugin for browsers (it works in Fire Fox, which I use most often and Internet Explorer as well) that allows you to copy and paste text and photos from web pages and save them for later. This would be […]

I’m headed to a web conference in San Francisco for several days in June. The conference is being run by some famous web gurus and will feature topics such as design, usability, eye-tracking studies, project planning & implementation, rich content, etc. I’m pretty excited about the trip and the chance to nerd-it-up with some fellow […]

Click to watch the Video. This is pretty funny. -Dave

I have one more payment on my Xterra before it is completely paid off. I don’t remember what it’s like to NOT have a car payment. -Dave

June 3rd, 2006 the Air Guitar Championships will be visiting Austin, TX to find some contenders for the June 22nd finals held at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. No, you do not need to know how to actually PLAY the guitar. You only need to LOOK like you are playing the guitar. Rock […]

I had a dream the other night that I was living back in Golden, CO and standing in the parking lot in front of my old apartment complex. A large car (a Lincoln or a Cadillac I think) slowly begins backing toward me, and the person inside doesn’t see me. I try to get the […]

I read this rant by CB Shapiro on BoingBoing. It’s fantastic. Here’s a link to the post and the rant is below. There’s been some ink spilled lately denigrating so called ‘angry liberals,’ that is, people who have allegedly lost their right to be taken seriously because they are ‘angry.’ And they are ‘liberal.’ Well, […]