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Sipped an overpriced latte at SFO while waiting for Richard Branson's finest to ferry Jo and I back to the UK.

^ Related, and indeed covering the Well was the (BBC) Radio 4 Series The Secret History Of Social Networking Episode 1 (of 3) Covers the early days Interviewees include: Lee Felsenstein, co-founder, Community Memory Larry Brilliant, co-founder, The WELL Stewart Brand, co-founder The WELL Howard Rheingold, early WELL user, author of The Virtual Community John Perry Barlow, early WELL user, co-founder Electronic Frontier Foundation Marc Weber, founding curator, Computer History Museum Andrew Weinrich, founder, SixDegrees.com Jonathan Abrams, co-founder, Friendster Good article on Episode 1 : Hackers and Hippies Available for download as podcasts.

Maybe he means the incongruity of listening to active monitors fed by a digital source while washing the scratch in a slab of plastic before dragging a rock through it ... Or something

There's lots of nuclear money shots in "Trinity and Beyond", now available on Blu-Ray, etc

This FUuuuuuu....

^ Not one of your 'special' headphone videos, Ari?

^ already been done. Use any of the available web/iPad/ios/android front ends as a controller (e.g iPeng ) or use it as the player and AEX, or appleTV as the output device ...

A sad, but not totally unexpected day. Take some time and read the all too familiar tale of a squandered opportunity here Too expensive for the mass market, too cheap for audiophiles, too flexible for marketing to get their heads around: too bad. Maybe the future is renting / streaming from the cloud, or playing in a walled garden ... Or maybe it's putting a software player on a raspberry pi, driving a USB DAC ... Nothing stops the existing hardware and software functioning today .. ( or tomorrow, in a VM going forward ... ) * sigh *

^ Approve. Glad you are dealing with your Bacon Deficit in such a creative manner. http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/culturefeed/dynamo-donuts-bacon-maple-numbers/ Further research may be required

Carl, old news Strippers look to GOP to 'make it rain' http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/politics/tampa-gop-strip-clubs/index.html Or Some comments ... the reason they aren’t going is because leftwing activists are camping outside every strip club in the area with cameras looking to get pics of important GOPers going in…the RNC has issued orders for no members to go to titters…to not give libs any ammo ... Fuckd up world we live in where a politician can’t go get a lap dance and donate some of that donation money to hard working single moms. Shit ain’t right.

^ Lake Wobegon is characterized as "the little town that time forgot, and the decades cannot improve," and as the town "where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."

Happy Birthday Sir!

Stay safe, Floridians Al, Have no fear, I'm sure we can address your Bacon Deficit at some point in the future. Esperanza was so joyful, a rare treat indeed.

A Ginger Clause?, That's just ... wrong ..

As some Parisian prep. Chévre Chaude

Joanne and I met up with Al and Claire For a meal, then this Nice ceiling! EDIT: Al seemed to enjoy his time back in the real world, and the meal included the consumption and discussion of Bacon

Speaking of Speeding Prii, I saw one on the highway with a radar detector. Obviously the aspiring hypermiler missed the significance of v2 in

^They used to be called Green Shield Stamps in the UK http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/green_shield_stamps/Green_Shield_Stamps.html stamps, you got when buying things That you stuck in books, when full, to redeem, for "exciting consumer products"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_bacon_donut http://wishyouwerehe...bacon-maple-bar

Apple / Samsung Jury Bingo ... apple-samsung-jury-verdict-form-may-blow-your-minds

Happy Birthday Matt. And if I don't see you no more in this world I'll meet you in the next one But don't be late, don't be late

Another fine reason to attend the Austin HC Meet http://www.baconaustin.com/

Jeff Mentioned this place ... http://www.baconaustin.com/ if you needed another reason

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Double-Bacon-Wrapped-Corndog-Huge-Hit-at-Iowa-State-Fair-166719836.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g64GXHzB7tk