The Minimax

The Mini-Max
Originally uploaded by sindy

In Seattle for the weekend. While settling into my hotel room, found the “intimacy kit” provided by the good people at the Hotel Max, complete with the “minimax.” (Actually, my friend found it while nosing around my room.) Apparently, my pleasure is their pleasure.

(Sorry for the blurry image; I’m on cameraphone until I find a USB cable.)

UPDATE 4.19.2008: Uploaded a better photo. Click to zoom in on the details.

links for 2008-04-19

• Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest - Yahoo! News
  (tags: law privacy)

Over $4.00

Over $4.00
Originally uploaded by sindy

It’s official: gas prices are over $4.00 per gallon (at least for premium). Taken in the Palo Alto/Mountain View, CA area. President Bush should have been paying more attention to those rumors.

links for 2008-04-16

• Wired Campus: New Batch of RIAA ‘Settlement’ Letters Sent to Campuses May Be Biggest Yet - Chronicle.com
  (tags: copyright file-sharing law education)
• Wired Campus: Notes From an Online College Fair - Chronicle.com
  (tags: education)
• Wired Campus: U. of Southern California Student Recreates Guantánamo Camp, Shackles and All - Chronicle.com
  (tags: politics virtualworld)
• Wired Campus: Boston U. Students Tell Judge: Recording Industry Group Uses Unsavory Business - Chronicle.com
  (tags: file-sharing education law)
• Wired Campus: At Least 86 Campuses Have Been Hit in E-Mail ‘Phishing’ Scam - Chronicle.com
  (tags: education security)
• Wired Campus: Should a Facebook Poster Be Liable for a Party That Became a Riot? - Chronicle.com
  (tags: socialnetworking education law)
• Wired Campus: Potential Setbacks for the RIAA in File-Sharing Suits - Chronicle.com
  (tags: file-sharing law)
• Wired Campus: Court Protects Students — for Now — in Battle With Music Industry - Chronicle.com
  (tags: file-sharing law privacy rights education)
• Wired Campus: Johns Hopkins U. Health Database Blocks Searches for ‘Abortion’ - Chronicle.com
  (tags: censorship health education library)
• Wired Campus: AT&T Asks Colleges for New Cellphone Ideas - Chronicle.com
  (tags: education wireless mobile)
• Wired Campus: Indiana U. Engineer Finds Security Flaw in Popular Internet-Connected Copy Machine - Chronicle.com
  (tags: security education internet)
• Wired Campus: More (Unintentionally) Funny Student E-Mail Messages to Professors - Chronicle.com
  (tags: socialnetworking education)

links for 2008-04-15

• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Text Messages That Would Have Been Helpful.
  (tags: humor history)

links for 2008-04-14

• Essay About Love and Literary Taste - Books - Review - New York Times
  (tags: books dating)

Mexicali

I got a promotional email from Old Navy today with the following subject line:

Mexicali Styles for Women Starting at $24.50, Plus Free Shipping

Is it just me, but isn’t “Mexicali” a derogatory term? This is just like Cheese Nips.

IdeaFarm™, part 3: Return of the Truck

IdeaFarm™
Originally uploaded by sindy

Just when I thought this chapter: was over, the IdeaFarm™ truck reappears! I saw it parked on the corner of Castro St. and El Camino Real. Looks like the website is back up too– and chock full of stuff.

links for 2008-04-04

• Monkey See, Monkey Doo-Doo: How VOGUE “Honoured” LeBron James by Smearing Black People with White Supremacy & Gorilla Feces — Media Assassin
  (tags: race history)