Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

Subprime indeed.

The second best explanation (but the first funniest) of the whole subprime mortgage mess is The Subprime Primer, which involves stick figures and cuss words.
The first was last week’s episode of This American Life.

I know this disc is “rare”, but…

While searching to try (in vain) to find a copy of an old 7″ from a local band in my high school days, I discovered some donkey selling Chimark’s Fifteen Fingered Man EP via the Amazon Marketplace for $100.
I realize there are probably no more than a couple thousand copies of this disc at most, [...]

New Green Line stops announced

Some representatives from the Mass. Office of Transportation announced the proposed locations of the Green Line extension in Somerville and sort-of-Medford.
It’s about time someone from a legitimate office of the Commonwealth said something that suggested a future for this project.

Brookline Stairway Liberation Front

No Stairway? Denied!
People need to reclaim their staircases. The people shall not be denied.

The Fed cut short-term interest rates by a 1/4-point today, down to 2%. At the rate these have been coming, The Fed is going to be paying banks outright to hold our loot by 2009.
I could rant for some time about how the Fed helping out the very banks that created our current economic [...]

A web-based playable version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game by Infocom, located beyond this hyperlink. I spent countless hours in the Beaver Dam Community Library on an Amiga 1000 playing that game. I just spent about 2 hours playing it right now.
As an aside, the City of Beaver Dam’s web [...]

Check Out The Fucking PONCHO!

I remember noticing this the other day while skimming this week’s issue of the Dig (it’s usually too difficult to actually read the whole thing anymore). Someone ponied up for a 1/4 page ad ad put this in the space.
Thankfully, Rod Begbie has an internet-formatted version posted on flickr. Examine it here in [...]

Massachusetts: Ripping Everyone Else Off

The Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism has unveiled its new marketing slogan designed to woo vacationers from the four corners of the world to the fantastic Commonwealth: “It’s All Here“.

If you’re experiencing a sense that you’ve heard that phrase before, well, it’s because you have. Probably often, in fact; it was a tagline [...]

Dear Major League Baseball

Kindly go fucking fuck yourself.
Love,
Tape
P.S. The Harwich Mariners existed before the Seattle Mariners, and I know that the New York Mets actually GIVE their old home whites to the Hyannis Mets, proving your whole argument is bunk.
P.P.S. do not fuck with the Cape Cod Baseball League, or I will find a way to destroy Major [...]

Dan Grabauskas’ successor: FOUND

This kid has already done more “work” than Dan Grabausakas ever has (or will) for the MBTA. He should be given the MBTA GM job immediately, just after Danny’s public hanging at the Parkman Bandstand.