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Last login: 2 hours agoMlekas: It's not me is a 38 year old married guy from Ballard, Washington, USA.; Likes 1,264 pages, 20 videos, 66 photos • 49 fans • Received 23 reviews; Member since Jul 24, 2006

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Electric Porsche: Jul 16, 11:27pm 1 review cars, porsche, electric-car
http://www.ztac.net/porsche.htm; Crazy project to build an electric car using a 1973 Porsche as the shell. It almost worked.

Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists: Jul 9, 5:57pm 1 review music
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/who-needs-music-labels-lastfm-starts-pay...; yet another reason Last.fm rocks. They are changing the way the music business operates.

Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops: Jul 8, 10:03pm 12 reviews audio, sfx
http://www.soundsnap.com/browse; sounds - effective

Courtney Love Does The Math | Piratpartiet: Jul 2, 10:01am 33 reviews music
http://www2.piratpartiet.se/referenser/courtney_love_does_the_math; coherent rant from Courtney Love about Record company inequity. It is infuriating to see how musicians have virtually no access to compensation for their art.

TG Daily - How a forgotten Intel invention could revolutionize the CPU: Jun 20, 12:00am 5 reviews computers
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-38009-135.html; Embedding DRAM onto the processor. When you're a kid things like this make sense, but you learn about die sizes and stop imagining. Then years later it becomes possible...

From the page: "Intel said that it was able to fine tune its DRAM design and hit a physical clock of 2 GHz using a 65 nm manufacturing process. The resulting 2T-DRAM offers a stunning bandwidth of 128 GB/s. If Intel is successful to take the clock speed up to the level of its QX9770/9775 processors, the bandwidth would climb to 204.8 GB/s. In other words: Intel would gain more than a 10x improvement over its current L2 cache technology. More importantly: This approach would completely change the programming model since there are no longer any concerns over cache misses. "

Hulu - The Writers Room - Full Episodes streaming online for free: Jun 16, 3:57pm 1 review humor, mst3k
http://www.hulu.com/the-writers-room; oh TV's Frank, you've done it again! Only this time you've entered our hearts via the corroded artery of the Internet in The Writer's Room, along with some other funny actors. I think there were other actors, but I was only paying attention to you, TV's Frank.

Ubuntu: Worst Game Ever?: Jun 13, 3:22pm 42 reviews computers, humor
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=30680; love how people take this seriously. Even better is the review of Tuscan Milk, and A Million Random Digits.

TrouserPress.com: Jun 10, 10:29am 31 reviews indie-rock
http://www.trouserpress.com/; well written reviews of indie and alternative, back to the pre-C86 days.

http://www.fodian.net/world/secret/Way_to_Nirvana.jpg: Jun 6, 3:35pm 26 reviews buddhism
http://www.fodian.net/world/secret/Way_to_Nirvana.jpg; question: why does it seem like elephants are always chasing monkeys up the path to nirvana?

answer: monkey mind is the illusion of self we're always chasing. Acknowledging the nature of monkey mind makes it fade, and finally we can leave it behind.

question: So if we're the elephant, then the ultimate aim of practice is to attain Nirvana and give Buddha a ride?

answer: ask the guy flying a streamer overhead.