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Feb. 22nd, 2008 01:22 amSo I've been sitting on some changes that need to get committed to the great repository of your friends list. Or something.
- Hugh Gallagher is a real person (the one who wrote the famous "I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes" college entrance essay), but as his alter-ego Von Von Von, he produces some honestly catchy smooth synthpop with some quality wordplay. "I don't make mistakes. I'm too busy making love." "Well, Chuck, I can't say I know the ghetto. But I know the ghettoir..." (his album's free on his site!)
- Channel 101. Channel 101! Remember them? (it's okay if you don't). They work like this. There are all kinds of awesome mini-TV-shows here, including classics like Yacht Rock and Sockbaby (which spun off to its own site), and ones you might not have heard of, like Groove Fighters. Also: Channel 101: NY has its own site? This was where Jesus Christ Supercop happened.
- So I'm having occasion to crash-course myself in learning some Japanese... Mark has pointed out the excellent Denshi Jisho online dictionary, which will help you find some words. It even blows up the kanji really big when you mouse over them -- because to me, they look like indistinguishable blocks of squiggles.
- Kanji Converter: cut and paste some Japanese text, and this can spit out the Romaji version -- which you can read, because it's in the Roman character set. But where are you going to get Japanese text that says what you want it to say? The Goog is on it. Either hit up the Language Tools page -- or (新しい！) send a Jabber message to "en2ja@bot.talk.google.com" and it'll write you back with automatic translations. (I've spoken with these guys. They're terrifying and I want to grow up to be them.)
- Hugh Gallagher is a real person (the one who wrote the famous "I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes" college entrance essay), but as his alter-ego Von Von Von, he produces some honestly catchy smooth synthpop with some quality wordplay. "I don't make mistakes. I'm too busy making love." "Well, Chuck, I can't say I know the ghetto. But I know the ghettoir..." (his album's free on his site!)
- Channel 101. Channel 101! Remember them? (it's okay if you don't). They work like this. There are all kinds of awesome mini-TV-shows here, including classics like Yacht Rock and Sockbaby (which spun off to its own site), and ones you might not have heard of, like Groove Fighters. Also: Channel 101: NY has its own site? This was where Jesus Christ Supercop happened.
- So I'm having occasion to crash-course myself in learning some Japanese... Mark has pointed out the excellent Denshi Jisho online dictionary, which will help you find some words. It even blows up the kanji really big when you mouse over them -- because to me, they look like indistinguishable blocks of squiggles.
- Kanji Converter: cut and paste some Japanese text, and this can spit out the Romaji version -- which you can read, because it's in the Roman character set. But where are you going to get Japanese text that says what you want it to say? The Goog is on it. Either hit up the Language Tools page -- or (新しい！) send a Jabber message to "en2ja@bot.talk.google.com" and it'll write you back with automatic translations. (I've spoken with these guys. They're terrifying and I want to grow up to be them.)
