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Penny-Arcade has a delightful comic about people who overuse Twitter, the service that has essentially replaced the LiveJournal-style “and then I ate some fish, and it was good” missives. Now, instead of just being angsty to your closest friends, you can be angsty AND deliver your every bowel movement to the Internet.

After reading today’s xkcd I actually laughed out loud at work – which was surprising because the comic had been rather lame until the last frame. Gotta love Python – the language that takes everything and still manages to spit out functional programs. Too bad the lead up was weak.

Hit the link for the full comic.

xkcd – “New Pet”

The new track is called Discipline and was released straight to radio stations yesterday, this track was whipped up by Trent Reznor and tossed out in short order from what I’ve heard. Its not readily available on the net yet, so who knows how long we’ll be able to offer it!

Take a listen to the full song here:

[audio:http://chaser.homeip.net/music/discipline_full.mp3]

Can’t say its the best song from NIN, but its new and its not really out there yet [hence the low quality]. Hit the link for a download.

NIN – Discipline [mp3]

Update: Added a new category for music and fixed the tags.

From the Metaquotes community at LiveJournal, likely found through Boing Boing: Shakespeare meets Pulp Fiction.

J: How passing strange, for I have traveled far,
And never have I heard tell of this What.
What language speak they in the land of What?
B: What?
J: The Queen’s own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?

FreeCommander is a Windows utility similar to Midnight Commander on *nix systems. Check it out if you’re into heavy or repetitive filesystem operations.

I’ve often used ExplorerXP on Windows systems to provide a better version of Windows Explorer for file management, but I’ve recently had issues with file rename and copy operations. FreeCommander has filled this gap nicely. One of the things these utilities do best is display a “complete folder size” next to each entry, useful for finding folders that no longer contain the content you want.

Judge Jake episode 3 is now available, predominantly focusing on Warren’s exceptional ability to fail it on a friend’s birthday. Other topics of interest include

• A recent business exam and how “The Sound of Music” is an inappropriate ringtone
• How I feel about “Internet girlfriends”
• A brief review of Simple Plan’s newest album (they still suck)

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Listen now:

[audio:http://jakebillo.com/files/podcast/jj03.mp3]

Another YouTube video, but damn if it doesn’t remind me of some productions I was involved with in high school. (Hint: Sexist ad for coffee!)

At least seven people have recently searched on Google and arrived at this site for the phrase “soulja boy = moral decay.” I couldn’t agree more.

I was forced into accessing a MySpace page to listen to an upcoming band, and my opinion of the site hasn’t changed. Pages blare music at you; inert backgrounds chew up CPU; and the comments section is filled with “thanks for the add” and fifteen-year old girls that look suspiciously like the one from Your Scene Sucks.

What I find funny… and sad, in a way, is that all external links that aren’t on a whitelist of sites get gated through a splash page at msplinks.com. This is probably old news. It basically says, “don’t give out your username and password.” Are the users really that stupid, or is MySpace’s technology made of that much fail?

So were any of you looking forward to the Rogers BlackBerry and PDA data plan changes? A recent update to that thread noted that the changed rates have been delayed indefinitely. For now, the best choice for data usage is the Telus PDA offer, which is now $30 per month for unlimited data (but not text messaging.)

The upcoming Q2 2008 service changes should make bundling voicemail and caller ID slightly more worthwhile – for $11 per month, you get:

Caller ID
Enhanced Voicemail
Name Display
Who Called
Mobile Backup
125 Text Messages

Considering caller ID and name display are about $9 per month by themselves, this will probably be the extra “standard package” to consider for light text messaging users. There are a few other Communicate Packs listed in the thread. Expect these packages to go live around May 6th.

Oh, and you can now get 1GB of BlackBerry data for $100 per month. Awesome!

…NOT.