http://www.wuchess.com/

Rapper and hip-hop producer RZA has launched a web site dedicated to teaching and encouraging people to play chess. In addition to his prolific music career, Bobby Digital is a champion chess player, and the social networking site offers user profiles, live games, and chess scholarships.

MarkWorks?

Mark is your friendly Mac savvy neighbor - always up for helping other people love their Macs more. He has been helping friends and family befriend their Mac for years and has now teamed up with MacWorks to spread the love around Colorado. Mark has a MacBook named Emaline, and is an expert Mac teacher and troubleshooter. He also likes peanut butter, and gadgets (but not together).

Electric Sheep

This total dominating rager from Devon, England told me about this awesome screen saver in the midst of a heavy (heady) convo yesterday. Click the title link to transport yourself there through the fractal tunnel of information known as the interweb. Much love to everyone, take a few extra drops for me at the Bloom. Untz.

"Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience. You can also design your own sheep and submit them to the gene pool."

6/4/08 - Trey wants Phish back
On the heels of widespread rumors that Phish had their first conference-call in four years last Friday (3pm to 420pm), prime lyricist Tom Marshall has told PopMatters.com that "Trey wants to come back" and "No one wants Phish back more than Trey", that he has written more than 15 songs with Trey over the last four months, that the two have "a new energy, a spark", and that they are "bright-eyed and bushy tailed" and "like we're in 8th grade again"

V2.0

ISP’s have resolved to restrict the Internet to a TV-like subscription model where users will be forced to pay to visit selected corporate websites by 2012, while others will be blocked, according to a leaked report

ASS!!!!

Why “Sendentary” Agriculture Happened (Or, Hunter Gathering at Home)