Category: Links

I’m too lazy to entertain you all the time; so sometimes I just point you at the good stuff.

As you know, the iTunes music store gives away a free single every week. Well, I was just over poking through their iMixes section and found this list which has a listing for all the free songs. Unfortunately, the songs are only free for a limited time; so you should check out the list right away to get the latest new, free song.

I’ve not seen this movie yet but part of me wants to because I think I might enjoy it as a B-movie with a huge budget. I’ve heard reviews from several of my friends about how utterly wretched it is, but that’s just making me want to see it more (and laugh at it’s foolishness). Bryon got around to watching it recently and he was cracking me up talking about it; which reminded me of a post on SEB. I went and got the link from SEB to Occupation: Girl’s Van Helsing in 15 minutes. It’s flipping hilareous!

Mandolux
I heard via Mac Observer that Mandolux had some new images up took a look and really liked the one of the cat’s eye. Though I have to say the website needs some help; I mean really, dark grey text on a black background?. I then started playing around with the URL to see if Mandolux has any archives (because I’m pretty sure I got my previous wallpaper from the site) and much to my delight, I ended up finding them under this page. *happy, happy*

Update – 08 May 2004, 2:53 pm (-06:00 GMT): Well, I’ve pretty much gone through all the pics on Mandolux and didn’t find my current desktop image. *sigh* I was really hoping I would; so I could find something similar to it. But after looking at the file names, it became less likely that my old desktop image was from this site as they were completely different (e.g. mandolux-egypt-03-1280.jpg vs. 0D0T0900-2-1280.jpg).

I was over at Kuro5hin and ran across an article titled How-To: Write your doctoral thesis. I’ve never felt a desire to go for a doctorate in anything, but I’ve had friends who have gone down that path of insanity, so I gave the article a quick look through and found it’s a rather funny piece. Here’s a sample:

HOKAY, SO: You’ve been a slave for untold years. You want to enter the glamorous world where you can be pretentious and have people call you doctor. You want to have a silly hat and a cape. But to reach these goals, you need to produce a doctoral thesis.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘doctoral thesis’ as: A completely worthless document that will not be read, but which is apparently important to someone, because it requires nearly impossible tasks to complete. This definition is spot on.

Another particularly good bit from near the end of the article:

It is a well known fact that the three body problem of celestial mechanics has no solution. For you, it is worse: you must get five professors to be in the same room, at the same time, and with as little animosity towards you as possible. Hint that free booze will be offered post-defense.