This site has been born out of my frustration in finding a centralized place to locate information on drum and bass in San Francisco. I intend first and foremost to make this a place where you can find and answer to the question: Are there any dnb events in the city tonight/tomorrow/this weekend?

Also I intend to post reviews of shows and clubs that I go to. Stay tuned. The first event I will be going to is this Saturday 9/20 at Underground SF: Bassism

Over the past month, Mexico has seen several incidents of anti-emo bashings and harassment by members of other subcultures like metal heads, skaters, punks and Goths, as well as ordinary working-class adolescents.

Update: WTF, it is on Counterpunch, too?

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
AWSUM THX
VISIBLE FILE
O NOES
INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

Benjamin Stiefel suggested that we invite you to participate in the Joost beta
testing program.

Hi Stu,

I'm watching "P. Diddy - Tell Me [Featuring Christina Aguilera]" on Joost and I knew you'd want to see this too so here is an invite just for you.

Andy: i hooked up with the most beautiful woman last night
me: hah nice
Andy: like, her face was kind of messed up
but her body was absolutely amazing
me: haha
how was her face messed up?
Andy: she sort of had acne
and her nose was kind of crooked

Honda Civic Si. 197 horsepower. 0 - 60 in 6.9 seconds. Slalom as fast as the $86,000 Dodge Viper. Yay.

I wrote up a short article on Wikinews: Thousands in San Francisco protest US wars.

It isn't a great article, and it is pretty short, but it is kind of neat to write your own news. Also, the nice thing is that other people can go in there and edit it - add more information and such.

I don't see anything special here. Why should I buy one of these?

I am giving away an XL Tor shirt. It looked like it had something on it, so I ran it through the wash and it looks great. Anway, just shoot me an email to stu@fourmajor.com with your address and I will ship it out to you for free.

Oh yeah, and here is how I use Tor in Windows. :-)

Some of you may have heard about the mudslide on Leyte island in the Philipines with an estimated death toll of 1,350 people. Many of you haven’t. It happened on Friday, February 17, 2006.

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So depending on your news source, you might get a good sense of the importance of this story. Or you might think it is just a minor occurrence, perhaps judging by a small link to the side with relation to a story that seems much less important. Or you might not even hear about it at all, even if you happen to read the all the links posted on all of the relevant sections on the Washington Post website.

So I went to Macworld yesterday with the EFF. Overall, I wasn't very impressed, but I did get some neato pictures. See below.

Click here for the full album.

Digg.com sucks. My main complaint is that it is filled with stupid people. I posted Rich's link below to digg, and so far it has one digg (by me), whereas a snake getting caught in a spider web (the next entry) has three diggs.

Digg the hell out of it.

CNN.com has launched a new service called CNN Pipeline. I have waited a long time for something like this. What a beautiful concept. On-demand, low-cost, commercial-free, online news. Four simultaneous video streams, three of which are unedited. It is $25 for a whole year. I will be signing up for this when I get home, especially since it has a free trial.

I have always thought that our high-speed Internet connections weren't really being utilized. But now we're getting there. I think we're really seeing the beginning of something big here. If I could get this kind of service for other shows, I would be all over it.

Has anyone ever had any experience in employing a personal assistant, or maybe more accurately, an "errand bitch"?

I was just thinking about how awesome it would be to hire someone for maybe four hours every week or two, for about $12-15/hour. I'd want basic stuff done like ship stuff I sold on eBay, buy random shit at random stores that I need, and make reservations or appointments for me.

Thoughts? Questions? Complaints?

Today, it was announced that Wikipedia is restricting article creation to registered users only. Many might choose to argue one position or the other on this issue. I happen to not feel strongly either way. However, I find the process by which it was decided to be questionable.

A follow-up to the link-o-matic from months ago, "drag your woman around!", we now have Drag your Bush around! Go ahead, get your frustration out.

Here is a list of websites that I find to be best for these basic purposes. New tools are constantly coming out that are later and greater than what is currently out, so this is simply a current snapshot.

weather National Weather Service

maps/directions Google Maps

reference Wikipedia

news Google News

all-in-one homepage Google Personalized Home

sports Yahoo Sports

Do you think I am missing something? I generally give higher points to websites that don't have moving ads and are easy to use.

Original post found on fourmajor.com.

When I started using my own blog instead of this one for general day-to-day crap, the usefulness of this blog to me as far as being an author declined. It was then only useful to me for the amount of comments, as in if I required feedback to a post of mine. After several posts which received few or no comments (as all of the surrounding posts did), I realized that almost all of my content would generally be better suited to my own blog, rather than this one.

Well, this blog still does have a different audience than mine, and probably still at least a few more readers. So now my policy has generally been, if I think something that I write is particularly useful or of high quality, I will post it on my own blog and link to it here, or if it is short enough, simply copy/paste to this blog. Whereas before I was posting here for my own good most of the time, the concept now is that I post here when I think it will be useful for others (barring my recent podcast post).

So my question is: Is this a good policy? Or would you all rather I only posted "original" content here, rather than just linking to my own site, or copying/pasting what I just posted on my site? I don't want to feel like I am just whoring myself out to the EA crowd to get more traffic to my own site.

Well, I don't think this counts as an ad since I am not selling anything:

Advertising is an insult to the intelligence of all of us. We are expected to, and many of us do, buy products based on 30-second snippets that say very little about why a certain product is good.
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Corporate advertisements on public property are endorsements of whatever is being advertised. How can our government possibly endorse the practices of corporations such as McDonalds, which purchased advertising space on subway cars in Washington DC? Could we perhaps personify a corporation? McDonalds has unfair labor practices, and promotes unhealthy eating. Maybe we could replace the images on the subway with a slave owner eating red meat and cheese. Maybe then people viewing the ads would see what is really being shown to them.

From FourMajor.com: Full article here

When a bad thing happens, one often wishes he had done certain things to prepare. But we don't often think about how to prepare for the worst. So, I figured I'd make a list. Please add your thoughts.