Just a Gwai Lo - fun within prescribed limits

It's been a while since I've done a linkdump. A combination of open tabs, bookmarks, and browser history contributed to this one:

• You have bad taste in music: a guy with a megaphone berates queues at rock concerts for their horrible listening habits. Humour ensues. (The one for Staind is the funniest.)
• Technosexual and AlterNet story on the phenomenon. Will the madness please stop?
• Darren points to a man who is pimping his virginity on the Internet. As if. I point out in Darren's comments an excellent article on involuntary celibacy which I linked to earlier in the year.
• I took a photo of kites in Vanier Park that I'm very happy with. Same goes for the photo of spare Ambrosio bicycle tire rims at Tour de Gastown last week. Roland took a really great photo of two racers warming up.
• If I never get to ripping apart Newsweek's terrible article on "infidelity", it would include saying this: for an article that condemns the double-standard towards women "cheating" on their husbands, it sure does focus quite a bit on the women side of things, and negatively so. And if so many people are "cheating", doesn't that say something about the legitimacy of the rules?
• a blast from the past: Heather's reaction to someone who felt it was an accomplishment to stay single for 30 days. I know about whom she's referring, but I believe the item in question is now offline. My reaction to it was something along the lines of, If you think it's amazing being alone for a month, try it for the better part of a decade.
• Breakup News, a weblog devoted to keeping track of non-famous romantic splits, and So.There, anonymous letters to people you know both seem like interesting projects, as does tired.com, a site with only an email address and a question [back-story] and You Whores, where you can buy and sell anything for any price. Yes, anything. Yes, for any price.
• Steph's story about someone mishearing what she said and her quick-thinking is funny because you have to be a geek to understand the last bit of it.

• Andy “Hankering after things that are out of reach only makes you dissatisfied, so after a while you build a high wall so that you can’t see them any more and that way you don’t get so dissatisfied. You don’t notice the rut, because everyone living your side of the wall has their own rut.” I wrote something similar the other night, something about intimidation. But...
• ..Betsy Devine says it's not a good idea to blog about your personal crap if you're name is #1 in a search for your name, or if you link to your personal crap from a site that is #1 for your name.
• Michael Kimmelman thinks that elitists should be in charge of a Sept. 11th memorial. The argument isn't very well-written, but the most of the controversial art—controversial because it challenged the contemporary regime in such a way that made that art long-lasting—were either commissioned or done one one's own dime without it being put to a vote. Any corrections or elaborations on this broad generalization of art history are welcome.
• Aaron Friedman thinks that car alarms are seriously annoying (I would have gone with "fucking annoying", but it's a family newspaper). There's one that goes off near my apartment complex, and it only goes off around 2 AM or so. I actually considered posting an angry note, but that just escalates the anger of all involved: “False alarms enrage otherwise lawful citizens, and alienate the very people car owners depend on to call the police.”

Not a whole lot this time.

Just clearing out some old bookmarks. The ones that are crap were (and will be) deleted before being blogged here. The good ones are blogged here then deleted. Got it? Good.

• In/flux Mixoff: a site with MP3s of members of the In/flux mailing list which, while ostensibly about DJ Shadow, ended up just being a list of DJ Shadow fans talking about mostly music. I've been subscribed to it for a good 6 years now. The premise of the site: take some samples provided beforehand and make a new song. Be sure to check out Mixoff 2 and Mixoff 3. Evidently there are no files left for Mixoffs 4 and 5.
• Crut: the product of this guy, who probably has more records than you. More obscure too. Smartest guy with regards to music I can think of.
• Gemm, which purports to be the world's largest catalog of music. They probably have a good case, and if you're looking for that CD single you once saw in a record store but couldn't justify buying until now (well, if you're reading this, then odds are you know how to get the MP3), Gemm is a good place to start.
• Library jobs in the Northwest; Oregon. I had this grand scheme that I was going to get my MLIS and work in the States via NAFTA. (You didn't know you could work in the United States as a librarian through NAFTA? Well, now you do.)
• Some sites I researched for webhostings: Aletia Hosting; tera-byte.com; and One on One. It appears Aletia offers a better deal than the one I'm currently getting with Vervehosting, but the cost in time to transfer everything over and get everything up and running again outweighs any savings gained.
• Transit in B.C.; B-Line study in Vancouver. I was a big transit nerd, and even contemplated a transit weblog at one point.
• Stuff that looks really great but I don't have the time/energy/both: .boy.; Things a Man Should Know; sodaconstructor [MeFi discussion]

Updated throughout the evening.

• Jay has some thoughts and links about the upcoming Buy Nothing Day.
• Room 209, a cute weblog written by second graders.
• Interesting discussion on difficult users, i.e. trolls.
• A girl licking an accordion. Some people are into that kind of thing, evidently.
• On living with one's parents: “Your love life? Perhaps an even more disastrous topic than it was in earlier eras. Especially when your friends, siblings, relatives, and co-workers have long since happily married and are living in their own homes.”
• The Washington Post's Sunday Outlook and Washington Post Magazine need RSS feeds, not to mention The New York Times Magazine. Other feeds for The New York Times are available, however.
• Maps and Territories: my Geography class this semester turned me into a map nerd.
• Instapundit on sex. I've been reading his weblog a lot lately.
• Websites that I don't have the patience to read, but feel the need to increase their spread: Ladder Theory; Fast Seduction; and 123 EFT. I was page-slapped the last two by a reader who thought I needed to change my ways.
• Kevin Marks spoofs John C. Dvorak.