exercise your right to vote.

2008 marks the 30th anniversary of the bookseller's diagram prize. the bookseller, a british magazine, began running a poll in 1978 for the "oddest book title of the year." the first ever winner of the prize was a book called "proceedings of the second international workshop on nude mice." a must-read, i'm sure.

and without further ado, this year's nominees are:

"i was tortured by the pygmy love queen" by jasper mccutcheon

"how to write a how to write book" by brian paddock

"are women human? and other international dialogues" by catharine a. mackinnon

"cheese problems solved" by p.l.h. mcsweeney

"if you want closure in your relationship, start with your legs" by big boom

"people who mattered in southend and beyond: from king canute to doctor feelgood" by dee gordon


the winner will be announced march 28 so hurry up and vote.

clearly an expert on the subject.

poor kyle kendrick.

there's a lot of free time during major league baseball spring training. that's why almost the entire philidelphia phillies organization pulled an elaborate prank on 2nd-year pitcher kyle kendrick. they got everyone involved from the phillies' manager, to sports media, and even kendrick's agent. the synopsis is that kendrick gets called into manager charlie manuel's office and is told that he's being traded to japan's yomiuri giants for a player named kobayashi iwamura and that he's leaving tomorrow. kendrick is pretty much just in shocked silence for most of the video. i think the best part about the whole thing is despite the sheer number of people involved, no one gives it away. it's pretty amazing.

the world is my canvas.

i stumbled on a website via the serif about a quarky guy named stavros that creates what he calls "position art." what happens is he walks around with his gps enabled nokia phone and tracks where he's going. the path he walks creates a single line, and with this he can create simple images on the world. i don't even know how he came up with this, but it's pretty interesting. check it out at www.theworldismycanvas.com

a retrospective of my life through google maps.

more free time at work.

the rarest items in the world, by category.

logo evolution.

the evolution of tech companies' logos.

it's not like i've been doing anything with my time.

damn, i missed the entire month of january on this thing. oh well, it's not like this is a "real" post anyway. more like a bulleted list of happening things.

-tomorrow i start my first salary job at harper house in dallas. it'll be interesting for sure.
-hooray! the patriots did not win the super bowl! i hate sports teams and fans from boston.
-my current engaged friends/married friends count on facebook is 43 engaged and 64 married.
-i had a job at uno's pizza in downtown fort worth for a few weeks. it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.
-super smash bros brawl comes out for the wii on march 9. yes, i'm stoked. yes, i'm a nerd. and yes, i reserved it at gamestop.
-the new animal planet logo sucks.
-because of this effin writer's strike going on, i need a suggestion for a new tv show to start watching from season 1. i'm considering house, 30 rock, and weeds right now.
-speaking of the strike, this is a pretty good ad.
-i updated the links on the right-hand side of your screen.

yeah, that's about it for now. hopefully i'll pick up blogging fairly regularly again.