12. September, 2002 - a lighter tone

Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone. Put your LP on a scanner. Run some software. Have digital music. Well, kinda. But I'm sure it'll inspire someone to do a better job. Check the discussion over at slashdot setting the comment-level to 5, and you'll see at least one theoretical discussion. A 600dpi scanner will only give you 5500Hz. Roughly AM radio quality. [instapundit]
How Was The Show is one-time 24 Bar booker David DeYoung's take on local bands. David apparently has time to go to a lot of shows. Brian and I thought about doing "short-attention-span reviews" back when we were seeing three new bands every week at the Cabooze on Tuesdays (which included all the (bad) beer you could drink for $4). If my liver could still handle that sort of stress, it'd be a really keen addition to the blog. [Jim]
CrashBonsai will sell you scale cars to wrap around your bonsai tree. I'd buy one if I had a bonsai, but I don't have the patience to keep a little tiny tree alive. Yeah. I'm not the nurturing type, at least when it comes to vegetation. [boing boing]
Wrecked Exotics [popups] has pictures of expensive wrecked cars. Not bonsai, but they might serve as inspiration if you've got a likely-looking tree. [some mensch]
Comics I Don't Understand I know these are supposed to be funny... but can somebody explain them to me? They pointed to my comments about the Defenestration of Prague and I spotted 'em in the referrer logs. Cool!
If hackers ruled the world. OMFG!!!111222696969 [boing boing]