I was almost as happy to rediscover Don Hertzfeldt's Ah, L'Amour! on you tube as I was when I first stumled across it a few years back (at which point I proceeded to watch it far more frequently than could possibly be normal).

Apparently Don's company, Bitter Films, is putting out a DVD compilation of all his work thus far this August (which might have something to do with his sudden appearance on you tube [Update: Or not. The video seems to've been DMCA'd.]). I'm not sure if I really need a DVD, but this t-shirt is kinda calling my name.

At any rate, for your viewing pleasure…here's Ah, L'Amour:

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I'm so excited about this: You can opt out of those pesky credit card offers.

I get anywhere from 2 to 6 pre-approved offers per week (most of which are inexplicably from citibank, even though I already have their dividend card), so I've been wondering about this for awhile—and I can't believe I didn't bother to look it up earlier, because lifehacker's known about it for awhile.

Rob's torn (and accepted) application

Aside from wanting to save trees perhaps more than the next guy, I've always been paranoid about throwing these offers away, no matter how much I tear them—especially after all the publicity that Rob Cockerham's fun torn-up credit card application experiment got. Remember? He got a credit card to a changed address on an application that's about as torn as mine ever get before they make it to the trash. Spine-chilling.

Giorgio Agamben

"…the harmony between sound and sense that defines the very site of poetry."

"…poetry is defined by a constitutive disjunction between the intellect and language in which, while language speaks without comprehending ("almost moved by itself"), the intellect comprehends without being able to speak."

—"'Corn': From Anatomy to Poetics," The End of the Poem

Yesterday a colleague pointed out something conspicuously absent from google's various pages—any reference to The National Day of Slayer.

Like most compulsive internet addicts, you're probably aware of how google enjoys "dressing up" its logo for holidays or special occasions. In case you're from the past, google even keeps a gallery of it's special holiday logos. As you can see, google's Dennis Hwang has decorated the company's logo for completely bogus holidays, including the birthdays of people whose names no one can pronounce and whose contributions to society only eggheads like those crazy founders of the paradigmatic dot-com could remember anyway.

But if you had occasion to visit the google homepage yesterday, you would have seen nothing commemorating the important, once-in-a-millennium holiday that took place yesterday!

Clearly, google's power has gone straight to its founders' already rather-large heads. They think they can foist a celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday upon their billions of users just because *they* like to listen to classical music—while ignoring the vital cultural contributions of Satanic speed metal!

Why, google? Why??? It would have been so easy.

*Reading this post is not recommended for those with an underdeveloped sense of irony and may result in choking, severe injury, or the mistaken impression that the author gives a hoot about either slayer or what google does with its logo. Kenspeckle.net and Lauren Sperber may not be held liable for these or any other undesirable consequences. My apologies, however, do go out to newsbusters.