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Mars Need Shirts

Old Buddy Dave asks:

What if I wanted to get 100 t-shirts with a simple logo to show up in Seattle on Thursday, and didn’t mind spending some money to do it. Do you think there’s a way to do it? Seems for enough money there must be a way to do it.

Man, where were people like you 12 years ago! I mean, this is pretty much the kind of question people would ask me, though there was never any mention of money, and I occasionally I had more than 4 days to do it.

This is what you do: Find someone with time on their hands, who happens to be a friend, or likes you, or wants money. Give them the design, or have them do the design, burn a screen, get the shirts, ink, etc. (it will help if they have a screen-printing machine, homemade or not) and then help them print the shirts, hang ’em to dry, take ’em all to a laundromat and throw ’em in the dryer for a cycle. (It worked for All You Can Eat.)

If you don’t like the DIY method I’m sure there are companies that could do it. I say that because I used to work for one, and if someone showed up and said “for enough money there must be a way to do it” we’d sure as hell git ‘er dun.

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The Gatewoods

Also happened on my birthday, the wedding of Dan(iel) Gatewood, which meant I saw a whole bunch of people I haven’t seen in a long time, which means the Where Are They Now is due for a very large update…

As soon as I can remember all the details that is…

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Vinny Wins!

It is now officially my birthday, and Vinny is the winner, and by that I mean that the only gift I have thus far received has been from him, and it was the Fugazi Instrument DVD, which is a freakin’ awesome gift! (Thanks Vinny!)

As for the rest of you… You’ve got about 23 and a half hours to prevent me from crying while sitting alone watching the freakin’ awesome Fugazi Instrument DVD…

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WordPress, XSPF and Podcasting

I’ve been working on generating XSPF files for WordPress, which is really only useful if you run a WordPress site and do a podcast. Is that you? If so, please get in touch with me.

As a side-effect of generating XSPF, it should be very trivial to embed the XSPF Web Music Player into a page on your site. (The player is open-source, and has a BSD License which allows it’s use even for commercial purposes.)

So if you’ve got a podcast, use WordPress 1.5.x, want a player on your site, and can drop a few files into place, let me know.

(Oh! If you are a WordPress Hacker and want to help me with this, please contact me, as my code is not up to WP-standards and I’d like to have some input on it. Thanks!)

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The Anarchist Cookbook

Over at Amazon there is this page for The Anarchist Cookbook which has this long tirade from the author about how he basically wants it to “go away” and says he’s changed his view on things, and other such crap…

I say “crap” because I used to own this book, and as someone who believes in free speech, freedom of the press, the internet, the power of the people to take over media, and all those other things, I can’t help but feel like he missed the point. The point is not that The Anarchist Cookbook exists to show you how to blow things up, the point is that we (supposedly) live in a country (we in the US anyway) where you can publish such things, and not be afraid of disappearing in the night, or having the Secret Service visit you at work and it’s ok to change your mind and change your views but you can’t wave a magic wand and making things go away.

Those of us who use the internet know that nowadays once you put it out there, it’s out there. It’s indexed, and filed, and stamped, and collated, and archived. You can try to make it disappear, but don’t count on it. The best you can do, oddly enough, is pretty much what he did. Write about what you currently think, state your case for the record, let be known your current viewpoint, but in all this realize that you can’t control the world. You can try, but you’ll fail every time…