bottlecap

it is unlikely part 1 will get through...

http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/sthomas/history.htm

http://www.1976design.com/blog/images/389aa.jpg

>
>
> I'd strongly suggest a film called Control Room. I thought it was a
> much better piece of cinema than that other documentary. Maybe not as
> culturally or politically important, but Control Room was very well
> done and had a reasonable message. Check out
> http://www.controlroommovie.com/
>
> Looks to be playing at Piedmont Theatre in Oakland, Bridge on Geary in
> SF, Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.
>
> With Love,
> BenL
>
>
>

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/index.cfm

http://www.ifoce.com/index.php

These are taken from that last link...

People who have interesting records. Number one:
http://www.ifoce.com/profile.php?action=detail&sn=22

Number eleven:
http://www.ifoce.com/profile.php?action=detail&sn=18

Also, from number 2:
http://www.ifoce.com/profile.php?action=detail&sn=20
---

There is an century-old prophesy within the competitive eating
community, dismissed by most, that foretells the rise of the .One
Eater,. a woman who will electrify America.s gurgitators and lead them
to international victory once again. Like Joan of Arc before her, this
eater will be slender of stature, but mighty in strength. In recent
months, the prophesy has been mentioned more and more frequently as the
eaters have watched Sonya Thomas excel in nearly every contest she
enters.

This amazing newcomer is odds-on favorite for IFOCE 2003 Rookie of the
Year. She has quickly mastered the sport and the rest of the eaters
appear to be watching, dumfounded, seemingly waiting for her to assume
her rightful position at the top of the game.

Sonya is single and lives in Alexandria, VA.

---
Alright! She's single. This reads almost exactly like the way Charlie
wrote about Foot Carcass, http://neb.net/ben/ENGIN/FCA/FCABios.html

Get on it Gavin, Jerry:

http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0704/chi/index.html

Powell as the construction worker:

http://dev.neb.net/l.php/1

(it's a real player video)

Ok, Ok, so I still haven't seen the movie, but I'm totally shocked I'd
never seen this before now.

http://www1.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html

When I drink a Dr. Pepper I am always reminded of Taco Bell.

Beautiful color photos from the depression era.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2004/05/07/magazine/20040509PORT_SLIDESHOW_1.html

http://www.bottlecap.org/can/apparently/now/handle/really/long/urls/without/breaking/like/it/used/to/though/i/dont/really/know/why

and perhaps the end of the road for the bird of paradise...

http://dev.neb.net/l.php/4

James Joyce, the famous Irish author, was a dirty, dirty old man.
Dirty! This is too gross.

December 8 1909 is the best.

http://www.arlindo-correia.com/joyce.html

I found out about this because one of these dirty letters just sold at
auction for a squillion dollars somewhere. 'Twas reported on the BBC.

Dirty District Volume 3

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/%7Elofty/pujol.htm

How badly do I want to see this?

http://www.avataroftheage.com/

Wouldn't it be great if the 100 millionth iTunes download was by a band
from the Detroit area?

You may have seen this by now, but what they hay...

http://dev.neb.net/l.php/8

Mmmm.... self docking robot vacuum .... be my bitch, Roomba!

http://www.newroomba.net/

Bottlecap now has nicer archiving, as seen below. Wahoo!

http://www.fierce.org/~tree/bottlecap/Picture057_10Jul04.jpg
http://www.fierce.org/~tree/bottlecap/Picture056_10Jul04.jpg

There is a pet store in the strip-mall nearest my house, and I think
it's called "Pet Alex." I don't know why it's called that... it could
be close to Pet Annex, but it's not really. Maybe it's like Pet Smart
and Smart Alec, but I'm not sure. Incidentally, I just now learned
that the supposed origins of "Smart Alec" date to 1840's in New York
City, where Mr. Alec Hoag was a celebrated pimp, thief, and confidence
man.

Take me to the pet store, take me to the pet store, take me to the pet
store, pet store express... pimp.

Maybe if I join the church of the Red Breast I'll find some solace.

This is pretty cool. Maybe we should try this, next time one of us
receives Nigerian spam.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3887493.stm

...apparently these African money-launders and conmen will be brought
to justice by a group of artist-vigilantes. "Everybody is an artist!
419ers are the scum of the internet! Artists will stop 419!"

http://www.aa419.org/

http://www.mutato.com/beautifulmutants/

Mark Mothersbaugh's "images pulled from man's past then corrected into
sickeningly beautiful things."

Dear client,

I thought you might like to know that two of the world's leading
independent industry analysts have endorsed the ___/___merger.

As you might have read recently, Forrester Research says that "___
and ___ are a great combination." It goes on to say that "clients can
work with a single agency to bring prospects to a site, convert them
to customers, service the relationship, and build loyalty. This will
play out in tactics like pages that are built to support user goals
and also ensure high placement in search engine results."

And on July 13, Gartner published an alert that concludes "The merger
of ___ and ___ is a win of clients for both companies." According to
Gartner, "The merger will combine strengths in strategy and creative
services with Webwide marketing capabilities."

___ /___ look forward to helping you use the online channel attract,
convert, and service your customers =E2=80=93 and ultimately build long-term
relationships with your customers, whether they be consumers, your
employees, or your business partners.

Charlie at csutherland@[xxx] recommends a page from The Onion.

The recommended page is:

The Onion | University Implicated In Checks-For-Degrees Scheme
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4028&n=3

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From: jenkscity1@[xxx] <jenkscity1@[xxx]
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:21:04 EDT
Subject: Ben Jenkins calling
To: boing@[xxx]

Hi !

Online from N Ireland and checking out web addresses in my son"s
name.

We have a wee boy called Ben Jenkins and now 15 months old! Is there
another Ben Jenkins out there and what age?

What city do you live in as I cannot tell from the pic.?

Regards

Michael Jenkins

When I was picking up my recycle bin for my new city, I saw this on the
edge of the parking lot... I wonder how many are spread across the
country. There's a tiny picture at the web page.

http://www.hvcn.org/info/gswc/data/memorialyp.htm

When I grow up I want to be an activist judge. They seem to have a
lot more fun than normal judges.

Bottlecap permalinks should now be working ... updated to use new
archive page names.

Love,
Benjamin

I just received a spam from someone named "Yeasty Nola." There has to
be a way to use that...band name, b-movie title, something...

Yeasty Nola
Come on over
The look in your eyes
Makes my bread rise
I'm sure glad to know ya

... Have to work on the rhythm a bit...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <removed>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:50:06 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: $2200 - 2+ bed House/Cottage/Flat wanted for August
To: me

all of what you want except no dog. $2000 and it would be a sublet if
my landlord allows. I would be happy to let you have it for at least
a year. will explain my situation further if you're interested; it's
nothing sinister. stand alone house, great location, green all
around.

downside:

house has been neglected inside (mea culpa) and outside. (almost all
cosmetic, it doesn't leak, it's bolted to the foundation, not unsafe).
if you want it I am willing to reduce the rent $1000 the first month
if you would spruce up the inside. I just don't have time before Aug.
15.

only other downside for you, it has two bedrooms but it's not huge.

I can't tell if there are more or less songs called Phobic than I would
expect. The most popular on the InterNet seems to be by a group called
Plumb. While this group doesn't seem to have anything to do with pipes
and water and wrenches, and lacks purpleness, it appears to be a woman
who is actually names Plumb. Her bio is a touching storing of being a
famous indy rocker about to give it all up until a fan handed her a
note about how much her songs helped her, and so, re-engergized she
returned to the scene to continue to rock. Plumb. Venezuela.

The article below from NYTimes.com
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Harry Potter, Market Wiz

July 18, 2004
By ILIAS YOCARIS





The success of the Harry Potter series has provoked a
lively discussion among French literary theorists about the
novels' underlying message and the structure of Harry's
school, Poudlard (Hogwarts). This article, which appeared
last month in the French daily Le Monde, got particular
attention, including an essay published in response arguing
that Harry is an antiglobalist crusader.

NICE, France - With the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
has enchanted the world: the reader is drawn into a magical
universe of flying cars, spells that make its victims spew
slugs, trees that give blows, books that bite, elf
servants, portraits that argue and dragons with pointed
tails.

On the face of it, the world of Harry Potter has nothing in
common with our own. Nothing at all, except one detail:
like ours, the fantastic universe of Harry Potter is a
capitalist universe.

Hogwarts is a private sorcery school, and its director
constantly has to battle against the state as represented,
essentially, by the inept minister of Magic, Cornelius
Fudge; the ridiculous bureaucrat Percy Weasley; and the
odious inspector Dolores Umbridge.

The apprentice sorcerers are also consumers who dream of
acquiring all sorts of high-tech magical objects, like high
performance wands or the latest brand-name flying brooms,
manufactured by multinational corporations. Hogwarts, then,
is not only a school, but also a market: subject to an
incessant advertising onslaught, the students are never as
happy as when they can spend their money in the boutiques
near the school. There is all sorts of bartering between
students, and the author heavily emphasizes the possibility
of social success for young people who enrich themselves
thanks to trade in magical products.

The tableau is completed by the ritual complaints about the
rigidity and incompetence of bureaucrats. Their mediocrity
is starkly contrasted with the inventiveness and audacity
of some entrepreneurs, whom Ms. Rowling never ceases to
praise. For example, Bill Weasley, who works for the goblin
bank Gringotts, is presented as the opposite of his
brother, Percy the bureaucrat. The first is young, dynamic
and creative, and wears clothes that "would not have looked
out of place at a rock concert"; the second is
unintelligent, obtuse, limited and devoted to state
regulation, his career's masterpiece being a report on the
standards for the thicknesses of cauldrons.

We have, then, an invasion of neoliberal stereotypes in a
fairy tale. The fictional universe of Harry Potter offers a
caricature of the excesses of the Anglo-Saxon social model:
under a veneer of regimentation and traditional rituals,
Hogwarts is a pitiless jungle where competition, violence
and the cult of winning run riot.

The psychological conditioning of the apprentice sorcerers
is clearly based on a culture of confrontation: competition
among students to be prefect; competition among Hogwarts
"houses" to win points; competition among sorcery schools
to win the Goblet of Fire; and, ultimately, the bloody
competition between the forces of Good and Evil.

This permanent state of war ends up redefining the role of
institutions: faced with ever-more violent conflicts, they
are no longer able to protect individuals against the
menaces that they face everywhere. The minister of magic
fails pitifully in his combat against Evil, and the
regulatory constraints of school life hinder Harry and his
friends in defending themselves against the attacks and
provocations that they constantly encounter. The apprentice
sorcerers are thus alone in their struggle to survive in a
hostile milieu, and the weakest, like Harry's schoolmate
Cedric Diggory, are inexorably eliminated.

These circumstances influence the education given the young
students of Hogwarts. The only disciplines that matter are
those that can give students an immediately exploitable
practical knowledge that can help them in their battle to
survive.

That's not astonishing, considering how this prestigious
school aims to form, above all, graduates who can compete
in the job market and fight against Evil. Artistic subjects
are thus absent from Hogwarts's curriculum, and the
teaching of social sciences is considered of little value:
the students have only some tedious courses of history.
It's very revealing that Harry finds them "as boring as
Percy's reports cauldron-bottom report." In other words, in
the cultural universe of Harry Potter, social sciences are
as useless and obsolete as state regulation.

Harry Potter, probably unintentionally, thus appears as a
summary of the social and educational aims of neoliberal
capitalism. Like Orwellian totalitarianism, this capitalism
tries to fashion not only the real world, but also the
imagination of consumer-citizens. The underlying message to
young fans is this: You can imagine as many fictional
worlds, parallel universes or educational systems as you
want, they will still all be regulated by the laws of the
market. Given the success of the Harry Potter series,
several generations of young people will be indelibly
marked by this lesson.

Ilias Yocaris is a professor of literary theory and French
literature at the University Institute of Teacher Training
in Nice. This article was translated by The Times from the
French.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6184996&rnd=1090263905211&has-player=true

http://tinyurl.com/5flcb

I would say it's either a theramin or some sort of anal-trumpet.

http://www.spiteyourface.com/spidey.html

Perfect Breasts
(o)(o)

Fake Silicone Breasts
( + )( + )

High Nipple Breasts
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Big Nipple Breasts
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A Cups
oo

D Cups
{ O }{ O }

Wonder Bra Breasts
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Cold Breasts
( ^ )( ^ )

Lopsided Breasts
(o)(O)

Pierced Breasts
(Q)(Q)

Hanging Tassels Breasts
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Android Breasts
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Porn Star Breasts
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found out about this documentary through this american life. would like
to see it. dig the transcript of one of the interviews from the film,
halfway down this page!

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-03-09/screens_string18.html

It's stupid Mail.app that's causing those line breaks in long URLs,
and there's no way to turn it off.

Lame.

This afternoon on my way home from work I stopped at Safeway. Oddly, the
parking lot was extremely busy and I ended up parking about as far away as
was possible. As soon as I got in the store I grabbed a basket and made
my way to the produce section, as the only thing I really buy at the
grocery store these days is produce and meat and nuts. Sometimes cheese.
But anyhow, as I got closer to the produce I realized something was going
on. At first I thought maybe someone had been shot or murdered because
everyone was standing around this one particular place. So, since they
were in my way, I decided to go around to the other side so I could get my
broccoli and tomatoes.

Then I realized there was a massive line snaking through the store...
which made me realize they must be in line for some-thing or ... some one.
And then I saw a big poster. And it made my day. Smokey Robinson was in
the store. Smokey Robinson was in the Safeway in Potrero Center on a
Tuesday afternoon. So I of course immediately start making phonecalls,
you know, to make sure I hadn't been slipped drugs and it wasn't all some
hallucination. It wasn't.

Now, the thing is, at first I thought he must be there signing CDs. But
as I was going to leave I realized that ... he wasn't. There was a man
with a megaphone walking around the store with a platter trying to get
people to try ... get this ... Smoke Robinson's "The Soul in the Bowl"
Gumbo.

Gumbo. Smokey Robinson was signing frozen boxes of Gumbo in the Safeway.

I was too lazy to wait in line, and I overheard someone saying they were
out of the Gumbo anyway, so I just left.

Here are some hastily taken, fuzzy and poorly lit photos I took with my
phone. Enjoy! Smokey can be seen in the last photo, he's in the middle
with the greenish shirt on. Don't complain about how much the photos
suck, I had to step on an old lady who was picking out mushrooms just to
get that one.

http://www.fierce.org/~tree/bottlecap/smokey/Picture064_20Jul04.jpg
http://www.fierce.org/~tree/bottlecap/smokey/Picture067_20Jul04.jpg
http://www.fierce.org/~tree/bottlecap/smokey/Picture068_20Jul04.jpg
http://www.fierce.org/~tree/bottlecap/smokey/Picture072_20Jul04.jpg

And here's the website for the Gumbo: http://www.smokeyrobinsonfoods.com/

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/84/wholefoods.html

Sigh ... just makes me want to spend more of my money there ... of
course I just ate half a chicken from Smokey's Safeway.

Yes, I'll be going to hell.

Time for another Hertzfeldt Wednesday. I'm sure everyone's seen this,
but it still tickles my fancy.

http://phunny.drghetto.com/Rejected.wmv

(no no, not THAT kind, you disgusting dirty minded pervert)

http://www.virginityrules.com/

Yikes... just don't leave the house ever. Certainly don't go on any
airplanes. They're all out to get us. Why do they all hate freedom so
much?

A new comic every friday.

http://www.asofterworld.com/

treebjen: I wish I could be brutally honest.
treebjen: so that when _____ cornered me the other day and asked me
when I was rolling off so I could work on another project, I could
have said "I'd sooner pluck out my eybealls with a spoon and fill the
sockets with tabasco sauce then ever work with you again."

"Our story entails incredible stress, lots of intrigue, cloak and
dagger missions and sometimes the most amazing coincidences. All of it
sums up to the biggest slap in the face of the (former) East-German
intellligence service. It caused the East German government to
pronounce a death sentence in-absentia on our little group. In order
to bring this death sentence into reality East Germany's government
took the extraordinary step of offering a DM 1,000,000 bounty (roughly
$600,000 in 1979 dollars) for the succesful execution of the members
of our group. "

http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/stories/2002/01/21/ifItHadNotBeenFor15Minutes.html

Actually, for an interesting experience, try flipping channels between
coverage of the democratic convention and the willy wonka movie. That
movie is seriously cracked out, and yet overlapping it with political
rhetoric matches pretty nicely. I hope the movie is on again during
the RNC.

"'eliza' is a program that talks to you, pretending to be a
psychologist. its script of possible responses is super tiny, so it
doesn't fool anyone. or so i thought.

...

so i replaced eliza's tiny, boring script with a massive dumb blonde
script that has like 3,800 responses on all sorts of topics, but
mostly sex. jenny18 is very horny and she loves talking to horny guys.
and everyone knows the best place to talk to horny guys is on dalnet
irc sex channels."

http://virt.vgmix.com/jenny18/

Crackheads.


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Too bad the iTunes store doesn't have the JayFunn album.

I love how there's a disclaimer at the top that says if anybody knows
of any inaccuracies, to alert them immediately so they can add it to
their chronicles...very scholarly.

http://rock_afire.tripod.com/info/history/

http://www.particle.kth.se/~lindsey/java/demo2/Stereo2.html

more from the official chuck e cheese historical omnibus. these
brochures are worth close examination. chuck e cheese was apparently a
GHETTO, although I certainly don't remember it that way from when I was
a kid.

serously, though. check out the pictures of the animatronic band that
performed. Ghetto.

http://rock_afire.tripod.com/info/franchise/index.html

I say again.

GHET-TO.

http://rock_afire.tripod.com/info/misc/other/costumes.html

...except to fantasize about which artists we'd like to hear cover this
song.

http://tinyurl.com/5yjqt

Jack Jones, anyone?
Funn Club?
Mr. Rogers, naturally.
I'm thinking Cookie Monster, for some reason...
Kraftwerk.
Le Boyfriend.
(Etcetera.)