To celebrate their 10th Anniversary, Google has temporarily restored their oldest search index from January 2001. Here’s the search results for “Laughing Squid”.
Thanks to Spacemonkey for the tip!
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Google Search Time Capsule From 2001
Escape From Berkeley (By Any Non-Petroleum Means Necessary) is a road rally of alternatively powered vehicles traveling from Berkeley to Las Vegas on October 10th through 13th. A panel of judges will be presenting awards for both artistic and technical achievements. The rally is being organized by Jim Mason and The Shipyard.
Part engineering problem, part artistic opportunity, the rally challenges contestants to start their “engines” on something other than petroleum based fuel, and by any means necessary, cause their “vehicles” show up in Las Vegas three days later- using only fuels/power/motive force scavenged “for free” along the route.
Here’s the current line-up of vehicles and there is still time to register your vehicle if you want to enter. If you would like to help support the rally, you can sponsor the route by the mile or specific landmark. They are also looking for more volunteers.
More Coverage:
- Techyum
photo by Scott Beale
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Escape From Berkeley (By Any Non-Petroleum Means Necessary)
High Times presents the first annual World Stoner Games on October, 4th in Toronto.
The World Stoner Games consists of five events that will showcase stoner prowess in the areas of dexterity, smoking performance, creativity, concentration, and the drive to get high. Each entrant will compete in all 5 events.
The winner receives airfare, hotel and a VIP pass to the 21st annual High Times Cannabis Cup which takes place November 23-27 in Amsterdam.
Speaking of High Times, Cheech & Chong are on the cover of the November 2008 issue. The comedy duo have reunited and are touring the US on their Light Up America Tour 2008. It think Cheech needs to bring back the mustache to make the reunion complete.
See Previously: A Typical Day At The High Times Editorial Office
via BuzzFeed
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High Times Presents World Stoner Games 2008
Garysguide is a really great technology and new media events calendar started in New York by Gary (aka The Guy with the Red Tie). Gary recently launched Garysguide in San Francisco, rounding out his list of 11 top tech cities.
Our popular calendar is a comprehensive edited list of all upcoming events related to technology, web 2.0, social media, online advertising & marketing, software, hardware, digital video, new media, entrepreneurship, startups and much much more. We are currently live in 11 of the top tech hubs in the country including New York, Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, San Diego, Denver, Portland, Seattle, Toronto and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Garysguide San Francisco, Technology & New Media Events
SPX 2008 (Small Press Expo), an independent cartooning and comics arts festival, takes place October 4th and 5th at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, MD. Here’s the full schedule and list of exhibitors.
SPX will bring together over 400 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, distributors, and each other. SPX will be open to the public from 11am Saturday, October 4th and run through 7pm that evening. The celebration continues Sunday from noon to 6pm. In addition, expect great programming all weekend long for you to enjoy!
poster by Hope Larson
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SPX 2008 (Small Press Expo), Cartoon & Comics Arts Festival
Join monochrom and Laughing Squid for drinks at Lucky 13 in San Francisco tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1st at 8pm. It’s our last chance to hang out with the monochrom crew before they head back to Vienna. RSVP on Upcoming.
photo by Scott Beale
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Monochrom & Laughing Squid Drinkup at Lucky 13
Last week extreme illusionist David Blaine performed his “Dive of Death” where he hung upside-down from a thin wire for 60 hours above Wollman Rink in Central Park.
While he was up there, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog paid a visit to David, making fun of him as he hung above the crowd. Our friends Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee and Joey Wan of GigaOM happened by the scene making a guest appearance in the video.
See Previously: Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Reports From The RNC
via NewTeeVee
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Taunts Upside-Down David Blaine
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping will be in San Francisco this week, making three separate appearances while in town:
Wed, October 1 8:00 PM: Noe Valley Ministry
1021 Sanchez at 24th, Parking Available.
Reverend Billy performing with Mike V. The Rev will preach on the subject of Prop H, a fight for clean energy and a fight against the greedy power monopoly PG&E. Family Friendly! $10 or pay what you can. Make Your ReservationsSat, October 4 10:00 AM: Rev Billy On West Coast Live!
At the San Francisco Ferry Building, Site of CUESA’s Farmers’ Market. See WCL website for tickets or to listen online!Sun, October 5 5:00 PM: City Lights Books
261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco, CA
Delivering a sermon on the literary mount titled: The Shopocalypse - The Reverend Has To Wonder. We have big box bankruptcies, chain store retreats, credit card dessicration. Consumers are turning into citizens again. Little McFamilies have seen the light! They are building special bomb-shelters to protect against this year’s Christmas, which could be the Shopoclaypse’s last chance to be remembered in history as a quality End-time.
FREE and open to the public!
photo by Melissa Lynn
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Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Visit San Francisco
guest post by Aaron Muszalski
After suffering a predicatably soulless remake starring Nicolas Cage in 2006, the beloved 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man was ripe for a more entertaining adaptation.
That adaptation arrives this week, in the form of The Wicker Man: A Rock Opera About The Ultimate Sacrifice. Created by notorious San Francisco underground theater artists, Cameron Eng and Sean Owens, as part of their series of “Foul Plays”, The Wicker Man stars Flynn DeMarco, Steffanos X and Maura Sipila, and features an original music score by Jim Fourniadis and LIVE EVIL. Also keep an eye out for Laughing Squid guestblogger (and Man Of 1,003 Faces) Mikl-em, who performs in several roles.
April showers bring the sanctimonious Sergeant Howie a mysterious letter concerning a missing girl from Summerisle, the tiny pagan island commune renowned for its bountiful produce and unabashed holy day rituals. His investigation of the restless natives proves as fruitless as last year’s crops, though; and the bizarre inhabitants only serve to add fuel to the flames of his righteous indignation. Driven to save the girl’s immortal soul from this den of idolaters, he discovers the truth behind the girl’s disappearance—that come May Day, the villagers intend to sacrifice her to their gods of the field to ensure a successful harvest. Howie must infiltrate their festivities, find the girl and escape—but will his plan put him out of the frying pan and into the fire?
The Wicker Man: A Rock Opera About The Ultimate Sacrifice opens this Thursday, October 2nd at The Dark Room. It runs through October 25th.
photo by Geof Teague
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The Wicker Man - A Rock Opera at The Dark Room
NoiseBridge, a new open project space for hackers, just opened San Francisco’s Mission District. See Hacker Spaces for similar spaces around the world.
We want to provide infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for people interested in programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, photography, security, robotics, all kinds of art, and, of course, technology. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring.
As a space for artistic collaboration and experimentation, we are open to all types of art - with a special emphasis on the crossover of art and technology. From hardware labs to electronics, cooking, photography, and sound labs, anything that’s creative is welcome.
We intend to have many interesting things happening at all times. Sharing is essential to making this work. A logical followup to this is to find a space to display our creative projects.
See Also:
- NYC Resistor, An Electronics & Hardware Hacker Space In Brooklyn
- Hacker Spaces, Community Operated Project Work Spaces
via NYC Resistor
photo by Jacob Appelbaum
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NoiseBridge, An Open Project Space for Hackers In San Francisco
after more than a year of resisiting duck related content, i fear that i must give you this link to a charming little game :: Duck, Think Outside the Flock
a young journalist i met in a subway car a while back is traveling the country and wants to hear from you :: Alex Steed - Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing
On my recent visit to New York City, I finally had a chance to check out the legendary Shake Shack, a unique open air hamburger joint located in the southeast corner of Madison Square Park (a portion of each purchase goes to Madison Square Park Conservancy) in Midtown Manhattan.
Some consider Shake Shack to be NYC’s answer to the West Coast’s In-N-Out Burger, but it’s really it’s own unique experience. Shake Shack is so popular that it usually has a very long line and they are well aware of this, providing signs with useful information for the people waiting in line, including a Shake Shack Menu, Shack Trivia, Sha-cercise tips and Shack FAQs . In fact, they even have a live webcam where you can check out the length of the line before heading over.
Shake Shack is also web geek central. In fact it even has it’s own Shake Shack Flashmob Twitter account where people can report and share information about it. After one of the days at Web 2.0 Expo NYC, a bunch of us had an impromptu meetup at Shake Shack, and from what I hear that kind of thing happens quite often.
Photo Gallery: Shake Shack
photos by Scott Beale
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Shake Shack, A Unique Hamburger Joint In The Heart of NYC
Is today’s stock market crash getting you down? It might be a good time to watch this informative how-to video on “How To Drop Off The Grid”, the first video in the new “Oh Crap! It’s Monday” series by Howcast and Poykpac.
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Spider-Man and Stephen Colbert will be joining forces in Amazing Spider-Man #573.
In January on the Colbert Report Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada informed Stephen Colbert that he would be running for president in the Marvel universe.
See Previously: A Visit To The Marvel Comics Headquarters
via /Film
image via Marvel Comics
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Stephen Colbert Makes His Debut In Amazing Spider-Man #573
A few weeks back the DIY industrial art space NIMBY in Oakland had a fire, forcing the space to close. Snook and the artists who run this amazing community arts space have launched a massive campaign to move NIMBY to a new location and they looking for help in the form of monetary donations.
We are rolling out a campaign to make this move happen for NIMBY. The minimum amount of money we need for moving is $50,000. NIMBY must pay another $30,000 in rent to get up to the end of the lease. Then there are the NIMBY monthly expenses, the actual cost of moving itself, and development costs to get the new space set-up. All things considered $50,000 is a low ball number to get us started - but if we can raise that we know we can pull this off.
If 1,000 people donate $50 - we will reach our goal. Who remembers a Thanksgiving or a Christmas at NIMBY when you had nowhere else to go? An art piece created at NIMBY that gave you “one of those moments” on the playa? A time when Snook helped you with trucking, let you use his tools, gave you the part you were missing, fed you, or helped you out when you needed it? We only need 1,000 of you to step-up and donate. Snook and NIMBY have taken care of far more people than that over the past 5 years.
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Save NIMBY! Help The DIY Art Space Relocate After Their Fire
The 2nd annual Pacific Pinball Expo 2008 takes place October 3-5 at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael. The event features over 300 pinball machines spanning a period of 100 years and it is also a fundraiser for the Pacific Pinball Museum, which is currently operating out of the Lucky JuJu pinball arcade in Alameda.
The Pacific Pinball Exposition (PPE) is focused on representing vintage and antique electromechanical and purely mechanical pinball machines and arcade games and devices. There will also be a healthy dose of modern machines to balance it out. It is our goal to bring a broader awareness of the fun and nostalgia, as well as the significance pinball has played in American and world culture through fun, interactive exhibits, clinics and lots of hands on playing of games that defined “Amusement” in the 20th century!
Here are photos from last year’s Pacific Pinball Expo by Greg Maletic, who made the documentary “TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball”.
For the latest updates, follow the Pacific Pinball Expo on Twitter.
photo by Greg Maletic
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Pacific Pinball Expo 2008, Over 300 Pinball Games Past & Present
The Get Connected Summit (GCS), an annual conference focusing on electronic music, media, technology and culture takes place this Thursday, October 2nd and Friday, October 3rd at Pyramind in San Francisco. Here’s the full schedule and registration information.
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Get Connected Summit: Music, Technology & Culture
Improv Everywhere is taking their annual MP3 Experiment on tour and will be in San Francisco this Saturday, October 4th. Here are the complete event details.
To get a better idea what the Mp3 Experiment is all about, check out the events from 2007, 2006, 2005 & 2004.
Following San Francisco, the MP3 Experiment moves to Chicago on October 5th.
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Improv Everywhere MP3 Experiment In San Francisco
