The California Tech, in PDF form.

The early 90s papers are my favorites of course (January 21, 1994 even had firsthand coverage of the Northridge earthquake). Enjoying the recent ones as well. Still a pretty good college paper after all these years.

I’m very happy to announce that the first issue of Happiness Pony, a monthly newspaper for Worcester and the world, has been printed. It was edited by Asa Needle, Mike Benedetti, and Sarah Assefa.

You can find it in finer shops and dives around town.

I’ll mail you a copy if you’re one of the first 10 people to sign up for our e-mail list. (For Worcesterites in the top 10, we can make your prize ad space or something.)

Yes, it’s a mug. Produced by Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell.

Bruce says: “It’s a mug so good, you’ll get mugged!”

Want one? E-mail Bruce at thesnowghost@gmail.com. A perfect gift for any occasion.

Love this stuff.

Summary: You are cool people, but we have massive problems, and you need to get off your damn asses or they won’t get fixed.

From the 2010 “holiday shoutouts” at WCCA TV13.

There’s a nice review of the Snow Ghost album Despair, Death, and Redempshire in this month’s Metronome magazine. You can find this, for free, at various music stores; in Worcester, Union Music has it.

by Douglas Sloan

The Silver Mountain is fueled by the soul and spirit of songwriter-singer Bruce Russell. Mixing mysticism and a deep spiritual belief with otherworldly tales of death, despair and rebirth Russell raps more than sings on this collection of original compositions that are powered mostly by mesmerizing synthesizers and hypnotic drum patterns. Russell has a peculiar diction in his voice that reminds this listener of an old Indian warrior telling his stories of the hunt around the campfire. Coupled to his wildly imaginative authorings, Russell’s music is more performance art than classic metal. Listen and experience . . .

Image: Bruce and Mike at the Show Ghost Review Party, Da Lat, Worcester

This masterpiece courtesy Nick Nassar.

I’m running the sweet CyanogenMod firmware on my Android phone. Yesterday, Amazon released their Kindle ebook reading software for Android. I installed it, as I’m eventually hoping to buy Mark Frauenfelder’s Made by Hand when it comes out for the Kindle.

Unfortunately, when I downloaded a test chapter for the Kindle, the text was garbled.

The fix? Click here. If you were able to install CyanogenMod on your phone, this fix should be well within your abilities.
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Alex Chilton, RIP. I am wondering: who is the musician who has the best song named after him? And: who is the best musician with a song named after him? Also: Who is the best musician who recorded the best song with his or her name in the title? (Example I don’t think is the winner: Ballad of John and Yoko.)

The title lays out the scenario: we had an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.2, connected to the internet via a DSL modem. We wanted to create a wifi network so we could get a Mac laptop, an Asus Eee PC 901 running Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10 (Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Karmic Koala), and a Roku Netflix player all on the net. Turns out you can use the iMac itself to create a wifi network. No additional equipment is required, just some tricky configuration.
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