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I love The Onion, but I sometimes only need to read the headlines to get a good laugh. I can make up the rest of the story in my head. The irreverent headlines are typically my favorite.

I enjoy reading the Lyric Of The Day Twitter statuses because, well, I love music too.

I stopped in the middle of washing dishes this morning and decided to modify Whitney’s Twitter bot code to create one for Fake Onion headlines.

Create and post some irreverent humor. Here’s how:

1. Sign-up for Twitter here.
2. Follow this user: FakeOnion
3. Make up something funny, perhaps Onion-headline like, and post them in your Twitter status using @fakeonion

Here’s an example Tweet

Nikon has taken PictureProject links off of their site, likely to sell copies of something else.

I find it remotely useful for certain things and needed it again recently.

It’s still up in several forms though it might not last for long:

http://www.nikonusa.com/software/P2/PP175WinEN.zip

Dear GrandCentral,

I would like to leave Vonage and port my number to GrandCentral, but sadly I cannot. I would gladly pay for such a service and I think others would as well.

Best,

Raj

So far, New Zealand might be one of my favorite places that I have ever been. I have traveled all over, but our first night here is awesome so far.

I love listening to music on long train rides in foreign places. The combined audio/visual makes for great living music videos of sorts. Right now, Old Fools from the Magnetic Fields “Distortion” record is an obsession and fits the visual well. We’re on the train from Sydney to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains — can’t wait to get there.

The fact that the Blackberry version of Google Maps works so well in Australia is probably reflective of the Aussie team that wrote the thing, but no matter — it works here, but Yahoo Go! does not. I love you Google Maps.

Just bought tickets to the Jens Lekman show in Cambridge at the Middle East. Should be great. Jonathan Richman tickets go on sale tomorrow for the March show. Hoping on that fast.

1 week until we leave for Australia and then New Zealand. We’re excited as hell. 14 inches of snow tonight might slow things down in terms of other things, but rest assured: we’ll be ready to roll next Sunday. The 14 hour flight from San Francisco to Sydney is nothing to look forward to, but we’ll manage by slumming it in coach.

I started a tumblelog at tumblr.com. It’s at rajzilla.com.

My aggregated life has an RSS feed.

I was living in Washington, DC 10 years ago exactly.  I was near penniless, was living off of my girlfriend’s meal card at American University, and had little prospects for the future on my 22nd birthday.   But I was brave —– I soldiered on, joined a startup as an early employee and stayed with them for nearly 10 years through an IPO and 2 acquisitions. 

10 years later and I’m doing the same thing again —– I’m betting it all.  I moved into my parents basement, gathered some money, quit my job, reduced my personal expenses dramatically and then I started a company —- whatever it takes to succeed.  We’re onto something huge and we’re moving at breakneck speed to show it to the world.  Hopefully, we’ll be able to do that soon. 

It was 59 years ago today that Nehru raised the Indian flag at Red Fort Delhi, marking their independence from Britain.  Happy Independence Day.

The final coat of paint went onto the ‘02 while I was in India. It needs to be buffed once or twice before the exterior is complete. There are a few interior rust spots that need to be fixed as well before the new carpet gets installed. Afterwards, there won’t be a single spot of rust on this 37 year-old car.

Compare the last two pictures to get an idea of what we started with and where we are today.
More photos from today here.

All of my 2002 photos on Flickr here.

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Originally uploaded by 50mm.

She’s so good. I can browse her photographs for hours on end.

Leave it to The Onion to bring me a good laugh today.

Link: The Onion

There are some incredibly creative people in this world. Humor and creativity together can be deadly. And funny as hell.

Witness: Cheney’s Got A Gun