All you hampster dance lovers out there can watch the new video by The Cuban Boys on-line courtesy of Virgin Records. The song features a “re-created sample” of the hampster dance’s sample of the Disney Robin Hood movie, and the video features a singing hamster puppet.

December 2: A combination of FTP troubles and a day away from the computer means no updates today. Try again tomorrow… the blogger folks think this ftp thing will clear up in the next few hours.

Today (December 1) is World AIDS Day.

Woohoo! Blogger’s FTP problem is fixed! I’ve done the last few entries by hand, so I’ll enter them using Blogger and then get this show back on the road…

La Pulcina Piccola was featured on This American Life’s annual poultry show this week. Love’s Fowl is an opera sung in Italian featuring Chicken Little (La Pulcina Piccola), acted using puppets by the Clothespin Repertory Theater. Unfortunately, the Pulcina site doesn’t have any audio or video clips, but you can hear the entire Poultry ‘99 This American Life show in RealAudio at thislife.org.

Y2Kaos documents one person’s attempts to discover if common household items are Y2K compliant. In the same vein as Letters from a Nut, several companies from Quaker State to Elmer’s Glue were sent emails that in a round-about way asked about Y2K.

The Kooks Museum has been “dismantled, compacted, frozen, laminated and reassembled” for your viewing pleasure. As it’s laminated, no new additions will be made to the museum. In its place is Book Happy, a print magazine with some on-line content about collecting weird books.

The swiss cheese I’m making begins three months of hibernation in the back of my fridge tomorrow. It’s been sitting out for the last three weeks, and indications are that the eyes have formed beautifully. It smells just like a nice swiss cheese, too. I guess I’ll find out for sure in late February.

I’ve agreed to do a review of the Hasbro Interactive Diplomacy game for the Diplomatic Pouch, the webzine for the internet Diplomacy community. First impressions: looks good, great for learning the game, doesn’t come near matching having seven human players sitting around a table.

SPRIL News is the official newsletter of the Subatomic Particle Rights League. This was published in print form by Tom Jones primarily at New Mexico Tech, and consisted mostly of “psuedo-scientific satire”. After Tom left Tech, a few issues were published on-line, including a selection of Dr. Staff’s Greatest Hits. Dr. Staff is/was a scientific genius who taught about a third of all classes offered at Tech (that is, if you went by each semester’s course catalog) who took the time to answer reader’s questions. Tom also served as student body president and editor of the official school newspaper, Paydirt. He brought a new new era of quality to the paper, but having a satirist n charge of the official news brought forth some very interesting issues.