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blainegarrett

One foot in the hustle and bustle of the wonderful Twin Cities and the other foot deeply planted in the woods of Northern Wisconsin. I suppose "urban lumberjack" might be the appropriate term. I am a recent Computer Science and Art graduate from The University of Minnesota. By day I am a web developer for this here site, and by night I am the Executive Director of TC based Adamantine Arts as well as an aspiring artist, musician, and experimental cook. I am working on being involved more in the community here, so please consider me to be just another member. I usually am interested in art, music, politics, and humor stories. Yup, so that is me in a nutshell. Word.

Website: http://blainegarrett.com/

| Member Since: September 26, 2006

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Prelimary word: No bomb after threat at U

News – It seems the hysteria surrounding the VT shootings is spreading to the Twin Cities in the form of bomb threats. The Target Center last week received 2 bomb threats and now the U of M as well.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 18, 2007 05:43pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

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Submitted and Voted for on April 17, 2007 12:47pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 60 votes / No sinks

[adult swim] | Games | Five Minutes To Kill (Yourself)

Humor – You're having a horrible day at the office. If you get one more meeting request, you are going to kill yourself. Oh snap, an email just arrived. 5 minutes 'till the meeting, if you can manage to provoke your coworkers into mauling you, you can get out of it. No more flow charts and motivational jibber jabber. Go.

View Story Discuss (9) (adultswim.com) 481 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on March 30, 2007 01:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks

Resurgence of Art Lecture

Art & Design – Adamantine Arts' 3rd installment of their Spring 2007 Art Discussion Series with Scott Stulen is now online. This session covers the resurgence of drawing as an art form and the reasons including the post 911 art market, falling away from digital medium, and the return to representation. My favorite is the lifesize drawing of the Cadliac Escalade.

View Story Discuss (0) (adamantinearts.org) 482 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on March 29, 2007 11:46pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 87 votes / 1 sink

Five Ways to Fix Digg's Comment System

Gadgets & Tech – The Kathy Sierra story made Digg. Of course, the comments were to be expected. Robert Scoble is outraged by the comments (truly, there were some horrible ones there). EngTech blog analyzes the issues (how they are not specific to digg) and suggest 5 ways to fix.

View Story Discuss (2) (engtech.wordpress.com) 483 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on March 28, 2007 12:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 121 votes / 5 sinks

Wordpress.com to Provide OpenIds

Gadgets & Tech – Popular Blogging Software Wordpress.com now is providing OpenIDs for its user. OpenIds are a new web standard that allow you to log in to sites like Jyte and even now Netscape.com using a single username/password.

View Story Discuss (9) (wordpress.com) 485 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on March 26, 2007 04:20pm

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Charlie Rose on British Painter Lucien Freud

Art & Design – Author John Richardson and art dealer William Acquavella discuss the work of their friend, artist Lucian Freud - considered by many to be the greatest living British Painter.

View Story Discuss (1) (adamantinearts.org) 485 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on March 26, 2007 11:09am

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PSP Pornable...

Gadgets & Tech – Kids want PSPs. PSPs can get on the internet. The Internet has porn, predators, and bad sites. Thus FOX news blames PSP. Makes sense to me.

View Story Discuss (0) (youtube.com) 489 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on March 23, 2007 01:04am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Chuck Close Interview On Charlie Rose

Art & Design – Charlie Rose interviews master American painter Chuck Close on his painting, his disability, and the art world.

View Story Discuss (0) (adamantinearts.org) 489 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on March 22, 2007 01:49pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photos

Art & Design – Some simple tips to make your photo compositions more visually interesting

View Story Discuss (1) (digital-photography-school.com) 523 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on February 16, 2007 01:21pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Busty Mousepads

Gadgets & Tech – Funny novelty mouse pads with soft wrist pads modeled after some of our favorite cushions.

View Story Discuss (5) (bustymousepads.com) 523 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on February 16, 2007 12:52pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood succumbs to cancer

News – .S. Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA10), 65, passed away this morning at his Augusta home following an extensive battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-small cell lung cancer. Norwood received a single lung transplant in 2004 as treatment for IPF, and developed non-small cell lung cancer in 2005.

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Submitted and Voted for on February 13, 2007 02:05pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / 1 sink

New Orleans tornado, Midwest snow in US winter storm

News – A winter storm packing blizzard conditions to the north and a deadly New Orleans tornado to the south closed schools, forced hundreds of flight cancellations and disrupted travel from Kansas east to Ohio on Tuesday.

View Story Discuss (0) (alertnet.org) 526 days ago by blainegarrett

Submitted and Voted for on February 13, 2007 01:06pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks

Conan's Adlib turned Horny Manatee Site

Humor – Adlib comment about Manatee webcams on NBC's Conan leads to high traffic http://hornymanatee.com site since policy dictates that any fictitious site mentioned on air must be owned by the network. Since then, the site has received millions of hits in just days and now accepts submissions of Manatee erotica humor.

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Submitted and Voted for on December 07, 2006 01:01am