Concerning Naked Lunch Part 4: Drugs and Addicts

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Concerning Naked Lunch: Part 2 - Nausea
and Irony

Concerning Naked Lunch: Part 2 - Nausea
and Irony 06/05/2005 10:54 PM
 This is the second in a series of essays about the book Naked Lunch, designed to introduce the book properly to new readers. Generally, people hear about the life of William Burroughs before they read any of his work. The goal of these essays is to point out the more important aspects of the work, rather than the man. This essay will deal with the use of irony and satire in Burroughs' work, and the way he uses them to highlight the hypocrisy of his time.

Naked Sushi Lady history, part three

Naked Sushi Lady history, part three 11/13/2003 11:13 AM
Don't forget Stanley Kubrick: the milk ladies in Clockwork Orange. Okay, they're serving dairy products, not California rolls, but you get the idea. Link to full-size image, Link to previous BoingBoing post on the Naked Sushi Lady Controversy: one, two. (Thanks, Janet!)

Naked Lady Sushi, part deux.

Naked Lady Sushi, part deux. 11/12/2003 02:56 PM
Seattle sushi restaurants aren't the first to serve food on the bodies of naked women, nor are various Japanese porn sites displaying X-rated human sashimi platter tableaus. Boingboing pal Eli the Bearded points us to this image by William Klein: Photograph of Models and the Surrealist Group around Meret Oppenheim's "Festin," 1960. The image was a fashion shot for Vogue magazine, under the title of Inaugural Feast in the March 1960 issue.

Link< /a> to image, Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Fix for Japan Pop-Culture Addicts

Fix for Japan Pop-Culture Addicts 04/12/2004 04:56 AM
Finding more than hentai, anime DVDs and headbands on J-List.com, visitors can get some insight about why Japanese pop culture is so delightfully wacky. Wired News interviews J-List proprieter Peter Payne. By Xeni Jardin.

Feeding the Google Addicts

Feeding the Google Addicts 04/23/2004 06:59 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Apr 23 2004 11:14PM GMT

Children of addicts 'let down'

Children of addicts 'let down' 05/11/2004 06:31 AM
Social workers criticise the government for what they say is a failure to support the children of drug addicts.

IT bosses are storage addicts who can't
stop themselves

IT bosses are storage addicts who can't
stop themselves 09/24/2004 05:47 AM
Storage buyers need help, not capacity

Sims 2 plays with life addicts

Sims 2 plays with life addicts 09/27/2004 02:57 AM
The Sims 2 adds DNA into the mix and much more realistic 3D graphics, which gives the game an eerie feeling of reality.

Care call to help convict addicts

Care call to help convict addicts 05/25/2004 08:58 PM
A think tank calls for an end to the "postcode lottery" of drug treatment for persistent offenders.

Now Even Fake People Can Be Game Addicts

Now Even Fake People Can Be Game Addicts 02/16/2004 02:46 PM

The Russian Nesting Doll of Games: The implications here make my head hurt, but it's still pretty funny.

The plug-in from Simslice, called Slice City, lets the Sims in the game play a video game in which they create mini cities. So, along with the many things that Sims can be instructed to do — such as going to work, playing guitar, cooking, socializing and dating — they can blow endless hours creating small urban environments.

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Cow for lunch?

Cow for lunch? 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:59AM GMT

Doing Lunch

Doing Lunch 10/31/2003 12:35 AM
Well, due to other circumstances, I was not able to get to the exhibit hall at TenCon, but Tom did...

Billboards Target Christian Porn Addicts
(AP)

Billboards Target Christian Porn Addicts
(AP) 02/12/2004 03:39 PM
AP - Chocolates are always nice, and a diamond necklace would be delightful. But a Dallas-based ministry thinks it has a better idea for Valentine's Day.

Server move pending, IRC addicts grieve

Server move pending, IRC addicts grieve 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
We'll be moving a server to our new datacenter at 1pm CST.

Web addicts escape army conscription
(Reuters)

Web addicts escape army conscription
(Reuters) 08/03/2004 09:23 AM
Reuters - A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the Finnish Defence Forces says.

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military 08/03/2004 04:37 PM
Too depressed to shoot anything

Internet addicts also suffer withdrawal
symptoms!

Internet addicts also suffer withdrawal
symptoms! 09/24/2004 12:05 PM
Webindia123 Sep 24 2004 3:24PM GMT

O2 puts the squeeze on push-email
addicts

O2 puts the squeeze on push-email
addicts 01/11/2004 08:13 PM
Hooks you with freebies, but then ...

What do you do on your lunch break?

What do you do on your lunch break? 07/15/2004 01:44 PM
A report on lunchtime eating in the UK reveals a change in workers' habits. Are you one of the 20% who never take a break?

Mmm lunch [Flickr]

Mmm lunch [Flickr] 12/27/2004 08:01 PM

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Mmm lunch

Lunch at Buck's

Lunch at Buck's 05/06/2004 05:36 PM

I had lunch at Buck's today.  Believe it or not, it was my first time.  Despite countless lunches with VCs, I somehow never had lunch there.  Joining me were Bill Harris and Louie Gasparini, respectively Chairman and CTO of PassMark Security.  Although I didn't eat much as usual, I really enjoyed the lunch.

Bill, who was CEO of PayPal and Intuit, had great stories to tell.  The ability to tell stories well is a valuable skill I wish I had but don't.  All I can manage is react intelligently or project voice to forcefully pound in a message or two.  That's second class IMHO compared to the ability to paint and animate a picture with voice.

Anyhow, I am happy that I'll be working closely with two of the nicest people in the Silicon Valley.  I'll have to try that artichoke next time when I am hungrier.  Robert, remember that lunch you owed me?

Lethal Lunch

Lethal Lunch 03/14/2005 06:01 PM

« A pair of snowmen in the park. Is it just me or did there seem to be a lot fewer snowmen around town this year? »

There is one detail in the structure of the Finnish workday that remains a bit strange; lunch. In the US, few workplaces have a cafeteria and most folks either eat at their desk or drive to the nearest Taco Hell and make a run for the border in their car. Lunch is an unceremonious affair if people take a lunch at all. I spent years either working instead of lunch or eating a sandwich at my desk somewhere around 2pm. Here, lunchtime is 11am and it seems, with rare exception, that everyone heads to the cafeteria and has a hearty, hot lunch. I presume that since few people have cars that driving off the rez for eatz just isn't possible, so a large majority just eat in. Lunch still feels like a guilty pleasure even though I've grown used to the 11am schedule, but the food....well, no.

My weight hadn't changed by more than a kilogram or two in 10 years until I started eating lunch at the cafeteria at work and I'm starting to suspect that the Finnish lunch is, in fact, deadly. Actually, I don't think my diet has really changed at all, except for the work cafeteria food, for the past 3 months so it must be responsible for my expanding landscape. I had heard rumous about the Finnish cafeteria food, but the scathing reviews didn't come close to the reality. It's not an all-you-can-eat buffet and I'm not snarfing heaping globs of the grey, unidentified goo that the cook feels compelled to stand next to and reassure the diners that it really is edible and does taste good in spite of the colour. The cook also seems to love curry for those days where the leftovers are 'repurposed' by putting them into a bright yellow curry goo and served with rice. When the entree isn't grey or curry yellow, it's brown. Rice, pasta and au gratin potatoes of some variety are a fixture. It's all the food that the videos in health class warned you not to eat. I keep imagining that we'll watch someone keel over from a massive heart attack in the middle of a mound of pyttipannu topped with 2 or 3 fried eggs. You know it's a bad day when most tables have salt, pepper and/or HP sauce being passed around as they did today. I never take the dessert, often a vat of an unknown gloop, since I generally prefer a dessert with texture even if the stuff happens to taste good. And water is the only beverage since Finnish cafeterias haven't been bought by the soft drink conglomerates which leaves a variety of milk products and a slightly alcoholic beer called kotikalja that, even at 1% ABV, I just can't bring myself to drink during working hours. Perhaps Martha Stewart's next book could be on mess hall/cafeteria/prison cooking in an attempt to help prisoners everywhere get a decent meal. We can only hope.

I really must stop eating lunch in the cafeteria every day and start riding my bike to work again soon instead of sitting on the bus so that I'll hopefully be able to avoid what really terrifies me most: shopping for new clothes. In Finland.

Lunch: $25,000 Per Person

Lunch: $25,000 Per Person 07/09/2004 03:09 PM
Warren Buffett helps the needy in San Francisco.

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register 08/04/2004 09:30 AM

Police to focus on ridding KL of drug
addicts - Dell

Police to focus on ridding KL of drug
addicts - Dell 01/22/2004 05:07 PM
Utusan Online Jan 22 2004 8:29PM GMT

Police To Focus On Ridding KL Of Drug
Addicts - Dell

Police To Focus On Ridding KL Of Drug
Addicts - Dell 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Bernama Jan 22 2004 6:26AM GMT

Addicts Are Overlooked in Gambling Boom
(Los Angeles Times)

Addicts Are Overlooked in Gambling Boom
(Los Angeles Times) 08/03/2004 05:35 AM
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — A major expansion of casinos, the lottery, racetracks and card rooms is making California one of the nation's gambling giants. Yet one result of this betting binge has received scant attention from public officials: pathological addiction.

Website helps addicts get lives back on
track

Website helps addicts get lives back on
track 09/11/2004 07:06 AM
Miami.com - Sat Sep 11, 08:03 am GMT

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register

Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military | The Register 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
Internet addicts sent home from Finnish military .. depressed

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Plan Jason's lunch

Plan Jason's lunch 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Today is one of those days when I don't feel like eating. All my favorite foods from my favorite lunch spots seem boring and unappealing to me. If I had access to an IV, I'd skip lunch, hook myself up, and get my midday sustenance that way. But as that's not an option, what should I have to eat today for lunch? Options around Grand Central appreciated. Update: I'm back... (with comments)

After the lunch hour, we'll help you
relax a bit

After the lunch hour, we'll help you
relax a bit 01/26/2004 06:35 AM
After the lunch hour, we'll help you relax a bit. Mood lit, time of day sensitive programming comes to your favorite local newspaper web portal. Will something like this fly? Has it been done before? Is this being done elsewhere now?

A free lunch with Microsoft

A free lunch with Microsoft 08/04/2004 04:34 AM
I chatted with Microsoft's Jason Matusow last week. That, in itself, isn't unusual as most weeks I talk to someone from the Redmond Empire. But this was a bit more interesting because it took place at the Open Source Conference, and Matusow was wearing a badge identifying him as a Microsoftie.

No such thing as a free lunch?

No such thing as a free lunch? 09/24/2004 02:11 PM
It's the latest buzz to sweep the internet--free iPods for signing up and referring five of your friend. There was plenty of skepticism at first, but when positive reports started coming in, the popularity of the site took off. But like any pyramid scheme, the people who are only signing up now are getting burned. And of course, won't someone think of the children?

$200,000 for Buffett Lunch (Reuters)

$200,000 for Buffett Lunch (Reuters) 07/09/2004 10:25 AM
Reuters - For about $200,000, you can buy two shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s stock, or you can have lunch with its chairman -- Warren Buffett.

Snack Addicts Offer Tips for Super Bowl
Snacking

Snack Addicts Offer Tips for Super Bowl
Snacking 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Taquitos.net's snack reviewers have rated more than 2400 different snacks, and they've compiled a list of tips to help maximize your Super Bowl snacking experience. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Finnish army sends internet addicts home
to 'grow up'

Finnish army sends internet addicts home
to 'grow up' 08/04/2004 09:56 PM
BBC Aug 5 2004 1:57AM GMT

South Korea Grapples with Online Gaming
Addicts (Reuters)

South Korea Grapples with Online Gaming
Addicts (Reuters) 01/11/2004 09:25 PM
Reuters - In the online computer game "Lineage," 12-year-old South Korean Lim is a hero, earning fame and fortune in a fantasy world where a flashing blade and well-timed spell can keep him out of trouble.

TunesTracker Launches New Features for
iTunes Music Store Addicts

TunesTracker Launches New Features for
iTunes Music Store Addicts 03/14/2005 05:03 PM
After registering with TunesTracker, users can enter the names of up to 50 of their favorite musical artists, composers, and songs. In addition to searching by artist name, you can now receive alertswhen the iTunes Music Store adds songs written by favorite composers, or even when a song with a particular title is added. TunesTracker was created by Kevin Savetz, who was also the co-founder of FreeAfterRebate.info, a shopping Web site devoted to free-after-rebate deals.

Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
[Flickr]

Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
[Flickr] 02/05/2005 10:08 PM

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