Monthly Archives: August 2008

Tonight I saw a movie. I mean, I think you could call it that. In retrospect, I would rather have been waterboarded. Here’s a taste of how little sense this movie made. In case you’re still kind of sane after watching that, try the next one. It’s brilliant in that the uploader spun the movie … Continue reading

In sifting through my weekly backup log, I found some directories I haven’t plumbed in a while. I found a fragment of a poem, or perhaps a complete one, which I wrote sometime back while I was in Munich. I believe it was during that intense period of working all the time. The street imagery … Continue reading

In doing a bit of reading for yesterday’s post about Twitter, I happened across a brief writeup of the Mozilla Messaging project, in which the author had linked to this picture (and properly cited it by Creative Commons guidelines, no less!). We could communicate by Bill Stilwell. License: Think about it.

I’m a Twitterer. Yes, that means loser. Since I don’t have a phone with which to produce and consume Twitter updates, I’ve been relying very heavily on ways to use the service from my computer. As with any oft-used process on my computer, I’m trying to optimize it. Web interface Let’s start with the basics. … Continue reading

Ever hear of Firefox 3? Yeah, so have I. Too bad NBC is still in the goddamn Neolithic. You have got to be kidding me. I was thinking I’d mosey over to their website, as much as I generally decry centralized media repositories, and see whether I couldn’t stream a bit of live coverage of … Continue reading

A while back, I posted about an article in a major news outlet that attempted to draw a correlation between listening to metal and being smarter than normal. It generated a sizable debate among individuals who are all smarter than normal, and few of whom enjoy metal. I liked the article, despite its failings to … Continue reading

On Friday I spent the day in New York with my Euro crew. It wasn’t anywhere near as fun as last year, partly because we didn’t even spend the night there (let alone two), but it was still a success. Unfortunately, I, cameraless, was unable to snap photos all day long of fun things that … Continue reading

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