Stamford Times Can’t Format an Article This article from the Stamford Times demonstrates two things: They shouldn’t let their IT folks set up the online newspaper because, really, who uses center formatting for a newspaper article and, oh yeah, there’s some traffic calming information in there. 16 Students Killed in Egypt Two days after the …
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Lamers!
Seen from my hotel window as I prepared for the day. I’m glad I’m not part of that group. “Lamers!”
Blogger Code of Conduct and the Rhetorical use of Fuck
The NY Times reports today on a movement to enhance civility in the blogosphere. This code is based partly on the BlogHer community guidelines and a draft is delineated here and here. This code was founded directly or indirectly due to a flamewar on a blog posting that was interpreted as misogynistic with threatening overtones …
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New JibJab
The geniuses at JibJab have published their next animated political commentary entitled What We Call The News. You may remember This Land from the 2004 election season, which made a huge splash, deservedly so. Go check out the new one.
Favorite Photo of the Week
It is pollen season in Georgia right now. It’s the time of year where no one washes their car for three weeks. We’re all hoping for some rain this weekend to make everything a bit less yellow. The image above is from my front porch, where evil squirrels regularly case my house.
Clear Instructions
I’ve had a persistent cough since a few weeks ago. Today, under nurse-practitioner’s orders, I filled my antibiotics prescription. I got home and opened the package to find the most clear drug instructions of all time. This is much easier than “twice daily as needed.” Of course, they’re also clear about the side effects. Let …
J.K. Rowling Set to Cash In
It’s no surprise to anyone that J.K. Rowling is positioned to make a great deal of money from the 7th installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. USA Today had an article concerning the initial print run of 12 million copies for HPaDH, which is freaking huge! The same article …
Peter Hamilton; Void Trilogy
For anyone who cares, Peter Hamilton is supposed to be publishing the first novel of the Void Trilogy in summer ’07. Yay for us. Hopefully, he will have scaled back a bit from the grand overarching craziness that was Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained. They were both wayyyyy too long and complex. I believe that …
Operational Battlemech
Beware my 1.0 mph speed and sponge-bullet fury! No Space Invader will be safe.
Horrible Website
It’s 2007. People should know better than to do things like this with the mouse pointer. Never never never never never…