October 2003
22 posts
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Dammit. I knew this was going to happen. My copy of Panther came today. I had it delievered to my home address because it was supposed to come tomorrow, and if I had sent it to work I would have had to wait until Monday to get it. But since it came a day early, I wasn’t home to get it, so they didn’t leave it there. Now I have to either drive out to the FedEx plant on Eisenhower Ave. or wait until...
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While I understand that a right to privacy can be intuited from the Bill of Rights, we could use clearer enumeration. Case in point:
In September 2002, JetBlue Airways secretly turned over data
about 1.5 million of its passengers to a company called
Torch Concepts, under contract with the Department of
Defense.
Torch Concepts merged this data with Social Security
numbers, home...
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Trust for Museum Exhibitions
I am very proud to announce the launch of my first professional website: The Trust for Museum Exhibitions. The idea was to make something that TME would be able to update themselves without having to pay their unreliable web techs $125/hour to make simple changes to the text.
I didn’t actually redesign the site much from what TME already had, but the whole thing looks cleaner and prettier now....
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My dad just forwarded this to me. Interesting…
Abstracts are sought for a collection of philosophical
essays on the theme of the undead. The editors are
currently in discussion with Open Court Press (The publisher
of The Simpsons and Philosophy, The Matrix and
Philosophy, and the forthcoming The Sopranos and
Philosophy, etc.) regarding the inclusion of this
collection in a...
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Electronic Gaming Monthly lined up a bunch of ten to thirteen year-old kids in front of 80’s-era arcade games. Here are some excerpts (try not to hear the children in Whitehead’s voice. I dare you!):
[Pong]
Tim: My line is so beating the heck out of your stupid line.
Fear my pink line. You have no chance. I am the undisputed
lord of virtual tennis. [Misses ball] Whoops.
John: Tim,...
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Three completely different items today.
Trust
The webpage for Cyndi’s company should be up within the next day. I’ve worked hard on it, and I’m very happy with how it turned out (not that I made more than cosmetic changes to the existing design.) I’ll announce the official launch when I hit the big publish button.
Sports
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This week’s The Onion | What Do You Think? asks: “After the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. What do you think?” Sarah Jacobs, Lyricist, replies:
Who would have thought that a bad Austrian artist whos
obsessed with the human physical ideal could assemble such a
rabid political following?
Ah jokes. Senior year I took a class...
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Multiple Column Layout Using MT Tags
The layout of newspapers and magazines has developed into an elegant art. Web design lags behind. One of the staples of print design that the web hasn’t gotten right yet is multiple column layout. XHTML and CSS have (so far) no way to make an article automatically spill over into a second or third column.
I think, and I haven’t tested or templated this, that MovableType tags, along with a few...
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CNET News.com is reporting that Apple will be releasing iTunes for Windows one week from today. Get your pocketbooks ready!
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Curse You, Chik'n Pot Pie
What makes me think that the next bite won’t burn my tongue even though the one 15 seconds ago did?
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Tank Tops and Corsets
I’m still amazed that we went to a Rennaisance Festival. It wasn’t what I expected it to be. There were a lot more families and blue color Marylanders there than nerds dressed in ye olde garb. I’d say 70% of the crowd were the people the same people you see at amusement parks except that the fat guys weren’t wearing their tank tops because it was too cold. My question is why weren’t any of...
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I want to go see the Texas Chainsaw remake, even though remakes suck. What is it about movies I know are going to be bad?
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Here’s another good-looking page that shows what can be done with some good design sense and the TypePad template builder.
Plus he reads Bendis.
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Six minutes until Smallville and then West Wing! [deep breath]
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Looking Forward to Superman
Batman: Hush was so good. It’s killing me to have to wait six months until Jim Lee starts drawing Superman. I think tonight’s Smallville finally got me to understand how damn good that book will be. Lee’s been quoted to say that he and Brian Azzarello are going to darken the title up a bit, which I think is good. Superman’s the good guy. The statue of the good guy, and that’s how it should be. But...
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Every once in a while I click around to random websites and today I found a very pretty one with a lot of good content. Go take a tour of LittleThinkTank. I think you’ll enjoy your stay.
Of the neat things I found there: a link to a magnificent set of photos of something very pretty. Hint: sleek sleek aluminum.
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Chris Din delivers some of the best news I’ve ever heard: KB Toys has lost a lawsuit and is putting the entire store on sale! From the official announcement:
Defendants will distribute the Net Settlement Fund by
providing a discount at the cash registers of all KB Toys,
KB Toy Works, KB Toy Outlet, Toy Liquidator and KB Toys
Express stores nationwide, including Guam and Puerto Rico,
...
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Finished Warcraft III
There are a few good things about having your girlfriend gone for a week. One of them is having lots of time on your hands to devote to video games. I finished WarCraft III this weekend. Overall I thought it was fantastic. I don’t think the storyline was a strong as StarCraft’s, but I absolutely loved the smaller hero’s band approach rather than the large-scale army concept of the earlier games. I...
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In my referrer log this afternoon I found ex.drunk.a.log. It moved me. The author in an early post:
The good news is that by getting sober I was given a chance
to confront all my difficulties. The bad news is that by
getting sober I was given a chance to confront all my
difficulties
Go read this weblog. Start with the first post. This is one of those perfect uses and reasons for the...
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Justice League Season 2 Kicks Off
Aside from one teaser this summer, it’s been over a year since the last new episode of Justice League aired. Last night “Tabula Rasa” finally kicked off their second season.
And it’s going to be a good one.
The artists on the show must have been working very hard in the last two years. The artwork, which had leaned more toward the style of Superman, has taken on some of the...
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Via Mena, here’s a pretty difficult quiz: 60 album covers. The band names have been removed. How many do you know?
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Today I ran across a useful set of tips for anyone out there claiming to be a visitor from the future: Idle Words’ “Best Practices for Time Travelers”.
One useful snippet:
> […] insist on an infinite number of near-identical, parallel universes, so you can never travel quite to the same universe you came from. In Titor’s case, our ‘worldline’ is...