monotonous tooth-activating cream
Yes, I know all about the website engrish.com. Evidently someone has taken this a step farther and has a blog for Engrish
There seem to be some real gems in here.
Goldmember
Just saw Goldmember, very silly but fun. This one doesn’t have the goofy five-second musical interludes, but does have a few tricks up its sleeve. Not high art, but who cares? I enjoyed it.
Riding the waves
While I know that none of my friends with full-time jobs, whether they’re at startups or blue-chip multinationals, have much sense of job security anymore, there’s still something weird about freelancing.
The past two weeks I had almost no work, which is damned alarming, you can bet. Today I am sitting on about 24,000 words worth of work. That’s a fair amount—probably $3500 in two weeks.
Go figure.
Shorty Long
Went to see Shorty Long again last night. They’re fantastic. No, it’s not enough that they have a seven-foot-tall nose-flute player, he stands up, sways rhythmically, and makes funny faces while playing it. And the music…Where do they hunt down stuff like “Flaming Ukulele in the Sky”?
Two great web phenomena that taste great together
The whole hot or not phenomenon, which spawned a brace of imitators, seems to have achieved critical mass around the same time that blogging did. So it’s only appropriate that the two be combined. Yes, you can now rate whether blogs are hot or not.
Chimera 0.4
Chimera 0.4, a browser for Mac OS X, is out. I’m using it right now. I like it.
It’s still very obviously a work in progress, with odd behavior when new windows pop up, or when typing in a field (as I am doing now), etc. But it seems to be well behaved, fast, and designed with good “instincts.” Joe Bob says “Check it out.”
Big Brother lives in Hollywood
As if we needed further convincing that Big Media is evil: License to Hack: Black Hats win.
A bill is being prepared that would allow copyright holders to hack into your computer if they suspect you have illicit copyrighted materials. The bill would also shield them from damages if they happen to mess up your computer.
via Kuro5hin.
Firenight in the tunnels
Another Tuesday, another firenight. Our status at our beloved usual location being somewhat up in the air, we met in the tunnels. I got a few pictures.
Taking the plunge
Although I have been using and enjoying Blogger for some time, I decided to try something different and blog using Movable Type. The recent silence in my blog has been due to this migration.
MT offers a lot more fine-tuning options, at the expense of a lot more complexity. But it’s a bigger sandbox to play in.
I also am in the process of redesigning my personal site, so that my blog is my front page. All my miscellaneous writings will need to be updated. It’s coming…