Entries from Apr 03
Hit them with a Club
Snow & Voinovich not Republican enough for the weird right
Wasabi peanuts
wasabi peanuts = skull-popping goodness
“Who was that idiot?”
Tom DeLay, that’s who.
Perhaps my most recursive metablog post to date
Via the Movable Type support board, I learned of the blogideas site. “When you don’t know what to Blog about.”
Now, there are lots of different forms that blogs can take, and they’re all valid, I suppose, but if I don’t have anything to write about in my blog, I don’t write anything. I don’t feel [...]
Global Nomads
On Saturday night, a friend, Cinque, staged a sort of new-media art installation event thingum at Republic Square Park called We Are All Global Nomads. For the past month, people around the world have been uploading their pictures to the site, along with brief observations of “what’s outside my window.” At the event, these pictures [...]
Copycat
Subaru copies Mazda’s soon-to-be success with the RX-8
Shallow thoughts
David, the soup peddler, had a second-night-of-pesach dinner last night, at which I was present. A very new-agey type of affair. Following are some ideas that cropped up during conversation:
It used to be that Americans of any political stripe could make fun of the French and feel good about it. Since GW2, the right wing [...]
Full moon night
Last night was a full moon. Quite amazing to see as it hung low over the horizon. The air was positively pungent with the smell of chinaberry blossoms (thanks to Jenny for identifying it). Apparently the chinaberry is considered a pest tree, not native to these parts, but it smells fantastic–somewhere between jasmine and bluebonnet. [...]
I take it all back
Hey! A terrorist in Iraq! The war is justified!
Macintouch gets with the program, sort of
Macintouch, the best Mac news site, is finally publishing an RSS feed. Excerpts only, which is fair: they need to get people to come to the site, since they’re advertising-supported.
A bigger problem is that Macintouch never had permalinks for individual stories, and yet an RSS feed requires a permalink, or something like it. The solution [...]
