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May 31, 2004
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PJ O’Rourke: America, Recuse Thyself!
“At a theoretical level there may be no reason why Isolationism, Protectionism and Nativism should be conjoined. But we can hardly have Larry and Curly without Moe.”
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Negative Advertising: 75% of Bush’s ads, 27% of Kerry’s
“I’m anticipating it’s going to be the most negative campaign ever”
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Seven tricks that Web users don’t know
“I’d take it as a sign that God doesn’t want me to buy this”
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May 29, 2004
PC Mag: 68 Tips and Tricks for Windows
“we present here a bunch of new tricks for this aging OS”
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PC Mag: 106 Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office
“we’ve compiled some of our favorite tips and tricks for Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint”
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Interview with David Crosby on the changes in the music business
“I think it’s going in a tank, and I am standing on the sidelines applauding”
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Sometimes the sharks eat each other
“Conservative Allies Take Chalabi Case to the White House”
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May 28, 2004
Cleaning Dust from a DSLR sensor (
more advice)
A slightly dicey operation, but unfortunately necessary
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Neal Boortz thinks you’re stupid
“I’ve come to the reluctant but inescapable conclusion that about 50% of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society”
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Manhattan Equinox
“Manhattan will flood dramatically with sunlight just as the Sun sets precisely on the centerline of every street”
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“Dear Brian,” a heartwrenching collection of letters to a brother lost on 9/11
We forget those who deal with the losses of 9/11 everyday. These letters brought me to tears.
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May 27, 2004
Photo: Storm clouds over Wrigley Field
I hate that these photos aren’t archived long. This one’s a keeper
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mezzoblue : Comment Highlighting
An interesting experiment in ‘marking up’ comments
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May 26, 2004
In America we ban photography; in Britain they ban sketching
“Is the ROM or any other museum about to stop people with photographic memories from looking at their objects?”
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How to raise $40,000 in less than 4 days
First, build a near sterling web reputation, then create an offer no web geek can refuse
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May 25, 2004
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May 24, 2004
Suspicions about a new terrorist attack have U.S. spies scrambling
”...a massive, multipronged assault on the United States ... between this summer’s political conventions and October”
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Sharp Sand: Getting it Right
An interesting view of the community around Textpattern, and recent developments from Dean
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Terrorists threaten to kill Madonna
Doesn’t sound like a typical death threat at all
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Textpattern Forum: “Textpattern is Open Source Software”
A dual license approach “intended to keep options open for everybody who wishes to use Textpattern, from an individual weblog publisher to a multinational corporation”
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May 23, 2004
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George W. Bush as Harry S. Truman
A very interesting look at where the Bush campaign stands today
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May 22, 2004
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Understanding Camera RAW Files
“There is probably more misinformation, disinformation and lack of information regarding what raw files are all about than on any other digital imaging topic”
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Who let the Saudis leave U.S. on Sept. 13-14, 2001?
“the commission will state in its final report if the White House refused to answer questions about who authorized the Saudi flights after the 2001 attacks.”
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Michael Moore and Me
I swear, P.T. Barnum would be proud of him
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May 21, 2004
A List Apart: Onion Skinned Drop Shadows
People go to amazing lengths to get simple clean CSS drop shadows
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MacIE5 CSS Hack: the commented backslash
As much as I hate CSS hacks, I needed this one today
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Bloglines: Most Popular Links
Very nicely done, despite the fact it’s been done before
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Blogads: results from the reader survey for blog advertising.
“61% of blog readers responding to the survey are over 30, and 75% make more than $45,000 a year.”
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Atlanta Gas Prices
They currently show a 31 cent per gallon range, from $1.74 to $2.05 for regular
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Snopes.com: Andy Kaufman is still dead
“I have no doubts that he’d find a much more imaginative way of revealing his return than a free press release and a rather ordinary blog”
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May 20, 2004
The parentless lass impacted my flat bed vehicle
“Janae got out of her car, saw the damage and proceeded to leave the scene”
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The Ultimate War Sim (Laugh? Thought I’d die...)
“Like my Grandpa always said, there were no naked human pyramids in Starcraft.”
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Textpattern Forum: Textpattern 101
A nice primer and collection of links for those awaiting something more official
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Textpattern Forum: gamma 1.19, Real Soon Now
Rush ahead, guinea pigs, so I may observe the results ... secondhand
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Satellite Photo: North Korean fires
Forest fires? Then why are South Korea and China clear of them?
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May 19, 2004
Is Nick Denton the Vince Dooley of blogs?
Vince was the master of lowering expectations and poor mouthing his chances, while talking up his competition
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Look who’s Google’s #1 “Moderate Blog”!
In the blogoshere, that’s a bit like being #1 Iraqi Tank Commander
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How are you using Movable Type? Answers:
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Lots of interesting Trackbacks to follow
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The Incredible Shrinking Army
They’re even stripping half the OPFOR’s from Fort Irwin and Fort Polk to fill gaps overseas
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Photos:
Caldwell James - The Hospital Days, and
The Other Boy
There will be no shortage of smile inducing baby pix at JimFormation, that’s for sure
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The amazing story of 86 year old Braves photographer Walter Victor (reg. req’d)
Victor served 33 months in combat, receiving eight combat stars and two Bronze Stars ... He took part in every major allied landing in the European Theater, in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy, landing at Utah Beach on D-Day.
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May 18, 2004
Popup Screenshot:
Googlespike, from the
Googlelanche
I’ll likely never see a traffic spike like that again
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Photos: Amazing Aerials, and more
‘Me and My Human’ is my favorite
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May 17, 2004
The Alleged Return of Andy Kaufman
Andy would never bleep “tell him to f*** off” with 3 asterisks. I only use one. Andy would use none.
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May 16, 2004
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“I’m not gay, not brilliant, not artistic, and I really have nothing worthwhile to say, several times a week...”
A Usenet Master of past acquaintance finally makes the blog transition ... pleasing old timers like me and a certain donkey
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May 15, 2004
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Photo: Ronald McDonald gets busted
“A Greenpeace protester dressed like Ronald McDonald waves from a police car after he was removed by police”
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Welcome to the World, Caldwell James McCormick!
Your Daddy is a major wacko, but since you have his name, inverted, we expect you’ll be fine
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May 14, 2004
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More Idiot DJ’s who think abuse is funny (scroll down to the pictures)
I think they’ve worn their headphones too long ... severe brain damage
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The Migration Begins:
“So-long and thanks for all the trackbacks”,
“Freedom 0 is the freedom to run the program, for any purpose.”
“Movable Type is a dead end ... This site now runs WordPress” ... “I hope we can still be friends. Maybe we can still fool around once in a while”
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Some things simply aren’t funny
Like DJ’s laughing over the audio of Berg’s murder ... now that they’re unemployed, who’s laughing?
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More tales of
The Googlelanche:
Backcountry Conservative,
Outside the Beltway,
Single Southern Guy,
Brain Shavings
Looks like a lot of people, myself included, may be over on bandwidth for May
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Drupal For (MT) Bloggers, v0.1
“a customized version of Drupal which has features that typical (MT) bloggers are used to”
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MT 3.0 vs. ExpressionEngine - a comparison
“both should do a better job at letting customers know in advance what their upgrade policy is”
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May 13, 2004
Thomas Friedman bails on Bush
“There is something even more important to the Bush crowd than getting Iraq right, and that’s getting re-elected and staying loyal to the conservative base to do so”
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May 12, 2004
Iron Blogger Debates Begin, on the topic of Rumsfeld
Nothing like starting with a good meaty topic ... but will it remain civil?
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May 11, 2004
Army Times Editorial: A failure of leadership at the highest levels
“This was not just a failure of leadership at the local command level. This was a failure that ran straight to the top”
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The Blogosphere just got a lot prettier
Nice new standards compliant templates from Blogger and some great designers
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May 10, 2004
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Photo: Lensbaby Sunflowers
“One nice side effect of getting your sweetie a new Lensbaby for her birthday is you get to play with it when she’s not looking”
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“The Election Is Kerry’s To Lose”
John Zogby gives four reasons why ... but someone please hire that man an HTML editor
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“John Kerry Must Go.”
“That Village Voice headline may be a tad dramatic, but stories about disaffected Democrats are spreading like wildfire through the media forest”
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Generals Refusing Blame
Not my fault, it was military intelligence...
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Privates Refusing Blame
Not my fault, I was just following orders...
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May 08, 2004
The 140th Anniversary Battle of Resaca Reenactment, May 15-16
I’ve been to two of these, and it is ‘put on for reenactors by reenactors’
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“There is no ‘But’”
The ‘Big But of Moral Equivalency’ rears its ugly head, this time from the right instead of the left
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Military courts, “command influence,” and how it may become cause for appeal or dismissal of the Abu Ghraib charges
All these condemnations by Rumsfeld, Bush, etc., may cause defense attorneys to seek to have charges dismissed, citing undue command influence
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May 07, 2004
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A third letter from the UN attempting to intimidate witnesses
“This letter has chilled his willingness to cooperate with the congressional investigation. This individual also appears to be genuinely frightened by the implications inherent in the letter”
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Now this is how to get out of a speeding ticket
In New Zealand, an effective sense of humor can eliminate speeding tickets
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The Infinite Cat Project
Fritz watching Zoot, watching Abby, watching Frankie, watching Poozy, watching Frankie, watching Sammy, watching Frankie...
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May 06, 2004
“Michael Moore admits Disney ‘ban’ was a stunt
“Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it”
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May 05, 2004
“Sun Policy on Public Discourse” (they mean blogging)
“By speaking directly to the world, without benefit of management approval, we are accepting higher risks in the interest of higher rewards”
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“Shock pundits degrade the public discourse.”
“a troubling lesson to those who hope to participate in productive public policy debate”
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More CSS Tabs: The Navigation Matrix
This one cleverly shifts the position of the background image to create the right view
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War Game: Sam Nunn tell Brussels they’ve been nuked
“It’s too easy for the G8 to have a photo opportunity ... to have press conferences, make a bunch of pledges, go home and everybody forgets about it”
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May 04, 2004
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“Well, baby, it was a nice short fling...”
Every three years or so, I make a half dozen posts at Blogger.
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May 03, 2004
Congrats to Oliver on the new gig
And such perks! ‘Most importantly, I’ll get to go to Redskins games’
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Stunning Photos: The Earth from above
From the appropriately named ‘No Words.’ None are needed
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For sale, really cheap: Micah Ian Wright’s Credibility (background
here and
here)
We’ll throw in his ‘Reputation’ and make it a matched broken set
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May 01, 2004
mozDex: An Open Source Search Engine, with a really bad logo
“mozDex uses open source search technologies to create an open and fair index”
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A List Apart: Creating CSS Boxes with Rounded “Mountaintop” Corners
I like this technique better than previous attempts to do the same thing. And, people, drop shadows are *so* passe.
