Archive for October, 2003

define:google

Posted by brownpau on October 21, 2003. One comment.

Scarcely had I recovered from the thrill of using Google as Calculator, now we have Google as Dictionary. (Via ev.)

SubBug

Posted by brownpau on October 20, 2003. No comments.

A stray ladybug balloon appears to crawl through the slots of the arched concrete ceiling at Metro Center station. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.

Yankee Flipper

Posted by brownpau on October 20, 2003. 2 comments.

Squirrels bugging your bird feeder? You need a Yankee Flipper, the motorized rodent-proof avian-feeding solution!

Listutorial

Posted by brownpau on October 20, 2003. 3 comments.

Listutorial – for well-styled HTML lists. I’m trying a horizontal nav list for my inside pages now, and IE/Win still breaks it. Unbelievable. (I’d like to reiterate to my beloved audience that if you’re still using Internet Explorer, it’s time to GARB.)

Clutterification

Posted by brownpau on October 20, 2003. 4 comments.

Who else recoiled in horror at Inq7′s new front page? I completely missed the redesign, since I bookmark the “mobile” interface (which, incidentally, does not work on my mobile device, a Sony Ericsson T300 with a plodding WAP browser). The horror starts right at <table width=1000… and gets steadily worse from there: ghostly floating logos, [...]

No Concealed Weapons

Posted by brownpau on October 19, 2003. One comment.

History of the Barong Tagalog, the Filipino national costume. It’s what I’m wearing in this photo.

Creamy Catastrophe

Posted by brownpau on October 19, 2003. No comments.

It’s an old story, but strangely disturbing: Milk machine flies apart, injuring 6. Read the last sentence.

Doom Buggies

Posted by brownpau on October 18, 2003. No comments.

And speaking of Disney, if you love Disneyland as much as I used to as a kid, check out Doom Buggies, a fully detailed fan site about the Haunted Mansion ride. There’s even a documented tour, with secrets. Update: And a Pirates of the Carribean fan site too, also with tour. Hours of fun.

Cage Stage

Posted by brownpau on October 18, 2003. 4 comments.

Old Razormouth article, but still a good read: Why I Left Calvinism. (Not Really.) “I heard George Grant say one time that every new Calvinist should be locked in a cage for the first two years of ‘Reformed Enlightenment.’ He called those two years the ‘cage stage.’” I think a lot of us go through [...]

TofuBen, Anyone?

Posted by brownpau on October 18, 2003. No comments.

“…as students create banners and signs in preparation for Columbus Day — or, as it is popularly known at Evergreen, ‘WHY DON’T WE CELEBRATE HITLER TOO WHILE WE’RE AT IT??!! Day.’