Archive for September, 2005
links for 2005-09-19
TrekWeb.com – Patrick Stewart Fancies Fanny in FOX Toons. “If I whispered in your ear that Commander Worf’s head looks like a fanny, would you join me in a laugh?” (tags: startrek tv) NASA plans for next moon mission. A one-week stay on the moon in 2018 on a ship using cannibalized shuttle parts. Lunar [...]
links for 2005-09-18
Internet For Christians. Gospelcom’s own link filter. (tags: faith net) GetReligion: Why journalists love Pat Robertson. (tags: faith news culture)
links for 2005-09-17
A Short History of Martin Luther By Real Live Preacher’s 16-year-old daughter. (tags: faith history fun) particletree ยท The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax. So older browsers can still use your hey-wow-Ajax-driven website. (tags: markup js standards) The DCeiver: The regret people said I’d feel if I didn’t get behind the Nationals? Heh, funny [...]
Cat with Rollerblades in Background
(IMG_3587.jpg uploaded by brownpau.) Pandora lazes in her new favorite spot under the coffee table. I’ve put her catnip mat there so she can enjoy the location.
links for 2005-09-16
Scott Berkun on IE and Firefox. He worked on UI design for Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0. (tags: browsers ie design) The housing dilemma for young couples considering buying in DC. Buy a teeny-tiny equity-building studio condo, or continue renting a livably-sized domicile? Kat decides on the latter, and I agree, at least till the [...]
Spammers, Stickers, Shirts, redux
Heh, my entry on Spammers, Stickers, and Shirts appears to have struck a nerve in Link Spam Land, because I’m being hit with repeated rape/incest/bestiality spam comments, specifically targeted at that single post. Just goes to show: there may be lots of money in illicit mercenary weblog vandalism (I don’t really think of it as [...]
links for 2005-09-15
Flickr signup: From human to droid in a Yahoo moment? – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) Unless this changes, I don’t think I will be renewing my Flickr subscription when it expires. Despite Flickr’s protestations that Yahoo “gets it,” Flickr is going the way of Geocities: gradually turning into trash, as with everything else that [...]
No Bones, Mo’ Bowels
So I tried watching Bones last night, and in the first two minutes, the show tries to make you believe that you can see the US Capitol from Dulles Airport (you can’t), that a woman will gladly flash her breasts to get a snooty flight desk clerk’s attention, and that TSA agents will only accost [...]
links for 2005-09-14
Garrett Dimon: Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer (tags: business) The “Work Blind” Curtain. Cubicle equivalent of fake attentive-eyes glasses. (tags: lj fun work) The Register: Google Earth threatens democracy. Freely available aerial/satellite imagery is making some military powers nervous. (tags: google politics)
WaPoRati?
If you scroll down through the Washington Post story I previously linked in the espionage post, you’ll see a little box titled “Who’s Blogging?” with Technorati-powered trackbacks, and a link to more inbound weblog content. A bold move! Opening up the paper’s online content to the wild, distributed interactivity of the weblog world will attract [...]