Archive for July, 2006
Lemony BBQ Pork Chops
I’ve cooked a few things, but until last week, I had never cooked a pork chop. Oh, I’ve eaten pork chops several times, but I’ve never actually made a pork chop meal for myself. That changed on Friday, as I purchased two nice big slabs to do with as I pleased, along with a little [...]
links for 2006-07-18
cheap and tiny // KOSS Stereo In-Ear Ear Plugs for $8.99 (tags: tech audio) Vitamin: The Importance of Maintainable JavaScript (tags: js markup) Microphone Captures Bush’s Unscripted Comments at G-8. “What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it’s over.” (tags: president language politics) Objection Dismissed [...]
Curled-Up Paws
Sometimes the cat sleeps like this, and while she’s dreaming, she starts batting at the air.
links for 2006-07-16
cheap and tiny // Bluetrek Silver S2 Bluetooth Headset for $29.99 (tags: mobile bluetooth tech) Xinha plugin for WordPress. Provides a more complete WYSIWYG editing interface for posts and pages. (tags: wordpress) Text Control Plugin for WordPress. Gives you better control over HTML and text formatting. Needed to avoid conflicts between WordPress text parsing and [...]
links for 2006-07-15
cheap and tiny // Motorola HS820 Bluetooth Headset for $29.99 (tags: mobile bluetooth tech) cheap and tiny // Wireless Technologies BT625 Bluetooth Headset for $27.99 (tags: mobile bluetooth tech) Stop Test-Driving Your Girlfriend. “Think like a servant, not a consumer.” Words of wisdom on love and relationships from Michael Lawrence. (tags: faith love marriage) The [...]
links for 2006-07-14
Bye Bye Embed. Valid embedding of rich media in your HTML. (tags: markup) Looking back at Hotwired, by Jeffrey Veen (tags: design retro net) Wisdump: Too Scared to Learn. “If you love to only work with tables because that one time you did try CSS it just didn’t work out then keep doing what you [...]
Wasp On Sign
Little wasp crawling around on a wooden sign in Harpers Ferry, WV.
links for 2006-07-13
Real life redo of George Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte.” (tags: art photography) Stuff On My Cat. Putting stuff on cats. (tags: animals cute fun) Cats That Look Like Hitler. (tags: animals hitler fun) DCist: Eating In: Grilled Whole Fish (tags: food fish) Beyond Salmon: How to cook a whole fish [...]
Recent Reading: Manhunt, the 12 Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer
Just finished reading: Manhunt, the 12 Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, by James Swanson. As a dramatized compilation of historical accounts, Manhunt is excellently done, giving us a matter-of-fact chronological narrative of the assassination of Lincoln, the flight of John Wilkes Booth, and his various accomplices and adversasries along the way. As literature, however, Manhunt [...]
links for 2006-07-12
Strobist: How To: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio (tags: photography) The cutting edge of space-age technology: duct tape. Duct tape saves the day: or more specifically, astronaut Piers Sellers’ propulsion backpack. (tags: space) Train bombings in Mumbai. (tags: india news war) Public Eye: LaRouche’s Antisemitic Conspiracism. Chip Berlet’s analysis of the roots of Lyndon Larouche’s [...]