Fist of the Law

2003-12-06.

Abu Sayyaf brigand at court hearing tries to grab guard’s rifle, gets punched out by state prosecutor. How’s that for justice?

A quick-thinking state prosecutor did a Manny Pacquiao last Tuesday when he knocked down a suspected Abu Sayyaf bandit who tried to wrestle away the M-16 rifle of a jail guard after a court hearing.

Western Mindanao assistant regional prosecutor Ricardo Cabaron floored Mubin Ibba with an upper cut although the latter was taller and better built than he. Ibba is facing charges in connection with the Aug. 8, 2001, beheading of nine residents of Balobo village.

Modernist Mashup

2003-12-05.

When Pollock meets Picasso…

I don't like modernism.

(Links via Kyriosity and Presurfer.)

Never feel over-smoked!

2003-12-05.

So I’ve been tweaking the CSS for TobaccoDocuments all day, using the infamous “Gee Mommy!” Camel ad for a search results sample. Late in the afternoon, I decide to get a brain-snack by checking on Lileks, and what do I see: Gee, Lileks!

(Also check out why you should be inserting cigarettes into your “T-Zone.”)

Ghosts of Netscape Past

2003-12-05.

Go to Netscape.com and you’d barely be able to tell there was once a browser there. That’s because AOL plans to slap the “Netscape” name onto some kind of desktop tool which may look like this. But if you’re looking for the classic Netscape Communicator and all the horror that entails, it’s still there, in Archived Netscape Products.

Inadvertent Bulk Mail Form

2003-12-05.

MovableType users who don’t know about this yet, please take note: mt-send-entry.cgi is vulnerable to use by spammers. I don’t use it at all, so I simply deleted the script.

What’s Your Safeway?

2003-12-04.

Large map of DC Safeways: Social, Soviet, Sixties, Senior, Secret, Spanish… In DC, every Safeway has a name. Social Safeway in Georgetown, for example, is the upscale Meet Market, while Soviet Safeway on 17th Street NW has long lines, short supplies, and narrow aisles. Myself, I get my groceries from the nearest one to my office: “Secret Safeway,” called “Townhouse” and hidden along a back street near the corner of Florida and Connecticut Ave NW.

Update: DCist carries the exhaustive Capital Safeway list.

Spill

2003-12-04.

Part of the scene from a spectacular clam chowder spill which splattered all over my kitchen table and carpet, and took an hour to clean and vacuum, making me late for work.

Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.

MASSIVE Holiday Linkdump

2003-12-04.

Floorplan of my apartment.
Slightly more DC Metrorail links than you can shake a farecard at. I especially enjoyed the Great Metro Adventure. And remember: it’s right to Stand Right.
Suburban Christianity. (via TECS.)
Remember the “Bible Wines” discussion? An archived Razormouth piece, “I Saw The Lite,” addresses the milder mixes of ancient times against the issue of prohibaptitionist abstentionism. I argued this with my girlfriend’s housemate (born a Pennsylvanian Episcopalian) at one point: I on the wine side, she on the juice side. I’m still wondering how this would affect a church with an active ministry for recovering alcoholics. More on Pennsylvania and wine from Garver.
Web History.
Knowing firsthand from art school that most web artists use Dreamweaver rather than hand-coding, and knowing that tables for layout is stupid, I now direct you to Tableless Layout with Dreamweaver.
Currently loving the work at Veer. I must remember to add Veer: Ideas to my design links.
The International Heroes Catalog has quite an extensive Filipino heroes section (heh, heh), but the Panday section lacks FPJ pictures.
Weng Weng.
Whatever happened to this: Honasan Running for President? Eh?
Before you go taking The Matrix Timeline too seriously, read some comics: The Matrix Reheated and MonkeyMan Revolutions.
Retro-goodness for your Palm handheld: Frodo C64 emulator and Karateka. I’ve been playing the Karateka demo on the Metro, and it brings back memories.
Via Zeldman’s shortstack, a few amusing appendices to the speciously infamous antibiblical Dr. Laura Letter. Young Russ has analysis and errata.
Survival Guide to Office Dumping.
Official website of North Korea. Perhaps the Great Leader should move his blog off Livejournal already.
Ban The Ban.
Krugman likens Bush to Ferdinand Marcos. (via Cornfield Commentary.)
Baltimore Shot Tower.
Inventors of Photography: Daguerre and Niepce. (Got interested after seeing daguerrotypes at the Met.)
Amazing portraits by Costa Vavagiakis, who was my girlfriend’s painting instructor for a summer at the Art Students League.
“Well, I’m sure they’ll be able to fix it. You can’t stop modern science. Can’t stop it, you can’t stop it. Can’t stop science. Can’t be stopped, no way, no how, science just marches…”

I’d Love…

2003-12-04.

I don’t talk about it much on my blog, but as I mentioned in the old “Christians and Smoking” discussion, I do code and design for Smokefree DC. The only reason I bring this up right now is that yesterday was the City Council Hearing on a proposed Smokefree Workplace law, and I was elated to see my Smokefree DC t-shirt very prominently visible in the Washington Post. W00T.

Twenty Five Fahrenheit

2003-12-02.

Currently joining Reenhead in singing The Cold Song.

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