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
- 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…
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
Currently joining Reenhead in singing The Cold Song.
Back and Busy
Thanksgiving was great. More later, as I am now working through a massive to-do list, including reviving the photolog and redoing some CSS. What? FPJ’s running? That’s not good.
(For all you searchers: Debunking The Da Vinci Code.)
Later.
A New Jersey Thanksgiving
I’m off to Union, NJ (ostensibly home of the World’s Tallest Water Sphere) for Thanksgiving with my girlfriend Amy and her wonderful family. God bless. Back next week.
Expiring Comments
Due to the increasing threat of Comment Spam, and people leaving comments in old weblog posts, I’ve installed the CloseComments plugin and set it to close threads after they fall off the front page — a seven day shelf life. Is that too early? Or too late?
Thou Mvst Have Flash
Thou knave, get thy posterior to the The Historic Tale Construction Kit, that thou mayst populate a magick tapestry with medieval motifs of authentick likeness. (Funny — and occasionally vulgar — output at Somethingawful Goldmine. Found via MeFi.)
IMG stealers
A “travel” page seems to be committing wholesale bandwidth theft by hotlinking remote images wihout permission: in this case, one of my Bohol photos, among photos from several other sites. (Whether those other sites gave permission, I know not.)
Gladly, one can use .htaccess and mod_rewrite to prevent hotlinking and bandwidth theft. People attempting to use images from brownpau.com in such a manner will now be met with a dancing banana. (It was that or the jumping kitty.) The trick also applies to this old Mark Byron post.
What a Racket
When you get tired of playing Text Pong, you can always try some Internet Tennis.