As if the nucular WMD’s weren’t enough, Saddam is HARBORING ALIENS!!!
TechBalt, Pop2Blog, and Theremins
This is really belated, but TechBalt had a Sunspot story last month. Adam emailed me to say they’re about 200 people strong now, and are making progress towards purchasing houses on the first block they’ve picked. Will this transform Baltimore?
On the mobile side, thanks to a tip from Jesper, my moblog concerns may soon be addressed with pop2blog. Looks very much worth trying.
Oh, and in Sound class, we just learned about theremins. Now I know what I.R. Baboon was playing in that I Am Weasel episode.
A Lighter Whyblog
I redesigned WhyBlog, but it’s still beta. The programming’s okay, but I’m conceptually lost as to what kind of artistic direction I can take the thing in. First, I need to meet with my thesis advisor for input and advice, and then install a blog for the project.
A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.
I’ve seen a bunch of ANSWER antiwar march fliers around school lately, and it makes me want to append to them: “Beware the A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.!!!”
Update: Pity they let that domain expire. Anyway, AOWCUTGDFP was an acronym for “Authoritarian Opportunists Who Cozy Up To Genocidal Dictators For Peace,” referring to ANSWER’s backing from the communist Workers World Party, whose preference for non-democratic tyrants and despots tended to cast a pall over high-profile peace marches. You can still see AOWCUTGDFP as saved by the Web Archive.
De Quiros pulls a Godwin
I usually appreciate Conrado De Quiros’ columns, and I stand as a Christian against unjust war, pero sobra na po ito. With the deliberate comparison to Hitler, De Quiros is pulling a Godwin, which in newsgroup and message board culture usually indicates that a person is running out of more meaningful arguments for his stand. It’s worse than Krugman implicitly making a Marcos out of Bush. C’mon, Mr. De Quiros. There are far more reasonable arguments against the war than the straw man demonization of American political figures; we can do this without sounding like a Boondocks strip.
(Okay, “just-war” Christians, Republicans, Filipino pundits, Marcos loyalists, Boondocks fans… anyone left whose feathers I haven’t ruffled? Heh heh. “Left.”)
Nucleus?
A site about why people blog wouldn’t be complete without its own blog, I suppose. Something extremely simple and straightforward, with a PHP/MySQL backend. I’m considering Nucleus. Any feedback?
Narnia Sequencing
When you read The Chronicles of Narnia, do you read them in the order they were written, starting with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; or do you read them according to the story’s chronology, starting with The Magician’s Nephew? I’m currently reading them the second way, and it doesn’t feel quite the same.
The New Jesus.com
Strange. Earlier this morning, Jesus.com was pointing to the Unitarians, but now it goes to the Metropolitan Community Churches. The web’s original Jesus Guy is now here. I wonder how much the check was for.
WhyBlog.org
My thesis project, WhyBlog, is up. If you have a blog with an RSS feed, help me out and submit your info with the reasons you blog. In the future, contributing feeds and quotes will be displayed in some as-of-yet undetermined postmodern format.
(You know what? That red and white on black layout is just sooo late-90’s. I’m gonna change it.)
Planet Classification
Star Trek planet classes. I’m a bit surprised that they consider Vulcan to be Class M, or that other planets besides M-class are considered habitable.