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Last night, I saw the following TV personalities: Mister T, Burt Reynolds, Richard Dean Anderson, and Alf, all within minutes of each other. That can mean only one thing: the 80’s really are returning. Doom! (All we need now is David Hasselhoff, Gary Coleman, and KITT.)
I can tolerate seeing Matrix-style speed ramping (a.k.a. “Bullet Time,” the speedup-slowdown time effect, often with an abrupt transition from fast to slow) used in every other commercial for cars and roller coasters, but the way the effect was abused in When Animals Invade Your Home was just plain silly. Some tips for you video […]
The cluttered desk of Telford Work yields one of the most lucid and concise Christian positions on the Middle East that I’ve read thus far: Being faithful to our Lord and King is more than picking the right side in this contest. Prophecy is not punditry. Israelis and Palestinians alike will — should — find […]
One of the questions I’m asked most when people find out I’m from Manila is, “Is that where Manila paper comes from?” I never really thought of it, so I did some info-hunting, and found this: Manila paper is made from Manila hemp, which is indeed grown mainly in the Philippines; not the city of […]
Genta Ogami — the Coolest Guy in Japan. G. Cosmos Japan is believed to have collected 48 billion yen from about 12,000 people seeking to invest in the advertisement business. Company documents, however, show that the company has failed to pay 20 billion yen to at least 7,000 clients. Many investors were middle-aged or elderly […]
I have just finished a full day doing some seriously heavy tweaking to Lucid Calendar. My modification, needed for the front page of the new SmokeFree.org portal (no, that’s not it yet), will display events on their own per-day page rather than in the calendar directly, and can be included as a tiny little table […]
I don’t see why a digitally bootlegged Episode II should make headlines. Back in SE Asia, the sidewalks were strewn with VCD’s of movies filmed straight out of the cinema long before the films’ release dates. You could even hear the audience laughing and see people walking in front of the screen. A rather scathing […]
Man-on-the-street chat with a now-white Dead Horse: brownpaudotcom: Hey Seth, I’m texting u from Georgetown! whee! TheLobstersClaw: Whee! TheLobstersClaw: I was just on your site Whee! TheLobstersClaw: and now I’m reading about hoopla.com brownpaudotcom: Any luck with that Frances Filat character? TheLobstersClaw: I wrote a response to her second email and posted it! I have […]
Conversational Terrorism and Logical Fallacies: required reading for the civilized online community participant. Please note that this is begging the question. People who use the term “beg the question” to mean “the question must be asked,” are getting it embarassingly dead wrong. Thou hast been warned.
Abu Sayaff kidnap-spokesman Abu Sabaya has “cancelled negotiations” for the remaining three hostages, including American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham. Now, he challenges Filipino and US troops to find the dead bodies of the hostages in the jungle. Were there ever “negotiations” to begin with? Weren’t these bandits just yanking at people’s strings? Already the […]