Monthly Archives: September 2006

I found this thing called the Vista Trans­for­ma­tion Pack that’s sup­posd to make XP look like Vista. As far as I could tell, it didn’t really work. All it did was change a cou­ple icons and let me make my win­dows as much or lit­tle trans­par­ent as I wanted. Whoop-do-freakin-do. There was one good thing [...]
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Politics, Courtesy of Wil Wheaton

I really don’t keep up with pol­i­tics that much. But I think Wil Wheaton hits the nail on the head with this post about tor­ture legislation. You tell ‘em, Wil.
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On Commas and Bush’s Secret Language

Here’s a REALLY inter­est­ing Lan­guage Log arti­cle about the phrase, ‘Don’t put a period where God put a comma,’ or rather, about Bush’s indi­rect use of the phrase (probably). There’s a lot of really good com­ments that Mark’s posted. I sure wish they’d throw the breaker at the Lan­guage Log Plaza and get the com­ment­ing [...]
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Poetry on My Blog

The search func­tion on blog­ger hasn’t really worked very well. When I would post poems, I pur­pose­fully titled the posts “Poetry” so they’d be easy to find when I searched (blog­ger is owned by google, so it shouldn’t be hard). But it never worked–anytime I searched, noth­ing would show up. Till today. For the first time, [...]
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Storming

Jonathan’s got a great post about the last wave of storms that have rolled through. The fact that he’s in Arkansas and I’m in Illi­nois doesn’t hurt his point, either.
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Why Is MySpace So Ugly?

So, here’s my ques­tion: why is every myspace page so freakin’ ugly? Seri­ously, have you ever seen a myspace page that didn’t look wicked clut­tered, filled w/ a mil­lion tiny pic­tures of who knows what over a too-busy back­ground? Even most of the band sites I’ve seen have been bad (ie. the news­boys). Why is [...]
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Being There by Wilco

I found Being There and Kick­ing Tele­vi­sion, a cou­ple Wilco albums at the library the other day. I’m just now get­ting around to lis­ten­ing to Being There. It totally rules. I know most of the songs from live shows that I’ve lis­tened to, or from the movie. I guess it was their sec­ond alubm, from [...]
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More on FoxFaith

I got a cou­ple com­ments on my post about Fox­Faith. Unfor­tu­nately, I can’t post com­ments to my own blog (dang you Blog­ger Beta!!). So here’s the response to my brother’s com­ment I intended to post: I’m not frus­trated about the artistry of it all. I’m mad about the fact that any­body is try­ing to co-opt some [...]
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Tiny Computer

Check this tiny com­puter out. Very cool. It’s only $200, and its mghz are directly pro­por­tional. That’s not a lot of power, but it’s a freakin’ COMPUTER that’s two or three times the size of your flash drive. COMPUTER, yo.
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FoxFaith

I don’t know what Fox­Faith Movies is. But there’s adver­tis­ments on cable for it, that it’s ‘movies you can believe in.’ Or to put it another way, they’re using my (our) faith to sell us stuff. Fox. Fox News? Fair and Bal­anced? That Fox. Co-opting my faith, my belief in the Almighty Cre­ator of the [...]
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