Monthly Archives: September 2006
I Made It Into Slashdot
Slashdot is a blog of news for nerds, as they put it. They take submissions for possible stories from readers and post the best ones. I’ve been thinking I should submit more stuff to Slashdot, build up my writing cred, at least in an ego sense, but I rarely have something worthy of posting. But, [...]
Terrorism
The terrorists are winning. Why? Because, according to President Bush, they hate freedom. And as they do bad stuff and we do (or don’t, but most often do) catch them, people freak out and our freedom is erroded. I’ve said this for a while–terrorism is bad, but can’t we fight it, first, by refusing, AS [...]
MythBusters
I’ve watched a lot of tv since I’ve gotten to Decatur. Having cable will do that to you. I’d say the largest percentage of my tv watching, outside of being in the same room while Jonah’s watching one his movies, has been MythBusters. This show rules. Here’s an article about the hosts. It’s not an amazing article. [...]
Derek Webb Is Not Sufjan
He wishes he was. Just listen to Mockingbird, you’ll see. And olé’ boy was right. He’s not Bob Dylan, either. You know, sometimes, I write a poem and realize that what I want to say isn’t a poem. It’s an essay (or usually a rambling blog post, the tragedy being that they’re different things). Derek [...]
Millikin
Out of curiosity, I looked at Millikin’s student handbook (I was really curious a) what the alcohol policy was and b) if chapel was required). Here’s the best quote: The playing of band, orchestral, or any musical instruments are prohibited in residence halls. Singing is also prohibited in the residence halls. Please use the Perkinson Music [...]
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Why Nobody Loves Propaganda
I found a link to a review of Derek Webb’s album mockingbird (I think that link takes you to a free download). Anyways, the link made it clear that the author was bashing it. I followed, prepared to get riled up about somebody who didn’t get it (I haven’t listened to the album yet, but [...]
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The Biggest Load of Bull Crap Ever
Olga, the home for guitar tab since the birth of the internet in 1995 (ok, so maybe that was just when I found out about it), has been taken down b/c lawyers from the MPA say they’re violating copyright. That’s the largest load of bull crap I’ve ever heard in my life. Who’s copyright is being [...]
The W3C on Forms
Ok, I don’t care who you are, but this quote from the w3c’s page about html forms is way funny: “The “get” method should be used when the form is idempotent.” Seriously. “Idempotent”? Say that sentence outloud with a bad British accent. Try not to giggle.
More on Jars
My friend Brian pointed me to a Best Buy/AOL site where you can listen to streams of entire brand new albums. Now, there’s about 3 words in that sentence that hurt me, and hurt me bad, namely, “Best Buy” “AOL” and “stream.” Ugh. But, I decided to suck it up. Mostly b/c they’ve got the [...]
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Church Website Problems