Monthly Archives: April 2007

New Poetry Up

April 12, 2007 | Leave a comment
There’s a bit of new poetry up at my poetry blog. I real­ized tonight that I haven’t revised a poem in a seri­ous way since before I left Arkansas. I’m con­sid­er­ing hold­ing off till July–then I can call it an even year. Maybe that’s not a good idea.
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Racist Insults Gets Shock Jock Nearly Fired?

April 10, 2007 | Leave a comment
I don’t get it. This guy, Imus, I guess, some nation­ally syn­di­cated radio host, a shock jock like Howard Stern. Recently, I guess he called the 2nd place NCAA women’s bas­ket­ball team a bunch of ‘natty-haired ho’s.’ As it turns out, this is big news–I’ve been look­ing at the top 10 news­pa­per sites just now [...]
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Decent Windows Software

April 7, 2007 | Leave a comment
I was over at a friend’s house last night. We were talk­ing about all the soft­ware and tools we use, and I promised to send him a list of all the cool stuff I’ve found. I thought I’d post it here too. I ought to link all of these. But I’d be will­ing to bet [...]
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Gimp v. Photoshop

April 5, 2007 | Leave a comment
I’ve been doing a lot of image edit­ing recently, par­tic­u­larly as I’m work­ing on Thunderworks.net. I’m doing a lot of lit­tle stuff that it would be ridicu­lous to ask our artist to do–a lot of crop­ping, resiz­ing, adding text here, cre­at­ing a .gif of this and a .tif of that. For a while, all I [...]
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Fugitives Surrender in Churches

April 5, 2007 | Leave a comment
This is really cool: a US Mar­shal devel­oped a pro­gram to allow fugi­tives to sur­ren­der in churches. Here’s a cou­ple quotes: “The notion was to make the arrests safe for the fugi­tive and the offi­cer and let the clergy facil­i­tate the meeting.” “But when the church doors opened in Cleve­land in 2005, hun­dreds flocked inside. [...]
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Cool Header

April 2, 2007 | Leave a comment
Here’s a blog with a really cool header, a nice com­bi­na­tion of vec­tor art and photography. I’m not sure what the blog’s about–I only skimmed it and found it didn’t have the info I was look­ing for.…
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