Monthly Archives: June 2007

586 more days of this?

Wil Wheton won­ders why the elec­tion cycle is now 2 years long, and comes to a con­clu­sion that makes a lot of sense to me: “I believe that these out­ra­geously long cycles are all about money, which is all about cor­po­ra­tions and PACs, which leads me to believe that elec­tions are more about per­pet­u­at­ing a Plu­toc­racy [...]
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The Browser Wars Aren’t Even Close to Over

I’ve read recently (in sev­eral places) that “the browswer wars are over.” This is a ref­er­ence, I assume, to the Netscape Navigator/IE war from the late 90s (here’s the wikipedia arti­cle). But I think any­body who says ‘the browser wars are over’ is clearly smok­ing crack. Or maybe they don’t use the inter­net and haven’t [...]
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The View from Everest

Ok, this is truly incred­i­ble: a 360-degree panao­rama of the view from atop Mt. Everest. Wow.
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Why PowerPoint Rules

Ok, this is some genius pow­er­point art. Here’s a sam­ple (the name of the blog is ‘Mon­key. Spaghetti. More spaghetti.”): It only gets bet­ter from there.
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Dispatch

My friend Wick men­tioned that he likes the band Dis­patch to me the other day, and if we ever put a band together, could we do one of their songs. So then he lent me a cd of some of their live stuff. Holy crap. It’s awe­some. Lots of loop­ing and over­all awe­some stuff with a sort [...]
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Rhonda’s New Nanny Thing

My blog is about to go as com­mer­cial as a Char­lie Brown Christ­mas. Here goes. My friend Rhonda is start­ing a new nanny ser­vice in North­West Arkansas. And she just her­self a new web­site. So, if you’re look­ing for a nanny in NWA, check out the newest nanny ser­vice in North­West Arkasas. How’s that for a [...]
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Why Are There So Many World War II Games?

This arti­cle asks teh ques­tion “why are there so many World War II Games? I’m not com­pletely sure, really what their answer is, some­thing like, ““World War 2 is the great­est war,” main­tains Pitch­ford. “It’s arguably the most impor­tant and cer­tainly the largest scale war the Earth has ever known,” which seems like a pre­tyt lame [...]
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Hip-Hop Culture

Here’s a really inter­est­ing arti­cle about black and hip-hop cul­ture. His argue­ment is that black cul­ture is one of the few Amer­i­can cul­tures that can, as it puts it, ‘class sink.’ And it’s because of this cul­ture of ‘keep­ing it real,’ that’s so intrin­si­cally tied to hip-hop/street cul­ture, which says that doing well isn’t black. Granted, [...]
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Tire Sandals

I really want to make a pair of these tire san­dals. They’ve got to be cheap, which is good. I’ve got Cha­cos, but hon­estly, they hurt my feet. I’d like to try some­thing dif­fer­ent, but I hate to sell my Cha­cos and buy some crappy $15 things from Wal-Mart. Mak­ing san­dals out of tires, though, [...]
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Browsers, etc.

I’m sub­scribed to the “Known Issues for the New Blog­ger” feed, mostly in hopes that they’ll get it work­ing right with Opera one day (right now, bad things still occa­sion­ally hap­pen when you hold ctrl+shift. Ugh). The most recent item says that “Autosave and image upload do not work with the new Safari 3 beta. [...]
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