Sometimes I mourn the waxing of Usenet. So much of it has been overtaken by web-enabled GUI slickness. There is a whole generation (at least) that hasn’t experienced the joy of text-based cynicism. Before the web there was only usenet. And it rocked, cf Zen Master Greg.
So I added this blog to my Facebook profile. So now this entry will notify everyone who reads this blog that I have a Facebook profile. Then again, this entry will also notify everyone on Facebook that I’ve notified everyone on Facebook that I have a blog. I should see if WordPress has a widget…
Black poverty in Omaha, Nebraska. | MetaFilter is a nice roundup of links coming from an intermittent series put out by the Omaha World Herald. By nice I mean convenient. The poverty itself and the problems it generates are not nice in the least.
Is it Web 2 3.0? Is it just a jumble of Firefox extensions? Is it useful? I’m not exactly sure. Still, the Hyperwords project is fascinating to me. It’s a Firefox extension that basically shortcuts a wide variety of search engines and other knowledge expansion tools. It also lets you work with the page or…
Possibly more annoying than the blink tag when abused in an online forum. This unicode entity ( Google cache) is a badge of über nerddom apparently.
Staple of the Millionaire’s Holiday and still a regular in my daily listening, Fortyone combines off-the-wall samples with an exquisite sense of rhythm to produce delectable party treats. Perfect for an afternoon frolic or a late night mind bender, Fortyone’s audio efforts are truly worth your time. And now, it would appear, he has a…
Buried in a MeFi thread was a link to Peter Schiff‘s latest essay on the US economy. If what he writes is true, then we are quite possibly way more fscked than previously believed. Yes, Mr. Schiff is notorious for his bearish views on the US economy. However, he lays out how the government is…
Probably my favorite day of the year…the day we get the extra hour moving from Daylight Saving to Standard time. Oh yeah! So I spent the extra hour revamping the blog a bit. While I was high on the blue background with wacky box thingers and on involving the dogs for some reason, I like…
Pastabagel always seems to come up with some interesting angles on economic issues. His comment here: And yes, the band did play on. | MetaFilter is scary when considered in that light.
When I was a much younger man, I went on a family vacation to Worlds of Fun. It was maybe the first or second time I’d been there and it was mostly as advertised. Then again, I was 15 going on 16 at the time—an age more or less squarely in their target demographic. The…