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Archives for October 2004
I Like the Prisoner Costume
The Stranger published this fantastic feature on 2004’s scariest Halloween costumes for kids.
links for 2004-10-29
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Maybe George Bush is the undead?
links for 2004-10-24
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PDFs of metric, multi-width, asymmetric, dots, iso-dots, hexagonal, hex dot and celtic knot graph paper.
links for 2004-10-22
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Fantastic and (relatively) inexpensive powered near-field reference monitor speakers.
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Free photomosaic software for OS X.
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If you’re going to play retro games, you need a retro controller.
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A brilliantly simple web application to generate CSS layout templates.
links for 2004-10-21
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Singer-songwriter reflects on her 30 years in music.
Area Man Reads Local Paper
As a resident of Reston, I get three different local newspapers left on my doorstep each week. This morning I finally flipped through one of them and the first headline I came across was like something out of The Onion:
Reston Woman Self-Publishes Book
Must have been a slow week.
links for 2004-10-20
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A repository for all things GTD.
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Life in the 21st century, free agent nation, personal branding, personal technology, social networking, social software.
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Frequently updated postings on politics and culture with an active comment community.
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Insightful commentary on technology and politics.
links for 2004-10-18
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A great index of text-manipulation commands.
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An obscure German board game based on the theme of primitive societal development.
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A great whitelist-based spam filtering service.
Being There
Friday afternoon I had some meetings in the city. When I was finished I met up with my sister, who works as an intern for CNN’s Crossfire at GWU. She managed to get us tickets to see Jon Stewart’s now-infamous guest appearance.
As someone who not only witnessed the whole affair from third row seats, but also heard portions of the unaired exchanges that occurred between commercial breaks, I got the impression that Jon Stewart was just a grandstanding prick pulling a stunt to promote his book.
I didn’t buy a word of his sanctimonious crap.
There’s no reason why he couldn’t have picked up a phone and expressed his feelings to Carlson or Begala privately. Instead, he decided to appear as a guest on a program that graciously offered to promote his book to publicly and rudely insult the hosts to their faces.
Stewart is a ass. End of story.
Pirates and Emperors
I was talking to a friend a several days ago and I made a reference to Schoolhouse Rock cartoons from the late 70’s and early 80’s. I was a little disappointed that he had absolutely no recollection of these educational shorts, which were produced for play during Saturday morning cartoons.
In any case, today I saw this parody which is almost flawless in the quality of its execution.
Why can’t we have election ads like this?
Google Desktop
Google’s new desktop search is the most amazing thing I’ve seen this year, with the possible exception of that picture of the monkey walking fully upright on two legs.
I hope Apple’s forthcoming Spotlight software can hold its own.
links for 2004-10-09
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An online interactive go problem archive
Watch Your TLDs
By the way, during tonight’s debate Cheney instructed viewers to visit www.factcheck.com to access the Annenberg Political Fact Check at the University of Pennsylvania, when he actually should have pointed them to www.factcheck.org.
His little slip sent countless visitors to a URL that now redirects to www.georgesoros.com.
The devil is in the details.
Speaking of Records
As a libertarian, I found the following attack on the vice president by Edwards in tonight’s debate particularly amusing:
The vice president, I’m surprised to hear him talk about records. When he was one of 435 members of the United States House, he was one of 10 to vote against Head Start, one of four to vote against banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors. He voted against the Department of Education. He voted against funding for Meals on Wheels for seniors. He voted against a holiday for Martin Luther King. He voted against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
Mandela notwithstanding, Cheney almost sounds like my kind of guy.
Emo-tional Instruction
It’s good to know we finally have a step-by-step instructional video educating our youth on the essentials of the Emo lifestyle.
links for 2004-10-01
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It’s interesting to see what Apple will let you put on the back of an iPod.
