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July 23, 2007

Mitt Romney has a suggestion for those of us who think the Republican’s never-ending war on the world and most living things is hardly a laughing matter: “You know what? Lighten up slightly.” So very presidential of him.

July 23, 2007

Mitt Romney has a suggestion for those of us who think the Republican’s never-ending war on the world and most living things is hardly a laughing matter: “You know what? Lighten up slightly.” So very presidential of him.

July 15, 2007

Yes! This works. Very nice fix to a very annoying problem — I have several client sites that use bullet lists in various scenarios (both as traditional lists of “stuff” within copy, and as menus/list-of-links), and it’s always a pain to get the lists to show up properly and consistently across browsers. The biggest pain…

July 15, 2007

It’s probably old hat for many, but I’d never come across this site before. Brilliant — and it actually works, allowing you to do exactly what they claim: “Find and share logins for websites that force you to register.”

July 6, 2007

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol gets space in Time Magazine to tell us all that we should shut up and be happy, all is well and that any disgust we might have over Iraq and the rest of the curses called down upon us by the current administration is really nothing more than “adolescent moodiness.”…

July 1, 2007

Oh, boy. I recently highlighted Google’s attempt at visually whitewashing the Katrina disaster. On that one I gave them the benefit of the doubt. This time, though, it’s pretty clear that someone at Google is overplaying their hand and their hardcore “a buck’s a buck’s a buck” attitude is showing. It’s not a pretty sight.…

June 29, 2007

I am incredibly proud these days to be represented in the U.S. Senate by not only by Bernie Sanders, but also Senator Patrick Leahy. His untiring crusade against all things nasty and Republican (ah, but I repeat myself) is so desperately needed, and his willingness to call “bullshit” on creatures of the dark like Dear…

June 16, 2007
June 15, 2007

What a charming little mindfuck that is. Someone took GDP data for each state in the US and mapped an equivalent country across the nation. There’s just something vaguely intriguing about the resulting map. Equally incredible is this little toy built with some kind of google-fu back-end Flash data cruncher. Very slick way to massage…

June 15, 2007

A very dear old friend of my just let me know about his latest project: producing for Danish musician Henrik Andersen and his unique mix of pop/funk… and sitars. Very cool, but then Morten was always the trendsetter doing the very cool things in a very cool way.