I’ve been playing around with this today and it’s like magic!
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Archive for the 'tech stuff' Category
It’s been a while and these things do pile up…
• How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck — this is an interesting chart. We’re by no means average (we’ve never carried a car loan, for one thing, and we probably spend more on food and alcohol, even though we don’t eat out much), but the proportions seem to be generally true.
• Have you tried goofram yet? It’s a combination of google and wolfram|alpha.
• Think you’re a geek? Have you mastered the essential skills?
• The Young Republicans have elected an Aryan as their leader.
• Barney Frank visited the Daily Show last week.
• Just how rich is Fitzwilliam Darcy? (Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: Pride and Prejudice is not only my favorite novel, it’s also the first book I ever read aloud to Emmie — starting when she was about a week old.) And speaking of Jane Austen, today is the anniversary of her death.
• How’s your sense of pitch? (I scored a 26 out of 26 — which, if you’ve ever heard me sing, you know must mean that I hear pitch perfectly — I just can’t produce it that way.)
• Local coverage of Zach Wamp’s psooper psekret christian adultery cult (read about yet another C Street philanderer here — and here!).
• You Suck at Craig’s List is pretty funny (via Joe. My. God.).
• Badass of the Week, featuring Blenda, the Viking Heroine!
• Rick Perry is apparently rethinking that whole Texas-as-a-country thing (seriously — who voted for this guy?).
• If you want to see the Great Barrier Reef, you better go soon.
• Can someone find Glenn Beck a nice small room with soft walls and a good therapist?
• … and speaking of health care (that’s what set Beck off)… Glenn doesn’t have it quite right when it comes to France’s system. The current American system is fine until you get sick, but will the next one be any better?
• This can’t be said enough times: the only thing abstinence-only “education” produces is unbelievably stupid kids.
• I loves me some Usain Bolt footage. He makes all the other best runners in the world look like my grandma.
• And finally, Pat Buchanan: he really stepped in it this week — even more than usual!
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Soapblox is dead. That means that all the blogs hosted there, including such institutions as Pam’s House Blend and the Swing State Project have disappeared. From what I’m reading on facebook, no one knows at this point if the blogs will be able to recover their data, so the archives could be gone as well.
Please keep your fingers crossed that the long list of blogs (see the left column after following the link above) will get back up and running in a timely fashion.
Update: well, some of the sites have come back up (intermittently?) and are posting status updates. Hopefully this will give them time to save the archives and make arrangements for alternative hosting.
More information is gathering here.
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There is only one thing I wanted to hear at the keynote today.
iPhone without AT&T.
That’d be great.
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Have you checked out hyperwords yet? It’s a firefox extension that might just blow you away…
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What say you? Thumbs up or thumbs down?
I’ve consistently used <target=”_blank”> in my links, more out of habit than anything else (a lot of business sites use it so that they’re never sending their audience away), but I’m thinking about ditching it here on the blog. I’d love to hear what you think about the issue, pro or con…
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Just a few interesting places I’ve come upon recently…
- Infamous East TN Moonshiner (via A wonderful yarn on moonshining)
- Check your Internet speed — you locals can get a measurement while you’re still on Comcast, so that you’ll have something to compare to once EPB’s fiber is rolled out! (via AmericaBlog) (three tests I did [down/up]: 8512/1223, 10,207/1545, 14,018/1611)
- Jonathan Alter on McCain: “For a man who will turn 72 this month, he’s a surprisingly immature politician”
- Garfield minus Garfield (via A Free Man). Here’s a sample:
And then there’s this…
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- Ted Talks: My Year of Living Biblically
- Barack Obama is planning to visit Tennessee!
- And who doesn’t need to get rid of some clutter?
- Why You’re Better Off Avoiding the iPhone (via cmwillis).
- Do you ever read something that is just so incredibly stupid that you have trouble even trying to process the folly? Usually I’m left speechless by extreme cases of idiocy like this one (also see here), whereas Naamah had no such trouble in responding (don’t follow the link if you’re bothered by colorful language).
And finally, there’s this gem. Way back in the day, when Dear Daughter was just a toddler, and she thought that the TV only had one channel, and that that channel had only one hour of programming a day (see, we ruin our kids when we let them go off to school and they find out about all sorts of evil stuff, like Disney and candy and Chuck E. Cheese), she used to get to watch Sesame Street. I probably wouldn’t let her watch it if she was a kid now, but back then, before Elmo, and before Jim Henson died and the Muppets got whored out to anyone wanting to make a sleazy buck, it was a pretty cool show. And it was because of features like Put Down the Ducky.
I can still see her in my mind’s eye, clutching her little plastic saxophone while doing a hoppy little dance and shrieking along with the song, while I enjoyed it for all the cool people who made appearances (John Candy as Yosh Schmenge from SCTV, Andrea Martin as Edith Prickley from SCTV, New York Mets Keith Hernandez & Mookie Wilson, Jane Curtin, Madeline Kahn, Joe Williams, Paul Reubens/Pee Wee Herman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Wynton Marsalis, Celia Cruz, Ihtzak Perlman, Gordon Jackson & Jean Marsh as Angus Hudson and Rose Buck of Upstairs Downstairs, Paul Simon, Jeremy Irons, Pete Seeger, Rhea Perlman and Danny Devito, and NY Giants Sean Landeta, Mark Ingram, Karl Nelson and Carl Banks). I hope the video doesn’t get yanked off of youtube, but if it does, I’ll try to find a replacement somewhere…
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Not really.
But can you imagine the news coverage if it was true?!? It would be huge. It’s not, however, something I concocted from thin air. The story is true, only John McCain is the guy who cheated on his first wife and then married his second wife before the divorce was final with the first wife, who he dumped because she was a cripple and not as rich as the trollop he would ride into the Senate. No kidding. But watch and see how nobody cares about the story, even though the news media would be lapsing into a collective case of apoplexy if Barack Obama had done something even half as bad. Damn liberal media! Oh, yeah — and then McCain lied about it all. Yet again, you gotta love those Republican family values.
It’s been a newsy weekend! I posted a couple of stories yesterday morning, but there’s more!
- Jesse Helms: Not everyone believes the man who brought us so much negativity, hate, and prejudice deserves the half-staff treatment. A few are even willing to take a stand. Others feel obligated to give him a hat tip.
- Gina Gray got fired from her job at Arlington Cemetery because the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know that in a war, soldiers die. Will the Army do the right thing?
- The Chattanooga Green Report calls for more buses and more recycling! Maybe instead of spending money on a stupid raccoon, we should spend it on actual incentives?
- Their design is great, but so is the heavy-handedness. More and more, it’s getting hard to like Apple Computer.
- Via Craig Hickman, an awesome tennis blogger I only just discovered, check out the ITF’s new book promoting the Beijing Olympics.
- Pam directs us to Women We Love!
- Barbara talks about Megachruches and Hamas
- Bush is still embarrassing us around the world. And then there’s sleaze and those pesky little war crimes. Only six more months (at best!).
- McCain: oh, where to begin?!? He’s had such a bad week (though you’d never know it from the American press coverage!). More campaign shakeups, and it turns out that his homophobic campaign chairman has sex with men (now there’s a surprise! Yet another self-hating gay Republican!). And he, along with a lot of Republicans, hates birth control — doesn’t want to talk about it, doesn’t want to improve access to it. This story won’t go away! Also, the fallout from the Gramm idiocy continues — the hypocrisy, lies, and questions about leadership and credibility. He’s been caught lying (or is it just memory problems?) about his experience as a POW (which, btw, he doesn’t want to talk about, unless he’s exploiting the experience to scare up some votes). And through it all, the poor thing is trying to learn how to open a web browser (which isn’t necessarily a dig at his age, but does bring into question his competence). So much for the press to ignore!
And finally, check out this cool experiment in physics and sound (the tray, which contains a mixture of corn starch and water, is sitting on a speaker while the music plays):
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