Monthly Archives: March 2008

Administrivia

So, we’re back, and re-created as part of our host’s one-click install/upgrade service - no more manual upgrades (uphill! both ways! in january! eight feet of snow! and we liked it!) for us.
If anyone notices anything broken, give a yell or something.

Downtime

Doing some maintenance, might disappear for a bit. Hopefully we’ll be back.

Burrito break

Maintenance to continue a bit later.

Big, dumb, slow & yet still kind of cool


A reason to be an old-fashioned man

Modern men feel emasculated, study claims

Little spacetime capsules

This is so cool!

I could never figure it out, either

Completely out of the blue, the QM writes:
I’d long known that The Verve lost all their Bittersweet Symphony royalties due to allegedly ripping off the Rolling Stones’s Last Time. But I could never figure it out, since I don’t think there’s anything in LT that sounds like BS.
Then I finally found out that the [...]

Strange mashups

Shine a Light vs. Heywood Floyd.
(ooh!)

Financial crisis explained

(via the ever-excellent seablogger)

Sounds pretty cool

A sneak peak at Wordpress 2.5:
A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit [...]

Truth in advertising

Somewhere, an exhausted airbrush artist is taking a very well deserved nap.

…and we’re back!

Bet you didn’t even notice we were gone.
So anyway, Kelly at dreamhost fat-fingered the firewall and locked out a half-million customers, which wasn’t a big deal to me, but did lead me to head over to dreamhoststatus.com and have some fun snarking in the comments at all the whiny bastards who claim to be losing [...]

FMG9 (but they should call it “The Man-purse”)

Another vending machine item in Anarchotopia.

Dire prediction

Hugh Hewitt:
Hillary will probably become the new Teddy K. –a lioness of the Senate, serving there until the end of days for most of us. She will even enjoy and perhaps earn a unique sort of authority, an uber “been-there-done-that” wisdom. If she ever writes a candid book, it will be riveting.
(my emphasis)
Bad [...]

Genius

(via, where there’re some Saul Bass-related links)

Dog bites man

Really hot, talented actress opens her mouth and ruins everything.
Ok, Ok…. there were warning signs:

She’s French
She’s a spokeswomen for Greenpeace

 

Where was she when Larry Summers needed her?

Charlotte Allen in the Washington Post, writing something that surely would not have been published during the Summers controversy:
“Women ‘Falling for Obama,’ ” the story’s headline read. Elsewhere around the country, women were falling for the presidential candidate literally. Connecticut radio talk show host Jim Vicevich has counted five separate instances in which women fainted [...]