Monthly Archives: March 2008

Administrivia

Posted on March 27, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Downtime

Posted on March 27, 2008 by dff

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

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Burrito break

Posted on March 27, 2008 by dff

Maintenance to continue a bit later.

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Big, dumb, slow & yet still kind of cool

Posted on March 26, 2008 by dff
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A reason to be an old-fashioned man

Posted on March 26, 2008 by dff

Modern men feel emasculated, study claims

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Little spacetime capsules

Posted on March 25, 2008 by dff

This is so cool!

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I could never figure it out, either

Posted on March 20, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Strange mashups

Posted on March 20, 2008 by dff

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

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Financial crisis explained

Posted on March 20, 2008 by dff

(via the ever-excellent seablogger)

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Sounds pretty cool

Posted on March 18, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Truth in advertising

Posted on March 8, 2008 by dff

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

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…and we’re back!

Posted on March 8, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 5, 2008 by dff

Another vending machine item in Anarchotopia.

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Dire prediction

Posted on March 3, 2008 by dff

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 … Continue reading →

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Genius

Posted on March 3, 2008 by dff

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

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Dog bites man

Posted on March 3, 2008 by jmd

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  

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Where was she when Larry Summers needed her?

Posted on March 2, 2008 by dff

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. … Continue reading →

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