Subversion
No, not the kind you are thinking of. It’s an upstart source control management system that is intended to address some of the shortcomings of the stolid, ubiquitous but aging CVS. These guys look like they have really thought it through from the ground up, deciding what are the important things for a SCM to [...]
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Nigergate
The White House now completely abandons any pretense of behaving like responsible government officials. There’s been lots of rhetoric about “holding ourselves to the highest level of ethics.” When it comes time to test that, they stonewall and pretend like it didn’t happen. I love this headline on CNN - “Administration vows cooperation in probe [...]
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Fugitives and Refugees
I finished this book yesterday. It is a short book, bordering on the insubstatial - I read it in about 90 minutes. I wish this book had been available when I lived in Portland. There is a lot of crazy shit going on that you’d never know. I found it interesting some of the wild [...]
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American Splendor
We saw this last Friday. I figured I would enjoy it, being a long time fan of the series and with such universally good reviews. My only real concern was whether I could table my dislike of Paul Giamatti. I was pleasantly surprised. I found that he is much less annoying while playing an explicitly [...]
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Fox Vs. Tucker Carlson
You know, I have nothing but contempt for Tucker Carlson. Even so, I wouldn’t have done what Fox did by publishing his home phone number on their website. His prank of giving out the Fox Washington bureau number on the air and saying it was his number at the house was stupid, but reasonable retaliation [...]
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Galleries and Galleries and Galleries
I’m trying to clear out my huge backlog of posts in my FeedOnFeeds. I have hundreds of things I might like to blog in there, so I don’t mark them as read and then eventually there are so many that the whole thing becomes unusable. Here’s a list of a bunch of interesting galleries that [...]
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October Ball
Well, September but you know what I mean. My postseason dream was realized as the Cubs meet the Braves in the playoffs. I just wish it wasn’t in the first round, because as a new resident of Chicagoland, I’ll hate to see the Cubs get sent home so early. I wish instead the Braves were [...]
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More on Palahniuk
I’ve seen a few references to this piece on MemeFirst about Palahniuk’s audioblog coming out, on Bill Shunn’s weblog and others. I blogged about this right as it was happening, before the original audioblog entry was taken down. I don’t really agree with the Memefirst post and think it is needlessly negative, with pissy asides [...]
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Jaime Hernandez Interview at SuicideGirls
Jaime Hernandez is interviewed at SuicideGirls.com. I like Jaime and have for most of the 25 years they’ve done Love and Rockets. As I drift in and out of the world of comics, and have the ever more frequent experience of walking into a shop with lots of money in my pocket and leaving empty [...]
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US Poverty Rises
Ah, Bush administration economic policies at work. For the second straight year, the number of Americans in poverty rose. While the administration focuses on making sure that rich Americans pay less tax, getting American citizens to pay for needlessly destroying Iraqi infrastructure and then pay for rebuilding it, the number of poor Americans rises.
In a [...]
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Frame the Debate
Here’s an interesting piece by George Lakoff about framing the Democratic Agenda. It includes insights on why no one on the left should ever dignify the term “tax relief” (a term that implies that taxes are an unwarranted burden on the rich) and on how to think about and talk about progressive issues. Use this [...]
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What Goes Around Comes Around
After the tackiness of the Iraqi “Most Wanted” deck of cards (and the complete nonsense that was every US news organization always reporting what card any Iraqi official was when apprehended as if it was important), others have gotten into the act. There is a Russian deck of American figures featuring Bush administration officials, family [...]
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Indigo Girls on WREK
This is a timely link - at this writing and until about 8 PM EST on October 2, 20003, an old performance of Indigo Girls from 1989 is available via streaming from WREK’s archive of their program The Underground Recordings. You can stream either high bandwidth or a low bandwidth suitable for dialups. [...]
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Who Walks the Line?
Here is a beautiful and profound post on Slacktivist comparing the professions of faith by Johnny Cash and George W. Bush. Why do we believe that Cash had an honest and sincere devotion to the lord while for President Bush treats his faith like a hat, easy to put on for show and take off [...]
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Hedwig Lyric of the day
I’m relistening to my soundtrack album of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. These songs are all superb, and a number of them are very emotionally engaging. “Wicked Little Town,” “Midnight Radio,” and “Wig in a Box” really get to me. Another melancholy song that I like a lot is “Long Grift” - it packs an [...]
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Silly Diminutives
Here’s an expression that bugs the living hell out of me. I see it and hear it all that time, and I cringe every time. “Addy” used for “address”. I just saw it in a couple of postings and mails. “I’ll send you my email addy” and such. It sounds stupid, it is no shorter [...]
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Teleread
I discovered a new blog today via the referer list - it is one devoted to ebook issues called TeleRead. My post about RSS and how “devangelists” who loudly proclaim that “technology X will kill technology Y” harm their causes was linked by them. Backtracking I found a nice sensible blog full of much [...]
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Andy Heidel
Continuing the tour of people I liked very much dealing with in my radio days, here is the webpage of Andy Heidel. I dealt with him when he was doing publicity for Avon, and he was always a great guy. I believe I got almost every interview I ever asked for, and Andy was always [...]
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Java Developers Almanac
Via Messy-78 (the weblog of the guy who wrote FeedOnFeeds) comes this link to the Java Developers Almanac. It has many searchable code snippets for a variety of situations. Very nice and helpful wheel reinvention prevention site.
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Bionic Office
From Joel Spolsky comes this tale of the new office space they built for Fog Creek. The space does look very nice and I particularly like the clever way all the offices get faux corner offices by allowing people a window to see out the neighboring office’s window. I don’t believe I have ever worked [...]
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