Posted in amusing, current events on February 26th, 2007 No Comments »
“I saw Pan’s Labyrinth. It was good. It’s a totally different movie
than the original, though. You know, Labyrinth? They did a totally
different thing.”
(by way of friend Heather, who did not actually say this herself)
The folks at the National Priorities Project have been maintaining a counter at costofwar.com for a while now that estimates the current economic cost of our continuing misadventure in Iraq.
It’s a depressing number, especially when you watch it grow by thousands of dollars each second and consider (as they do on their site) [...]
Posted in amusing, bizarre on February 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Before I lose the link again for another couple of years, here is Strindberg & Helium.
(There used to be an embedded video here of one of my favorites, Absinthe and Women, but the embedding was totally fucking with my site, so I took it out. You can find it easily at the link above [...]
Posted in geekiness, music on February 21st, 2007 No Comments »
No, it’s not Kirby in blackface. It’s the mascot for Songbird, a new tool built on the same Mozilla foundation as Firefox. It’s billed as a “desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up.”
Does the world really need an iTunes/Firefox collision? Beats me. But it plays most [...]