November 2007

Van Halen Reunion.

Yes, indeed, I may have to get tickets to this particular concert. I know a few people who would go with me, too, just to say we saw them live before Eddie strangled Dave.

Posted on November 28, 2007 11:09 PM | link to this entry

Region-Free DVD fix.

Hrm. Use the directions on this page to flash the ROM on a MacBook Pro and make the DVD player region free. I have not used these directions, so caveat emptor.

Posted on November 28, 2007 4:38 PM | link to this entry

Sales Tax

From our friend Jason, this morning: Maryland to Tax Computer Services. 6% on consulting and custom code, effective January 1. What does this mean for me? Less work, I suppose. I'm not happy about this.

Posted on November 21, 2007 9:21 AM | link to this entry

Campaign logos

Ward Sutton takes on the deisgn of campaign logos in the New York Times. (via)

Posted on November 19, 2007 10:13 AM | link to this entry

Lego Yamato

Jesus Christmas, I would have sold my everloving soul to Satan for this model when I was a kid. Some kook in Japan is building a model of the battleship Yamato in his living room, the ship that inspired my favorite show, Star Blazers. (via)

Posted on November 17, 2007 3:25 PM | link to this entry

Imran Khan Arrested

Cricket legend seized in Pakistan. Listen to this NPR interview with Imran Khan from Monday—it's the most damning description of our country's misguided foreign policy I've heard in a long time. The more the US meddles with foreign countries, the more destabilized they become.

Posted on November 14, 2007 8:52 AM | link to this entry

Using a Creative Commons License

I could have used this a couple of weeks ago: How to use a Creative Commons license, by one of the editors of BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow.

Posted on November 9, 2007 3:37 PM | link to this entry

Karma is a Bitch.

Ha, ha. Karma is a bitch, boys. A Washington publisher is being sued by several conservative authors over book royalties. The plaintiffs include the Swift Boat asshats and several others. Favorite quotes: “It suddenly occurred to us that [the publisher] Regnery is making collectively jillions of dollars off of us and paying us a pittance.” He added: “Why is Regnery acting like a Marxist cartoon of a capitalist company?”

Um, no, dude. They're just acting like a capitalist company. See how that feels? That's called "Middle Class America".

Posted on November 7, 2007 10:16 AM | link to this entry

CSS-fu.

I've been stymied for the last few days by a particular bug in Internet Explorer that wasn't letting me make pretty images like I wanted to. Thanks to this article, I found a workaround that solved my problem, made me slap my own forehead, and reaffirmed my faith in my coding abilities.