Movie update (past two weeks or so, in reverse order): The Shipping News, Monster’s Ball, Black Hawk Down, Pay it Forward, The Bourne Identity, and Minority Report. Everything in that group was worthwhile except Black Hawk Down (I really thought Ridley Scott could do something with it, but he didn’t. It’s a big, cliche, Hollywood [...]
John Entwistle, legendary bassist of The Who, died today (age 57). His playing had a deep impact on me and the way I approach the bass. I’m sad to hear it. He’ll be missed.
A few thoughts on the Pledge of Allegiance issue (via booknotes).
A few months back, I saw A Beautiful Mind and liked it quite a bit. There was a lot of talk at the time about Jennifer Connelly playing the role of John Nash’s wife, who was born in El Salvador. This AP article discusses it, though briefly. I am a suporter of equal opportunity, but [...]
An odd virtual tour of a home (via mefi).
A nice editorial on the first amendment’s first application to film. Found it in my local paper, but I was sure it would be on the web somewhere.
This pretty much sets the bar for bad page design (lame portal style, crammed with all sorts of irrelivant lipton-cup-of “content”, more top-level links and flashing ads than you can shake a stick at). They even have a pop-under advert. I know these are lean times for web design departmetns, but SBC surely has enough [...]
Wal-Mart made geek-news a few months ago by selling Windows-less PCs from their online store. We’ll, now they’ve taken it a bit further: they’re selling LindowsOS PCs. The boys from Redmond might think that Linux is some sort of communist plot, but it looks like customer demand for cheaper PCs will be the deciding factor. [...]
PHP use surpasses that of ASP in a recent Netcraft survey. This makes me very happy, as PHP is my language of choice for server-side scripting. I think Steve will be happy as well (via dangerousmeta!)
The new Nancy is out the door. I’ll have to set up some sort of online vending soon, but you [...]
The OS v. Proprietary security saga continues with this rebuttal from The Register (via rc3.org).
More on the De Toqueville society and their “report” on open source security, this time from The Register (via dangerousmeta). A good article, and a good quick read for anyone unfamiliar with open source. (For those of you who converse in English rather than geekish, the term FUD stands for “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt” and [...]