Saw Shot in the Heart, an HBO flick about Gary Gilmore based on the book of the same title by his brother Mikal, starring Giovanni Ribisi, who impressed me greatly with his performance in The Gift. Good stuff. Powerful and dark.
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Mozilla 1.1 is out (released yesterday, actually). I’m surfing with it right now. Very nice work. I installed right over my old install and it didn’t loose a single email or address book entry (even though I had the sense to back them all up). I also tried out Mozilla Calendar, which is nice and [...]
When I was an undergrad, I spent a good deal of time pouring over the Norton anthologies of British literature (and the Heath anthologies of American literature). But, especially by the time I made it to grad school, I was as much (hell, probably more) interested in literary theory and criticism as I was with [...]
stuff from metafilter: This cost-of-living calculator is pretty fun. And I notice that davezilla has been issued a C&D order from the people who own the trademark on Godzilla (will they hound mozilla next? How about filezilla? jazilla?). You know, I was pretty close to registering wheatzilla.com at one point, but I didn’t want to [...]
I think I mentioned The Quote Project before. What makes it handy is the way things are categorized. Gives you fine-grained control over what you want to find.
Student loan debt = depression
Hey, I can relate. I love the blurb, BTW: “Being in debt does tend to have bad consequences for people”. Brilliant.
For whom the bell tolls . . .
My mom sent me an email today about discovering one of her high school friends has MS and can barely move. News like this always has a sobering effect. There’s an impulse to be thankful (in my case, to whom is never really clear). Of course, thankfulness has [...]
Gina & I spent Sunday visiting in Tulsa with her friend Amy. It was a nice visit. While Amy and Gina were doing some shopping, I found myself in a Barnes and Noble and found two books I’d really like to read when I get a chance: Martin Amis’ new book on Stalin (Korba the [...]
Sun embraces Linux at long last.