I’ve been catching up on some 2004 flicks: Mean Creek, The Machinist, Vanity Fair, The Door in the Floor. In terms of overall quality, I’d put them pretty much in that same order. All were good. Mean Creek and The Machinist were outstandingly good. Those two are heavy meditations on ethics and personal responsibility, though [...]

Jack sent me this music meme, so I’ll play along: 1. Total volume of music files on my computer: 13GB 2. Last CD I bought: Green Day, American Idiot. And it effin rocks. It’s the best rock album I’ve heard in years. 3. Song Playing Right Now: “Angels” by Joe Henry. 4. Five Songs (or [...]

Everyone I know who uses FireFox also uses the web developer extension. That extension has many wonderful features. One I’ve just started using recently is the ability to hack CSS on the fly. This is really handy when you’re trying to read a lengthy online work that is formatted without any styling or with bad [...]

I forgot to mention teagames.com, which I found a few days ago (can\’t remember the source). Funky Truck, BMX Backflips, and Crazy Golf 2 are not to be missed!

In the 1980s, using guitars to create MIDI signals (so you can use them to play synthesizers and such) was a very popular idea. I dabbled in this a bit myself, though I rather quickly found it not to be my cup of tea. But what about taking it the other direction: playing an actual [...]