There’s no war against Christmas. It’s the most popular holiday in the history of holidays. And it doesn’t matter if you celebrate it for religious, secular, material, traditional, ironic, or other reasons. National holidays should be celebrations of inclusion rather than exclusion. So I like the fairly neutral slogan in the title. But I am [...]
George, the NSA, and you…
You’ve heard the news by now about our fearless president admitting to the truth of the reports that he’s been using the NSA to spy on you and your fellow citizens without bothering to go though the legal procedures in place to protect our freedom. You can your solidarity against this sort of rule by [...]
Best five of oh five
I nicked the idea from Tim, who nicked it from this guy–except I’m going to cheat and pick six: Walk The Line (film review) Things that do and don’t suck… (opinion/product review) The last meme… (music meme) Kottke gets it wrong (opinion/invective) The meme (book meme) Ten Years (milestone)
Pandora.com
Sean turned me on to Pandora.com a few days ago and I’m totally hooked on it. It’s a music discovery tool. You create a station starting with an artist you like. Then you fine tune it by adding other artists and giving yes/no votes to the artists Pandora thinks you’ll like. You get to listen [...]
Wheatblog, professionally hosted
If you’ve read about the wheatblog (wB) software we develop but don’t want to muck with installing it yourself, Siteground.com now offers wheatblog on their web hosting accounts. It’s cheap, too ($5.00/month) and they include lots of space and features for your other content. Siteground supports a whole suite of great open source software on [...]