Montel goes off-script on a fluff interview segment on Fox ostensibly about the death of Heath Ledger. Montel decides to talk about the lack of war coverage instead. No offense to Ledger and family, of course; he was a talented actor. But the criticism of the infotainment industry’s tendency to cover such events ad nauseam [...]

Picnik is a web-based photo-editing application. It powers the photo editing features in Flickr. I’ve been stressed out that a lot of my snapshots are too dark. And I’ve been bothering all my graphic designer friends for their best Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) tricks for making things better. But I decided to give Picknik a [...]

This is the best of those web-based, political belief sorters I’ve found: electoralcompass.com. It asks enough questions to get a decent answer, plots you and the candidates on a Cartesian plane, and has full explanations of where you and the candidate agree and differ (with sources to back it up). Hat tip: sotto.org. This is [...]

Since SC is a very red state, the Democratic Primary is usually the only place where I feel my vote matters much. I’ve liked Obama for a while now. There’s not a lot of difference, policy-wise, between Obama and Hillary, even on the subject of Iraq, which is often portrayed as a key difference between [...]

Since I only recently upgraded to a Flickr pro account, I hadn’t made much use of sets. You only get three of them with the free account (and there are other limits as well), so I just used tags instead. But sets are handy, especially for people who don’t grok the tag concept, so I [...]