End of Silence

Bob had a really good post a few days ago about the current state of the music industry.

Cory Doctorow has a great post on BoingBoing about the sad state of music downloads in response to someone else who recommends that we choose the lesser of two evils. I voiced sentiments similar to Cory’s something similar a while back. I still refuse to use one of these services unless they offer in a [...]

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None of the ROTK stuff was a surprise. I’m guessing that they’ll give it best director and best picture. If not, Lost in Translation should get one or the other. It’s certain to win for screenplay.
Bill Murray has to take the best actor, although I’ve heard a lot about Johnny Depp’s performance. Tough call [...]

Baby Chaos for the new year.

Okay, so I’m just parroting stuff from BoingBoing, but these are just too damn funny.

What would the comedy world do without GW? If I wasn’t laughing so much, I might cry.
IKEA is opening a Dallas location in 2005 (Frisco, actually). Mary’s made a few pilgrimages to the Houston location and pressed me into service when [...]

I found a few links this morning worth mentioning. Bob Mould’s new blog pointed me to a useful comparison of the democratic candidates courtesy of the Washington Post. Also, I saw on Off the Kuff and Burnt Orange Report that D Magazine has started a group blog. It’s very Dallas-centric, but Tim Rogers, who [...]

I just ran across this via BoingBoing. Mark, one of the editors, had his own run-in with some TSA employees. We had a similar incident of our own on our way back from Maui this past summer.
On the one hand, I can understand this from the point of view that I suppose it’s possible that [...]

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more about this in the news and on other blogs. In his speech announcing that another billon dollars will be allocated to NASA over the next 5 years (nevermind how we’ll pay for that either), our esteemed leader referred to astronauts as "spacial entrepreneurs". While this may be gramatically [...]

So after failing several times to figure out how to get the Debian machine not to boot into the screwed up X Window configuration, it dawned on me that I could ssh into the box from my WinXP machine. Duh. A little "su" and some "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and I’m now posting from my nifty new [...]

I sense a tremendous time sink in The Fall.