End of Silence

I passed and, in my defense, I think I answered most of the important questions. I missed 2, 3, 7, 11 and 13. I never learned much Astronomy or Geology, so I missed several of those. I guess I didn’t remember all of my Biology either.

Something appears to have gone horribly wrong with the auto-posting feature from del.icio.us. The formatting’s all screwed up. It appears to be attempting to insert newline characters and is no longer linking anything. I’m not very motivated to go track down the problem, but it just started in the last few days and appears to [...]

I can’t let today pass without acknowledging it, since, like so many of my contemporaries, the premiere of Star Wars was a defining moment of my childhood.
When Star Wars was released on May 25th, 1977, I was 5 and a half years old. I can’t remember if we saw it opening day, but it was [...]

I just read an awesome article by Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java, about Java, Javascript, AJAX and Flex among other things. It’s really about how to write web applications in general. Bruce has been around since the beginning. I remember downloading the first edition of Thinking In Java way back when. He was [...]

Wil has a post up on Suicide Girls this week about the fall and decline of video arcades. He also mentioned it on his own blog. The comment thread over there is pretty good. Of course, his experience echoes that of many of us born in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Arcades were HUGE [...]

Maybe Google’s Blogger shouldn’t have come out of beta just yet…
I’ve noticed over the last week or so that some of the Blogger-hosted blogs that I subscribe to via Bloglines have disappeared. I did a test post over on my Blogger account that I never use. Chris also mentioned something about this today.
Blogger’s been encouraging [...]

When I started using Bloglines, I didn’t have a decent way of bookmarking stuff I read for later. Now, the delicious integration with Firefox and some people’s feeds is better, so I don’t use the Bloglines clipping feature, but I do have a bunch of links sitting in there gathering dust. I’m converting those to [...]

I missed that there was a Super Villain quiz in addition to the Super Hero quiz.
I must like armor since I ended up as Iron Man and Dr. Doom. Wheaton took the quiz as well.
Your results:
You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom

66%

Poison Ivy

63%

Lex Luthor

60%

Apocalypse

59%

Magneto

56%

Catwoman

52%

Dark Phoenix

42%

Kingpin

42%

Mystique

41%

The Joker

40%

Venom

40%

Juggernaut

37%

Riddler

36%

Mr. Freeze

36%

Green Goblin

29%

Two-Face

13%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Click [...]

Found this on Jason Calacanis’s blog today and for some reason enjoyed taking it. Probably because some of the questions were obviously pointing to particular heroes and others were hard to pick out.
Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man

70%

Green Lantern

65%

Catwoman

55%

Supergirl

55%

Hulk

55%

Spider-Man

50%

Superman

50%

Wonder Woman

45%

The Flash

45%

Batman

40%

Robin

32%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
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I sent in a post to BoingBoing this morning about Google blocking my proxy searches. Apparently, I’m not the only one with the problem right now. I switched off FoxyProxy for the moment, but the CustomizeGoogle privacy settings should still be protecting me from tracking even if I’m coming from my own IP.
I’m guessing maybe [...]