Just yesterday, I was struggling with coming up with a domain name to register. I can understand the frustration inherent in coming up with a name that has not already been taken, but just wow!
It took me several minutes of scanning to just make out the component words of it.
www.
.com
That particular domain is for sale, but I'm not in the market for it. I won't be able to remember it.
Note... they do have a shorter version of the URL registered at LydiaofPurple.com
It took me several minutes of scanning to just make out the component words of it.
www.
- Modest Apparel
- Christian Clothing
- Lydia of Purple Dresses
- Custom Sewing
.com
That particular domain is for sale, but I'm not in the market for it. I won't be able to remember it.
Note... they do have a shorter version of the URL registered at LydiaofPurple.com
India has invented the world's cheapest car. Everybody will want one now. While you chew on that, realize that thanks to that invention, we will all have to chew our air. As an animated friend of Al Gore might say, "we're boned!"
It's amazing what you can do with clocks these days!
Detroit struggles to bounce back.
Asks Kim Zetter, "Were the bloggers right to publish a name and address that may or may not be correct?" Given that you say the info "may or may not be correct", I suspect the answer would be "No".
The WGA and the AMPTP are returning to the negotiation tables. (United Hollywood is the weblog of the WGA.)
Dude gets his iPhone wet, and it stops working. Of course fanboys blast him for getting it wet, but I have to wonder, did they not consider that it's not always sunny where you need to make a call?
See where your name ranks, too.
Maybe he'll bring the slide show. Former vice president Al Gore plans to return to the White House after Thanksgiving, apparently for the first time since leaving office, to be honored by the man who beat him seven years ago.
What an evil way to get me to read an article. Ashcroft and the nude female statue was just a throwaway comment in a column about Mukasey. Read page two, though. Government workers spend their day trying to rig web polls!
Whoever floated this balloon to the WSJ, please stop. There's already plenty enough demagoguing and immigrant bashing in the presidential campaign as it is!
The conventional wisdom is that the studios and networks are purposely waiting so that they can invoke force majeure, a contract clause that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event, such as a strike, occurs.
Matthew Dowd helped win the White House. Now he views the administration with a mixture of anguish and contempt.
The problem with Heroes -- it's slow, it's repetitive. "You don’t get it. It’s like a comic book. That’s how stories are told in comic books,” fans say. But that's why people don't read comic books either! This may be too late, with a strike and a
However, unlike with the WGA screenwriters' strike. the stagehands and the producers are scheduled to negotiate. This weekend.
They're also represented by the WGA (WGA-E), but they work under a different contract. That expired in 2005. Their last pay raise came in 2004. Why again haven't they struck first?
Snarky headline about researchers believing there's a correlation between hip to waist ratio and intelligence
Because I'm lazy... This supposedly allows me to post links I post to Delicious into my journal. I post a lot of links there for which I'm too lazy to surround with commentary, opinion, or just plain prose.
Robin Harris (not the comedian who created Bébé's Kids) says that all modern computers (excepting Macintoshes) come with a BIOS level command that will erase hard disks so that no data can be retrieved from them. Good if you sell the PC.
Let's face facts.
Charlie Brown and friends would never last more than an episode on television today. How can a kid today possibly relate to such a cast of well-adjusted, prepubescent children with freakishly small eyes and limbs. The characters arn't even rendered with sharp angles. The guys don't have gravity-defying hair. The women lack gravity-defying, well, womanly adornment. There's not a giant robot or a mutant alien or a pervert with a laser weapon among the cast. A deranged dog and a lack of parental oversight is a bit of a start, the Peanuts gang is really gonna need serious work to make them cool with todays kids.
Fortunately, the success of Loonatics Unleashed has given us a template as to how to modernize Charlie Brown and friends!
(If anybody knows to whom I should credit for that Charlie Brown reimaginations, drop me a line. I see they're signed by a "GNAW".)
UPDATE: Well, I found Gnaw.
Charlie Brown and friends would never last more than an episode on television today. How can a kid today possibly relate to such a cast of well-adjusted, prepubescent children with freakishly small eyes and limbs. The characters arn't even rendered with sharp angles. The guys don't have gravity-defying hair. The women lack gravity-defying, well, womanly adornment. There's not a giant robot or a mutant alien or a pervert with a laser weapon among the cast. A deranged dog and a lack of parental oversight is a bit of a start, the Peanuts gang is really gonna need serious work to make them cool with todays kids.
Fortunately, the success of Loonatics Unleashed has given us a template as to how to modernize Charlie Brown and friends!
(If anybody knows to whom I should credit for that Charlie Brown reimaginations, drop me a line. I see they're signed by a "GNAW".)
UPDATE: Well, I found Gnaw.
This is one of the more remarkable stories I've seen written on the internet. How would you react to people who confide to you their inner prejudices? This is a story of a biracial woman to whom many people confide -- sometimes proudly -- their ignorances. My favorite anecdote is that of her with a woman whom she describes as the aristocratic southern belle who is shocked to discover that black women are capable of jogging.
"I didn't know negras jawgged!"
"I didn't know negras jawgged!"
...anything in variance to the Eternal Sunshine in George Bush's Spotless Mind.
Remember those mobile trailers that had those biolabs which could be used to make WMDs? (With even this being a severe step down from what fears were told to fear from Iraq.)
Well, um, that turned out to be untrue as well.
But hey, it's those things that makes performances starring George Bush so very popular.
Remember those mobile trailers that had those biolabs which could be used to make WMDs? (With even this being a severe step down from what fears were told to fear from Iraq.)
Well, um, that turned out to be untrue as well.
But hey, it's those things that makes performances starring George Bush so very popular.
Fan mail...
On Danny Phantom, I said, "No sir, I don't like it!"
So I get this response: " I hate you!"
John K., is that you? I know, I shouldn't have quoted that genius horse without attribution, but still, I'm sure even you'd agree that that show spends too much time proving how clever it is without being all that clever. Most all the characters speak in two voices, the overly clever script-writer masquarading as teens, or the overly un-hip clueless teen.
(OK, I know full well, John K. didn't respond to that post, but I didn't feel like doing that "Oh look, John K. has a blog" one sentence post.)
On Danny Phantom, I said, "No sir, I don't like it!"
So I get this response: " I hate you!"
John K., is that you? I know, I shouldn't have quoted that genius horse without attribution, but still, I'm sure even you'd agree that that show spends too much time proving how clever it is without being all that clever. Most all the characters speak in two voices, the overly clever script-writer masquarading as teens, or the overly un-hip clueless teen.
(OK, I know full well, John K. didn't respond to that post, but I didn't feel like doing that "Oh look, John K. has a blog" one sentence post.)
Last week, the Washington Post posted a number of articles trying to gague the future in 2030 where the US population is forcast to be over 360 Million. Amazingly, I could only see one that isn't mostly negative news.
See the east coast flooded by rising sea levels, and see DC become only a memorial city surrounded by levees and dykes.
See the country and world run out of food and water. Hunger reaches our shores. (More so than it exists already.)
City planning will still suck!
But it may just make sense to stay in bed, because you won't be able to drive to work. (Provided you can still afford gas.)
At least as old geezers will still hold the center of attention... or so we hope
And this article simply proves that you can't describe all of culture and entertainment in one short article.
See the east coast flooded by rising sea levels, and see DC become only a memorial city surrounded by levees and dykes.
See the country and world run out of food and water. Hunger reaches our shores. (More so than it exists already.)
City planning will still suck!
But it may just make sense to stay in bed, because you won't be able to drive to work. (Provided you can still afford gas.)
At least as old geezers will still hold the center of attention... or so we hope
And this article simply proves that you can't describe all of culture and entertainment in one short article.
A novel theory from someone on LiveJournal... Why we have two hands.
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amused
Not my photo, but isn't this a cute little creature? I really ought to make him my mascot.
PS: I gave up and changed all the tags so that have an ugly + where a space should be. It makes the category links work again...at least until LJ breaks them again.
PS: I gave up and changed all the tags so that have an ugly + where a space should be. It makes the category links work again...at least until LJ breaks them again.
Following up on the NY Times piece suggesting that King of the Hill should guide democrats, Jaime J. Weinman wonders how useful that suggestion really is. Even though the characters would probably proclaim themselves to be conservative, they have a nuanced view of policy that would thwart ideologues on either side. But I think that is the lesson. Most people don't believe in ideology (I say the only foolproof ideology is a fantasy ideology.). People really just want politicians to solve problems, not street test new governing theories. That's why people don't even listen to politicians or read position papers.
Anyway, King of the Hill is an interesting show in that you can either view it as a too close satire of Texans, or a celebration of Texans.
Anyway, King of the Hill is an interesting show in that you can either view it as a too close satire of Texans, or a celebration of Texans.
The girl in the Starbucks logo is a mermaid. She's wearing a crown, with a star, or possibly a starfish in the middle. Most interesting though, is that those two things near the inner border of the circle logo with the horizontally wavy lines are her fins. Really. Think of her as a gymnast, or a contortionist.
But wait, she has two fins? They're almost like legs then. But she's naked. That would mean she's...
Yes, if it wasn't for the green circle, Lady Starbucks would only be seen in the underwater version of Hustler. She's a very sexual being, but that's the norm for mythological women. But that's actually the least interesting thing about this logo.
Grab a cup of coffee, folks. I found a long, but interesting article on the history of mermaids, using the Starbucks logo as a launching pad. Remember Disney's The Little Mermaid? In service to the classic maiden sacrifices for a prince story, the Disney storymen managed to create the perfect inversion of the ancient predecessors to the mermaiden myths. Not unlike how Christianity inverted the many myths it replaced. But you all are just wondering why Lady Starbucks is spread-eagle. Heinz Insu Fenkl has the answer.
Found via Deadprogrammer's Cafe, via Meadowflower.
Fake fake breasts.. For the woman who wants to look like she has fake breasts, but can't afford or choose not to have surgery.
The girls who used to write Sequential Tart are probably now drinking themselves into a coma. I'll just weep silently in the corner, with JWZ.
Now there's a bra that promises to make women look like they've had plastic surgery. The Evolution bra is aimed at "women who lust after the look of cosmetic breast implants." It features a sculpted, graduated cup "specially designed to mimic the appearance of cosmetic breast implants."
"To be honest, the new standard for women is to be cosmetically enhanced, or to at least feel that's what you look like," company spokeswoman Michelle Soudry said. "It's a completely new ideal from what we've seen before, and this is a company that is catering to that."
The girls who used to write Sequential Tart are probably now drinking themselves into a coma. I'll just weep silently in the corner, with JWZ.
Well, no longer does it feature Tex Avery. Now it's just someone's personal website.
But at least one header has Michigan J. Frog on it. I guess that's progress, of a sort.
Additional progress noted. I see the Tex Avery site that used to be there is now at the more appropiately named TexAvery.com (or in the avery subdirectory of ChuckAmuck.com).
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