Archive for September, 2005

Has Maureen Dowd been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine lately?


She makes two references in the first three lines—“Bulls on Parade” and the 1999 “Battle of $CITY” tour. Of course, there was also that whole Andrew Jackson thing…

Mozilla2: Unified Storage


New data system for all Moz apps using SQLite backend and a nice exposed API for extension developers—if this comes to pass, I’ll be the first in line to write a Spotlight extension

The Design Encyclopedia


Good to see that I’m not the only one hacking DokuWiki in my spare time… (via kottke)

Guantanamo Hunger Strike Gains Momentum


128 “enemy combatants”—more than a quarter of all detainees—have now joined a five-week-old hunger strike in order to get access to a legal defense

Diary of a Geek: Ben Rota’s Journal


Whoa, the Diary is up too. This really takes me back…

FatBits: John Siracusa’s Journal


Ars finally gave him a blog. Yay!

Bush Says He’ll Lead Probe Into Government Response


Uh, hey guys, if I’m ever arrested for murder, don’t worry, I’ll present the prosecution’s case to the grand jury

A clip of Fox News where Geraldo Rivera and Sam Shepard argue with Hannity & Colmes about the situation in New Orleans


“Geraldo was crying, holding a little child up to demonstrate the extremely inhumane conditions these people are forced to live under.”

CNN: The big disconnect on New Orleans


Amazing compilation of quotes from federal disaster management types and people in the trenches (via lhl)

Bandnews.org


Ajaxian site that aggregates news from official band/label sites. Would be better if it monitored all music news sources—I use Google Alerts for some specific bands for this.

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I was in a movie with Scarlett Johansson!