Archive for August, 2006
links for 2006-08-24
Slate Spoiler – Snakes on a Plane (tags: ricksipod)
How flying is like the First Amendment
Ze Frank explains that like with free speech, while you have the right to recline your seat, if you exercise that right to its limits, many around you will think you’re an asshole. That, and many other spot-on observations, in today’s the show:
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
links for 2006-08-23
ESPN.com – NFL – T.O. reaggravates hamstring; doubtful for next game As a life-long 49er fan, the only word I can use to describe the hell that TO is inflicting on Dallas is Glee. (tags: 49ers owens cowboys parcells) ESPN.com: 2006 LITTLE LEAGUE WS The Little League World Series is my favorite sporting event of the year, without question. […]
Is this being blogged?
Fascinating conversation over at Andrea Weckerle’s blog about the firing of a Goodwill worker. Andrea not only reports the orginal story, but followed up and spoke with several people at Goodwill. Subsequently, a number of concerned Goodwill customers forwarded a link to her blog through Goodwill’s corporate site, resulting in a discussion of the matter […]
In a world…
I’m just blogging this so it’ll be easier to find the next time I want to have a good laugh… (If you haven’t seen it before, it’s five of Hollywood’s most popular voiceover guys, doing a trailer for a film about themselves. Hilarious.)
Kid-proofing a PC
I recently bought Robin a laptop, which meant that her 3+ year-old PC is now freed up to do the thankless job of being the kids’ computer. It’s running WinXP home, and has a wifi connection to the home network, and before I let the kids run loose on the thing, I’d love to hear […]
FeedCrier - New RSS-based IM system
I’m pretty intrigued by Adam Kalsey’s new service, FeedCrier. FeedCrier will notify you by instant message (currently AIM only, others in development) whenever a feed updates. Adam announced this last night on his blog, and I looked at the instructions for publishers and figured out that it’d take about 2 minutes to integrate FeedCrier into […]
Snakes on box office: Jackie Chan is safe
DeadlineHollywoodDaily has the news.
New WordPress plugin - Landing Sites
I’m in love. I just found a WordPress plugin that replicates some nice functionality I had in my old Movable Type install. The Movable Type version was called MT Refsearch, and the idea behind it is pretty cool: if you come to a page on my site because you searched for a post, Refsearch would […]
Last Snakes Post (maybe)
I had a lot of fun reading through the comments from SoaP viewers this morning over on Brian’s Snakes on a Blog site, when I stumbled upon this comment from the director, David Ellis:
I am so happy that I delivered the fun of the film that you all wanted. I am so proud to be […]
