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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Linkdump for August 6th

by Rob Friesel

Apache Velocity – Velocity User Guide (tagged: webdev reference api documentation Velocity work ) Apache Velocity – VTL Reference (tagged: webdev reference api documentation Velocity work ) Hiroshima, 64 years ago at Boston.com — sobering pictures that put much of this event into perspective. (tagged: photography history nuclear war ) The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock […]

Linkdump for August 3rd

by Rob Friesel

Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs, by Leonard Richardson at Strange Horizons Fiction (tagged: writing scifi humor satire dinosaurs fiction ) BusyCal via [GusMueller blog] — "Share Calendars on a LAN and sync with Google Calendar" — I've historically been disappointed with these apps/plugins/whatever but always seem to be willing to try another… so here's […]

Deadwood as Milch’s attempt at a purely American creation myth

by Rob Friesel

Work with me here:  When David Milch hallucinated the opening scene to what would become Deadwood, when he gathered up his personal assistant(s) into a darkened room and reclined on the couch to spill forth from his amygdala exactly what he was seeing beyond his third eye, he was leaking his fever-dream vision of a […]