Shouts & Murmurs: The Plan At The New Yorker: At the rendezvous point, there must be an empty parking space with a meter that takes hundred-dollar bills. (via DF) Creating Custom Protocol Handlers With HTML 5 and Firefox at Ajaxian: maybe there is hope for my proposed "nsfw://" protocol… (if only via simulation) Huntington, WV […]
We’re at a bookstore, A. and I. It’s a used bookstore but it looks like a good haul. They have several copies of Snow Crash (for example) though they’re all in varying states of decay. I go through each one meticulously; I want to leave with one of them. I get an alert on my […]
The Manager FAQ I'm not sure if this is supposed to be serious or tongue-in-cheek. Anyway: both? Look for the Light at James Duncan Davidson: good point Extract from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: Is there such a thing as pure genius? Via /. (also mentioned at DF): going to want to check out this excerpt — […]
HTML 5: The Section Element at Ajaxian Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic at Salon (via B^2, among others) What’s not in HTML 5? at Ajaxian 10 Tips to Improve Your Fiction Writing Skills at Writing Forward Gallery: The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices How to Write a Complex Villian (Writing Exercise) at Writing […]
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You Clever Uses: Clip Your Laptop Plug to the Back of the Desk via LifeHacker: simple but so win. AIRMILF at Comedy Central Games: part of Indecision 2008 (gets really fun when you can call in the air strikes against those white wolves) “Naming the […]
Built at The Muppet Whatnot Workshop (via DF).
I go in for a haircut but the salon has become a tattoo parlor instead. My usual stylist is there with the tattoo machine, preparing the needles and the inks. We make some chit-chat, catching up about The Boy and that time my refrigerator exploded. She asks me what I want and where I want […]
As Season Five of The X-Files comes to a close, Mulder and Scully are getting split up, the X-Files is getting shut down, and (in that respect) the Syndicate’s conspiracy has “won”. Fight the Future 1 feels like a long episode with a little more weight in the climactic moments. On many levels, this works. […]
Season Five of the X-Files begins as an immediate successor to Season Four before veering off into what feel like wildly different directions. The characters are the same, the paranormal elements are (usually) there, but something about it isn’t quite parallel. Mulder’s new-found skepticism is a big part of it. It’s as though, after coming […]
Science fiction needs more mundanity via Bruce Sterling (Beyond the Beyond at Wired.com) Fist Bump Everything about this picture is right. I also happen to be a big fan of the Secret Service agents in the bokeh. The ecstasy of influence via kapowee: The funny thing about the "ecstasy of influence" quote is that it […]