October 2005
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The Law of Magic
I have been proofreading Covenants, the upcoming Ars Magica supplement dealing (predictably) with the creation...
[Oct 28, Filed under Blog, 3 comments]
A.O Creates Tomorrow's English Today
Today's amusing.org entry was "Sar-gasm".
Genius....
[Oct 27, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
Ooglegay
Apparently Google is available in Pig Latin. Go on, try it. Even the results pages are in Pig Latin (though no...
[Oct 27, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Chicago Rules
I refer, of course, to the Chicago Manual of Style, where I have just accidentally stumbled upon the answer to...
[Oct 26, Filed under Blog, 6 comments]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in 25 Words or Less
Best romantic comedy ever. (Did I say that about some other film? The best post-modern romantic comedy, anyway...
[Oct 26, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Broken Flowers in 25 Words or Less
It's official: "Films where Bill Murray makes that one face so you know he's having an emotion" has become a g...
[Oct 26, Filed under 25 Words or Less, 0 comments]
Cheap Bullets
Cheap Bullets (comic, pdf edition)...
[Oct 26, Filed under Shitfilter, 1 comments]
They Opine So I Don't Have To
After my recent post about John Kerry's statement on incompetence in the Bush Administration, alert reader Ste...
[Oct 24, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Don't Be a Bonehead; Understand E-mail Instead
I just got an e-mailed invitation from some bonehead at the USC alumni office to an event where they're going ...
[Oct 20, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
The Iron Developer Revisited
A little more than a month ago I wrote a post called "The Iron Developer," suggesting that ballsy browser deve...
[Oct 20, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Installing Software is Really, Really Boring. (Want to Read About it?)
Today I'm installing software. What's that mean? That I've been looking at a lotta lotta progress bars.
Here'...
[Oct 19, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]
Fish Your PDA Out of the Trash
About a month ago, I posted a link to PocketMod, a web site that helps you create "disposable personal organiz...
[Oct 18, Filed under Blog, 3 comments]
Goodbye, SprintPCS
Our SprintPCS "service" contract expired on October 5th. I have been threatening for months that this would be...
[Oct 14, Filed under Blog, 3 comments]
Twenty-five Words, More or Less
I seem to have stopped doing movie reviews, of whatever word quantity. This was not a conscious choice, but no...
[Oct 13, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
Before I Kill You, Mr. Playlist
I realized recently that I'm bored with my iTunes playlists. All of them. And not just bored. I'm weary. Jaded...
[Oct 12, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
iStockphoto
iStockphoto (royalty-free stock image archive)...
[Oct 12, Filed under Shitfilter, 0 comments]
"Not Handy"
On Saturday and Sunday, my friend Alex Court directed a short film I wrote for him called "Not Handy." The scr...
[Oct 11, Filed under Blog, 2 comments]
The Last Day Box
Friday was my last day at Tomo; these are the things I brought home with me. As threatened, Heather took my ...
[Oct 9, Filed under Blog, 4 comments]
LotR PDFage Announced
I heard it from Last-LA-Decipherian-Standing Kieran Yanner a week or so ago, but now Decipher has made public ...
[Oct 5, Filed under Blog, 1 comments]
Shining
Shining (postmodern re-trailering)...
[Oct 4, Filed under Shitfilter, 1 comments]
Everything Old is New Again
Over at Kung Fu Monkey, John Rogers ends his rather diverse bio with this:He plainly needs to focus.
Well, as...
[Oct 3, Filed under Blog, 9 comments]
One-half Twist
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[Oct 2, Filed under Blog, 0 comments]