davextreme: July 2005

Statistics show that educated couples have lower divorce rate, yet the Bush administration that’s so in love with the “institution of marriage” is cutting Pell Grants.

22 July 2005

Police to Search Bags on NYC Subways

This is pretty disturbing, and might start in DC. Wonder what happens if one refuses.

21 July 2005

On Being and Deliciousness, with Wil Shipley

Interview with Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster, maker of the great Delicious Library.

Campus Squirrel Listings

Rating of colleges based on their squirrel populations.

20 July 2005

War of the Words - Steven Spielberg Has Earned the Right to Invoke 9/11

War of the Words - Steven Spielberg has earned the right to invoke 9/11

I agree with most here, but from now on won’t any movie in which there’s a large disaster be given this treatment?

Top 10 Web fads

Ah Hamsterdance, I remember you before you sold out and ruined what you once had.

SparkNotes: Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

Over the weekend Andru and I realized we didn’t really remember what happened in this book. (via kwc, who apparently had the same problem and came to the same solution)

Daring Fireball: About the Footnotes

Footnotes on the web are someting I have a bizzare fascination with.

19 July 2005

Bendy Straw Art

Cool pictures of artwork made from plastic straws.

18 July 2005

As you may have noticed, I’m back to using TypePad now. Lots to say about it, but little time at the moment, and a chapter of Harry Potter to finish before video game-related obligations steal away my time.

The first day of work was good I think. I’m not sure I was ready to be thrown into a major life change, but that’s how it happened, prepared or not. There’s a lot to say about that, too, but I’m going to wait until I know more about the job, and probably won’t write about it here, anyway, as per my feeling that it’s prudent to avoid writing about one’s job on the internet. I’ll just say that I think it’s a good step for me in the right direction, but that I’m unused to feeling unsure of myself and as such aren’t dealing with it as well as I’d like to be.

Oh, and it looks like I won’t have steady email access during the day until I get my own desk, so don’t be offended if I don’t reply to you right away. (Unless you think I actually am ignoring you, which of course is possible.)

17 July 2005

Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds with bunnies

Oh AngryAlien, how do you do it?

16 July 2005

My FeedBurner Feed

Your aggregator should figure this out automatically, but my feed’s located here now.

WWVD

I’m a whole chapter into the new one and I’m wondering, what all did Voldemort do the first time around? Maybe this book will tell us more, but all 9 billion pages of the first five books I don’t think anyone’s ever really rattled off a list of what happened during his first reign. We know he killed some people and stuff, but beyond that no one ever wants to talk about it. Did Voldemort try to take over the whole world? Did he succeed? What did Joe Muggle perceive was going on?

Flippity-Floppity

A few years ago I started a blog using Movable Type 2.something or other. Then TypePad came out, and I decided that I wanted to use it. Then Movable Type 3 came out, and I switched to it. Then the beta of Movable Type 3.2 came out, and in my excitement to play around with it I pretty much broke everything. I’m somewhat sure that if I did some work I could get it running again, but at the moment the ease of TypePad is pretty appealing to me. At some point I’ll figure out how to get all my old pages working again, but for now, we’ll just call this a fresh start.

Night of the Living Dead @ Internet Archive

For a number of reasons, the original film is now public domain and thus free to download.

HumaneText.service

New version of this great little MacOS service. I just can’t write plan HTML anymore, and this helps a lot.

History According to Harry

Neat piece on Harry Potter as an allegory for 1930s Europe.

15 July 2005

Optimus Keyboard

Optimus keyboard

Every key on this keyboard is a little screen that can be programmed to show whatever you want.

Atom 1.0

Atom feed format hits 1.0.

14 July 2005

Independence Day for Transformers

Release date for Michael Bay-directed live action picture set for fewer than two years from now.

08 July 2005

Frank Miller Talks 'All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder'

Frank Miller Talks ‘All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder’

Wow, it’s coming out really soon… and then begins the six week waiting period between issues.

Quicktime Movies of Live 8 Performances

Lots of stuff here.

05 July 2005

The New Firefox Tag Line

The new Firefox tag line

Great anecdote.

Chinese Coke/World of Warcraft Commercial

Great stuff.

01 July 2005

Female Mannequin Falling Animation

Female mannequin falling animation

Strangly fascinating little game of a woman falling through a sky of spheres. The collision animation is just great. If she gets stuck, you can click-drag on her to move her around.

iTunesLyrics

Dashboard widget that shows the lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes.

slyrics.html

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