I approached this album thinking "I know all the songs". I couldn't ( Read more... )

Whenver a "cute girl" shows up on the screen (especially in talk shows, when they invite the "pretty face for the evening"), some inane director will think it is a good idea to play the Pretty Woman theme. Please stop doing that! It makes her look like a prostitute. Yes, Julia Roberts is playing a prostitute. "Walking down the street" is a ( Read more... )

The CD has reached me. I haven't yet a had a chance to listen to it, but I'm looking forward to it :)

At least those who did pre-orders also got a punched card to go along with it (perhaps for the mp3 tags?). SO! AWESOME!

I think it is wonderful how there's such an poigant example of the prisoners' dilemma at work in reality shows. Of course, like many things in real life, it is frequently more complicated. But still, watching people who are well-adjusted individuals being able to betray people like that is amazing ( Read more... )

Dedicated to all my tiny friends http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001078.html

So, as usual, I opened up the wireless captive page, and I went to look for the bug which prevents firefox from clicking the "I agree" button...and I couldn't find it. I said "hrm, this code looks FF compatible", and clicked on the page -- and it fracking WORKED. Can you believe it? Someone actually fixe a firefox compatibility bug. Woos for us ( Read more... )

I've promised to give a talk about Interaction Design for a local group of "intellectual interest" people. I have great passion about it, I have some knowledge of it -- but only some. I will be collecting links in this post, and if you have more links, research points and other miscellenia, please comment ( Read more... )

(see http://openid.net -- it's like MS Passport, without the evil centralized system, but WITH all security bugs -- read on ( Read more... )

As people who know me have realized, I have finally discovered an interest in music, after 30 or so years of being mostly uninterested in it. This is largely thanks to filk, which I only seriously discovered a year ago. I have been a serial reader for as long I remember myself. This is probably to the early discovery (1st grade? 2nd grade?) of ( Read more... )

...in a couple of weeks.

Prepare to blog about the zombie uprising.