Ramblings
January 31, 2005
Website updates
Just a quick rundown on some updates to websites I'm involved with:
- ToBits: site I designed and helped develop for a business that converts CDs and videotapes to digital format
- eWire: Brian contributed a bunch of new photos and articles from several flatland jams he went to in 2004
- Barbara Peavey: new original oils and Giclee reproductions added to the site
- Hofmann Joinery: two new custom furniture pieces added
Labels: design
January 25, 2005
"Boy, someone's gonna get fired for that."
Another rare occasion when McSweeney's is actually kinda funny:
Things I'd Probably Say If the Bush Administration Were Just a Weekly TV Show and I Were a Regular Viewer
Things I'd Probably Say If the Bush Administration Were Just a Weekly TV Show and I Were a Regular Viewer
January 21, 2005
The Coma Guy, unlucky Red Sox fan
Talk about bad timing... (ESPN)
Here's a movie idea: diehard Red Sox fan falls into a coma before the 2004 playoffs, spends the next four weeks fighting for his life, then regains his senses after the World Series. He survives ... only he feels ripped off, because as millions of Sox fans say, "I saw them win in my lifetime," this poor guy is the one who didn't see anything. It actually happened.
Labels: redsox
January 20, 2005
Unsocial Insecurity
OK, I said I was avoiding politics, but...
Unsocial Insecurity
As this New Yorker article points out:
- Bush says there's a Social Security crisis right now
- there really isn't
- Bush's plan is to let people invest some of their taxes in private accounts
- this plan doesn't solve the "crisis" that Bush says we have
- having millions of people start investing sure seems to benefit Bush's corporate and Wall Street friends
I don't agree that this plan will "create Republicans" as some people suggest, but it at least has the perception "that privatization is a nice, clean way to transfer gigantic sums to Wall Street brokerage houses." Whether true or not, "making the well-being of the old dependent on the luck or skill of their stock picks or mutual-fund choices is not so good."
Unsocial Insecurity
As this New Yorker article points out:
- Bush says there's a Social Security crisis right now
- there really isn't
- Bush's plan is to let people invest some of their taxes in private accounts
- this plan doesn't solve the "crisis" that Bush says we have
- having millions of people start investing sure seems to benefit Bush's corporate and Wall Street friends
I don't agree that this plan will "create Republicans" as some people suggest, but it at least has the perception "that privatization is a nice, clean way to transfer gigantic sums to Wall Street brokerage houses." Whether true or not, "making the well-being of the old dependent on the luck or skill of their stock picks or mutual-fund choices is not so good."
Labels: politics
World fears new Bush era
World fears new Bush era (Guardian UK)
I still dislike this administration so much for so many reasons that I can't even follow politics anymore. However, it's good to note that "you forgot" Poland is one of the three countries that still supports us...
A poll of 21 countries published yesterday - reflecting opinion in Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia and Europe - ... found that the bulk of people in 18 of the 21 countries surveyed had negative feelings towards the president.Luckily, Bush doesn't give a crap about what the world (or half of the U.S.) thinks.
I still dislike this administration so much for so many reasons that I can't even follow politics anymore. However, it's good to note that "you forgot" Poland is one of the three countries that still supports us...
Labels: politics
January 12, 2005
sIFR
Just to try it out, I implemented sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) for titles on iPod411.com. What this does is replace plain HTML text with a small Flash control, so text is displayed in the font I want (Futura Book, in this case) and appears smooth (even if you don't have your font smoothing feature on). Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Labels: design
January 11, 2005
New from Apple...
Fun new stuff from Apple: iPod shuffle, Mac Mini, an updated iLife suite, and iWork. I can't wait to see for myself how much easier Apple's word processor, Pages, is compared to Microsoft Word!
Labels: apple
January 1, 2005
World Series Winter NESN
Happy new year!
You Sox fans out there can relive World Series games from '75, '86 and '04 (see? it eventually has a happy ending...) as NESN is replaying the games this and next month -- here's the schedule. Especially worth noting is last year's (and I mean 2004) ALCS series against the Yankees. Fire up the TiVo!
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