Category: Musicology

  • OK, OK, dullest blog

    This one keeps showing up on my screen, so I might as well note it. The Dullest Blog in the world is a deadpan satire of inconsequential web journaling. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Yahoo’s crack crew of editors can hardly contain their mirth: Web logs have reached critical mass and become ubiquitous…

  • Forgive the mess here

    Apologies for the butt-ugly design choices visible right now here at X-POLLEN. I’m trying to track down a CSS (style sheet) error, and it helps me visualize the various design blocks to give them distinct colors and ugly borders. Maybe you can help. The problem is in the left two-thirds (links) area of the page.…

  • Euphemism karma

    As I recall, “regime change” first entered the vocabulary back in 1998, when it stood for a stronger position against Saddam’s regime in Iraq than disarmament, essentially promising that post-Gulf War sanctions against Iraq would never be lifted as long as the Saddam Hussein regime remained in power there. There may have been a whiff…

  • What's the word on C-Dilla?

    A friend on one of my lists wrote: …found some nasty stuff on C-Dilla – installed as a copy protection tool with Turbo Tax, seemed to cause some nasty stuff on my system running as a system service in Win2000. Searches on various forums turned up some news on it in game software with the…

  • Rhymes with bogosity

    Measure the buzzosity (suit and geek) of any website.

  • Hippies smoked my website

    Via MediaSavvy (a site whose brand combines two of my favorite buzzwords of recent times), I found this article called The Web’s Hippie Period is So Over. It’s an amusing take on the usual web dev chitchat, despite its ahistorical spin on the recent past. Gerry McGovern, the article’s author, is a content guy, web…

  • Little groupthink footballs

    Looks like the next blogger celebrity deathmatch (after Cory vs. Pirillo) is going to have to be o-dub vs. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs. In an odd echo of the Anil vs. LFGers squabble from last year (also involving MSN’s blogspotting site), a new war of words is escalating (“I’m in his hometown. Want…

  • Morans

    Has everyone on the planet seen the morans picture by now?

  • Morans

    Has everyone on the planet seen the morans picture by now?

  • Ich bin ein Oaklandischer

    I think I followed Scot’s link to Justin Hall’s environs and ended up at the Beast Blog (“Because East Bay is Pig Latin for Beast”), reading about this Oaklandish logo: A deco tree with big branches and big roots both – “Oaklandish.” I first saw it on a sticker in the window of Walden Pond…

  • People who should have blogs

    off the top of me head: Jeff Green Dan Brodnitz Nicholas Meriwether Robert Meriwether Jennifer Crumlish Arthur Crumlish (pear and fills) don’t get me started on Crumlishes! Jeff Tiedrich Justin D’arms Doris Lessing Louis Menand Christopher Hitchens

  • Kids today…

    After attending most of the new media conference at the Berkeley J-school this past weekend I’ve got lots of notes, some photos, and very little time available to transcribe the notes and write up my comments. In the meantime, J-school webmaster Scot Hacker has some first impressions: Pink Is Evil. So much to say about…

  • Consensus on 'depleted uranium'?

    From the left (and from John Perry Barlow, recently) I keep hearing about how the U.S. and NATO use depleted uranium in their weapons, putting Iraqis (and others) at risk of radiation poisoning or genetic abnormalities. I also seem to recall scoffing at this or “debunking” of the danger from the right, but I don’t…

  • Circular dialogue on war in Iraq

    . A little late in the game, I find a link to Cronus Connections’ A Warmonger Educates a Peacenik. Will Instapundit be linking to this (or has he already)? I wonder. An excerpt: Peacenik: Why are we invading Iraq?Warmonger: For the last time, we are invading Iraq because the world has called on Saddam Hussein…

  • Consensus on 'depleted uranium'?

    From the left (and from John Perry Barlow, recently) I keep hearing about how the U.S. and NATO use depleted uranium in their weapons, putting Iraqis (and others) at risk of radiation poisoning or genetic abnormalities. I also seem to recall scoffing at this or “debunking” of the danger from the right, but I don’t…

  • I thought I knew Victoria's secret

    I always figured Victoria’s secret was that she was a guy. According to What is Victoria’s Secret? the answer is bulimia.

  • Where is Glenn?

    Instapundit has his doubts about the identify of Raed. His comments prompted me to echo him, though: These are very interesting posts, but the question isn’t so much is Glenn real, or in Tennessee. It’s whether he’s really an ordinary American as he claims, or something else (conceivably, on either side). And that’s much harder…

  • If your eyes are windows to your soul

    …then what is your mouth? It’s great to have my new camera, though I’ll need to get a larger flashcard soon (or stop using the silly movie feature). Treated myself to lunch today at Mama’s Royal Café, the site of one of my first dates with B.

  • Refresh

    I guess these headlines will grow stale unless I manually republish the page. Hmmm… Getting closer on adapting a perl script to aggregate RSS chronically and xlate it into HTML.

  • Suddenly, I'm very busy

    My dance card is full now at least through May, and I’d like to spend a week or so in Greece in May or June this year, and with this flood of steady, varied, remunerative work I suddenly find myself more productive in other areas as well. I’m applying what I’ve learned and practiced over…

  • Shorter Chomsky Thrash

    Dismayed at D-squared’s removal of his Shorten Den Beste post that finally provoked a response from the man’s reader-fans, The Poor Man offered a series of amusing Shorters, nailing himself in the process. The Chomsky one (“Shorter Noam Chomsky: Whatever someone said recently is pretty rich, considering East Timor”), which I thought was one of…