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Played hooky this afternoon after working all weekend. Saw XXX. I thought it was great, funny and clever. Definite Bond elements, without the gross-out humor of the Austin Powers franchise. The meshing of the extreme sports attitude—camped up by Hollywood to the nth degree—with the technothriller context (complete with a gothic supervillain) works beautifully. Vin…

Will you make it to the end of Tales of the Plush Cthulhu? Over 11,000 curious readers have fallen by the wayside.

New design up at Radio Free Blogistan, inspired by a chance remark from Andy Stafford about Constructivists or Futurists (I forget, exactly, but it conjured up an image for me) that led to a six to eight hour alpha flow session mostly in Fireworks, massaging a collage together from some found imagery and a personal…

According to science fiction author Ray Nelson, Dick spent a lot of the time near the end of his life conjuring a tulpa.

I suppose by now you’ve seen the history of Michael Jackson’s face. The HTML is kind of crude and the humor gets a little crass at the end, but anomalies-unlimited deserves credit for pulling it together

Forgot to mention this here (still trying to figure out how to effectively cross-pollinate blogs and other feeds) till just now, but I’ve got a long comparison of blog tools Radio UserLand and Movable Type up at Radio Free Blogistan now, along with some comments from UserLand CEO Dave Winer.

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Ever have this problem? x New blog-tool comparison up at Radio Free Blogistan. This time it’s Radio vs. Movable Type.

This thing calls itself “A Prolegomena to any past Prolegomena.” That probably isn’t too funny if you weren’t a philosophy major, but it tickled me. I also like The way to read this book is to jump around until you find something that makes sense. . . and then be glad. But then he misspells…

The laundry needs folding We’re out of coffee Have to replace the old toilet seat The garden out back is beautiful Need to make jetBlue reservations (returning 9/11) Bills to pay Book proposal to write Incredible e-mail backlog It’s too damn hot to have this Titanium furnace running Significant other thinks significantly otherwise

Just figured out why I was having trouble sometimes with check boxes on web-page forms in IE 6 in OS X on the Mac (just being specific). It turns out that if I move the mouse pointer off the checkbox too quickly the click doesn’t register. Apparently I need to have the mouse pointer on…

Anil Dash takes the piss out of mindless forwarding. An excerpt (but read it all): That forward? I got it. I’ve gotten it. I do not wish to keep receiving it. I was neither moved nor inspired. It was neither clever nor funny. I was not amazed at the stupidity of that criminal, nor disgusted,…

Check my mail. Check my referer logs. Read the Well. Read Metafilter. I don’t need to put some things on my to-do list because I do them compulsively as it is. I go out back, it’s sunny. Cat (typed </cat> comes by and does the flop. I’m enjoying the fresh air, overcast low sky, my…

Might as well pump the blog meme of the moment, BlogTree, the “blog genealogy website.” If you register, you can indicate your “parent blogs” (those that inspired you to begin blogging) and discover your child blogs (those who end up linking to you). For example, see ain’t too proud to blog’s genealogy.

Fun reading for a Monday morning: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick. I finally saw Minority Report last week after hearing every possible spoiler and still enjoyed it for the most part. I think they managed to capture the essential plot mechanism of the original short story, for one thing. I think short stories…

When you are twice the age of the young, you are no longer young. You can feel young, act young, think young. The can be younger than. You can have a “youthful” (pick it: appearance, body, attitude, driving style) although the use of that word obviously begs the question. Compare: spry. Strange thought in the…

Hey, I’ve finally gotten with the program and started feeding CDs into my ‘puter. I think what prompted it is that I went through my roughly 600 non-bootleg CDs and chose about 50 to sell back to record stores. Bill and Jeff were polite when we talked about this last week even when I admitted…

Which of these two diagrams more closely fits your worldview?

Make banana bread! (Joy of Cooking—always dependable for desserts and mixed drinks—has a good recipe.)

Help save this guy‘s hand: Lack of social skills, poor hygiene and several skin conditions have caused all traditional methods of finding a mate to fail. Between my gaming addictions and paying rent to my sister, I cannot afford the only option left to me: the purchase of a prostitute or “escort.”

Think I’ll shed a tear today again for Garcia. 53 was too young. He packed a lot of living into that span, yes, but not enough.