Reuters: Clean-cut men have fewer strokes. I’m doomed, in more ways than one.
Del Close,
the third titan of improvisation
, left his skull to the Goodman Theatre. It’s to be used in performances of Hamlet.Adrants points out didntialreadypayforthismovie.com, a sign of a growing backlash against movie-theatre advertisers.
I just plan to arrive 20-25 minutes after the start time and I am still there in time to see the beginning of the movie.
No Movie Ads, a website for
the lawsuit alleging theft of time by movie theaters
. (via The Shifted Librarian)The word gun was removed from spelling tests in a school near near Smiths Falls, ON, after a parent complained, explaining that
Guns are violent. End of story.
I yam what I yam
It’s been a while since my last truly geeky post, but I think this makes up for it: I am Slackware Linux.
Which OS are you? (via Eric Meyer)
You are Slackware Linux. You are the brightest among your peers, but are often mistaken as insane. Your elegant solutions to problems often take a little longer, but require much less effort to complete.
Dinner and a movie
When a movie is really working, we are always alone, because we are within the reverie it creates…. [One] of the reasons we go to the movies is to leave ourselves behind for two hours and identify with the characters–so if it’s a good movie [we] won’t be alone for long.
A bad day
[When] we have a bad day, we will fix it.
Milt Heflin, NASA Chief Flight Director
A bad day
That’s when we began to know that we had a bad day.
Milt Heflin, NASA Chief Flight Director
Stirred, not shaken
The Floating World is the working title for Pink Martini‘s second CD. It’s a little late: it was originally scheduled to come out in July 2002, and is now tentatively scheduled for
(I’m beginning to detect a pattern.) I wish I didn’t know any of this, because now I know something’s in the works it’s killing me that I can’t get it yesterday.the Spring of September 2003 early 2004.
And I must say I’m shocked (and stunned… but mostly shocked) to learn that Pink Martini and Weird Al Yankovic have both covered the same song: the theme to George of the Jungle.
Screw you guys, I’m going home
Please ignore the following: GNU DTD CSS W3C EFF WaSP
Scott Andrew LePera, Just A Test (whew!)
Otherwhere
There are three types of websites that I can discern: those that attempt to keep users from browsing outside them, those that encourage users to leave them, and those that strike a balance. Of these, the ones I most regularly find useful or interesting, and the ones that I return to, are the ones that point elsewhere.
It’s not coincidental that most of my favourite sites are created by individuals. Most companies have a vested interest in keeping eyes on their products and away from their competitors’; it’s a rare one that will point to another and say they do good work too. Personal sites, on the other hand–especially weblogs–are all about sending readers to other places that have more information or different perspectives, or that the author just finds interesting, at appropriate points.
Hardly a revelation, I know, particularly to anyone who reads this irregular little screed and others like it, but I thought it needed saying. Now go away and find something more interesting.
Super Bowl Sunday
Alyson Hannigan, as Willow Rosenberg, in The Wish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 3, episode 9, written by Marti Noxon)
Trendy
Mark Pilgrim and Jeffrey Zeldman have put big round things on their home pages. Eric Meyer provides two choices of round thing. Jason Kottke has a square thing. Combined, are all of these perhaps a nod to simpler web design?
Probably not. But maybe. After all, two points form a line; five points are a trend. As Kottke says, If someone else is doing something that works, why change it?
And who am I to buck a trend? Here’s a bunch of round things (in rectangular things), some writing about other round things, and Rosalita Whyte of The Third Floor demonstrating the correct use of even more round things. At least I’m not inflicting this round thing on you on every visit:
