Archive for May, 2006

Advertising in Advertising

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

I just saw a car commercial, which was more marketing the navigation system than the car itself, but what was interesting about it was the system showed what could be a local address: 453 Newport Center Drive, which I know…

Watch Out!

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

http://www.savelivesinmay.com/

“I have received information psychically, which is corroborated by scientific data, according to which on May 25, 2006 a giant tsunami will occur in the Atlantic Ocean, brought about by the impact of a comet fragment which will provoke the…

Livin’ on a Sucky Update

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Spurred on by this upbeat Boing Boing post, I decided to give FF2.0′s new alpha another try.

First impression: I don’t care if it’s an alpha version and you’re being cute, “Bon Echo” is a stupid name. You Give Browsers A…

I Was Looking At…

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

…the KKK‘s home page, which, for being the homepage for a bunch of racist assholes, is charmingly designed in a late-1998-Geocities fashion, and I noticed the “rainbow” down at the bottom of the page:

The KKK's crappy rainbow

Putting aside for a moment that just…

I’m Stupid.

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Hey, remember the other day when I was all excited about the GMail test thing I was going to be running, and encouraged my loyal readers (both of you!) to drop me a line if you wanted to mess with…

Meta-Review

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Amanda, our friend Rob and I went to see Marc Maron again last Friday night, and while I intended to write a mini-review about it, I sort of maybe kinda changed my mind when he peppered his standup routine with imaginary…

This Offer Is Unrepeatable

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Um. Anyone want an e-mail address? A few months ago, I signed up for Google’s GMail beta test, wherein you could link a domain’s e-mail to the GMail service, and they accepted my offer the other day.

So what I’m…

Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No. 4

Monday, May 1st, 2006

And then, there was a lull. I haven’t been totally lazy—tweaked the stylesheet a little bit, because the largish font size was bugging me. I also added a live weather thingy, just becuse I could. It’s not formatted well, but…