Archive for March, 2007

Around here, we call them birds, not…

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Last week was just chock full of birds. I’ve been taking a lot of pictures of them for the same reasons I’ve been taking a lot of pictures of flowers and cloud formations.

They’re obvious. They have a natural tendency to look interesting, or, failing that, to at least seem interesting to the careless observer. People [...]

More badvertising

Friday, March 30th, 2007

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Norton 360 protects you while you’re shopping. Not only does it stop phishing schemes and online fraud, it erects an invisible but impenetrable barrier to keep your kids from interrupting you. Little Stevie and Heather [...]

Grindhouse news…

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Rose McGowan “insisted crew members sanitize her pole.”

Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com – WENN - 27 March 2007

Amyloo: Monday, March 26, 2007

Monday, March 26th, 2007

I wonder whether, in fact, any of the corporate enttities have concerned the market impact of alienating women with “M Appeal” style advertising.

I also wonder whether perhaps any companies have started targeting disaffected woman geeks and business owners—I doubt a feminist (or, I suppose, “feminine”, although I that has its own objectionable aspects) domain registrar [...]

A follow-up on religion/un-religion, including a note on race and class, and one on netiquette

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

A couple of quick notes on my immediate prior post. First off, it was a little mean, and while in the case of Dawkins, et al, well, it probably wasn’t mean enough, but in the case of Erika’s possibly new age (or not) views, it was a little too mean. Also, I have the feeling [...]

Knitting: The one place I didn’t expect athiest v. christian controversy

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

There aren’t many knitting blogs I follow closely, although there are many, many that sit in my RSS aggregator and that I breeze by on my way to other content, and occasioanlly tempt me to read, usually with astonishing pictures of finished objects and/or rockin’ yarn.

Today, I was interested to note that Reshirt Knitting, the [...]

Red Right Hand: SORKIN + FLAMING LIPS = WTF?

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Wait, RRR used capitals. I need meta-capitals!
WW-HH-AA-TT???

Red Right Hand: SORKIN + FLAMING LIPS = WTF?