Archive for the 'junk drawer' Category

diveintomark dives into Greymatter

Wednesday, January 30th, 2002

Rats. All I want to do is post about normal stuff, like the other kids. Instead, I find that Mark Pilgrim, living proof that an ability to write code doesn’t preclude an ability to write in English, has moved to diveintomark.org, and even more remarkably has switched from Manila to Greymatter. Grist for my slowly-turning […]

Fun with the Blogger API

Wednesday, January 30th, 2002

Always wanted to post on The End of Free? Well now you can. Many of our readers have emailed us newsworthy items in the past, but shouldn’t you receive credit for your juicy finds? Now, all you need is a Blogger account to submit your TEoF items. Brought to you freely via the magic of […]

I’m so honored. I am

Wednesday, January 30th, 2002

I’m so honored. I am the world’s only resource for “”President Bush fainted” while snacking”. That’s it, no more tips, no more FAQs, no more answers in Blogger Discuss, nothing but posts right here until I drive the specter of Shrub with a pretzel jammed in his craw right off the page.

Since Tom asked, here’s my

Sunday, January 27th, 2002

Since Tom asked, here’s my outstanding post history. I’m sure it would be more impressive if I could include the total from Blogger Discuss as well (how many kb in 300 repetitions of “on the center black bar, left side, just inside the “view web page” link is a link to “enter safe mode” – […]

More Google fun

Sunday, January 27th, 2002

Once you get tired of Googlewhacking, there’s still more fun to be had with Google. Mo Morgan’s Stupid Translator uses Google’s translation service to translate your choice of url from English to another language and back to English, with amusingly less than perfect results. For your snickering pleasure, this page in English-German-English, featuring helpful phrases […]

If you want to liven

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2002

If you want to liven up your comment links, rather than using a tired old “0 comments” “1 comment” “2 comments”, but you share my particular form of creative disablilty, where once you see someone’s brilliant idea, you can’t come up with anything else that’s even tolerably good, then whatever you do don’t go look […]

While I’m not a big

Sunday, January 20th, 2002

While I’m not a big enough fan to mount a campaign to bring them back, if I saw Space Food Sticks in the store again, I’d sure like to take a trip down snacking memory lane.[via Larkfarm, source of all my best food links]

While I love the idea

Saturday, January 19th, 2002

While I love the idea (as reported in The Times) of banging on the door of your local Jehovah’s Witnesses church during their services to offer them some magazines, the really useful, but not widely known, information is down at the bottom of the article: Paul Gillies, a spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Britain, said: […]

Bush suffers bruises in brief

Monday, January 14th, 2002

Bush suffers bruises in brief fainting spell President Bush fainted and fell off a couch in the White House on Sunday after choking on a pretzel while watching football. Is it any wonder that we get the Presidential candidates we do? Would you like to have it be national news that you fell off the […]

I got to thinking, after

Monday, January 14th, 2002

I got to thinking, after Tom at plasticbag was buttering me up, that I’m not doing near enough buttering up, myself. Thus, a sappy paean to Ev. and his former crew. Last spring, while I was getting bored with the commercial internet, I somehow ran across not.so.soft and, undoubtedly like many others, thought “I should […]