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Feb. 9th, 2005
Random web things.
Feb. 9th, 2005 07:52 amI finally caved and got a del.icio.us account. I still like my stumbleupon account better - SU is more fun. Either way, I mark things in those places. Sometimes only one or the other; I'm freer with the stumbleupon "thumbs up"s than with the del.icio.us bookmarklet comments. (and yikes, I should be more active on SU - I have fewer than half the audience members I used to.)
I am not having good luck with expensive computer books lately. Keep getting them from the library and looking in bookstores, and they keep being completely pointless and of no use to me. Thought I'd need help with Dreamweaver MX, but no. As it turns out, even though I haven't updated Dreamweaver in a couple of years, it's more or less the same. Then thought I'd check out How To Do Everything With Your iPod... unnecessary. Finally, sweet computer book bliss with Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards. I hate my website and need to overhaul it, but I need to brush up a little more on CSS before I try it. And I need to finish the design of the Props blog so that I can actually start posting there regularly.
Someone in - this is Hungary, right, the .hu hierarchy? - has put up a bunch of Salinger stuff. I'm not a huge Salinger fan but it is nice to see these things up on the web. You can go watch Seymour Glass offing himself as many times per day as you like.
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/ - is an entertaining site about cheap paperback books found over the last few decades. Some of this is genuine (if late) pulp, and some is... not. I don't know, just check it out.
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lothlorienbaby has made a bunch of Valentine's Day icons for the fangirls. Your choice of something like 35 actors, and one icon saying the whole thing sucks.
I realize that I ruined Franz Ferdinand for half a dozen people for a day or two by pointing out that "Take Me Out" has the same structure as "That's All" by Phil Collins. Would it then be a bad thing to point out that Scissor Sisters sounds mostly like Elton John circa 1974? (and, when not, like Billy Joel and stuff.) If that is spoiled for you, will it be time to pop in a cd by The Darkness? PASTICHE! PASTICHE!
jacksonpublick is one of the primary targets to blame for The Venture Brothers. We love that craziness, especially the yard sale episode. And there's some fly merch.
In related news... looks like Adult Swim is launching a show called Robot Chicken that is a stop-motion affair involving action figures (and possibly movie parodies). Ahem. A-FREAKING-HEM. I dunno how pleased I am about that title. Poor little steampunk chicken!
Now... I must prepare myself for a fun-filled afternoon of extremely preliminary wedding planning. (Nota bene, wedding planning is not "fun.")
I am not having good luck with expensive computer books lately. Keep getting them from the library and looking in bookstores, and they keep being completely pointless and of no use to me. Thought I'd need help with Dreamweaver MX, but no. As it turns out, even though I haven't updated Dreamweaver in a couple of years, it's more or less the same. Then thought I'd check out How To Do Everything With Your iPod... unnecessary. Finally, sweet computer book bliss with Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards. I hate my website and need to overhaul it, but I need to brush up a little more on CSS before I try it. And I need to finish the design of the Props blog so that I can actually start posting there regularly.
Someone in - this is Hungary, right, the .hu hierarchy? - has put up a bunch of Salinger stuff. I'm not a huge Salinger fan but it is nice to see these things up on the web. You can go watch Seymour Glass offing himself as many times per day as you like.
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/ - is an entertaining site about cheap paperback books found over the last few decades. Some of this is genuine (if late) pulp, and some is... not. I don't know, just check it out.
lothlorienbaby has made a bunch of Valentine's Day icons for the fangirls. Your choice of something like 35 actors, and one icon saying the whole thing sucks.I realize that I ruined Franz Ferdinand for half a dozen people for a day or two by pointing out that "Take Me Out" has the same structure as "That's All" by Phil Collins. Would it then be a bad thing to point out that Scissor Sisters sounds mostly like Elton John circa 1974? (and, when not, like Billy Joel and stuff.) If that is spoiled for you, will it be time to pop in a cd by The Darkness? PASTICHE! PASTICHE!
jacksonpublick is one of the primary targets to blame for The Venture Brothers. We love that craziness, especially the yard sale episode. And there's some fly merch.In related news... looks like Adult Swim is launching a show called Robot Chicken that is a stop-motion affair involving action figures (and possibly movie parodies). Ahem. A-FREAKING-HEM. I dunno how pleased I am about that title. Poor little steampunk chicken!
Now... I must prepare myself for a fun-filled afternoon of extremely preliminary wedding planning. (Nota bene, wedding planning is not "fun.")
