It looks like Australia is

It looks like Australia is throwing down with Sony. Sony wants to reap all the corporate benefits to globalization and doesn’t want to share any of the consumer benefits of globalization.

Cool digital clock done completely

Cool digital clock done completely with CSS, no images. It uses JavaScript to figure out the time and build the DIVs. Frightfully clever.

I wish I'd written this.

I wish I’d written this. fyuze.com wins kudos for cool blogger peripheral.

A friend of mine stationed

A friend of mine stationed at a base in Wichita Falls was in town this weekend. Vladimir is Russian by birth but he’s been a number of places around the planet so he’s picked up cultural baggage from everywhere. This appears to have imparted a certain bluntness when talking to people. I liked his phrase for it though, imagine it with a Russian accent, “I see. I say.”

No comment stuff today. I

No comment stuff today. I want to go watch one of my Netflix DVDs. Maybe tomorrow I’ll quit my job, then I’ll have more time to work on things that matter.

Spent most of today writing

Spent most of today writing a new comment system. This one is much nicer, and more robust than the last one. It still uses perl but I don’t use any XML cheats. I manipulate the XML files using DOM. I maintain one XML file that keeps meta information on the comment system (i.e. active discussions, number of dicussions, etc.) then I have individual comment files associated with each entry. Also this new comment system stores the comments threaded so it should be a lot easier to see who is responding to who.

Using the title If 2,000

Using the title If 2,000 people were killed and TV wasn’t there, did it happen? Studio Briefing has a brief clip about the lack of coverage of the munitions explosion in Lagos that killed between 600 and 2000 people. As a nation we do seem unaware of what goes on in Africa. Remember how we ignored genocide in Rwanda. You might also check out the PBS Frontline episode “Triumph of Evil” about that topic.

I'm quite the fan of

I’m quite the fan of Wes Anderson’s first film Bottle Rocket. If I had $107.50 I could bid on a fan painting of Kumar from Bottle Rocket. It has Anthony’s line “Kumar what were you doing in the freezer?”

Haven’t we all wondered that at some point in our own lives? How many other comedies offer such poignant, succinct insight? :)

Let them eat cake So

Let them eat cake

So yesterday the antibloggies bot was down most of the day from about 1:30PM CST to about 8:30PM CST. I found this discussion on Trillian. Apparently AOL took down the TOC server to block Trillian and other IM clients, and consequently their own legitimate Quick Buddy and AIM Express clients. I can’t believe AOL turned on its own users like that.

Why do people use AIM or ICQ anyways? The Yahoo Messenger is better in many ways.

I read this press release

I read this press release about a study linking Western diets to type 2 diabetes in men over 40. Not surprisingly it recommends fruits, vegetables and whole grains. I’ve discovered an addendum to add to the study after my morning fruit fun.

The most foul taste in the world is a little bit of toothpaste afterbrush, and then banana with a plum chaser. I don’t mean slight distaste. I’m talking full on UN ban for human rights violations if you make someone eat that.