Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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Amen.
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A web-based collaborative calendar, e-mail, task list and contact manager...free for up to 20 users. Nifty.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Firefox wannabe
A Little Help? Does anyone know of an extension or other way to create keyboard shortcuts for Firefox bookmarks? Specifically, I'm looking for a way to replicate the Safari behavior where pressing Command 1–9 triggers the first nine bookmarks in the Bookmark bar. (In Firefox 2.0, the same keys switch between open tabs.)
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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"Explore the comprehensive database of caffeine content in energy drinks, soda, coffees, and food." Also, how much of your favorite soda must you drink in one sitting to die?
Feed (from) me…
Your attention, please: In preparation for some (long- and short-term) changes hereabout, I am changing the location of this site's feed. If you use an aggregator or newsreader to read Must See HTTP (this here weblog), please change your subscription address to:http://feeds.feedburner.com/MustSeeHttp
The regular old feed will remain in place for the time being and I'll (try to) set up a redirect when things begin shifting around, but why not take a moment right now to change your subscription settings? Thanks!
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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Oh man! Even more fearsome than the Cylon-o-lantern.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Me Tube
Since our new production schedule rendered October and November as The Months That Ate Leisure Time, I'm barely keeping up with all the new and returning teevee I must see. All praise the 421-hour dual-tuner TiVo. Thy will be done. Herewith a few notes (may be spoilers here and there):The premiere back-to-back episodes of Torchwood kicked major ass. Yeah, Captain Jack is back and leading a band of Earth-bound (for now?) alien-hunters in a smart, sexy new series. Definitely keeping my eye on Ianto Jones (played by Gareth David-Lloyd). Yum! And you just know there's more going on there than he-who-fetches-the-tea. And all that Welsh-talking. BBC3 hit this one out of the park.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Finally found its groove this week, I think. The Sorkin rhythm and poetry are there, although if they insist on continuing to show us snips of the sketches, they need to find someone else to write them. Let Sorkin be Sorkin, but he can't bring the sketch funny. Loving Amanda Peet! Every actor in the cast is stellar and, even so, Eli Wallach came in this week and brought nine decades of experience with him to work circles around 'em.
30 Rock: The "other" show about a show...I'm not feeling it. Alone among my friends, I seem to be the one who can't stand Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey feels wasted here. I've only got two eps down, so maybe it'll grow on me.
Desperate Housewives: Welcome back. I was a latecomer to this party, but thanks to DVD and BT, I've caught up and drunk the Kool-Aid. The season opener with Bree rushing to the doctor after feeling a strange new sensation had me on the floor, and I've a feeling this season is going to be all about the VanDeCamp-Hodges for me. Not sure how I feel about pseudo-sympathetic Andrew yet. And my theory about Orson: I don't think he killed his wife. I think Alma will be back, because she was the mystery woman he was visiting in the psych hospital from which Bree escaped.
Heroes: Two weeks behind on this one. Like everyone else, I'm loving Hiro. I'm not terribly invested in any of the characters, but I am interested in how the story arc is going to come around.
The Nine: Glad I added a Season Pass for this one, if for no other reason than weekly doses of Scott Wolf puppy-dog eyes. But it's off to a pretty smart start and, if I can get beyond thinking of Egan as Dr. Phlox (curse of Trek casting), it's a keeper.
Jericho: Plot holes a'plenty, but I can't stop watching. Skeet Ulrich (who is my very favorite actor named Skeet, from a field that is admittedly not wide) is the hometown outcast that intrigues me, and Hawkins ("I was a cop in St. Louis") is the season's most mysterious character. There's something perversely interesting about the post-apocalyptic setting; I can't stop watching for, I think, some of the same reasons I couldn't stand to watch and couldn't look away from The Day After.
The Class: If only for Jesse Tyler Ferguson and hometown gal Heather Goldenhersh (yes, that's her real voice). Gay Kyle and not-gay Perry (riiiiiight) annoy the hell out of me, and Jason Ritter's character reminds me way too much of an ex, but he's starting to grow on me and you can't argue with the cute.
Smallville: If the season follows a typical pattern, the first four episodes and the final four will be pretty sweet (so far, so good) and everything in between will be meh. Hey, Oliver Queen ain't hard on the eyes though.
And, of course, there's Battlestar Galactica, which remains the best damn show on television. Period.
links for 2006-10-23
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"Following past policies and procedures, proceedings from the committee's deliberations that were pertinent to our decision have been summarized below according to the assessment criteria. ..."
Sunday, October 22, 2006
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Heh. Sounds like somebody's a smitten kitten. Totally understandable.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
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Man, I just don't have enough free time. I would totally do this.
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Around $1,300. Dayum!
Friday, October 20, 2006
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$200,000?! I am in the wrong line of work, clearly. I need to hang me out a slogan-writing shingle and start raking in the big bananas.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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Cool. A fella could really score with these.
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OK, there's a "stiff" joke to be made here, but I'm going to bury the impulse to make it, even though I'm dying to. Who knew the body-plantin' biz was so hot? [via Jockohomo]
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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Might just have to get this for myself as a birthday treat. I mean, since Helo is spoken for. Frakkin' toasters!
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Tom Wilson (y'know, "Biff" from Back to the Future?) answers a few questions. Delightful!
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Sooooo...just a few days before Torchwood premieres on October 22, comes this rumor that Captain Jack will make an appearance in Who next season too. Double your Barrowman (mmm...), double your fun, I say!
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Progress as promised. Jake discovers a world in (surprise!) a Sondheim song.
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Paul longs for a deeper, more web-like experience in real life and gets it...at Oregon's High Desert Museum. Some lovely lessons for curatorial and marketing folk at cultural institutions.
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Only Ze could be so entertaining when he's so uncomfortably ill. (I can't get through the day without my dose of The Show. If it's new to you, I recommend going back to March 17, 2006 and watching from the very ducky beginning.)
Monday, October 16, 2006
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No, not really. BSG supports critical thinking.
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I love this place. "The only public nude swimming area in Texas: Sign of a progressive culture or Sodom and Gomorrah on the Texas Colorado River?"
Pass the plate back to Dori!
My pal Dori needs your help to fight crime! Her cool license plate was stolen and she'd like it back, no questions asked. If you've seen this plate...
...please be in touch. I've had my plates lifted a couple of times and certainly understand the hassle it causes. Maybe one of y'all can help Dori avoid it. Do a good turn, please.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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This makes me very, very happy.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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Merlin is magically delicious.
Yeah, he’s that guy
More Merlin love: The Adventures of Phone Guy, episodes one, two and three.Stay on the line: Phone Guy playlist.
On the Swift boat
New York magazine has a lengthy profile of satirist Stephen Colbert (who's beginning to grow on me), which includes this observation about his rabid-clueless-conservative schtick:Colbert's on-air personality, so distinct from Stewart's, leads to a peculiar comedic alchemy on the show. During one taping I attended, Colbert did a bit about eating disorders that ended with his addressing the camera and saying flatly, "Girls, if we can't see your ribs, you're ugly." The audience laughed. I laughed. The line was obviously, purposefully outrageous. But it was weird to think that this no-doubt self-identified progressive-liberal crowd was howling at a line that, if it had been delivered verbatim by Ann Coulter on Today, would have them sputtering with rage.The difference, of course, is that Colbert can be likened to Jonathan Swift, whereas Ann Coulter has probably actually eaten a baby.
And an anal-rententive geek rejoices…
Organized Living, which closed last June when the company went bankrupt, is being replaced at Brentwood Square by a Container Store. If they carry Cargo pressboard boxes, I might wet myself.The Container Store, a leading national retailer of storage and organization products, said Tuesday that on March 3 it will open its first Missouri store in Brentwood Square, on Brentwood Boulevard south of Highway 40 (Interstate 64).As the kids say, "w00t!"
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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Google has started an official weblog (using Blogger, natch) to detail its Macintosh-related engineering efforts. Good on ya!
Hayalp!
A little help? Can anyone please point me to an understandable guide to exporting content and comments from a Drupal node into a Movable Type format? I have a bunch of posts stuck in a Drupal database that I need to dump into another application and I'd really rather not have to cut and paste the whole shebang.I have to say, right now that "open source" darling isn't feeling all that open to me. But maybe I'm overlooking something in the tonnage of inscrutable "documentation".
Anyone? Anyone?
You need to know Moore
If you don't mind knowing a little more than you probably should (in other words, thar be some spoilers here), you might enjoy reading this interview with Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore about where the series has been, is going and how it became the "ripped from today's headlines" science-fiction must-see it is.Remember how the Great Bird of the Galaxy used classic Star Trek to talk about contemporary issues and politics at a remove? That's what BSG is today, times a billion. If you're not watching it, you're frakked in the head.
Monday, October 9, 2006
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A store for men. I'll be making a stop next visit northward.
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Paul, this is the place I mentioned to you. A great place to get a facial in Boystown. (Shut UP!)
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"This website contains over 650 posters from the National Theatre Archive. Beautiful photographic quality prints are available in a range of sizes and prices, supplied ready for framing and delivered direct to your door."
Saturday, October 7, 2006
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"Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format."
Friday, October 6, 2006
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I don't think this comes as a surprise to anyone who's heard William Daniels doing that pillowtalky voice.
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