Tuesday, June 27, 2006

links for 2006-06-27

• Frasier's Best Friend 'Eddie' Dies : People.com
  "Moose, the feisty Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie for 10 years on TV's Frasier, has died...". RIP, Moose, ya cutie.
  (tags: dogs obit entertainmentj)
• The New Yorker: The Deepest Cut
  It sounds like a joke but it most definitely is not: How can someone live with only half a brain? "When Schlaggar lectures on plasticity, he shows slides of the construction of the St. Louis Arch."
  (tags: brainsurgery)
• Mrs. Kelly's Monster
  One of my very favorite pieces of feature reportage, and recipient of the Pulitzer in 1979. "For 57 years Mrs. Kelly shared her skull with the monster: No more. Today she is frightened but determined."
  (tags: brainsurgery)
• FlashChat
  Slick, inexpensive little Flash chat room application.
  (tags: repsite flash)
• Gay and AIDS Activist Eric Rofes is dead at age 53
  My old pal Eric has died, far too soon and with far too much work left ahead. *cries*
  (tags: obit gay aids)

Wednesday, August 11, 1999

Wild Frontier

SORTA-META: I feel bad about not having updated ye olde weblogge recently, but I've been monster busy in The Big Room. Plus I'm learning some minimal Frontier website management stuff for other projects and, as a consequence, crafting this site in WYSIWYG tools just seems damned inelegant by comparison. Dear God, I'm still manually archiving things! And the glossary...the glossary rocks!

So...there may be longer lulls between entries hereabouts. I'm shooting for at least two updates a week, no schedule, so keep on comin' back if you're so inclined. I'm contemplating a back-end design tweak, and also trying to get the showtunes section up and running. Bear with me.

SOME QUICK HITS:

A pretty, new weblog: Whim & Vinegar

Every restaurant in the free world should immediately adopt the technology that makes this possible. I will brook no argument on this point. "Separate checks? Why, certainly sir! No trouble at all!" [Ask Tog]

I talked a little bit about the great musical revue "When Pigs Fly" last month (q.v. July 22, 1999), but this page is a lot better as an introduction to the show than the one I linked then, and the old page has succumbed to linkrot anyway. Meanwhile, the show is playing through August at (ugh!) Faces. It's an earnest effort, not bad for locally produced amateur theatre, but it could certainly benefit from a change of venue. Caveat theatregoer.

Some very nice Flash animations and narratives here.