http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/article.jsp?content=20061023_134898_134898

Curious what the circle (or the small section who still reads my journal) might think of this.

"I won't get paroled 'cos I carry a gun"

No googling the answer either :)

Weird, isn't it, how ABC, a mere week or two after airing a miniseries that tried to completely re-write 9/11 history (as if the Republicans weren't responsible for distracting Clinton by dragging Whitewater & Monica through the press for years), is breaking a story that creates a HUGE media circus.

Thought the musically minded about might appreciate this long article by Lester Bangs about Brian Eno: http://www.furious.com/Perfect/bangseno.html

Two separate items:

Just saw an Unplugged version of Hot Blooded by Foreigner. Lou Gramm is sitting there singing while banging on...wait for it....A COWBELL!

Ok, so maybe I'm the only one who found that funny.

Tabla Machine Freakout: http://blog.jts3k.com/?p=14

It seems that our esteemed editors have figured out how to have an RSS feed that actually preserves formatting. So much the better, now I won't have to come over here just to read it intelligbiily ;-)

I saw some interesting things about opera mini/opera mobile on the Palm site I read regularly, but....

Something is not clear and browsing for 10 minutes hasn't made it any more clear....it appears that there is a version (not clear which one though) that supports Palm OS (but not clear if it's anything but the Treo)....does it do Javascript? There's some verbage about AJAX support with "Opera Platform" or some such, but WTF is that?

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2006/db060502.gif

No offense man, but I just don't have the energy to engage in more bullshit rising to the bait, and clearly I don't have the self control not to if it's in front of my face. Have fun stirring the pot without me.

Though you'd never think it could be: http://www.extraneo.it/goatse/goatse_ipod_skin.html

There was just something about Christopher Walken.

Too bad more slashbots can't be forced to read this, Clockwork Orange style. Seems the last time the issue came up on the front page, hordes were claiming that iTunes and iPod were a complete lock in, despite the true facts.

I just wasted hours of time trying to figure out how to install three goddamn upgrades to a debian system that doesn't currently have any network connectivity. I *finally* found a debian document that talks about using dpkg-something and creating a Package file and gives the most brief mention of putting "deb file:/dir debs/" somewhere. Of course they mean in the sources.list file, but they couldn't explicitly say that. And guess what? It didn't work even then, even after an apt-get update (