I got nothing, I just saw the word in my message list a lot and wondered if it was some sorta of meme or something.

http://www.kasperhauser.com/skymaul_site/FlipBook.html

so wish it was real. (Page 4)

So Webb "won". How ... interesting. OH NOES TEH DIEBOLD HAx04z br0ke! etc etc blah blah blah

Anyway right now, in between paroxysms of orgasmic glee, the america-hating liberal blogs are reporting that on CSPAN, a bunch of conservatives are talking about abandoning the Republican party. Ostensibly they're going to form a neocon/evangelical (dominionist?) party? I dunno. But between the greens and these guys, American politics could get truly interesting again.

Ah, voting. Such a lovely little pastime.

I love elections. I lived and breathed elections for quite some time; I was involved in the first-principles design, construction, development, and deployment of the first Votronic, one of the first (if not the first?) touch-screen digital voting machine. (Our model is, as far as I know, no longer in use in any precinct).

Explaining to customers "no you CANNOT have a fully ADA-accessible site, that's entirely spinny-flash things", or explaining to blind people "sorry but they specifically want the site to LOOK a certain way and, well, you know".

We've been through this TWICE already. It's painful.

And of course, for both sites, there was absolutely no evidence anyone with a screenreader had ever hit the site ONCE, but they're gov't, so, gotta do it.

(SMM == "Spend My Money")

Ok so I'm still stuck on which console to buy... but in the mean time, tell me what kind of hand-held system I want to buy to play dopey video games. PSP? DS?

Parameters: Recommendation must include at least 1 game. Do not say, "XYZ cuz it gots better gamez yo". Gimme some hits.

Boss: BLAH BLAH BLAH why aren't you done yet what are you doing all day, arguing with people on slashdot BLAH BLAH BLAH
Me: Scarlett Johanssen sex tape rumor on wwtdd.com
Boss: I'll be in my office (door closes)

Seriously. I think we ought to see about making this happen. I can't seem to find anyone else worth voting for in '08. So, fuck it, let's reanimate Goldwater.

rarely does Slashdot introduce anything worth noticing, but I must say, the tags are making me smile.

In particular, the tags itsatrap and asshole.

I like the tags, enough that I would consider tossing a couple bucks at /. in the form of a subscription, to say how happy I am.

Hey, look, new Zend Framework preview release! I wonder if it still sucks.

(Downloads)

(Writes some code)

Yeah, still sucks.

Once again, "open source" product concentrates heavily on pet itches and gee-wizzery, instead of doing the grunt work like, "make it easy to have the same app be switchable from dev to production without server-wide configuration or writing lots of extra, possibly fragile code".

Watched some vid on C&L where Col. Gravel Voice disagrees with Hannity, by being pro-Webb and dismissing Allen as a "football player". Hannity pouted a little.

I actually do like Webb a little. He's sorta growing on me. I think my primary opposition to Webb is that, in order to get back to the pre-hijacking era of the Republican Party, he has to get in bed with post-hijacking Democrats.

Fuck we need a viable third party.