I’m really quite enjoying this book, which you might find it strange to know I am reading as part of the research I’m doing for a neo-Cold War novel I’m writing set in America. Here are some of the interesting things that Bloom writes, which I feel are things I’ve tried to say in the past, but never got across quite as well as he did: “…the American religion, which is so prevalent among us, masks itself as Protestant Christianity yet has ceased to be Christian. It has kept the figure of Jesus, who is also the resurrected Jesus rather …
Month: September 2005
ocremix at ormgas.com – Streaming videogame music remixes
Hey geek: streaming videogame music remixes await you. Via. Marvin. UPDATE: Individual tracks available at ocremix, as well as bulk downloads. And if this particular track doesn’t blow you away, you definitely didn’t grow up as part of my generation.
At Times Like This, One Wishes
I wanted to post this earlier today, but my connection was down and the file was set aside till now. This is me in one of those rare moments when one wishes that he were a prayin’ sort of man. Because there’s nothing much else I can do for my friends out in Texas. Hang tight, all you guys. I hope the best for you. Damn Rita, damn.
A Photo-Laden Day
It’s been a day of photographs. After I took a picture of my desk for a banner on another webpage I am currently designing, I copied a few more photos from my camera to my PC. I realized it’s been a long time since I’d done so, and some of the pics were really cool. I also got some pics in the mail over the last couple of days, and so for me, it’s been one of those days when photographs have afforded me a lot of happiness. Here are a few of them: Check Out The Hair
Zenphoto?
Over at Broken Kode (which is a cool looking site, really) is the scoop about an app that arouses my interest: Zenphoto. For the person who just ain’t quite into the idea of storing files far, far away like on Flickr.
From Adbusters
I, too, want to fight back against TV with TV-B-Gone. I’ll be ordering one or two… soon.
Thomas Disch Interview @ Strange Horizons
I’m not really into his fiction, but I liked his treatise on contemporary poetry a few years back. Interview.
The Frustrations of the Switch
The frustrations of switching over to new blog software have finally kicked in, and I’ve now learned that I will simple have to start again with php and learn how to code things up with it, the way I learned with all those tags in Movable Type. I’m halfway to achieving my goal through template manipulations alone: that is, having a display of the last ten posts of one category show up not inline, but only in the sidebar. I have managed to suppress the posts from that category from the inline text — the main blog, I mean — …
Let’s see how this works
I am experimenting with different “asides” plugins to see which one I like best. Here’s another I’m trying now.
What “Under Reconstruction” Means
Hey everyone. Be warned: I’m tinkering with this site, and features will be added and disappear and reappear differently. For example, I’ve implemented one plugin to make sidebar “asides” available, as you can see unde the “short, maybe not sweet” section of my sidebar. There’s an RSS feed, too. Thing is, the posts there aren’t included in my main content storage, so when I export my entries, I can’t export anything from the sidebar posts. So I’m probably going to rethink this and find a new way to implement it so that all the content is stored somewhere exportable. So …