April 2008

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• blog

  WordPress 2.5.1 is out.

  04.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The first update for WordPress 2.5 is out, aptly numbered 2.5.1. Get it and upgrade, it’s quite painless

• movies

  Futuroscope still rocks

  04.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I just got back from a short trip to Futuroscope (english site / french site) in Poitiers, France with Robert and Liesbeth (which they gave me as an early birthday gift…AWESOME!), and although I’ve been there twice before it still rocks. In fact, since my last visit a couple of years ago they updated appox. [...]

• sites

  Surprising images

  04.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve been browsing around FFFFOUND! lately, an image bookmarking site. The fun thing for me is that I scroll through images that are completely random and unrelated to me (only the bookmarkers in question know why they bookmarked it), and it’s great fun. You do bump into some really great pictures that I guess you’d [...]

• sites

  Debunking the Wikipedia “Brain Surgery” myth

  04.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In a very interesting post on Techdirt, Michael Masnick attacks the oft-(ab)used “Brain Surgery” argument used by Wikipedia-haters. It goes something like this: “If you needed brain surgery, would you trust someone who was trained as a brain surgeon, or someone who learned brain surgery from Wikipedia?” An alternative version of the question is “would [...]

• design

  I’m not old, I’m Retro

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I keep having to tell people this, so I thought I’d might as well bung it on a T-shirt. Available in dark and light colors, long and short sleeves, get some right here!

• movies, music

  Yeehaw, y’all!

  04.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? again last night (for the umpteenth time, I admit), and the song “Man of Constant Sorrow” keeps hunting me. So here’s a clip from the movie, and the man who actually performed that (Dan Tyminski) in a nice live version: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to [...]

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