A dear friend’s beloved father passed away this morning. I can’t believe we’re here already.
Horror MeusVaccui
Forgive the botched latinate.
Mike Davidson: Hacking a More Tasteful Myspace.
MySpace R.A.T. System, a more recent adaptation of Mike’s work which solves a couple of problems in the original. Unfortunately, the default choices aren’t as immediately appealing as Mike’s. Bears tinkering.
STRUCK IT RICH. ENDS IN TRAGEDY.
The ever-entertaining Ghost Cowboy weighs in with the five-year operatic tale of Frank and George Phiscator. Frank, it seems, STRUCK IT RICH, and several years later killed himself, leaving a tattered fortune to his son and to his brother George, who shortly turned to crime.
Sync iCal <-> Google Calendar
Sync iCal with Google Calendar and see Google contacts. Java. Oh, I hope it works.
Server build time again
Switching… � ISP in a box v2, posted apparently last spring. Uncertain how well this would apply to OS X 10.4. Still looks like a well-wasted weekend.
Captain Publicity Stunt
Dirk chez Journalista rips ’em a new one over the latest ‘death’ in the family.
GOLD!
News of the American Wild West rightfully highlights the 1897 EXCITEMENT AT SEATTLE:
SEATTLE, Wash., July 17. The reports of gold discoveries in Alaska have caused intense excitement here. Policemen are resigning from the force; every street car man that can raise a stake has given notice to his company. In fact, all classes of society are represented in the feverish rush to the north.
d3 throws 18
Attn Chitown: the late-April 2007 Version Art Festival is to be entitled “We’re Rollin’, They’re Hatin’” and according to the esteemed FLOG!, is set to examine “the role of Dungeons and Dragons, Escapism and Fantasy in contemporary art and culture.” Apparently the organizers fee that “Notable installations include a castle, a cave (which doubles as the entrance to the basement dungeon), a catapult and a dragons nest.”
RIP, noisily
Per Bart: Funeral for a Friend. Helen Hill gets laid to rest in NOLA. Alternafreaks lay claim to the foundations of American culture and win a stake to the title by blood right. Get the fuck out of the way, dammit.
Flood
Thanks to Mugu Brainpan, I wonder if the triumph that is the They Might Be Giants LP Flood moughtn’t relate to the ‘hermetic artist’ Robert Fludd.
In a previous online life, copious speculation on a graphic-design email list I belonged to led to the enunciation of a postulated theory of hermetic design, as modernist design principles are closely founded upon medieval European traditions of harmony and good measure, which, in turn, stem from Greek-enunciated principles of harmony and proportion. Careful readers will be unsurprised to learn that it has long been my opinion that the closest students of these lessons in the middle ages were persons operating within the expanding economies of the Islamic sphere of influence.