I've been listening to Lady Gaga / Bad Romance on loop for the last few hours. It's a catchy song. Video's sort of weird. OK, really weird. [1]

This morning I dropped off melted_snowball at Toronto City Airport, for his flight to Chicago. He's gone for a month- but I'll see him in three weeks on a visit. I'm... not sure how this will go, keeping myself on a ( Read more... )

Apropos lunch today with melted_snowball and dawn-guy, who are both old-skool enough to warrant the question:

if you mis-read Tex-mex as TeX-mex, does that turn it into a typesetting battle-droid?

I don't know either, but maybe it has something to do with the griddle baby cabbage.

I really like the word artifice. Not only the word, but qualities behind it- cleverness, craftiness, subtle deception. My fascination with Almodóvar is at least in part a fascination with his statements on artifice.

I think I first decided this while reading Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling, some years back. This book shows the next 75 years' ( Read more... )

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darkmagess pointed to a patent-busting effort by the EFF. They're looking for prior art (before 1999) of a website which:

• uses wildcard DNS
  
• HTML frames
  
• and virtual domains
  

...to invalidate a patent by a company named Ideaflood.

Well, I think I know of a domain that does it, www.da.ru. That site offers free domains ending in "da.ru", which I've used (Read more... )

French is evocative.

So, this morning in my mailbox, I had about 12 emails from... [Tim]. [Tim] was some kind of Christian marketing mailing-list that apparently signed up a lot of people to an open list, late last night. Someone posted back to complain, and the mess was started. ("stop spamming me" "I'm not spamming you, stop spamming me" ...) ( Read more... )