A Modest Construct

I just got the living shit spammed out of me. I come home from the theatre, and spamments are pouring in faster than I can delete them. I’ve temporarily disabled the comment script until I can figure out a way to stop it.

EDIT: I’ve just installed Gudlyf’s AuthImage plugin, similar…

Well, we all knew that colleges (except BJU) are filled with hatemongering communist professors…

At the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sue over a reading assignment they say offends their Christian beliefs.

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Kris Wampler was one of three students who sued the University of North Carolina over a requirement that…

It was a good Christmas, I’d say. I ended up going to two church services (blech), a grueling 1.5 hour Christmas Eve service at my family’s awful Lutheran church, and a much more succinct Catholic mass with my girlfriend’s family on Christmas morning. The priest’s sermon was generously under 10 minutes,…

Ever want to overclock your NES? Find out how to overclock your console from a mere 1.7MHz to a whopping 4.2MHz.

Also, after 2.5 years, the best SNES emulator on the net, ZSNES, has finally updated.

Post-holiday blogging coming tomorrow.

Hey, PZ Meyers did it. Type each letter of the alphabet into your address bar and write the first address that appears for each. First is my work machine (mostly web design and news); home machine will come later.

vicious blooming nebulæ
attest to factions of their space,
which, feeling Her, would captivate;
linear in disarray.

and there are many crests of salt
for every tide that breathed a wave,
for every weeper’s hour weeping spent;
for every cleft in sea a vein of rime,
as sleepers sombre mantle frame
with dreams of crusting earth defined
by palaces, their…

Windows XP x64 and Server 2003 x64 have both been delayed well into 2005. Longhorn won’t be out until 2006, sans the “revolutionary” (read: horseshit) WinFS. In fact, short of things like the new “Avalon” graphics subsystem (into which DirectX will be merged, and which will control the supposedly Spyglass-like manipulatable…

My newspaper, though it occasionally has defensively liberal columns from local writers, syndicates at least two infamous right-wing windbags: first, the sometimes insane, sometimes sensible, often brutal, and always controversial Bill O’Reilly. Secondly, and most distressingly, the completely insane Ann Coulter, the Far Right’s resident Jezebel and perhaps the most…

Seriocomic links an interesting point about digital media saturation:

I’m finding that the “digital photo effect” is starting to make its way into my music and video experiences as well. What’s the DPE? My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume. Produce from my own digital camera.…