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It’s been too long since I had any Christopher Hitchens video love here. Here he is giving a speech based on his book about George Orwell. October 21, 2002 @ The Commonwealth Club. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = [...]

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§2059 · May 8, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


After ignoring it for some time now, I’ve updated quite a few of my free software pages in the last couple of days. A brief overview of the changes. Web Browsers Added Safari, because I would be remiss if I didn’t Instant Messagers Removed Exodus, because the project appears to be dead Changed Gaim to [...]

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§1883 · August 2, 2007 · 1 comment · Tags: , , , , ,


Lauren’s post made me research this a little more. The subject of the videos is one Robert Tilton, a televangelist who was somewhat popular in the 1980s and early 90s before succumbing (surprise!) to scandal. His mannerisms are so odd and pronounced that the task of splicing in the sound of flatulence seems almost easy. [...]

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§1729 · February 12, 2007 · 3 comments · Tags: , , ,


The Flight of the Conchords Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = { ‘id’: ‘video1′, ‘name’: ‘video1′}; var flashvars = { ‘file’ : ‘http://heliologue.com/vid/busitime.flv’, ‘width’ : ’480′, ‘height’ : ’360′, ‘controlbar’ : ‘bottom’, ‘dock’ : ‘false’, ‘icons’ : ‘true’, ‘logo.hide’ [...]

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§1700 · February 1, 2007 · 2 comments · Tags: , ,


YouTube is no stranger to the news recently. One of the media darlings of the Web 2.0 wave, it is one of those phenomenons that offered nothing more than infrastructure and an iffy interface, but managed to become a brand-name behemoth because of user content. Now it faces two problems: first, how the hell do [...]

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§1472 · October 22, 2006 · (No comments) · Tags: , , , , , , ,