I’m pondering a ground-up redesign of my site. I’ll update again soon on this.

Here at Indiana University there’s been a controversy brewing for years now over the name of our Intramural Sports building.  The building happens to be named after one of IU’s most prestigious trustees, Ora L. Wildermuth, who contributed quite a bit to IU and, at first glance, rightfully deserves to have a building named after him.
But that’d [...]

Am I the only one who thinks it’s great?

Dancing jailbait? check. corporate sponsorship? Check.  Lipsync? Check.  Simultaneous Lomo, hue/saturation, bluescreen and slow-mo effects? Check. Tay Zonday on the face of a $100 bill? check.

As I was watching it I said, ‘wait, did he just say *life is good with turbotax, we keep the money we make*? no, no, that couldn’t have been what [...]

BEHOLD, THE INTERROSMILEY
 
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BOW BEFORE HIM

I have a number of iPhone apps now, and here are some of the ones I like the most:

Pandora – Great for listening to Pandora music
Google – Voice search is amazing.
Pano – Takes panoramic photos.
Rooms – IRC client
FStream – internet radio
Public Radio – internet radio
Wikipanion – wikipedia
Wordpress – Manage a Wordpress blog
NYTimes – Read the [...]

The hacker high life — girls, notoriety, White Russians — can be hard to resist.
—Virginia Heffernan
If you watch Colbert, read the New York Times magazine, Alternet, or the Washington Post, you may have heard of an old acquaintance of mine, Virgil Griffith.  I was sitting at my kitchen table reading the Time magazine and saw an [...]

The other day I was doing some work on a Wordpress site that involved importing some data from an XML file and displaying it on a page (in a sidebar). Naturally, there were two ways to go about doing this.
Since this was already a PHP site, we could have whipped up some sort of [...]