Category: Random

Via Darren, the Link Machine, comes an article on joint mortgages between friends, which I have to say had never even entered my head before now.

Dave Winer goes into details about the new Blogger API in an article called Connecting with Blogger. I’m not entirely sure I understand why this is such a revolutionary step forward, but I would like to know. Can someone explain it to me?

“Well I’m down on my knees again, And I pray to the only one, Who has the strength, To bear the pain, To forgive all the things that I’ve done. Oh yeah, Lead me into your darkness, When this world is trying it’s hardest, To leave me unimpressed, Just one caress, From you and I’m blessed. I have to believe that sin, Can make a better man, It’s the mood that I am in, That’s left us back where we began.”

Entertaining Ralph for a the last week and a bit has been extremely entertaining, but has left me hopelessly behind on the working front. I have a huge block of stuff to get done by four this afternoon. Huge.

More wisdom from Derek Powazek : Top Five Tips for Online Community.

Today on Barbelith: Planet of the 80s TV remakes – “Old TV series never die, they just bring out the film. It happened with the Flintstones. It happened with Scooby Doo. And now it’s happening – or so Dame Rumour would have us believe – with the A-Team. Whisky Priestess reports.”

All teen crushes are embarrassing I suppose. In the spirit of self revelation, here are links to a few of mine: Dirk Benedict, Steve Guttenberg and Patrick Duffy.

I’ve been planning to write an article for Barbelith for a while now about the inherent facism of super-heroes. Today I found some interesting support for my case – an article by David Brin at Salon about despotism and egalitarianism in two of the most significant science-fiction franchises. Well worth a read: “Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists.

Bring out the homoerotics of superheroes – the World’s Finest Superhero Team-Ups. Can you identify them all? Warning: Contains pictures of men snogging each other. [via Barbelith Underground]

More news than you might ever have actually wanted: “Christine Hamilton eyed me up and down then asked me if I’d ever tried it with a woman.”