Entries from September 2006

Movie Review

Date September 25, 2006

By your command, a review of the high-camp, melodramatic, Mexican classic
Aventurera. Read more »

Another one.

Date September 23, 2006

XKCD is a fascinating comic strip.
Last Thursday was our fourth wedding anniversary. I rarely mention things like this on the weblog because, you know, it’s not contentious and political[1].
But this “XKCD strip”:http://www.xkcd.com/c150.html pretty much covers it.
I love you, “Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/.
fn1. At least, it shouldn’t be, although people are trying their best to make it so. Read more »

ID in stick figures

Date September 23, 2006

If there was some way I could force you to “read this comic about inteligent design”:http://www.xkcd.com/c154.html I would. Come on, it won’t take but a second. Read more »

Microformats: Why?

Date September 22, 2006

Well, from “satanic cats”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/09/21/no-cats-for-christians/ to deep tech.
Thudfactor implements “hAtom”:http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom, mostly thanks to the “Sandbox”:http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/ wordpress theme I used to make it. Styling a site is so much simpler when you have a good markup base, so if you’re the kind of person who likes to do his or her own designs and you use [...] Read more »

No cats for Christians

Date September 21, 2006

Some people have extraordinary ideas. Like: owning cats is unChristian:

There are numerous reasons why a loyal dedicated servant of God should use his Bible-trained conscience to arrive at a proper understanding of why cats are not advisable as pets or companions for Christians. Consider, then, the following facts:

It was a common practice in ancient Egypt [...] Read more »