Links and News

On 5/28/2007, In Browsers, Internet, Links, Tech, By Will

Accord­ing to W3Counter, which main­tains a pretty good cross sam­pling of web site users (from what I’ve hear, any­way), the use of Fire­fox for web surf­ing has risen to an impres­sive 25%. That is so great to hear, as Inter­net Explorer is and con­tin­ues to be the bane of web devel­op­ers and design­ers every­where. Good rid­dence, another 10% of IE users!

I have long been a scav­enger for the best deals on items I am seek­ing to pur­chase. I was pleased to find one tool that encom­passes many of the bargain-hunter sites I am used to vis­it­ing. Before you buy any­thing online, be sure to stop at Dealighted.com!

I dis­cov­ered an excel­lent stream­ing radio sta­tion at pigradio.com. They play a delectible sam­pling of alter­na­tive and indie music. If you are into that sort of thing, then check it out.

More to come…

 
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A New One

On 5/22/2007, In Family, Web Dev, By Will

At long last, I have come close to fin­ish­ing Alicia’s web site!

Thanks to June for the spiffy back­ground image based on Alicia’s art, I think it’s look­ing pretty good. Ali­cia isn’t very happy with the qual­ity of the pho­tographs of her paint­ings though, as they look dif­fer­ent from mon­i­tor to mon­i­tor, and none seem to cap­ture what the paint­ings look like in real life. That’s just the way it goes with web design, unfortunately.

I’ll be chang­ing con­tent on there reg­u­larly, so check back often for Alicia’s lat­est works.

And start­ing June 1, Ali­cia will have a spot at the Kress Empo­rium in down­town Asheville!

 
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Found Sound

On 5/19/2007, In Cool, Music, By Will

In a pre­vi­ous post I wrote titled Search­ing For Songs, I lamented about not being able to find a song from an 80’s punk band about a kid get­ting trapped in a refrig­er­a­tor. Every few months I would do a Google search to see if any­thing new had been indexed by that won­der­ful tool of discovery.

I finally hit the jack­pot. Through some amaz­ing erup­tion of for­got­ten infor­ma­tion from my sub con­science, I recalled a line of the song and was able to locate this post by a guy named Glen Case. The song is called Refig­er­a­tor Heaven, as it turns out, and the band that recorded it is called The Freeze — an out­fit from Boston. Moments later, I had obtained the song from the iTunes music store.

How happy am I to finally be able to hear this song again after 22 years of absence? As happy as a baby Psy­chlo on a straight diet of Ker­bango, dog!

On a side note, Mr. Jeter was able to sup­ply me with the other long lost song I had been search­ing for. I need Mr. Jeter to con­tact me with his address so I can send him his LP’s back, along with the dig­i­tally con­verted ver­sions from my USB turntable!!!

 
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Falwell

On 5/17/2007, In Politics, Religion, By Will

OK I stole this idea from Lau­ren, but it’s a good one. We should really try to remem­ber him for who he really was, rather than believ­ing the crap that’s been air­ing on Fox news. Here is a col­lec­tion of quotes that should go down in his­tory along with the fine col­lec­tion of cells and energy that spent time together to form what we knew as Jerry Falwell:

“If Chief Jus­tice War­ren and his asso­ciates had known God’s word and had desired to do the Lord’s will, I am quite con­fi­dent that the 1954 deci­sion [Brown v. Board of Edu­ca­tion] would never have been made…. The facil­i­ties should be sep­a­rate. When God has drawn a line of dis­tinc­tion, we should not attempt to cross that line.”

“I really believe that the pagans, and the abor­tion­ists, and the fem­i­nists, and the gays and the les­bians who are actively try­ing to make that an alter­na­tive lifestyle, the ACLU, Peo­ple For the Amer­i­can Way, all of them who have tried to sec­u­lar­ize Amer­ica. I point the fin­ger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”[Concerning the events of 9/11]

“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals.”

“Chris­tians, like slaves and sol­diers, ask no questions”

“AIDS is not just God’s pun­ish­ment for homo­sex­u­als; it is God’s pun­ish­ment for the soci­ety that tol­er­ates homosexuals”

“AIDS is not just God’s pun­ish­ment for homo­sex­u­als; it is God’s pun­ish­ment for the soci­ety that tol­er­ates homosexuals”

Now that’s what I call hon­or­able.

 
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