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A guide to finding open source alternatives to commerical software. For instance, Dia, OpenOffice Draw or Kivio instead of Visio.
Feb 052007
Feb 032007
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In case I ever end up with Vista.
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Wikipedia page for the most widely used AJAX framework.
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Atlas gets an official release.
Feb 032007
With SXSW keeping this year’s band list close to their chest, Austinist has cobbled together a pretty good list of the bands that are likely to appear this year.
I saw a post yesterday from Pitchfork mentioning Mastodon and Thurston Moore among others. Those two make my list of possibilities. Brooklyn Vegan and Done Waiting are also good sources for your SXSW music needs.
<shameless plug>My band is playing the Get Hip showcase on 3/16 at Habana Calle 6 with local pals, Ugly Beats, and Cynics among others.</shameless plug>
Feb 032007
The new William Gibson book comes out soon.
*does happy dance*
[tags]williamgibson, spookcountry[/tags]
Feb 022007
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Gee, here’s another person, who was involved at the time, stating that the Bush Administration cherry picked intelligence in the run up to the war.
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This Daily Show segment is completely hilarious from the new Bushism “half glass full” to the Cheney poetry impression to skewering their stupid ass logic on emboldening the enemy. Oops, I think I just emboldened.
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I don’t know about you, but I think this is spot on. I think I generally do pretty well, but it’s been very difficult the last several years to support a family of four and still have money to save. It appears I’m not the only one.
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I was just searching for something in iTunes to monitor an mp3 folder outside of its own structure and couldn’t find it. Apparently that’s because it doesn’t exist. Happily, I ran across a post on Lifehacker today that linked an earlier article touting iT
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I read something somewhere in the past couple of years about setting up filtering and preferably logging for your kids web browsing. Now that The Boy is getting older, it’s time to get this going. I’m not sure if this is the one I read, but it’s in the ri
Feb 012007
Central Market now has Stone IPA in 6 packs as well as the 22oz bottles. With this new development, I’m optimistic that we’ll one day get Stone Pale Ale. Is it sad that this really excites me? Probably.
Feb 012007
Sean posted his top films of 2006, following on a post from Kevin Smith. This is interesting for me because it highlights how few films I now get a chance to see in a year. I won’t reprint the whole list of films released since both of them did that. Here’s what I saw:
CURIOUS GEORGE
CARS
CLERKS II
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
THE DESCENT
HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS
AMERICAN HARDCORE
JACKASS NUMBER 2
PAN’S LABYRINTH
Only 9 films from last year. Three of them were kid films that I probably wouldn’t have watched if I didn’t have kids. CARS was by far the lamest Pixar film to date. CURIOUS GEORGE was inoffensive and the only reason we watched HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS was because it was filmed at my son’s school (It was also my first On Demand purchase from Time Warner. I’ll be doing a lot more of that in the future.). LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE was the only other one that I didn’t see in the theater. It’s great. I highly recommend it. CLERKS II was fun, a very respectable sequel, especially if you liked the first one. THE DESCENT was a good horror film, but make sure you see it with the original ending. The one that the used in the US release ruins the whole movie. AMERICAN HARDCORE was a pretty good documentary. I would’ve liked to see at least one of the Big Boys in there, but oh well. JACKASS NUMBER 2 was hilarious, just like the first one. I watched that one at Alamo Drafthouse, the only place to watch Jackass movies. And, lastly, PAN’S LABYRINTH was very good (I posted on the metblog after seeing it). Check out DEVIL’S BACKBONE on video.
I’d like to see:
THE HILLS HAVE EYES
V FOR VENDETTA
BRICK
UNITED 83
DISTRICT B13
NACHO LIBRE
STRANGERS WITH CANDY
A SCANNER DARKLY
LADY IN THE WATER
THE NIGHT LISTENER
TALLADEGA NIGHTS
WORLD TRADE CENTER
BEERFEST
IDIOCRACY
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
THE DEPARTED
LITTLE CHILDREN
BORAT
FAST FOOD NATION
CHILDREN OF MEN
[tags]seanbonner, kevinsmith, movies, 2006[/tags]
Feb 012007
A guerrilla marketing campaign for Adult Swim and Aqua Teen Hunger Force has gone awry in Boston, touching off the same overreaction that the birds caused us earlier this month.
I’ve linked the first post on the Boston Metblog, but there have been several since that one. I’m not sure if they’re still up, but there were a few billboards here in town similar to the LED ads in Boston (fashioned along the same lines as those geekerrific LED throwies). Our own Austin Swim has a lot more. You’ll recall that they got in trouble for some banners advertising Adult Swim on local overpasses.
Fuzzy has more in Chicago, where they seem to be able to distinguish between suspicious and just plain strange.
Update (Friday, 02.02.07 08:39 CST): The Statesman is reporting that 20 of the LED signs were placed around town yesterday here as well, but they were quickly collected by those who placed them once all hell broke loose in Boston. Anybody see one before it got collected or know who was placing them locally? I’d love to get my hands on one.
Update 2 (Friday, 02.02.07 09:21 CST): Security demigod Bruce Schneier has an awesome post on this.
Photo from cjabest on Flickr