Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have a cool news section of their site that they often update with not only news but commentary as well. Yes that’s right they have a make shift blog but with no frills. And that means no RSS feed.
No RSS feed? I’m supposed to visit the web site? forget that! I’ve gone through the trouble to make an RSS feed for them:
Bishop Allen at the Middle East Upstairs was amazing. They really need to make a decent T-shirt.
I love screencasts and they seem to be picking up steam. This a great screencast on how to make a wordpress plugin.
John Gruber thinks Google Analytics will kill Mint like Google Calendar killed Kiko.The problem is Calendar/Kiko were both for the masses while Mint was always built for small niche (A niche with high design taste and disposable income). Google Analytics will never win over the people using Mint.
Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker does an amazing cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya”.
Will Ferrell seems to have realised that his string of successful movies are about to pigeon hole him. Stranger then Fiction look like it might fix that with some good writing and a captivating plot. This movie looks good with or without star power and since Will is in it there seems to be enough money in this movie to bring a lot of other stars on board.
Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series will be turned in a miniseries. Each book will be it’s own miniseries which if closely follows the books will never end.
The 10 book series (the last books has yet to come out) has been a large focus on my reading over the past couple of years. What started out as a strong series quickly degraded in to repetitive generic fantasy with way too much political commentary about freewill instead of plot.
If I wasn’t already 9 books in I would not bother with the last book. I think around 6 or 7 is when I started to feel disappointed and looking back to book 4 you can see the problems start. The main story arch is the only things that keeps me coming back. If you removed all the cruff you could cram all 10 books in to about 6.
Hopefully if the miniseries is done well it will trim down the books in to what was originally so great about them.
I went to the Harry and the Potters show looking forward to seeing the opener Draco and the Malfoys. If you listed to CDs from both bands Draco clearly stand out as a better band. They have song that are about the Harry Potter books while Harry and the Potters often sound like they are just reading out of the books.
Draco and the Malfoys were great. With just 2 guitars they played the drum track off their laptop but that did not stop them from having a great energy.
I was blown away by Harry and the Potters. While they don’t sound that great on a CD they are amazing live. Their songs are great for singing along to and the audience was on their feet jumping around for the whole set. I can’t really explain the energy they had so instead take a look at the video.
If you ever get the chance and you have any interest in Harry Potter I greatly recommend stopping by a show.
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Google and AOL will make their chat services interoperable in the future. I can’t wait to drop AIM in favor of the sleek google talk. It’s even starting to have some interesting features come about.
I’ve gotten a lot of satisfaction out of keeping track of the books I’ve been reading. I only wish I’ve always had a list of what I have been reading and when. Now I want to take more control of the books I intend to read. So far I’m not sure if I like the system I have going but I don’t think I’m that far off.
Nothing makes me more sad then when a bad article get popular. SEOmoz has an article called “5 HTML elements you probably never use (but perhaps should)” a title that would get about any article bookmarked. But it’s a very disingenuous title.
SEOmoz suggests using the <address> tag with no mention of the hCard microformat. In this day and age after even Bill Gates is talking about microformats it’s a topic that should not be ignored.
They think you should use the <q> tag for quotes though it has no support in IE. How is this helpful at all? Sure it’s sad that IE doesn’t support it but it’s hard to then tell me I should always be using that tag.
And I would argue that <acronym> and <abbr> are fairly wide used. I maybe biased since I read mostly web designer blogs but I see these all the time.
With del.icio.us and digg and so many other link aggregators around there is currently way too much focus on coming up with a good post title first and then writing any crap article afterwards.
I’m coming to the point where I dread clicking on any article with top 10 this or 5 of this other thing you should use. When will the insanity stop?
I’m not sure who was hired to redesign the Boston Transit Authority’s web site but so far I’m excited. They have a really nice header that animates down from the top to get people to take a survey and if you check the code it all uses css and the DOM. The design is simple and strong and if the header is any look in to how the final site will look I can’t wait.
New York–New Jersey English. A heated topic at my college.
Earthseed by Pamela Sargent was one of my favorite books from junior high. It was out of print and I had a hard time finding but I finally did and now it sits on my shelf waiting for Keri to read it. Oddly enough 25 years after it was first published Pamela is coming out with a sequel (Farseed) and seems to make a trilogy out of it. I want to be happy about it but I’m dubious instead. I wish Pamela the best of luck writing it.
For those interested the official english Ōban Star-Racers forums have opened. I have become very addicted to this anime.