The real irony, not the kind Alanis sings about. Porn director, church makes PSA against porn for kids. That’s why the veteran director took a recent day off from filming his usual adult fare to make a public service announcement for a Christian anti-pornography group. Its message: Parents, keep your adult videos and magazines out […]
Doc Searls has a good summary about Viacomm and Dish Network settling their recent spat over carrying Viacomm’s bundle of channels. Unfortunately, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Why not? I think it’s because nobody who makes most of their money on advertising wants to see consumers become customers. Viacom, for example, is
In what sounds like a last minute thriller, Portugese club Porto scored in the 90th minute to advance past English giant Manchester United in yesterday’s Champions League game. Manchester was winning 1-0 until a free kick resulted in a goal in the last minute of the game. Until then, the 2-game aggregate score stood at
On wonkette via Sandy. The Bush reelection folks have put out a great online tool where you can make your own Bush-Cheney 2004 posters. Their gonna get a lot of unintened hits and posters this way so enjoy while the app is up. Here are my two: Read more Bush campaign slogans
My annoyance at using “click here” for links a few weeks back inspired an idea for a quick cartoon that I have yet to put down on paper. Luckily someone has collected all the reasons why click here is bad text to use in links: “Click here” just looks stupid. “Click here” looks especially stupid
Upper Deck and MLS Unveil 2004 Trading Cards. The 2004 set will feature the rookie card of D.C. United’s 14-year-old phenom Freddy Adu, the youngest player in the modern history of American professional team sports. Adu will also be one of several players who will have his game-worn jersey memorialized in a special series of
I read a post over at PHPKitchen that echo’s the same experiences I’ve had at work in pushing us to use a Wiki to collect knowledge and document processes. Some quick lessons: Word is too cumbersome for trying to whip out a document real quick. Word makes it too easy to focus on the presentation
Seen at kuro5hin: How to Stop Receiving Credit Card Offers Fortunately, hidden away in the fine print of every single pre-approved offer sent to consumers is a paragraph stating how to prevent credit bureaus from including you in pre-screened lists. If you’re like me and always end up throwing these offers away, I urge you
Follow along and see how to draw a monkey in four steps. I drew this happy little guy using Pixia, an awesome and free drawing program for Windows. All the anime aside, its got a powerful pen/brush, bezier/spline curves, and layer system. Note, you\’ll have to click through to the full story to see the