Firefox has released 1.0. Go get it. I’ve been playing with this since the first release of Mozilla, which seems like FOREVER ago, and occasionally have used the various releases along the way for a little while, but since the 1.0 Preview Release I have been using Firefox as my primary-and-almost-exclusive browser. In every important way it is superior to… Read more →
Author: Mr. McLaren
I am a culinary genius.
Look, I think of myself as an amateur gourmet, but I was raised lower middle-class and consequently I don’t have to turn up my nose at some things that most amateur gourmets would disdain. (Don’t even get me started on the one legitimate use of Kraft “cheez” slices over real cheese). I can eat packaged foods if they are good–in… Read more →
Nerd Dad Fashion Sense
Living in the wired world
Take a moment and enjoy what we normally take for granted. I decide I want an image of P. Terentius Afer for the new header. There was a time when this would have involved a library trip, and very likely a long wait for inter-library loan processing. Today, I pop into Google images, and I have my image in less… Read more →
William S. Lind: Fallujah and the Moral Level of War
William S. Lind: Fallujah and the Moral Level of War I wish everyone was forced to read this. Really the worst thing about war propoganda is the hypocrisy. What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the turkey. Obvious double standards put us on the moral low ground. The rest of the world can see the hypocrisy, even… Read more →
People I Miss Today
You know, if you go into the tunnels that come out behind the falls… you will get wet. Read more →
Pullman comes right out and says it
I’ve always been amazed that Pullman’s Dark Materials books sell in the children’s section without more hue and cry from the Jesus brigades. Very glad, but quite surprised. SPOILERS IN FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH I love the idea of a whole generation of readers growing up on books where the kids save the world by having sex and killing God. Or, more… Read more →
Apparently I am allowed to openly like Waters-era Floyd now
There’s a nice piece at the Guardian about the history of perception of Pink Floyd, that glances off history and current projects of various band members. The key thing is that apparently I don’t have to be embarrassed about knowing all the words to The Final Cut anymore. There’s lots of nice quotes in it: “My big fight in Pink… Read more →
US Dollar Falls…
One of the few upsides that I can find at a very selfish level in the Bush win is that as Bush’s fiscal insanity continues to destroy the US economy (while he pretends to be a “fiscal conservative”) the rest of the world is noticing and consequently the US dollar is dropping. Even though I work for an American company,… Read more →
What it really looks like
(This, of course, does not include all the spoiled and systematically ruined ballots, but only the “official” counts.) Read more →
Mourning Armbands
DOOM
I have spent the entire day in a cycle of rage and despair. That is all. Read more →
Tension
Nothing going on today except election tension. One way or another the campaign will be over tomorrow. Let’s see if the election is. Read more →
More on comment spam
Well, apparently I have been attacked by someone who has put comments into the system with a post id referencing a post that doesn’t exist yet. As soon as the post appears, the comment also appears. Clever. So far I’ve done several things to stop this: 1) enabled built in keyword auto-moderation–if the post contains any of the keywords, the… Read more →
Pan’s people
And now, for something completely non-electoral: The Guardian is running what is nominally a review of the new Tartarus Books collection of Arthur Machen stories, but which is actually much more a history of Machen. If you’re into 19th century weird fiction, or you’ve heard of Machen’s “The Great God Pan” (or perhaps especially if you haven’t) you should check… Read more →
