An Italian soccer training video. I’m really not surprised that Zidane’s headbutt knocked Materazzi off his ass.
Wake-up Call
Wake-up Call describes how the US needed to cheat at war games in 2002 to win the Iraq invasion. Shock and awe baby, shock and awe.
Star Wars: An Islamic Perspective
Star Wars: An Islamic Perspective. The article mostly draws parallels between the Jedi order and some Muslim sects.
The Tool Pack
The time has come for another pack release (grab the last one if you missed it). And what are these packs exactly? For the most part, they’re a bunch of photoshop templates and a semi-functional WordPress theme. It won’t work out of the box — I call it a learning experience, you might call it lazy.
The Goods
This theme was featured on CSS Import, and people seemed to like it. I liked the graphics but had issues with the structure and bailed on it after a month.
Download the Tool Pack 2.2mb
Notes
I set the backgrounds up oddly, the movement is kind of weird at times. It always bothered me.
The sidebar on the main page is setup to use my asides category, you’ll need to change that number. There are also a number of function calls for plugins that will make it fail.
Both the stylesheet and the screenshot portray the layout with “Lucida Grande” as the body font, that wasn’t always the case. It was originally designed for Arial, and I kind of liked it better that way. I was experimenting towards the end, to each his own.
The Fine Print
Just so we’re clear… there is no support for this package, take it or leave it. There is also no license per se, but that doesn’t mean you can use it for anything. I haven’t made any money off the pack, it wouldn’t be fair if you did. Use it for your personal sites… if you need something professionally, you can do better. The forum might offer some help.
ChucK and Audicle
Check out ChucK, a concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language. If you’re using a mac, grab miniAudicle, it makes things relatively easy.
Mark Pilgrim’s Essentials
Mark Pilgrim has moved to Ubuntu and is compiling a list of essential software. I’m running the OS on my laptop now, although my primary machine is still a mac.
The Big 10 Conglomerates
The Big 10 Conglomerates and the media organizations that they control.
Most Reboot sites not valid
A majority of the sites that participated in May’s CSS Reboot fail standards validation. It’s not entirely surprising.
Common Errors in English
Common errors in English. A link for those of you that enjoy finding flaws in others.
flickrRSS 3.0.3
A small update for the flickrrss plugin. It now provides basic support for WordPress Widgets.
The wrong people’s internet
The wrong people’s internet. My grass is sooo much greener than yours.
Cory Doctorow ate my crossword
My conversation with el Cory
Cory Doctorow was in the crossword this weekend, and I had the presence of mind to email him (it’s every kid’s fantasy to be in the crossword).
Me: Dude, you were in the Globe & Mail’s cryptic!
Cory: I’m pretty sure that’s EL Doctorow.
Me: Uh…
Cory: The famous writer?
Me: I hid my brain under a rock. It’s now King of the Centipedes.
Cory: That woulda been hella cool.
Well, the conversation was actually a bit longer, a bit more boring and wasn’t really a conversation at all. My idiocy aside, the answer is IND(EL)ICATE not IND(CORY)ICATE. So, the email exchange helped. The internet is a weird place.