It’s the ABCs of wartime!

You know about the war on terrorism and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Now learn about the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, and the invasions of the rest of Europe.

It’s kinda creepy.

A recent post by KaiOte inspires the music for today:

Knights In Shining Karma, by XTC

Click to listen. No, really. Do it.

In case you folks hadn’t figured it out yet, I’m a huge fan of XTC. I’ve been listening to Apple Venus Volume 1 a lot lately, because it’s the quintessential music of spring. The album charts the flow of the seasons, but it really flies on the spring tunes. ‘Knights..’ is from early in the CD, sandwiched between songs with titles like ‘River of Orchids,’ ‘Easter Theatre,’ and ‘Greenman.’

This is a fairly crappy screen shot of a MUSH client I’ve been writing, called Mushy The Mush Client.



It’s connected to TinyTIM, one of the oldest free-standing structures on the internet.

I’m putting this screen shot here, because Mushy is at milestone 1, which is a working mush client with a command buffer written in Objective-C for the Cocoa framework.

Congratulate me even if you didn’t understand any of that.

Goddamn… How many copies of the latest MS security update worm am I going to get in email??

Went over to a friend’s to watch some episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer on DVD, and ended up spending an extra three hours playing Gran Tourismo 3 on PS2.

It was Consumer Media Evening.

GT3 rocks, by the way. We drove BMWs through Seattle at 120mph. I had always wanted to get airborne off James street, and now I could.

Salon.com interviews Bill Moyers. Tasty stuff, decent biographical info.

And, of course, This Modern World.

Via boingboing:

A series of lectures on BBC radio 4 called The Emerging Mind.

Audio and transcripts on the link above.

I’m worried that I didn’t think of this first: BumperStatements. It’s part discussion forum, part bumpersticker store.

People suggest a phrase for a bumpersticker, and then other people can order that sticker. The users vote on them, and so forth.

Maybe there could be a XangaSticker forum.

Gloriana_Regina gave me a writing assignment: “Your favorite drool-worthy starlet of any era and why.”

A few lovely women spring immediately to mind. Franka Potente, from ‘Run Lola, Run,’ with that striking red hair and constant forward motion.

Audrey Tautou from ‘Amelie,’ because she’s just cute as a button, and I’m a big fan of quirk.

Lexa Doig from the TV show ‘Andromeda,’ because she’s petite, she kicks ass, and she’s so obviously having a blast being on TV. And her name is ‘Doig.’

I think I have a hard time being turned on by women who are ‘supposed’ to turn me on. I’m not interested in screen idols. Maybe I’m kind of done with having a fantasy sex life.