January 22, 2010 – 12:10 am
Over a year ago I got fed up with b2evolution: the blogging software I had been using for some years. The main problem I had with it was that the tools for dealing with comment spam required constant manual intervention. So I switched to using a paid Typepad account and hosted my blog at blog.limul.us. [...]
January 14, 2010 – 12:22 am
Around the time Toy Story was coming to theaters, a high school art teacher of mine said she couldn’t consider something that was computer animated to be art. I think this opinion stemmed from the misconception that once you learned to use computerized tools to do 2D or 3D animation you could create anything with [...]
April 21, 2009 – 12:39 am
The Miss USA pageant isn’t something I generally find myself tuning into, but my DVR recorded it last night due to Kings moving to Saturday night. Out of morbid curiosity, I skipped around the recording until I got to the question and answer section. Miss California, or Carrie Prejean, was asked by pageant judge Perez [...]
I’d say that this is one of the most amazing photos ever taken.
April 27, 2008 – 10:51 pm
I like Lesley Stahl, but I wish she would have presented Justice Scalia with a better argument on why torture could be considered “cruel and unusual punishment.” Isn’t the obvious argument that it’s punishment for not giving the torturer the information he or she seeks? Either in the case that the person tortured has the information [...]
February, despite the extra day, sure went quick. At the end of January, I was in San Francisco attending the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual Web Conference. Before the conference I was starting to feel sick, but during the conference I somehow got better. Then, a few days upon return to Tucson, I relapsed and [...]
January 20, 2008 – 8:57 pm
A selection from Martin Luther King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail: I had hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal [...]
January 11, 2008 – 9:48 pm
I mean that in the best possibly way though. I’ve posted my first substantive diary there this evening. In two short hours my thoughts on skepticism and Kucinich’s recount of the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary generated 80 comments and 19 people voted to put it on the recommended diary list. That’s a lot of [...]
January 6, 2008 – 10:39 pm
McCain has a web-only ad that uses footage of a terrorist bombing to scare people into voting for him in the Republican primaries. Tim Russert confronted him about it on this morning’s Meet The Press: Despicable.
December 30, 2007 – 9:55 am
Looks like this is what the Arizona GOP is planning to bring their xenophobic base out to the polls in 2008: Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, says he is introducing measures this legislative session to: Deny regular birth certificates to babies born in Arizona unless at least one parent proves citizenship. Expand the state crime of [...]