Niall Kennedy’s Weblog: Movable Type 3.16 coming Monday Okay, not as bad as I first thought. I think we continue getting my MT3.15 installation working properly before we worry about MT3.16. That is all. As you were.
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Your Linguistic Profile: 70% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Kind of reminds me of some of the stuff in How To Talk American except… not as funny as in that book. I’m kind of intrigued by the fact that I speak 10% Upper Midwestern – that’s probably due to the fact that I now say “soda” instead of “pop” as I once did. Via AKMA
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Chicago Tribune | Iraq bomb takes `angel’ of mercy There was also an NPR story on Marla – she was interviewed a few years ago and you can hear her talk about her work. She was a relative unknown, but I feel her loss – I admire people who can really put their money where their mouth is, and she ran her charity on her own meagre savings until she managed to bully and embarass our government and military to take notice, step up, and “do the right thing.” She basically got Congress to fund aid and medical care for…
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It’s a process. David has installed MT3.15 and with his help I’ve got a beta site working, more or less. I haven’t decided if I’ll go to a radical style re-design or not. He also installed BookqueueToo and that seems to be working, finally. The stumbling block with that was not only did I need to request a new web services subscription ID from Amazon, I also had to go in and change the Amazon associates ID, both of which are configured via different screens. And cleverly, the BookQueueToo developer had substituted his own associates ID as the default. But…
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Stole this idea from the Observer Blog, because I got it wrong. The book I was thinking of starts out “Space is big. Really big.” This is one of the other ones. Which one? The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. I read via ***Dave a review of the new “h2g2” movie that… makes it sound like it just might suck, and that all the good jokes and lines are gone. If so, I think I’m going to be…
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SciFi Wire announces its slate of original SF/Fantasy/Alternate Reality series. “Original” is such a relative term, isn’t it? An untitled project executive-produced by Academy Award-winning actor/producer Michael Douglas, based on the work of the late author Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House). Storylines and themes from Jackson’s catalog of supernatural short stories will be woven into her real life experiences transitioning from urban mom to small-town matriarch. Michael Douglas isn’t exactly known for genre movies or shows. A production credit for Starman (movie, series) doesn’t exactly establish his SF cred. Why this? Why now? Imagine if “Eerie, Indiana” or…
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And congratulations also to Susanna Clarke, whose excellent book on English practical magic has won the American Booksellers Association Book Sense award. Via Sci Fi Wire — The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
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As seen at Boing Boing: Kevin Sites wins 2005 Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism. This is great news, and very much deserved. I’ve been a reader of Kevin Sites‘ blog since before the “incident” that put him in the hot story, in addition to reporting it. The award will be presented at the University of Oregon J-school on May 12. As a Duck myself, I’m doubly glad and proud. And if Kevin Sites sees this – go to Taylor‘s and have a beer. Well done you.
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The Nation | Special Cover | Worry, Alfred Dubya Heh. Okay, I’m done licking my political wounds. Time to laugh again. And what better place to start? Apparently, this image can be downloaded, printed off, and posted wherever you think it would show off to best advantage.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Keith Choate and Mark Ceneri turned to each other, grinning. Then they embraced. State representatives had just voted 85-63 to allow same-sex civil unions, something Choate and Ceneri had been waiting for since they became a couple five years ago. The state Senate passed a similar measure last week. “We wanted something that was meaningful,” said a beaming Choate. “We wanted something that was real.” The House action on Wednesday came after more than six hours of debate, much of it centered on adding a definition of marriage – the union of a man and a…