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Just got engaged

Posted: Jul 25, 2004, 5:31pm CDT

This weekend I asked my girlfriend of almost 2 years (and friend of around 8 years) to marry me, and she accepted. For collateral, I offered her a expensive lump of crystalline carbon on a white gold band, a questionable tradition at best. But you have to do what you have to do to get the girl you want to marry you.

[ Posted by dast — life ]

Mozilla Pagerank Calculator

Posted: Jul 14, 2004, 9:16pm CDT

Do you run Mozilla or Firefox? Do you want to know what Google thinks about the pages you visit (including perhaps your own)? Then check out Pagerank extention for Mozilla and Firefox browsers. Finally, a cross-platform browser extention to view standings in the greatest popularity contenst of the digital era. I'm using it here under Gentoo Linux with Mozilla 1.6 and it works great.

[ Posted by dast — browsers, internet ]

Fahrenheit Skepticism

Posted: Jul 6, 2004, 8:27pm CDT

I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 this holiday weekend, and overall I was fairly impressed. I've maintained a mild dislike of Michael Moore ever since I had the misfortune of seeing his piece-of-shit-Bowling movie, so needless to say, I had low expectations of Moore as a filmmaker. I can say, however, that I was hyped about seeing this flick, so that balanced things out. Like I said, overall, I was fairly impressed.

Of course, this movie has gotten people up-in-arms raving about how the movie is nothing more than a pack of lies. I've seen a lot of goofy "criticism" of Moore and his latest artistic endeavor. Don't believe everything negative you hear about this movie. However, that being said, don't believe everything you see in F911 either. For some balanced criticism of Moore's conspiracy theories, check out Brendan Nyhan's article on the topic at Spinsantiy. Rather than screaming about how Moore is a dirty liar, Nyhan does a decent job of pointing out some parts of F911 where Moore strings mostly accurate things together to give a potentially misleading impression. Good reading.

And even better, for your linking pleasure, check out an unofficial transcript of the first 43 minutes of Fahrenheit 9/11. I can't vouch for the accuracy of this transcript.

[ Posted by dast — movies, skepticism ]

DHS says stay away from IE

Posted: Jul 2, 2004, 12:32pm CDT

Internet Explorer users beware! The Department of Homeland Security is advising surfers to use other browsers in light of the recent severe security flaws in IE. A malicious website may be able to snoop your keypresses on the keyboard for things like creditcard numbers. Woops. Via /.

[ Posted by dast — internet, security ]

 

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