Brodeo

23 Aug 2008 – 9:53
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It’s a funny name for a show, presumably playing on the testosterone orientation of the audience. Ironic, then, that the gender ratio of the audience was the closest to even of any metal show I’ve been to.  Perhaps that owed to the outdoor show, with most of the bands being local and having female members [...]

Comment Authority

23 Aug 2008 – 8:17
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Every few months, a new service comes out with their own WordPress plugin, to add their centralized service to the standard wordpress comments.  Dutifully, I try them all out, and inevitably decide that there’s no value add for me.  A lot of this has to do with my relatively complex comment layout.  Most of these [...]

Buckshot Ep. 10: Feedreading

3 Aug 2008 – 8:50
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apophenia: knol: content w/out context, collaboration, capital, or coruscation. Knol is something like a communal blog, it’s closest competitor is about.com, not wikipedia.  Actually, with author-based archives, shared categories/tags, and embedded adsense, it’s a lot like wordpress.com.  Given google’s attrocious splog record with blogspot, i doubt they’ll be doing as much competing as they think [...]

Cinematic Nostalgia

29 Jul 2008 – 7:43
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Aside from the music, the next best thing about Austin is the Alamo Drafthouse.  It’s kind of like Brew n’ View at The Vic, except 1) it happens every night 2) they show first run movies as well 3) they have decent beer 4) they have great food.  Last night we went there to check [...]

A List Apart | The Survey 2008: I Took It

29 Jul 2008 – 7:20
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