by Jan Bear | Jun 18, 2004 | Uncategorized
Andrew Damick poses a question that has puzzled me a lot over the years: Why Should the Devil Get All the Good Music? Instead of bemoaning the incroachment of rock ‘n’ roll into the “sanctuary” or observing that the melody to “The...
by Jan Bear | Jun 17, 2004 | Uncategorized
Bloggers are outraged that Dave Winer pulled the plug on their blogs without warning. He’d been hosting 3,000 blogs on his server for free, beginning in 2000. Now, because of time, financial and health demands, he decided that he couldn’t do it any more....
by Jan Bear | Jun 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
Amazon.com WidgetsAbandoned buildings talk–they laugh and gibber and shriek like crazy old ladies. The folks at Dark Passage hear them, too.It’s a tour of some of the creepiest places around, like the tunnel that eats light and comes up under the house...
by Jan Bear | Jun 15, 2004 | Uncategorized
I swear it’s not schadenfreude. The author at debcentral (sorry, I’ve got my wrong glasses on and can hardly see the screen, much less read small white type against a black background) has kindly posted a gallery of her rejections. I’ve got more of...
by Jan Bear | Jun 15, 2004 | Uncategorized
If Charles Williams were blogging in the 21st century, he might sound something like Stephen Baldwin: . . . as the discarded soda and beer cans bobbed along in the water’s edge like rusting buoys in a brown foam so disgusting that it seemed even the seagulls...
by Jan Bear | Jun 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
In his Telegraph UK column, Oliver Pritchett has struck a chord for grace and elegance in language. Think how much more beautiful our airports would be if this message told us to mind our bags: “Put not thy trust in bags that are unattended, for it may be the...