Sunday, June 02, 2002

Mark recommends an important change to the LINK tag. Updated my template. Made all the easier by changes made to Radio, so that all I need to do is modify a macro. Actually, those changes are, umm, in progress, so I guess I'll have to make the changes manually. Update: macro is done, and is now being used. Simple changes. 8:16:01 PM

It's still not going to be very fair to Lisa. Not only do I have all of those old literary magazines, but I also found a 3 ring binder containing "Everything I've Ever Written." Starts in 1983 and ends in 1987. Alas, none of that dreck (hopefully) will ever find it's way here. Instead, I've opted to post three stories from my collegiate years. There's been a drastic drop-off in productivity since then. Walking Home was written during the fall of my sophomore year. Both reasons why and Our Friend the Ed were written in early 1992. I was always better at fiction than poetry, anyway. 11:23:02 AM

Also from the Times: President Bush told nearly 1,000 graduates at the United States Military Academy here today that the cold war doctrines of containment and deterrence were irrelevant in a world where the only strategy for defeating America's new enemies was to strike them first. 10:19:55 AM

From the New York Times: In a feat of literary sleuth work, Ms. Heifetz, the mother of a high school senior and a weaver from Brooklyn, inspected 10 high school English exams from the past three years and discovered that the vast majority of the passages — drawn from the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anton Chekhov and William Maxwell, among others — had been sanitized of virtually any reference to race, religion, ethnicity, sex, nudity, alcohol, even the mildest profanity and just about anything that might offend someone for some reason. Students had to write essays and answer questions based on these doctored versions — versions that were clearly marked as the work of the widely known authors. 9:27:30 AM

Mark writes a script to facilitate social networks. Cool, cool. This is what it's all about. Peer to Peer connections. Intelligent recommendations. Circles overlapping circles. Excellent work. 9:09:20 AM

From bOING bOING: Great story about "The Phantom Edit," a fan-cut of Phantom Menace that slices out all the gratuitously stupid, cutesy garbage. I saw Attack of the Clowns on Thursday, and I fear that a similar effort to remove every egregiously dumbass line of dialog would reduce the movie to a 12-second short. 8:44:04 AM