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Lighter moments

Beware the Phil! Protect your textareas! Phil Ringnalda, responding from his semi-regular weblog hiatus to a quip by Anil Dash about being silenced: While you were watching mailing lists, I landed three Firefox patches, including a FF2 blocker, and one that was once a 1.5 blocker in two different bugs, though we gave up on it later. There’s […]

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Best Practices Scenarios

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are just some things that don’t belong in a Best Practices Manual… One investigator to another, as they slowly walk through the wreckage of a 747–bits of fuselage and bodies lying about: “Well the Best Practices Manual suggested that the pilot use the landing gear rather than attempt to […]

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For my little duckies

Last time you get lava lamp photos, my little duckies. In celebration of that fact, a few links and other assorted non-lava lamp related items: Sheila Lennon points us to a Providence Journal presentation honoring Martha and Waitsill Sharp, the 2nd and 3rd Americans named to Israel’s “Righteous Among the Nations” for their work in helping Jews […]

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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and it took three starts before I discovered that it and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women shared much of the same footage and I wasn’t clicking the wrong movie on the disc. Both movies are a rather amazing blend of barely related scenes added together […]

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Hold the dew-drenched bluebells: a review of King Kong

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I treated myself to a lady night out and went to see the new King Kong. The small neighborhood theater was showing it on one of the smaller screens, and there were two women together in one side, a man by himself in the back, and an older couple behind […]