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Everybody pretty much knew that Kevin Federline’s new album would suck, but leave it to amazon.com users to really let him know just how much. amazon.com users have taken advantage of a feature that allows you to add custom tags to products and have mercilessly tagged K-Fed’s album. My addition was “magically hurlicious” :-). Hilarious…
Danny Elfman directed The Killers’ new video Bones, which ensures its innovative creepiness…
Mmmm…deep fried pizza (YouTube video).
The Wikipedia entry List of Homer Simpson’s jobs is quite thorough…
Pioneering 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley died today of leukemia. I hadn’t even realized that he was sick! His professionalism and class will most definitely be missed… 🙁
“Weird Al” Yankovic parodies Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues in Bob (YouTube video). One fun thing that you may not notice is that every verse is a palindrome… 🙂
It’ll be very interesting to see the results of tomorrow’s midterm election, especially whether enough seats in the House and Senate change hands to allow the Democrats to win a majority. I shouldn’t have to say this, but go out and vote!
Google has come up with a really nice Google Earth voter guide that adds a layer to Google Earth mapping software (a must-download if you haven’t already!) with information and news about candidates in every district. It’s amazing that they have compiled so much information and still made it easy to navigate.
With some of the races as close as they are, I bet we won’t know anything for sure tomorrow, and I wouldn’t be surprised if touchscreen machine problems figure prominently, among other possible snafus. Time magazine has an interesting article going over some of the possible “glitches” and their implications. The two cartoons above lampoon issues with “e-voting” on touchscreens in particular, as concerns over their security and lack of a paper trail in some instances bring back nightmarish thoughts of “hanging chads” and the like. Here’s hoping that things don’t get too ugly…
Some of you may have noticed that the DrikoLand Gallery has a new look. Although I recently redesigned with the MG2 gallery software, I found it too unwieldy and difficult to customize. After playing around with several software applications again, I decided on JAlbum, a free photo album creation and management application that has a large user base and extensive support, offers many customizable templates, and allows for very easy website synchronization. I’m using a slightly modified version of the Chameleon template’s “Black” style (grey title bar backgrounds rather than the amber defaults), but there are dozens of other templates to choose from with their own styles. The smart upload option automatically uploads changed files to an FTP account with the click of one button, much simpler than the manual uploads I had to do before. If you’re interested in more details, feel free to contact me; their website is chock full of information as well.
Now that I’ve finished transitioning, I’ve finally started to post pictures from our recent Scotland vacation to the DrikoLand Gallery. As of this post, I’ve added photos from ten of the thirteen days we visited and hope to finish the rest soon.
Speaking of Scotland photos, one of my Scotland photos that I posted to the flickr Scotland Pool was nominated for inclusion in the Flickr Scotland blog (actual post permalink here). The picture (seen above) is entitled Glenmorangie Barrels 5 and depicts empty whisky barrels outside of the Glenmorangie Distillery. I really liked their arrangement, and in particular I composed it so that one of the foreground barrels clearly showed that Jack Daniels bourbon barrels are used in the aging process. It’s always nice to be appreciated… 🙂
Crazy Chess is a pretty neat game where you have to move a Knight around and capture Pawns and various power-ups. No, really, it’s actually pretty fun. 😉
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency presents a quiz entitled Prescription Drug or Metal Band? How did you do?
