Toward a Collective Consciousness

Ignoring all its faults, this is what I think of when I think of Wikipedia. And now I have it on the web for reference when I’m trying to explain what I mean.

Easy as Fishing, You Could be a Mortician

Michelle is just putting the finishing touches on Joyce Carol Oates’ The GraveDigger’s Daughter, and I, for one, am ecstatic. The back-cover, the side that faces me when reading in bed unfortunately, features a large photo of the author’s corpse …

An Athlete's Lament

Guess no one would have paid attention if Peter Tosh wrote about “Reggae Bursitis”.

Mitt? Primaries Are That-Away

Filed under: Better Late Than Never

Dave Atell's iPod

“I was on iTunes the other night—and you know, alcohol and iTunes don’t mix. I have every one of Hitler’s speeches now.”

Conversations to Remember

“Your [gas] is horrible.”

“No, no it’s not. It’s like someone made you a peanut butter sandwich and you didn’t even know you brought lunch.”

Still Waiting

For Zero Punctuation to get old. It seems like everything that really entertains me on the Internet has a short life. Hilarious for a week, funny for a month, meh after that. But I’m starting to doubt this will ever happen with Yahtzee. See for yourself:

Clone Table Rows with Form Elements in a .NET Style

Using jQuery to coax .NET into cloning table rows with properly numbered id/ name attributes:

var MyNamespace = {
    init: function()
    {
        // attach row clone to passenger table
        $("table#tblPassengers tr:last :input").change(function() {MyNamespace.cloneRow("tblPassengers")});

        // attach row clone to contacts …

Rails 2.0 Released

2.0.1, actually. Now I just need an excuse to use it somewhere.

Me and .NET

We get along so well: