Previously... I recently finished John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. After putting the book in my "Read" stack in the back of the shelf, I looked about trying to decide on my next read. The possibilities ranged from Stephen...

I decided to embed the vids this time around rather than linking. If this causes any problems (slow loading or the annoying tendency of some videos to not play sound when too many are open at once) let me know....

Open Culture: University Podcast Collection Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts Berkeley on iTunes U - entire courses available online, requires iTunes These sites are goldmines for the autodidact types, of which I is one. I just loaded up my...

Found this on Curbed, a quite entertaining New York City real estate blog. Someone has been defacing some Banksy "wall art" around Williamsburg by rolling over them and replacing them with other stencils. Then, someone defaced those stencils with random...

The last of my 2006 stuff that never got posted....

Audacity is a small, open-source, freeware sound editing and recording program available for Windows, OSX, and Linux. It can be used for editing existing audio files or for simple track-by-track multi track recording. I've used it before to edit or...

... she'd feel pretty neglected since I never call her or see her or anything. One of the annoying things about being male and putting down "Single" on your MySpace profile is that you get a lot of messages and...

In late November 2003 I saw a piece online about NaNoWriMo that sparked something in me. The desire to write, dormant since my teens when playing music took over the creative/expressive portions of my brain, suddenly flared up again like...

A documentary in short snippets by comedian Eddie Izzard, produced by The Discovery Channel in the UK. The documentary deals with how many of the things (language, monarchy, food) which are thought of as being quintessentially English are, in...

I just finished a long planned series of changes to the site, and since most of those changes were due to pieces of code that were not created by me I thought I should give some recognition, along with accompanying...

I have spent most of today going through some pics that never made it up to flickr and a few that I took in the fog last night on my way home from Lori's NYE party. The day fog shots...