BrainWyrms

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Cato Daily: Communicating Economics in Troubled Times
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SeoulPodcast 31
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Shadowdance 26: Samhain
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BS 8 with Paulette Jaxton
Philosophy Zone: Martha Nussbaum, part 2
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NewMediaGear 2008 Holiday Product Roundup

I have been looking around for a while for a good wordpress theme that would allow me to have most post fragments on the landing page.  I played around with one, gridblog, that was extremely plain and simplistic.  I kind of liked that though, as it plain and simplistic sense of style.  [cough cough] But when I ended up having to hack the theme in order to get the plugins to work, and again to get the front page to show snippets of the posts.  That just didn’t work for me.  I started using wordpress because I do not want to waste the time that it would take for me to learn PHP well enough to code my own CMS and then to take the time to actually do the design, coding, testing, etc.  I wanted something more versitile than my setup, deadjournal via javascript output.  So hacking a theme to barely function was not acceptable. Read the rest of this entry »

I certainly had something that I wanted to say.

But then I got shocked and feared into silence by the evil, white, blank screen.

GAH!

The Eclectic Review 132: The Gold Sting part 2
Gamers with Jobs 111
Braindouche! NaPodPoMo 26: winding up
Philospoher’s Zone - The Social Contract - Martha Nussbaum
Shallow Thoughts 233: Timber!
Shallow Thoughts 234: Luna Rising
Shallow Thoughts 235: Luna Ascendant
Heat Flash 64: Appalachian Fall
In Our Time: The Great Reform Act
Braindouche! NaPodPoMo 27: Happy Turkey Day
Pulp Gamer Out of Character 64: Facebook Fury
I Should Be Writing 104: Interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum
Buzz Out Loud 862: George Bush, Pollution, carboard, whatever
Cato Daily Podcast: Advice to Obama: Latin America
Geek Radio Daily December 1st 2008
Der Geek 21*

For some reason, after I head read this article from the NY Times about an all girl band in Saudi Arabia my attitude changed. Initially, I was thinking that this was great. I was happy for the burgeoning freedoms coming to a long repressed culture. You know, the normal thoughts for an elitist bastard from the Elitist States of America.

By the time I had finished reading through the first page, my attitude was switching. I can’t quote any one thing that Dina or Dareen said, but instead of being about fighting against the man or any other boring but understandable rebellions, it felt to me that these were the same spoiled rich kids who feel entitled to whatever they want and throw a temper tantrum as soon as it is denied to them.

In other words, instead of seeing punk rock… I was seeing Paris Hilton.

Quoting some lyrics from Tilt’s Molly Coddled:

Now you’ve chosen poverty
You did it for the sake of being hip
Begging for a dollar
Never doubting for a moment
Your bohemian indigence
And you wonder why the folks
In your run down neighborhood
Don’t recognize you as a kindred soul
‘Cause they know you gotta a bed
In a sunny sub-division
Anytime you wanna run home

Celtic Myth Podshow 20: The Insult of Finbarr
Dungeons & Dragons Podcast 29: Mailbag
Braindouche! NaPodPoMo 21: ccuurrccuuss
Braindouche! NaPodPoMo 24: Braindouche! Radio goes Commercial
Braindouche! NaPodPoMo 23: Doodles
Despair, Inc Audio Podcast: Addressing Employee Complaints (from 2 years 9 months ago)
BBC Cymru: Elain Edwards, Gwyl Swn, Sam James, BB Aled a Richard Griffiths
Steampod 6: Victoria
School of Podcasting: Time Saving - Money Making Tip
Wapcaplets 32: Cows for Christmas
Player One Podcast 109: Precious PP
The Podge Cast 19: Return of the Lucias
The Podge Cast Campaign Recap: Kingdom the Next Generation 8
Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files 79: Models of Leadership
The Company 16: It’s Coming
Love Long and Prosper! 97: Jack Doesn’t Play the Theramin
PCMag Radio Nov 25, 2008: Black Friday Holiday Special
WrimoRadio Monday, Week Four!
WrimoRadio Wednesday, Week Four!
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week 160: Robin #180
Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts 232: Thanksgiving
The Tome 91: DCC 53-55
The Seanachai: Fun with the Bird
Evo @ 11 15: Red Headed White Boy!
Random Signal 80: Thankful for Robots

I can’t seem to root out all of these awesome and after multiple repeated listenings, somewhat annoying RotO Street PSAs. Arghyeah!

(I need a better system for doing this. Or to not do it. It took over an hour today to figure out which casts I had listened to, write that down, purge them from my podcatcher, and I still haven’t cleaned the media player library or tidied up the messy tags on the new ‘casts I just downloaded. I need a better system.)

BrainDouche! No Strangers To Love
Heat Flash 63
The Seanachai: A Cracker After All
Jack Jaffee 12 Volt Theater Down the Road 15: Dirt Mites
Engadget 119
The Weird Show 107.5: Not Forever, Just for Now
The Weird Show 108: Flashback to 2004-11-13
Atomic Array 10
Creative Screenwriters: Slumdog Millionaire Q&A
Dan Carlin Common Sense 39
Dan Carlin Hardcore History 24
The Magic Sock 145
Cemetery Things: A Word
The 9th 77
Junkie Mae’s Chop Shop 5
Geek of all Trades 11
Jack Mangan’s Deadpan 111
Cato Daily Podcast: Gun Control on Trial
The Network Security Podcast 129
Dungeons & Dragons Podcast: Bob and Gino Salvatore

BBC Radio Cymru C2: Elain yn LA, Sgorgasms, y ffilm ‘W’
SeoulPodcast 30
The 9th 75
The 9th 76
Christiana Ellis’ Shallow Thoughts 226
Christiana Ellis’ Shallow Thoughts 231
RotO Street PSA Grillz
RotO Street PSA Keepin it Real
RotO Street PSA Don’t Hate the Playa
The Best of East Meets West 142
Buzz Out Loud 861
1UP Yours! November 28th 2008

I got an interesting email from Facebook today. Yeah, seems that they lost my email settings somehow.

This is interesting because they emailed me to let me know about it.

Obviously, they hadn’t lost my email address. Merely my notification settings. And yet, despite not knowing if I even wanted them to email me notifications, they did so.

I mean, wow.

Buzz Out Loud 860
Cato Daily Podcast: The Bailout
Shallow Thoughts 230: Training
Geek Radio Daily November 25th 2008
LAN Party 11/20/2008
Pulp Gamer Inside Track 63
Pulp Gamer Out of Character 63
Geek Cred 27
Dan Carlin Common Sense 138
Dan Carlin Hardcore History 23 - Punic Nightmares III
Dungeons & Dragons Podcast 28: DDM
HE Roulo Fractured Horizon 17
gdgt weekly 13
PCMag Radio Nov 20, 2008: PC Mag Goes All Digital
RotO Street PSA’s 2 - Dead Presidents
Truth Seekers 64: Post-Election Gripes
Evo @ 11: 14 - Evo’s Back and Pissing Off Stewardesses Everywhere
WrimoRadio Wednesday, Week Three
How I WoW 12: The Spags