News You Can Bruise for April 12, 2002

Fri Apr 12 2002 08:41:

DSR: DMV crosstitch, cross stitch astronomy pattern

I get suprisingly many requests for cross-stitch patterns of various odd kinds; cross stitch scooby doo free patterns was another recent one. It makes me wonder whether the cross stitch community is actually a representational subset of the polity at large, such that you have lovers of smartass bumper stickers who want the same experience in a cross-stitch (I can't imagine a DMV cross-stitch saying anything complimentary about the DMV), cross-stitch/astronomy buffs, cross-stitching Cartoon Network-watching stoners, etc.

My father, not the stereotypical cross-stitch producer, did cross-stitch as a hobby, but as far as I know it was always the sappy kind with roosters and inspirational messages. When did the market expand to such an extent? Was it the poster for Fargo that did it?

I personally would love a cross-stitch of this so-unrealistic-it's-kitchy-yet-completely-real picture, but I doubt cross-stitch has a high enough resolution for it.

Fri Apr 12 2002 09:10:

One Tim Stoop recommended PHP-Nuke for the Segfault rewrite. The author of PHP-Nuke lives in Venezuela and the current top story is on the current crisis there.

Fri Apr 12 2002 09:55:

I'm not terribly excited about the new Google API because their Terms Of Service prohibit me from doing "meta-searches", and even though I'm not sure what "meta-searches" are, I hate being prohibited from doing meta-anything.

Fri Apr 12 2002 12:15:

Googlewhack I found as someone else's search request: fgebhfgehc nagvonpgrevny (rot13ed as usual; contains a proper noun and as such is invalid under Hoyle's Rules of Googlewhacking (revised)).

Fri Apr 12 2002 14:13:

Congratulations to the Subversion team on their latest triumph, by which I mean "milestone release".

Fri Apr 12 2002 14:16:

Word Replacement Headline Watch (and Extraneous Quotation Marks Headline Watch; a double header!): 'Cracks' in China's Three Gorges dam should be "'Cracks' in China's Three Stooges dam".

Fri Apr 12 2002 14:47:

New crocodile!

"Other types of crocodile are much larger." Don't be so apologetic!

Fri Apr 12 2002 16:22:

Thanks to my position on Cam's list of weblogs I found this nifty weblog watch, on which I am occasionally featured. Enterprising nanotechnologies are being sold by software piracy!

Fri Apr 12 2002 17:53:

Given this sorry lot, The Daily Californian wishes voters luck in choosing.

Fri Apr 12 2002 19:35:

Wow, CSS is really cool! I got email from Rajarshi Guha, who set up a NewsBruiser installation and wanted to get it to work with CSS. I'm implementing that now (using CSS files he gave me) and it's a lot of fun.

Fri Apr 12 2002 22:08:

I went a little CSS crazy, both in terms of abuse of CSS on Crummy and in terms of the customizability of NewsBruiser through of CSS. So far I've defined 10 CSS classes.

Fri Apr 12 2002 22:34:

Aaaaand... the image link thing is productized. Time to commit to CVS and cut another release.

Fri Apr 12 2002 23:14:

OK, new stuff is in CVS (commit message). I'll do a release tomorrow after I update all the docs.

News You Can Bruise for 2002 April 12