jonny dover

Words can't do justice, so take a look at the cover.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/01/pride_and_prejudice_and_zombies.php

This is the future of postmodern literature.

In the past month, I've gotten engaged, gotten a major promotion, and now this: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/and-winner-free-drupalcon-dc-ticket-isj...

Truly, I'm the luckiest guy I know. This is a world in which Barack Obama is soon-to-be-President and in which a plane can land on the Hudson. What a great world it is.

I just got back from the debate described here: http://lanceturner.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/tonight-a-watershed-moment-i...

And came away pleased with the results.

John Brummett is, of course, completely right in calling the Choose Your News feature a gimmick; on the other hand, Kristin Fisher did have a brilliant idea when she decided to livestream the news-gathering process.

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm is a book, available for free, about how the diamond markets work.

It's an extraordinary read, and it reminds me a lot of how powerful marketing is and what incredible forces are exerted on the minds of the public.

The diamond racket is vast and powerful and wants to own your thoughts on how to get married. Will you let them determine your ideas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Eg8F3rap4

Hate to link and run, but my designs are almost done rendering. This monologue is brought to you by the mostly silent Charlie Chaplin, and it's clever and brilliantly delivered and bears messages to which I think we all can relate.

I normally don't go for Joss Whedon's stuff, but frankly I'm dumbfounded at how awesome the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along blog is. Catch it free before the end of Sunday July 20 at http://www.drhorrible.com/act_I.html, and make sure to take a peek at the clever Master Plan Whedon's concocted: http://www.drhorrible.com/plan.html.

BarCamp is coming to Little Rock thanks to yours truly and a few pals! Come to the Flying Saucer October 11th from 11a-7p decked out in your geek suit and ready to present something awesome on any technological topic.

Make sure to register at http://barcamp.org/BarCampLittleRock and watch the developments at http://barcamplittlerock.com.

I'm really, really impressed with this distribution. It's got a few small improvements over 4.0, most notably in the size of the Software portal its Mint Install uses, but what really caught my attention was that my wireless card (a Broadcom of the sort that won't work with the 43xx and is essentially cranky to the extreme until I've fooled with ndiswrapper for about an hour) worked without touching the command line. Thanks, Restricted Drivers Manager!

Sure, there's no doubt that's actually the work of the Ubuntu devs, but still--it's good to have wireless up and running ASAP.

I've been trying to figure out where we're going for a two-week vacation right after The Girl graduates. We've tossed around Jamaica and the Phillipines and backpacking across Europe, but it's looking more and more like the best choice is closer to home: a retreat at Tassajara.

No Difference: Compassion and Freedom is one of the retreats/workshops they offer. If they have something awesome like that in the works a little bit closer to when we're going, I'm definitely signing on.

The Girl pointed out to me the other day that lots of rude driving would be eliminated if the potential rude driver would take the time to think about how it would feel to be on the receiving end.

This is true of many things.