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Archives for March, 2009

Pointless Twitter Widget
March 23rd, 2009

I took a few moments to plug my current Twitter feed into the sidebar. The individual entries don’t look quite right, but I’ll need to poke at some of feed’s Javascript to fix it. If I get particularly bored I might even throw in an expanding pane to display shared items from Google Reader. [...]


Good (Ad) Dog
March 17th, 2009

People are pretty damn good at ignoring ads, since there’s no longer any (sane) way to avoid them. The cold-war response is to make the ads louder and more obnoxious, which only makes the occasional clever and well-executed ad all the more surprising –

It took me a moment for everything to come together, but when [...]


Today’s Histori-fact™
March 8th, 2009

Operation Coffee Cup was a campaign intended to organized opposition to “socialized medicine”, or Medicare. Regan cut a record for it.

On the recording Reagan states the following about Medicare –

…one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like [...]


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