Getting a software release to work — especially a web application
under Windows — is such a royal pain in the ass that reading the
comment threads to my LiveJournal Childfree Community entry and the Childfree Community’s response entry is pretty relaxing in comparison.
(I don’t worry too much about arguing on the internet; they often heat up to ridiculous degrees, as this Red vs. Blue movie [21 MB QuickTime] points out.)
Maybe I should go annoy the Furries next.
Kathleen of blogkathleen writes:
Ping Affinity Networks service, we have selected Blogware over Typepad
as the underlying blogging engine.
New York Times caption:
“R.W. Apple of The Times, left, and Jack Germond of the Balitmore
Sun have covered presidential elections for decades. Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette.com is covering her first.” (Photo by Neal Slavin)
From Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail
(Truth be told, a lot of folks in the blogosphere are shaped more like the men in the photo.)
For the longest time, I’ve preferred Bono the spritual guy versus Bono’s band. With the occasional bright spot, U2’s singles have really failed to really grab me since The Joshua Tree, which I exchanged for a copy of The Smiths’ Louder Than Bombs,
a decision that I do not regret even to this day (more tracks, less suck).
I reiterate: U2 have
occasionally come out with singles that I liked, but not in that same
way that every track in their early albums such as Boy, October and War got me. It may have been my youth (I was a spiky-haired teenager when those albums came out, and I got them on vinyl), but their later work has often left me feeling rather like His Holiness in this photo:
“Forgive them, for they know not how much they suck.”
However, the new single, Vertigo,
impresses me. In fact, it impresses me to the point of my wanting to
say “All right, impostors: where are U2 and what have you done with
them?”
Nicely done, gentlemen. I’m interested to hear what the rest of the album sounds like.
Bonus link: The Negativland single, U2, featuring studio outtakes of Casey Kasem swearing during a recording session of American Top 40 over the tune of I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.
Remember the Star Wars Gangsta Rap Flash video? There’s a special edition version with re-done animation.