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some of you might want to check out some of the cool new feeds i stumbled onto today: Doonesbury, This Modern World (hacked), Tom Tomorrow's Blog (hacked), a much better Wil Wheaton (again, hacked all to hell), Red Meat (yes, hacked), The Straight Dope (guess), and... i dunno. there's more.

the bummer about the hacked ones is that they refeed every damn hour or so.

check them out (all my feeds) here:
transmothra.livejournal.com/friends/feeds

other feeds can be found here. (psst! Neil Gaiman's in there!)

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technothrope.com is coming along nicely... although i do hate the fact that i haven't even gotten into the nitty gritty bits yet, and i've already put at least a hundred hours into the damned thing. right now i'm still working on the themes, changing the default logos and incidental graphics where needed. in fact, i haven't even played around with the damn thing yet! (can someone tell me what the fuck the "avant go" feature of phpNuke is for??)

i've got ten megs just in themes alone here, folks. and that's not counting all the really cool ones i had to set aside for tweaking. you'd be surprised how many really good designs damn near got nixed because the designer ignored 800*600 rez. dumb-asses. that's exactly why i leave my screen set on that resolution. (i'm also not even thinking about getting a faster connection-- if my stupid Flash crap causes somebody consternation while it's downloading, i want to feel the pain, too.)

also, the domain should be live very very shortly. at present, it's pulling up my 404 error page, which it should. DNS info has probably not propogated all the way across the 'net, though, which means you may get an error page.

also, can anyone tell me why i shouldn't just use my terrible society (phpBB2) database and just use suffixes for the tables? i mean, i can only assume there might be a performance issue, but i'm just not sure. especially since the latest beta is designed to link up with phpBB2 anyway.

my Uncle Kent is here. he's the hip fucker who turned me on to the Talking Heads and Cowboy Junkies. so yay!

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FINALLY got to hear a song from GH's new posthumous album. go damn i love that slide guitar playing of his. George Harrison is possibly the most underrated rock guitarist in the world. and for slide players... jesus. NOBODY can play slide like that. where does he get it???! now i can play a little slide here and there, but i certainly can't make it weep like THAT. christ, how beautiful.

we miss you George.

does anybody know if there's a used book store on the 'net that runs kinda like Django's?

happy birthday Jimi.

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i'm just going to assume that all of my LJ friends know about Buy Nothing Day and leave it at that. no links, no explanations, no nothing. that way i can let people get to work doing their own thing to save the planet.