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You scored as Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo). You have spent your life trying to live up to and impress your Dad, shame he never seemed to notice. You are a stickler for the rules. But in matters of loyalty and honour you know when they have to be broken. What New Battlestar Galactica character are you?created with QuizFarm.com I would have settled for being Boomer, if only to get rack time with both Helo and the Chief. Ah well, if I must be Commander Hottie, I suppose I must....
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Idealware: A Few Good Email Newsletter Tools So you're looking for a way to send out email in bulk. ... (tags: email nonprofit bulk tools)...
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NetSquared | A project of TechSoup "This site is the online home of our effort to highlight projects around the world that succeed at the intersection of pervasive access, new tools, and new audiences." (tags: nonprofit web2.0 marketing community technology social webdesign drupal) Harry Connick Jr. : People.com Say what you will about the current B'way revival of "The Pajama Game" and the performance of Harry Connick Jr. in it. You have to admit this: dude is LIMBER. Rowr! (tags: theatre) famfamfam.com: Silk Icons Free web icons, nicely executed. Expect ubiquity. (tags: icons free webdesign graphics) Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X For future reference, when I discover both a wealth of free time and ambition. (tags: webdesign rubyonrails web)...
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Shameless commerce: I am helping my funny friend Jill (aka The Lipschtick Lesbian) liquidate some of her videotapes and DVDs, along with a couple of my own, on eBay. If you bid, bid as though you were helping to pay for my godsons' college education, because you will be.* * Not entirely true. I will probably spend my portion of the proceeds on beer and Jill has been coveting a Prada belt. But we might buy the twins a cute jumper set or something....
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The things I will not do when I direct a Shakespeare production, on stage or film S'trewth. (tags: humor theatre shakespeare) Pretty as a Picture A few CSS-based weblog templates. (tags: css webdesign templates) Saturday Night Live - Two new SNL discs announced A compilation of SNL commercial parodies is coming to DVD May 23. I wish they'd re-released SNL Goes Commercial on DVD. Lots of good old stuff on that one and my VHS copy is dead. (tags: commercials parody saturdaynightlive snl dvd) Bathouse benefit (second item) Chicago's Steamworks has just announced that it will offer free genotype testing for men who test positive for HIV. I like Steamworks a lot and I like that they already offer free STD testing and education. (tags: aids testing chicago bathhouse gay) The Last Minute Blog » Right Click Upload to Flickr Add Flickr uploading to right-click (Control-click) menu on OS X using Automator. (tags: automator flickr osx macintosh utility) Using Drupal to Create Virtual ...
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Photobooth.net | Photobooth Locations Photobooths around the world. (tags: photography photobooths) Gay on the Range An archive of gay paperback artwork from the 50s and 60s. (tags: books sex gay design ephemera covers art) Strange Sisters An archive of lesbian paperback artwork from the 50s and 60s (tags: books art lesbian covers ephemera design sex)...
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defective yeti: Sark Defends Ports Deal TRON humor: always funny. (tags: tron humor defectiveyeti omgiamsuchageeksometimes) Snowfall - A Screen Saver for Mac OS X Stowing this for next winter. (tags: mac screensaver osx winter free macintosh) Color Scheme Generator The ability to see adjustments for various vision challenges is cool. (tags: webdesign color) ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox Another palette picker. (tags: webdesign color) Typetester — Compare fonts for the screen An online spec sheet for web type. Cool. (tags: fonts typography webdesign css) Landmark Rossino's restaurant prepares for final course I am sadness. I've been eating here for almost 20 years. Friends worked here. Plans were hatched here. A lot of pizza and pasta was consumed here. (tags: stlouis restaurant)...
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Lemonade Stand for OS X Lemonade Stand is a faithful port of a 1979 classic Apple II game. Test your business acumen by running a lemonade stand. Keep track of the weather, watch out for construction work, and manage your assets. Good clean fun for the whole family, and free! (tags: games apple osx appleii mac) Theaters get 'em while they're young | csmonitor.com A look at Kids Night on Broadway (tags: theatre marketing)...
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The Envelope.com Coverage of entertainment awards from the LA Times, including a database of every award ever. (tags: entertainmentj movies film theate theater awards database music) Using Sprint PCS Vision with Mac OS X Using your cell phone and all those delicious extra minutes as a modem. Nifty! (tags: sprint apple mac phone osx modem) Secret Cowboys Cowboys are frequently, secretly (fond of each other). Follow the (ahem!) bouncing ball and sing along with (ahem!) Willie. (tags: humor gay willienelson cowboys brokebackmountain) FlipClips DV-to-retro conversion. Turn digital video into a flip animation book. Coooool. (tags: video photo flipbooks gifts photography) Holding Pattern A screensaver that gives you a window seat without the annoying legroom issues. (tags: screensaver airplane) Software For Starving Students - UNIX & Open Source A single 500MB download from Apple of Open Source and UNIX software including productivity apps and others, free free free. (tags: apple ...
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It's not Web 2.0. It hasn't been acquired by Yahoo! or Google. It certainly won't help you Get Things Done. But it's a SXSW Eve tradition and it's back for 2006. Here's the scoop!...
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Moleskein to Mobile : How Creative Professionals Use Their Mobile/Cell Phones My pal Ms. Jen would like you to take a brief survey about your mobile phone usage for her masters thesis. Give her 5 minutes. (tags: survey mobile cellphone thesis masters msjen weblogcommunity) Savage Chickens: Chicken Cartoons by Doug Savage Capon laughin'! (tags: comics chicken)...
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A little help? Say you were going to find yourself in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a Friday night in February. Say you were a homosexual gentleman who appreciates an environment where one can lift a glass or two while enjoying good music, convivial conversation and some attractive "scenery". Where might you go to find such things?...
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Brokeback II: The Sequel In New York, at the Roxy, circa 1990. Go-go boys, thumping music. Supermodels Linda Evangelista and Tatjana Patitz are canoodling on a swing over the dance floor. Camera pans to the VIP room in the back. (tags: brokebackmountain satire) Gay Merit Badges by Larry Jens Anderson Something for your sash...or your sashay. (tags: gay humor badges shopping) NYT: Nielsen Will Start to Measure TV Habits of College Students "College students are only one unmeasured viewer group of many for networks like ESPN, which is often the default channel in restaurants and bars. Nielsen does not currently measure such group viewing..." (tags: entertainmentj tv nielsen ratings television) Chicago Tribune bit: Neighborhood watch "...we value their contributions to the neighborhood but will not tolerate watching unnatural and disturbing behavior." Like smoochin'. Buh. Asswipe. (tags: advice gay askamy chicago)...
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Dieter Steffmann @ typOasis Dozens of typefaces, including grotesques and ornamental text fonts. (tags: fonts typefaces free) Mike's Amazing Cakes These cakes are...well, amazing. I think the New Year's Party clock cake is my favorite. (tags: food cakes foodporn) Typewriter Art Unbelievable images created with a manual typewriter by artist Paul Smith. (tags: typewriter art) Albino Blacksheep - Live Design Style a site with CSS demonstrated in 18 steps. (tags: webdesign css tutorial) Toghaus / Urban Transit Wear / Chicago L Stop T-shirts, El train shirts Transit geek active wear. (tags: chicago transit t-shirts) Ad*Access Over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. (tags: advertising marketing design ads retro images) The Other Family For those who miss the Dysfunctional Family Circus. (tags: comics)...
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About six years after everyone else figured out how to do it, I've begun using the web bookmark manager del.icio.us to publish links to the good ol' "Clearing the Cache" category here on the weblog. The service writes out my links once a day and automagically publishes them here. I'm still working out a couple of kinks and I really wish I could change the title of the generated entry, but del.icio.us is a free service and beggars can't be choosers. The daily links (at least on days when there are links) will be published in the main weblog syndication feed, but if you'd like to get a feed of the links only, stick this in yer reader....
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Cereal Box Archive Pictures of every box of breakfast cereal you can think of (tags: cereal food reference) WEBoggle Online Boggle, an old favorite timesink (tags: boggle game timesink) Helios Calendar PHP calendaring software (tags: calendar webdesign) Steppenwolf Blog Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre has a new weblog. Nicely done. (tags: theatre webdesign) Yahoo! Design Pattern Library User interface guidelines for Yahoo! (tags: designpatterns yahoo webdesign) lost camera: camera unlost, but not quite found. Judith posts a post-mortem on the camera she lost in Hawaii. The comments calling for mob justice and questioning Judith's honesty are dismaying. The whole situation is upsetting. (tags: elfho) Weird Ads Weird, gross, or freaky personal ads from anyplace we find 'em. No, we didn't write them-- and yes, they're all real. (tags: personals) Center of Gravitas: Suggestions for Well-Meaning Texans "No, I didn't see last week's episode of Will and Grace. No, I don't think it shows ...
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I am not embarrassed to tell youThat ridiculously expensive spring water you may have seen me drinking recently? I've been refilling the bottle from my Brita pitcher for weeks.I screamed like a girl this morning when a spider dropped onto my head.I watch Four Kings every week, but only on TiVo triple fast-forward in case Seth Green takes his shirt off.I laughed until I snorted at this George W. Bush joke.Apparently, you can you can buy me at Wal-Mart....
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A few utilities new and old I can't don't want to live without:SafariStand adds all sorts of nifty useful features to Safari.PDFlab joins or separates PDF files without the need to open Acrobat.Renamer4Mac makes it easy to batch rename files. Just drag and drop.BetterHTMLexport makes automagically generating web galleries from iPhoto a snap, and provides significantly better control than iPhoto's built-in. (Compatible with iPhoto6.)Jumpcut, a simple, elegant clipboard extender built by my pal Steve.These things make it easier to do my job every day, and carry the BradLands Seal of Approval....
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Mr. Budiac has requested that I fill out my AOL member profile. Four jobs Ive had: Publicist for a leading American resident theatre company. 2000–present.Director of marketing for a community arts education center. 1997–2000.Promotions associate and editor for a public television station. 1995–1997.Freelance journalist. 1989–the occasional present. Four movies I can watch over and over: The American PresidentAirplane!The ProducersSeven Brides for Seven Brothers Four places Ive lived: St. Louis, Missouri. 1994–forevermore.Richmond Heights, Missouri. 1990–1994.Webster Groves, Missouri. 1987–1990.New London, Missouri. 1968–1987. Four TV shows I love: The West WingThe Dick Van Dyke ShowBattlestar GalacticaThe Big Valley Four places Ive vacationed: San Francisco, CaliforniaLas Vegas, NevadaParke County, IndianaNew York, New York (the city so nice they named it twice) Four of my favorite dishes: Stuffed lobster, Shaw's Crab House, Chicago, IllinoisBoeuf bourguignon, Chez Leon, St. ...
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I have been, for me, pretty patient and my uncomplaining perseverance has been rewarded. My first edition of Joe Keenan's new book, My Lucky Star, arrived today and it's taking every ounce of my sense of duty not to abandon the piles of work on my desk and steal away to a quiet coffee bar where I can read it cover to cover. The long-awaited third novel from the author of Blue Heaven and Putting on the Ritz is here! The Booklist precis:Struggling playwrights Philip and Claire are summoned to Tinseltown by their calculating friend Gilbert to be screenwriters for a legendary diva, Diana Malenfant, and her megastar son, Stephen Donato. When the budding screenwriters are revealed as inadvertent plagiarists, Philip is forced to ghostwrite the memoirs of Diana's toxic has-been sister, Lily, and turn over all potentially damaging pages to Diana and Stephen. Lily is threatening to expose the silver screen's best-kept secret, that Stephen is gay. All are coexisting in a glittery detente ...
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Televised Opera and Musical Comedy DatabaseDeveloped in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States. The database traces performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video....
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As one commenter avers, If Bush is so in the dark, why hasn't he been eaten by a Grue?...
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Thanks to the miracle that is the Internet (and each day I bow in the direction of Saint Al of Gore for inventing it), I've already seen the whole series but I nonetheless welcome with a hoot and a holler the news that Sci-Fi will soon be airing episodes of Doctor Who.The revamped adventures of BBC Wales' Doctor Who are to be seen by sci-fi fans in America, it has been announced. The first series of the cult programme starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper is to be screened by the American Sci Fi Channel. The screening deal was confirmed by the US channel and BBC Worldwide Americas on Thursday....
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The always enjoyable Something Old, Something New debriefs that staple of sit-comedy, The Stan Daniels Turn....
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Every New Year's Eve, half of all Germans plunk down in front of their televisions to watch a 1963 English comedy sketch called Dinner for One. Walk into any bar in Bavaria and shout the film's refrain: "The same procedure as last year, madam?" The whole crowd will shout back in automatic, if stilted, English: "The same procedure as every year, James." How an obscure British skit has become Germany's most popular New Year's tradition....
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A million (give or take) remixes of the Doctor Who theme music....
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The good, the very good and the "le sigh"...I have become a recent convert to and big fan of Amazon Prime, the "all-you-can-eat" free two-day shipping service. Of course, it's not free after the three-month trial they're offering; it renews at $79 annually. But for the amount of holiday shopping and incidental me-me-me buying I do, it will handily pay for itself and save me money besides. My Christmas treat to myself was a new digital camera. I flirted with the idea of making the jump to digital SLR but, based on some website reviews and personal recommendations, instead bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5. My golly, it's nice: A 12X optical zoom Leica lens, superior stabilization feature to reduce blur from handshake and enough manual settings to satisfy what little photo geek I have in me. I'm still getting the hang of its many features but for the price (about $350) and size, I'm mightily impressed. Last night, I returned home to discover that the hard drive on which my iTunes ...
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It looks as though Police Squad! finally may be coming to DVD! Huzzah! Once upon a time, I had two VHS cassettes of this short-lived TV show—upon which the Naked Gun movies were based—but I foolishly lent them and they slipped my grasp, never to return. I can't wait to get this show on disc. Despite having only a six-episode lifespan, there are so many classic moments to relive. In just one example, the series included one of my favorite comic exchanges of all time: Gangster: Who are you? And how did you get in here? Frank Drebin (undercover): I'm a locksmith. And...I'm a locksmith. The sight gags, the guest stars, the "freeze" takes at the end of each show. So much comedy gold....
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I'd been holding out a bit of hope that cutie John Barrowman would finally come to his senses and rush into my arms, but alas, that now seems not likely to be. He's gettin' hitched. (Congrats.)...
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