For geeks who have considered suicide when a Content Management System is enuf.
I still get some markup artyfacts from weather.gov, but at least it
displays a temperature for our area on its page again, which mostly fixes
Meteo. I think I’m
going to stick with the Wunderground listing for a while, though,
because it allows Meteo to include a radar shot. That is
awesome. You mouseover radar and you get a full-size Radar shot. A
static shot but nonetheless a radar shot. Too cool.
I will have to try
these. I usually try to warm up the colors in post-production, but
it sure would be nice to be able to warm it up while shooting. Just
because something’s a historical document doesn’t mean it needs to look
like a text document.
Sometime yesterday afternoon,The National Weather Service’s local listing stopped showing the current temperature [inserting NULL], which breaks Meteo, which makes me sad.
The best fix I’ve been able to find is to use Weather Underground’s listing, but I feel kind of dirty using their listings without looking at their ads.
An aussie radio documentary. Ran across this on Chromedecay while trying to figure out why Big Sonic Heaven wasn’t on 96.3 last night [I tuned in on my way home from a gathering, but it was a commercial, then Uncle Kracker’s well-done but unnecessary remake of “Drift Away”]. [The chromedecay link goes to a rather scathing indictment of BSH impresario and longtime Detroit radio jock Darren Revell.] Looks like Rob Chrome got his wish, because, per Ethos, Darren apparently left the show back in February. February? You can tell I don’t get much opportunity to drive on Sunday nights anymore. More vexing, the 96.3 site doesn’t even list BSH anymore [it used to be under “Specialty Shows,” with Ann DeLisi, who incidentally is a very nice person who once IDed a song for me via email. The freakin’ MUSIC DIRECTOR handling email requests from random listeners. That’s pretty awesome. I hope she brings BSH back someday, it used to be one of my favorites. And if it makes her feel any better, the wife really likes 96.3 during the day.
Boy, am I ever sorry I asked.
…and so do mine and
Michaels at TeeVee.
As long as Jerry Bruckheimer keeps making this and Without a Trace, we forgive him for “Kangaroo Jack.”
Well, Taylor included the first Law & Order blogbutton on his
Steal These page, but then he
didn’t include a link back here on there. Either he didn’t like the idea, or he
didn’t like my .commentary. [Come on, how many BlogShares buttons do we really need?]
Anyway, Pete Rock made
some more for those of you who like the thumbnail portrait thing.
Give him a shout on his guest book if you’re not that german guy who keeps hitting
up the poor tokalans for free domains for his porn sites.
Have you been over to Steal
These lately? There’s over 300 of them, just like there are over 300
episodes of the various Law & Order series [episodes 299 and 300 of the
flagship series air tonight on NBC]. About half of the “Steal These”
buttons are grassroots advertising for Dreamhost and various soft
drinks, so I thought I might contribute to further page clutter
with some buttons for the various Law & Order series.
Law & Order
TITLE="Det. Lennie Briscoe">
TITLE="Exec. ADA Ben Stone">
TITLE="Exec. ADA Jack McCoy">
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TITLE="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fan.">
TITLE="Det. John Munch">
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TITLE="Law & Order: Criminal Intent fan.">
TITLE="Det. Robert Goren">
Got a request? Lay it on me. Mailto link is to the left there.
I would love a “dude, rock” message if you like a button/s and use it/them,
but it’s not necessary. As per usual with my CC license, don’t try to
sell anything with these things without letting me know, but if you do
manage to sell them, more power to you. I just kludged these up in a
few minutes with WinGIMP and a
graphic from
Feel free to download Silkscreen and put “Olivia” or “Fin” or “Cragen” in
there if you want, too. Maybe fix the L&O logo, I know it didn’t shrink
too well. Work your elfin magic.
As for sites to link to with these buttons… well, there used to be some
great fansites I can’t find anymore. You could try
sites for the various series.
has some character descriptions to help the novice L&O fanfic writer
[which I am not, but still]. Dick Wolf
himself used to have a great
site with episode capsules and such, but it just points to Universal
now. Good luck.
UPDATE: The first submitted L&O button hits the mean streets.
This one’s for the Orbach fan. Give Peter a holla, yo.
You may be wondering what I thought of it, since darn near everything
I read this week seems to have an opinion on how Hoss Wheelin’ revived the
franchise with the innovative plot twists of the final episode.
One of these years I’ll borrow my mom’s DVDs and catch up on the whole
thing so I can talk real shop. I don’t know much more than what I
gleaned from playing the game and seeing TV ads for the show. I think I
have watched a couple of the reruns on FX.
Normally a show like that would be right up, as they say, my alley, but I
didn’t start watching it when it came on because I was frequently busy in
the evenings with my life as a game show host and CIA assassin, and I didn’t
think the show had a snowbunny’s chance in the Hellmouth of lasting more
than 13 episodes. Naturally, it went for, what, seven seasons? So all
you Buffy fanatics owe me a big fat thank you for not getting hooked on
it and therefore keeping it on the air long enough to jump high over the
shark, if a good half of the reviews I have read are accurate.
It was pretty rockin’ the way Buffy teamed up with Ruben to kill Clay
though. Ruben is so obviously the fairest of them all, and I was so glad
that he proposed to Jen. I am already looking forward to next season,
when Bob from Ferndale
becomes the newest D.A. on The All New Musical ABC’s
The Practice™. I predict a Carole
Bayer Sager night and a May-sweeps tornado theme crossover with
CSI:Omaha®!
