“Poetry is an action”

Kristie and Kevin remind me that today is the hundredth anniversary of Pablo Neruda’s birth. Kristie posts her fave Neruda sonnet, which also happens to be mine as well (creepy, no?), at The Dish: Poetry is an action: Sonnet LXXVIII by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) I have no never-again, I have no always. In the sand [...] [...]

Ever-so-sidetracked, I am.

Long story, but I just followed links and found myself on a recap of a “West Wing” ep. Television Without Pity has this hilarious diversion. We then see Brent Spiner standing in front of a driving-school car. Oh man, I wish Data had been my driver’s ed instructor. ‘You must turn the wheel twelve degrees [...] [...]

There’s a hole in Mozilla and Firefox! However…

Seems there’s a potential hole in Windows NT/2000/XP renditions of Mozilla (1.7.0 and earlier), Firefox (0.9.1 and earlier), and Thunderbird (0.7.1 and earlier), which could allow an attacker to open other software on the Windows system or even crash it. I know that R* is formulating a lengthy respose to me about how that just [...] [...]

If you absolutely MUST see the film this way,

Boing Boing posted instructions for getting “Fahrenheit 9/11″ through BitTorrent. (Of course, by seeing said documentary at home instead of in the theaters, you’re reducing the ticket sales; ticket sales figures are half the buzz for any new film, and buzz draws people to see a movie, and we WANT lots of people to see [...] [...]

Finally, The Onion ‘splains everything.

At least as far as Fahrenheit 9/11 is concerned. This week’s Infograph covers the underlying bases of right-wing idealogues’ objections to said award-winning documentary. Suddenly everything makes sense… [...]