Living the Liminal

Here are some of the details of Bush’s budget proposal:

The President once again requests that his 2001 and 2003 tax cuts be made permanent. Making these tax cuts permanent is estimated to cost over $2 trillion in lost revenue over the ten year period 2009 to 2018. These huge revenue losses are attributable to several [...]

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

While this makes me laugh, deep down I worry that it’s, you know, funny because it’s true. And by funny I mean scary-as-shit-because-it’s-true.

Back in October, I started this ten minute play project and today I’ve finished the tenth play.
Yay me! (Will be doing some rewrites here and there and then attempting to find directors and theaters to stage them, but at least the heavy lifting is done.)
What’s ironic is that this last play has no weird soundscape, [...]

SciFi Scanner is AMC’s science fiction blog (yes, that AMC) and Mr. Clayton Neuman was kind enough to link to my recent post about the movie version of Stardust in the Daily Scan for February 19.
SciFi Scanner’s my new best friend and I’m adding them to my blogroll as I type this.
(Link)
Also, the most excellent [...]

I just finished reading what has got to be one of the most professional “fan-fic” books ever done. Stephen Brust, author of a number of books including “To Reign in Hell: A Novel”, “Jhegaala (Vlad)”, and “Sethra Lavode (The Viscount of Adrilankha)”, has written a Firefly novel and–here’s the ultra-cool part–is giving it away! It’s [...]

For some reason I find the trend of referring to Obama’s supports as “cultish” highly offensive and disturbing:
A Tuesday night broadcast on ABC News’ Nightline offered an example ofbehavior it implied might be ‘cult-like.’ Show host Terry Moran started out thereport calling Obama’s base “a massive and fervent following.” CorrespondentDavid Wright then referred to the [...]

From the mouths of puppets:

This was created by a group called monochrom which is an:
art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs [...]

Which brings us up to 9 of the 10 plays that I am planning on for this project.
The Hermit
Again, I would love to get feedback on any or all of these plays. All of them have room for revisions and some of them may need significant rewriting, so your thoughts would be extremely helpful.
You’ll find [...]

I came across this great hint on MacOSXHints.com that I thought I’d share with any of you fellow Leopard users:

When using the volume control function keys on an Apple laptop, there’s a limited amount of control over the volume — each key press moves the volume by one entire unit in the onscreen [...]

You want a real stimulus package? One that would spark a huge amount of investment, home-ownership, and spending? Sending individuals $600 is not going to stimulate the economy and the idiots in Congress know this, they are simply and cynically pretending that they are doing something for the people.
So, you want to really do [...]