Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

On podcasts

Ah, podcasts. These things have saved my sanity throughout the summer. Some of these are worthy of linkage and sharing. Not all--luckily, since I listen to entirely too many--but some. First, the [tag]Performance Poetry[/tag] podcast I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Amazing stuff. Another favorite of mine is Next ...

Self-identity and identity blogging

In the past couple of days, I've been asked what the deal is with all the porn/sex-related links here on this site. I find this a little silly, since the proportion isn't much different than for technology, race, and news/political links I post, but I suppose sex is always ...

Quasi-daily linkage

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...

I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...

They Might Be Giants. Maybe.

I got to see them last weekend in Hotlanta, GA. Pretty good show, although it had a more "indie" feel than I was expecting. I guess Greg's idolization of them leads me to think of them as a fairly major/big-label group, which they aren't. They put on a good ...