the reality tunnel

I just heard this story at work: Over the weekend, a black clad figure along with a number of rooftop lookouts were arrested for going down Kirkwood and just cutting telecommunications wires. A bank security guard thought they looked sketchy and reported them.

linkit: “I noticed that when I blog, that there are words that I type frequently that I would like to show up as links for my readers, but I’m always too lazy to type in the urls. So, I threw together some javascript to parse paragraphs in an html document and create hyperlinks for certain [...]

A friend pointed me to the googlemap drupal module. I installed this module on terrorware.com and its pretty cool, but I’ve had some problems. This module is cool, but currently limited – or rather limited by the location module. The googlemap (gmap) module gets data about the event from longitude and lattitude tags in the [...]

Kanye West’s Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC: “West: I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, ‘They’re looting.’ You see a white family, it says, ‘They’re looking for food.’ And, you know, it’s been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people [...]

use the msconfig program.

I went to Pages to Prisoners tonight and on Monday nights, its mostly students in the service learning program, a program where students get college credit for volunteering with community organizations and writing about/discussing their experience and social issues related to the volunteering or organization. Tonight, Megan, who is the volunteer coordinator, read some news [...]

I had this problem on the iMacs at the IU computer lab. From http://real.lithium.com/real/board/message?board.id=MacPlayer&message.id=201: This is a problem on some recent Macintosh hardware, and affects a variety of audio software. The usual fix is to launch Apple’s GarageBand software once.

Where to Donate: Grassroots/Low-income/People of Color-led Katrina Relief: “Grassroots/Low-income/People of Color-led Hurricane Katrina Relief”

someone sent this to the defiance, ohio e-mail account: PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR FILL UP ON THE 6TH OF SEPTEMBER 2005 AND NO GAS ON THE 7TH, 8TH, OR 9TH 2005 TIRED OF THE GAS PRICES?? Let’s all stand up and makea statement – we won’t pay these prices. Please fill up on the [...]

Renee wanted to know how to get a copy of Windows XP. It looks like IU students can get it for $10 on CD from IMU 074. I had to return The Confusion to the library. I was on p. 350 in the section where Eliza was using a masque with party guests as unwilling [...]