@RossInDetroit:

Not exactly what you're looking for, but here's a list of banned names that you can't put on personalized NFL jerseys.

article:
http://www.outsports.com/nfl/2005/0301nflshop.htm

list (potentially NSFW):
http://outsports.com/nfl/2005/0301nflshopnaughtywords.htm

I used this list awhile back for a fortune 500 company's web app so people didn't use objectionable user names.

Needless to say, it's good reading (and probably NSFW).

@55 You say "it's all about precise control of the content". Amazingly enough, that's what people said in the 80s when they refused to use compliers. "But I'm just more efficient!" "The complier can't optimize like I can". "I don't believe the complier can produce good code".

Are the tools really this bad? Maybe we're really just stuck in the 80s.

In my experience, the tools were that bad.

I don't think you can use that excuse any more though, at least with Dreamweaver, as it's leaps and bounds better than it was years ago.

While my experience with compilers is limited, I wouldn't be surprised that they, in general, had some growing pains as well.

@ 48:
The car drove perfectly fine, and he drove it for years. I think at one point later on in it's life the plastic mounts holding the power window control arm to the glass in the window mechanism jammed, and the window slid into the gap in the door and shattered, but I think that was a known issue with that model year of Jettas and probably wouldn't have much to do with the car hanging on the wall.

You are correct. That's a known issue with a couple of VW models during that time.

@37 I'm sorry, but am I the only one here who finds this incredibly sad? Is this really the state of the much vaunted Web 2.0/3.0/whatever - that people are bragging about HAND CODING their content?

It's all about precise control of that content. "Back in the day", Frontpage and Dreamweaver added all sorts of nonsense that would blow all your code to hell and back, and they'd have to find someone to remove or recode the page so that it would actually perform similarly across browsers.

CSS has made this a little easier to deal with presently, not that there aren't certain standards which aren't correctly implemented in certain browsers.

I have to say that one program that has been consistently good across the years is BBEdit. It's a shame it's Mac only.

I'm a professional web developer who has coded by hand for 10+ years in many programming languages. I've always hated WISYWIG tools for all of the extra junk that they put in the code that could have been done much more elegantly with half the amount of characters.

I'm currently using Dreamweaver CS3. In its 'Code' view, it's a pretty powerful text editor with some nice auto-complete features once you get the hang of them.

The rare times I use the 'Design' view is as a quick preview window and I don't actually modify anything in that view. Obviously all of your testing should be done in the specific browsers themselves.

So it makes me think that this design director is so far removed from the grunt work of coding (and advice of his coders) that he'd make a blanket statement like that. Either that, or he's just so old school that he doesn't know that the latest products compensate for a programmer's desire to hand code.

@MCGRINGOSTARR

Is this the review you mentioned?

http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/bratz_the_movie

I've had great fun with Y: The Last Man (I read 3 volumes this weekend), and The Walking Dead.

I'd also submit that Wormwood is quite good as well, and I seem to recall hearing about it here.

According to Webware it's real.

Last week, I started rolling the paper clips, pencils, and post-it notes on my desk into small spheres.

Today, my neighbor's dog was an unfortunate casualty of my sphere-rolling addiction, not to mention their mailbox - which is a federal crime.

This is a cry for help, before I roll again!

While not a gadget, an ISP/data center I've used in the past for hosting and co-location is about 18 months out from opening their "green data center". So at least it's tech-related.

I'm pretty psyched about it, but I get excited easily.

http://wistechnology.com/articles/4074/?id=4074

http://renewableinternet.com/

@ STEFAN JONES

From your link: "A ba-a-a attachment also makes this goat more goaty."

That is all sorts of awesome.

You should one-up them for stealing your idea and instead do it on a raft in a lake.

So... I think I missed the 'game' part.

In the U.S.A. that I grew up in, popular media always depicted the "bad guys" as being the ones who tortured.

Nazis, Viet Cong, Stasi, KGB, drug cartels - these were the enemies of freedom and democracy and their use of torture embodied their draconian ideology and disregard for human suffering.

Nowadays, if Jack Bauer needs some information then it doesn't matter what he does as long as it produces "results".

The end justifies the means... A pretty telling benchmark on how this country has abandoned its ideals.

And we're just the frog in the pot of water while they're turning up the temperature.

Ack!

Reminder to self when getting hair cut tonight:
Keep repeating how great it looks regardless of the actual appearance.

@MHOTEL: I was thinking the same thing.

Here's the video of crows cracking nuts with cars.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ny661wLDSn8

Oh man, that was great! The best part was when he was tapping the sheriff's bald head with the knuckles.

"How's that feel right there?" *tap tap tap tap*

And they were doing the world a favor when they punched that Miller Lite into oblivion.

This made my day. Great find.

For those of you with issues, you can purchase a variety of Onion Goggles (pops) in a variety of sizes and styles.

Very cool.

Thanks for doing this. If it's as good as I expect, I'll have to go buy a retail copy too.

Random tangent about Robert Anton Wilson:
I was at a rave at a Chicago warehouse in the early 90's, and halfway through the night the music stopped and lo-and-behold, Mr. Wilson started speaking.

It was very surreal to see a bunch of raver kiddies all sitting in a circle on the cold concrete floor listening to the imposing, grandfatherly figure of Wilson.

I remember clearly the last line of his speech, "And people ask me, when was the last time I took acid? And I tell them, today!"

Obviously, that got a huge cheer.

Disclaimer: I do not promote and have never done acid, but obviously he did

I found this tool a few weeks ago - maybe it would work for you?

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

Now all we need is a 303 and 808 simulator, and we can drop acid beats anywhere with a web connection!

I applaud any item that can help serve as a transition point to start to appreciate craft brews.

It's just a shame that these poor souls will need to endure drinking Heineken to get there.

Blech!

I used to code for an online art retailer years ago and had a chance to see a coppery version of this cabinet that had been returned by a customer.

From what I remember, many of us were disappointed with the functional quality of the piece, as it had sharp edges and the coloring was flaking off in your hands like it was rusting.

However, maybe it was never intended to actually be touched, and/or the product may have improved since then.