eeew.

smarty looks cool. it’s a php templating system which does php compiles so it doesn’t have to parse on every execute, and also has the option to cache as well.

i stopped by attardi.org for the first time. it’s a very neat site. i’m really digging the design and the backend schtuff.

john weir is the guy behind the iht design. in addition to that, he has some great demos online as well. the text/image scaling is particularly slick.

check out this clip from smallville, the tale of superman, set as wb teenage drama. oh the laughter. hmm, actually, you can read some reviews of the pilot on aicn.

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything

The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor.

Next-Generation ‘buddy Lists’ Could Transform Phone Habits

wow, this nasubi show looks like it’s for real. scary. discussion on /.

interesting post speculating on some internet content player which cites some that are doing well, vs some that aren’t and in relation to what kind of strategy a company needs to survive and be successful online.

from a stavesacres writeup:

Regarding the album title, Salomon remarks, “People do what they believe, and when what they believe is absolute, that belief takes complete control. I believe in gravity absolutely, so I’m controlled in such a way that I’ll do whatever its laws demand I do. The question is do I believe in God absolutely? When we wrote this record, I was going through significant personal trials. I had to ask myself whether I was going to quit or have the faith to see it through, and if I was going to see it through, would I see it through to the end no matter what? If the album has a theme, it’s a challenge to consider what in life do you consider absolute and what should that mean?”

* note, you will be bound by the laws of gravity even if you believe absolutely that it doesn’t exist. corollary: just because you believe doesn’t make it true.

actually, i should probably add that, i am in agreement that belief is very powerful, but this power on a local level does not in any have any relation to a sort of objective reality, and seems to me, to rather imply the very opposite (because each person has a different worldview, and if belief is all that matters… subjective reality leads inevitably to conflict)… but i am bothered by the primacy of existence that’s placed by objective reality when it can only be understood through perception (but can not avoid being filtered through a priori understanding). i’m rambling again. time for a nice cold glass of koolaid.