Monthly Archives: July 2007

Killer Shark (1972)

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Reverend

Jerry and I got to talking about classic arcade games yesterday (as we are wont to do along with 1980s music) and the 1972 electro-mechanical game Killer Shark came up as a topic of conversation. Killer Shark represents a brief … Continue reading →

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Get your bliki on!

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Reverend

That’s right, the WordPress MediaWiki mashup is gaining some momentum. Just check out the Blogfolio del Dr. Mario Nunez, a self-proclaimed “Blogfesor” at the Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez in beautiful Puerto Rico. I love it!!! The other thing I love … Continue reading →

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In Cold Blood

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Reverend

I picked up Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood for the first time this weekend. I am only a hundred pages in thus far, but I can only begin to suggest how artfully he frames the narrative in the first fifty … Continue reading →

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“Alternatives for BlackBoard”

Posted on July 29, 2007 by Reverend

It is always fun to see what search terms send people your way. In my case it’s usually keywords like De-Animator (the flash game), Simpsonizer (the Simpson-ized self-portrait maker), or Felix the Cat -now these are all topics I have … Continue reading →

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Commentpress, Interactive Libraries, and WPMu

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Reverend

Image used courtesy of Jessamyn‘s CC Flickr photos. “And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead.” Captain Kurtz in Apocalypse Now I saw Will Richardson’s post … Continue reading →

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Deep Thought #453: Porting the ELS Blogs WPMu install to a new domain

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Reverend

“Without order nothing can exist – without chaos nothing can evolve.” – Unknown Picture used courtesy of Ivanomak I spent most of the last two days (and all of today well into this evening -meaning now) finishing up a transfer … Continue reading →

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Mary Rowlandson meets Commentpress

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Reverend

I have set up a WordPress Multi-User test of CommentPress, a theme brought to you by the fine folks at The Future of the Book (in particular Bob Stein, Jessie Wilbur, and Eddie Tejada). This theme is absolutely sick (a … Continue reading →

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Cassavetes’s Husbands: Death, Funerals, and New York

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Reverend

“[Cassavetes] replaces the exhausted artifices of conventional movies with a new set of pseudo-realistic ones, which are mostly instantaneous clichés. As a writer-director, he’s so dedicated to revealing the pain under the laughter he’s a regular Pagliacci.” – Pauline Kael, … Continue reading →

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Bowman 2: Just when you thought it was safe to put away your quiver

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Reverend

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://bavatuesdays.com/wp-content/games/bowman2.swf” width=”475″ height=”400″ /] Thanks to Free Game Dude for the heads up!

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Who needs Netflix with the Internet Archive around?

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Reverend

Over the last month or so I have been scouring the Internet Archive for pubic domain films. Below are 31 of the 38 movies I bookmarked in del.icio.us that are currently available at Internet Archive (del.icio.us seems to be balking … Continue reading →

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