Archive for October, 2007

Explaining Japanese Internment

The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon blog is at it again with this post that includes a propaganda video about the “Japanese Relocation” in the US during WW II. For a little context, this is a post for an Asian American Literature class being taught by Professor Scanlon at UMW. Have I failed to mention [...]

God isn’t my co-pilot…

…but after my impulse purchase at the Onion Store, Jesus is now officially my car insurance. The Reverend rides in the Bible Belt!

I actually bought two extras because the shipping & handling costs were more than the actual bumper sticker. So to fully engage recent accusations of my being shameless, I will gladly send [...]

The D’Arcy Norman Effect

From Alex Ragone’s post Not Drupal, WordPress MU (emphasis mine):
So a few weeks ago I blogged about the Drupal installation I was going to create. I had a plan and began to implement it. I had installed Drupal in a Multi-Site configuration but as I worked on the server, I realized that it was too [...]

Halloween Nostalgia: The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch

Ok, so besides the Toxic Avenger, New Jersey had one other amazing cultural treasure: The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch
Anyone who lived in the New York/New Jersey area during the 70s and 80s probably has some memories of this place, if only through their crazy commercials.

For those of you who are unaware of this [...]

Why I want to move to Tokyo

Linktribution Jack Turner’s Thought Bucket

An Impressionistic History of Skateboarding, Part 1

As the nostalgia kicks in full force, I am transported back to Long Island during the 80s. My brother and I (16 and 13 respectively) built a half-pipe in our backyard while my Mom was enduring an extended stay in the hospital. Needless to say, she had a bit of surprise in store upon her [...]

Babyland’s “Worst Case Scenario”

I’m going through a bit of a nostalgia period (I am highly susceptible to this perceived weakness) and–as with most things–my remembrances of things past is often mediated by music and movies. The internets make my bouts of time travel so much richer and nuanced.
So, more to come from this journey back in [...]

WPMu’s Change of Address Form

Just found this simple and quite useful plugin called Change Blog URL by Kt that allows you to change the URL of your WPMu blog with one click. I tested it out on UMW Blogs and it works flawlessly with version 1.25a.
This plugin allows blog user to change their blog URL from existing one [...]

Faculty websites made easy

Thanks to Cathy Derecki’s design/PHP skills we are currently experimenting with the possibility of using WPMu to allow faculty to create their own website/blog space with relative ease. Currently faculty and staff have a public folder as a part of their network space that will allow them to include basic HTML, it doesn’t allow [...]

Planet Terror: “Just like your video games”

After all the fun we had in our discussion about Death Proof, I broke down and watched Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. If I was tepid on Tarantino’s films before Death Proof, my feelings towards Rodriguez’s work was bordering on hostile. Once again, however, I found myself enjoying the other Grindhouse movie immensely. [...]




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