Idiotprogrammer: Texas Literary Blog

Month: January 2004

  • Cheap Audio Books from the Internet

    Audiofilemagazine.com gives reviews of latest audio books. And oh, my god, Audiobooksforfree lets you download mp3’s of various quality, including complete novels for less than $5! This is truly remarkable! I guarantee that when I get my DVD writer installed (tomorrow or Saturday) I will buy 10 novels at least off the bat. Here’s their…

  • Interview with Bruce Sterling

    Here’s an interview with Bruce Sterling in Reason magazine. Lots of gems; my favorite: “Real novelists die in the arms of their fourth wife of cirrhosis of the liver at age 57, but science fiction writers are getting bestsellers by chewing over the supertrilogy of the trilogy?s trilogy at age 82. ” Bruce Sterling gives…

  • Share the Music Weblog Up!

    In case anyone was keeping up with it, I’ve started posting regularly again on my Share the Music Weblog in the last week or so. Believe it or not, I’m always finding great music on dmusic and Internet Audio Archives, and I barely have time to mention these things on this weblog. For those who…

  • Media Vaults

    Yesterday at Walmart I remembered that I should look for a “fireproof safe” or something that can protect my media content in my own apartment. They cost about 100-150$. Then I came across this great post on the alt.firefighters google newsgroup explaining the difference between fireproof safes and “media vaults” which is really what I…

  • Lit Grabbag

    Scott Rettberg has a weblog and apparently a new hyperfiction work, Meddlesome Passenger. Here are links to other recent hypertext works. The indefatigable Raspil Iverson has a new story in a new ezine Hiss Quarterly. Well, you can’t beat the name. Every once in a while, I randomly type in names of old friends/acquaintances and…

  • America for Singles

    An informative piece by Michelle Conlin about Unmarried America . This is something I have always felt. Married people have special tax breaks, house subsidies and occasional special treatment, in addition to a generally higher salary. Long quote here, but important to read. The notion that married people lose out because they pay more in…

  • Anti-Bush Political Commercials

    Here are the finalists for the Bushin30seconds Political Ad Contest. My favorite is: Bush’s Repair Shop, but all are creative and well done.

  • Essence of Open Source

    Joel Burton said at the recent plone conference: “Open Source is about receiving obsessive emails from complete strangers.”

  • Dear New York Times

    Here’s a letter I wrote to the New York Times.

  • Howard Dean and the Internet

    Great piece by Gary Wolf on How Howard Dean Got the Internet.

  • 5 Absolute Worst Foods You Can Eat

    No surprises on what’s on the absolute worst foods you can eat. If anyone could recommend good weblogs/news sites for nutritional information, let me know. I need to eat more healthily! (A good recipe recommendation would be nice too).