i·me·michael

…to bring you a constant variety of links—even if it is only once a month lately.

outcast designers [via tbit]
Waging Peace with Intelligent Design [via signals vs noise]
Starship Dimensions [via cal]
Bush vs Bush [via designflea]
Matt takes Dan’s Image Rotator and rewires it.
PUNISH YOURSELF is a cyberpunk band I stumbled across that has some excellent music available [...]

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I have to defer to those who express their opinion much more eloquently and succinctly than I can.
From GK Nelson’s Civics 101
Many in today’s society, instructed by tradition and nationalism rather than a critical understanding of the Constitution, believe supporting their elected officials in any and all their actions is, in fact, patriotism.
Excerpts from Mark [...]

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I managed to get my ass to the Da Vinci exhibition last Sunday before it ended. Unbeknownst to me, my little excursion coincided with the Greek Independence Day parade, so the otherwise normally accessible area was a mess of people, police, and barricades.
I didn’t mind the 10 block walk from my parking space. I didn’t [...]

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Display your geographic location with IndyJunior Flash Mapping Module from bryan boyer.

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GK has a great idea for a peaceful protest—levitate CNN.
I don’t want to splinter the movement, but can I levitate ‘30 Rock’, and NBC on that day?

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I’ve been a Speed Racer fan since I first saw the cartoon as a kid. The Mach 5 was the ultimate race car, and I still love that sleek, 60s, Le Mans era, GT 40 look. These cars were/are, for me, the coolest things to ever come out in automotive design. The Mach 5, with [...]

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Not in any order…
catcopter 2.4Mb [via everlasting blort] Short version (Windows media file) [via underachievers]
Web Page Analyzer [via zeldman] Must.compress.and.optimize.
YAPH: Management Techniques [via leslie]
Writing secure and portable PHP applications [via cal of course]

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Melanie Goux is holding a peace poster competition, with some nice awards. The deadline for entries is 17 April, 2003. No purchase necessary, enter as often as you wish, so I am.
Thanks to G.K. for the early bird hat tip.

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Matt is using DoSomething and Trackback to ping and update his ‘Now Playing’ list from Winamp. He has a detailed, but easy to follow explanation. Very nice.

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A co-worker was forwarded an email that included an opinion piece about the coming war, and it referenced Guernica a few times, mostly used in adjective form, such as this ‘Guernican war’. Anyway, he turned to me and asked, “What’s geurnica?” Well, not knowing what he was reading at the time, my first response was [...]

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