Welcome to my simple site. It's an experiment at a blog and at web design using TextPattern as a simple yet powerful CMS. I intend to use this site to write a bit and to experiment w/ layouts for other sites I "manage".
Naomi Klein as a talking head! Strange visuals (or lack thereof), but most interesting “big thinking”. I subscribe to her point of view wholeheartedly.
I’ve been watching yet another TED.COM talk which is very inspiring. Along the same lines of Michael Pollan’s ideas on sustainable agriculture, Janice Benyus shows how what she calls biomimicry could impact technology and business to lead us to create sustainable and prosperous systems. I love her sanity!
The site for the movie tells us:
Water is the essence of life, sustaining every being on this planet. Without water, there would simply be no plants, no animals, and no people. But the global water supply isn’t just at risk, it’s already in crisis.
Bruce Schneier, one of the designers of the 5-star twofish public-domain encryption algorithm, is always a good read on matters of security. His essay Refuse to be Terrorized, from Sept. 2006, is as relevant today as it was then and before. His thesis is that terrorism succeeds when it makes us afraid. He argues that terrorist acts are no different than any other risks in our lives (like driving a car, getting mugged, whatever…). And he does the math on how the current “counter-measures” are awfully counter-productive.
Calabash is a DRM-free MP3 web store with lovely world rhythms. I’ve just started scratching the surface. Download prices bet. $0.75 – $0.99 per song. I just found a new way to spend the money I don’t have!
A textpattern plugin which replaces the native link_to_prev and link_to_next by introducing additional section and sort attributes. Download the plugin source here (updated link, used to be v0.1).
A new version of Ramanan Sivaranjan ‘s textpattern plugin, originally found on textpattern.org. I’ve added some options and a new tag. You may download it here: rsx_page_number_v4.0.txt
Yeah! My first txp plugin. I use external links all the time and have longed for a simple way to write them WITHOUT client-side Javascript dependency. I looked for this in other plugins to no avail…
Atom Films now allows us to embed movies in our own pages. Cool!
Here are a couple of shorts from an Australian director, Adam Benjamin Elliot, famous for the award-winning Harvie Krumpet.
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