In lieu of actual content, I thought I’d do one of those entirely links based posts that people are so fond of. Note: there are actually a few pieces of real content waiting to be added, but I thought since I got a decent set of links today, I’d post them instead.

Pixie Theory: RSS vs. Necho: By thinking of the opposing sides as either pixies or not pixies, we can figure out what side of an argument we should be on. Necho wins, of course.

BurningBird: I remember usenet: AOL is coming for weblogs. As any right thinking individual knows, this is the first sign of the apocalypse.

Be A Grafitti Artist: A (partial) return to form for Nothing Sacred with this article about how to be a grafitti artist.

Drop Shadows With CSS: A nice little technique for adding shadows to boxes in CSS.

Blogshares: I finally became a blogshares millionairre today. To celebrate, I devalued the stock for this site by selling a shitload of it; earning myself yet more money. Capitalism is, indeed, fun.

Good news! Necho support has been hacked into the current version of nntprss. I’ve just added the hack to my version and it works perfectly.

The nntprss necho hack comes from Semantic Web. Good job, that man!

The Mars Volta brought us the experimental Tremulant EP as a statement of intentions for their debut album. They spoke big words through layers of noise orchestrated to perfection: and the album lives up the to promise.

While “Deloused In the Comatorium” borrows much from the bands partial instantiation as the defining moment in rock known as At The Drive-In, they’ve taken their previous band’s work and gone off in a tangent as fast as possible.

The result is eclectic, but compelling. You’ll never notice that the majority of the songs break the 6 minute mark (most still going at full pace), it’s that immersing.

Tim Bray makes some interesting points about the abstraction of Nations. I can generally agree with him on most of it.

But there’s one thing that I think is important: just because our families and friends are more important to us than our countries, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t contribute to our country as a whole. We should help to make it as good a place as we can, since it is within our reach.

From there, our country (government and national organisations) should help other countries. The notion of “doing good” could potentially be distributed well across this abstraction.

Of course, that’s never the way it works. Maybe it’s late and I’m tired, maybe I’m just dreaming, but maybe we could use these arbitary systems to help others in other arbitary systems.

It’s not that Bruce Almighty is a particularly bad film, it’s not. It’s not even that Jim Carrey places the same character that he has in every other film he’s been in (barring The Truman Show). It’s not even that the assumptious preachy content is overt and irritating… Actually, maybe it is.

As with all slapstick comedy, it’s funny in places and sure to make most people smile at some point. But you won’t be quoting lines from this in a years time, or even a week. Comedy-lite: As a sandwich, compared to something like Wayne’s World‘s steaky goodness.