I'm Crazy: J.D. Salinger

"IT WAS about eight o'clock at night, and dark, and raining, and freezing, and the wind was noisy the way it is in spooky movies on the night the old slob with the will gets murdered. I stood by the cannon on the top of Thomsen Hill, freezing to death, watching the big south windows of the gym—shining big and bright and dumb, like the windows of a gymnasium, and nothing else (but maybe you never went to a boarding school)."

—excerpt from I'm Crazy by J.D. Salinger

I Wanna Be Sedated

Ramones Print
by Gene Gable



This is a beautiful print from a lead and woodcut form. Being a hardcore fan of The Ramones, this is like finding a rare gem. Collectors of Ramones Memorablilia may want to keep this link handy for future reference: I'm not sure when this item might be available for purchase. You can get a copy of the original jpg from the article linked above. In addition, a link to photos and art from The Augsberg Festival honoring The Ramones.

Blogger Pride

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Robot Soldiers will Kill!

An online report from BBC News reveals that Robot Soldiers armed with machine guns and cameras will be sent to Iraq to kill insurgents. They might be slightly cheaper than the multi-million dollar bombs we tried to kill Saddam with. This is more fun: an online error message generator with many options. Provides 27 minutes of fun ( approx. ) In hyper-geek news, Google raises its word search limit:

"Google greatly advances its web search by raising the word limit to 32 words. Previously, only up to 10 words were allowed. While some may never have wanted to cross the 10-word limit, it can be crucial to different tasks..."

Creative Commons hooks Wired

Creative Commons has hooked up with Wired to release a set of free file downloads under the Creative Commons License. I like the Le Tigre song all right. Bruce has linked a couple of interesting articles: one on social tagging and the other on The World of Spam.

A New Ethereal Code

After testing and rejecting several designs over the past year I finally decided to change the blog template, going with a series of grey tones for background, text and links. I'll be tweaking it continously so things will look different day to day. For example: the header. Not sure if I like the look of it at all. We'll see.

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50 Writing Tools | Walk into Mordor | What If? | Ta Da Lists | My List

I keep running across this page so I figure I'll link it here: A vast list of CSS resources from Dezwozhere.

I've posted a new series of micro-fiction pieces to my website. Let me know what you think. Feel free to modify the CSS for your own purposes. It's a simple design with lots of nice whitespace.

Six g-mail invites to give out. e-mail me if you're interested. Hey! Check out the new Maddox! Words be funny.

Night of The Ramones (6)

"Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn't fit in with society. And once these people start running things, I think they started to inform the general public - 'Hey, by the way, the Ramones started it all.' That's when the general population started becoming aware of how special the Ramones were."

—Tommy Ramone from Last Ramone Standing

Also a review of the shiny, new, and long awaited Ramones Documentary, End of The Century

Massive clean-smelling props to Brian for the heads-up.

Last 2: Some Spiderman templates for Blogger and LiveJournal. Also, a little experiment using Font-Styling for Pseudo-Images in web page presentation. Thank you.

"American astronauts are in trouble," said the voice on the gravity-phone. "Bad trouble, Billy. It's space poisoning. There's not much time."

Billy felt his nerves explode. Hot runners of electricity raced through his taut young body at maybe 2 or 3 times the speed of light. "This is bad," he said to Space Commander. "Is American Spaceship ready to go?"
"Yes," said Space Commander. "I ordered emergency refueling with XXX space-gasoline as soon as I got the word. Astro-mechanics are doing the final checks now."

—excerpt from AMERICAN SPACEBOY

Who invented The Crapper?

Via scribbling woman:

gibson interview | sci-fi calender | sherlock audio | new worlds

Via the daily report:

ssshhhhh

"Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue...Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class, since, say, Napoleonic times."

—excerpt from Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Welcome to the New Year, 2005. This is ethereal code. The site has been online for a little more than a year. It's companion site calls itself the mighty head. My name is Craig Snyder and I am an amateur fiction writer and web designer. I post on various subjects including CSS, writing, pop culture, and assorted ephemera. Wow.

I just posted a micro-fiction piece at the new absurdist and it's called nerve runner and moon maid. I wish you would go read it. It will only take about 2 minutes and it's free.

"I caught you a delicious bass." Link to a page of quotes from the film Napoleon Dynamite.