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The History of the Christmas Tree according to the History Channel. Good stuff.
[via Elliot Back]

Downhill Battle is going to give the RIAA exactly what they deserve this year, with your help.

Man, it’s just like the good old days. There is nothing to bring up dusty memories from the glory days of the Panthers (”glory” meaning “we watched even though they sucked, that’s what fans are for, right?”) than a Panther in the news for being arrested. I think I’ll channel some (shudder) Madden:
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Noah Lazes wants to build an entertainment district uptown on the edge of Fourth Ward (and some of Third Ward) that will be our version of Dallas’ Deep Ellum (those 2 articles were posted on the same day. hmmm…).
“There is no question in my mind that there is demand for this,” says Lazes. [...]

Phillip K Dick was born on this day in 1928. PKD wrote the books and stories that were later the basis for movies including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, and (though uncredited and disputed) The Truman Show.

If The Shipping News was Northern Exposure, then Northfork is Twin Peaks. Northfork is a town that, like my hometown, suddenly grew a lake (thanks to an electric company’s dam). This movie, to some extent, is the story of the people staying behind after the town, which will be underwater in days, is [...]

The Shipping News, in a strange way, reminds me of Northern Exposure. The Latitude (though The Shipping News’ Newfoundland vs. Northern Exposure’s Alaska), the weather, the quirky character-driven vignettes wrapped in a slightly bizarre but still safe wrapper. With Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, some localized mythology and snow-driven insanity, The Shipping News is [...]

Charlotte lost our Arena Football League team, the Charlotte Cobras, earlier this year but we will soon have a team in the Atlantic Indoor Football League: the Charlotte Sharks. They’ll be playing at the Cricket Arena (aka Independence Arena aka The Old Colliseum, soon to be aka The Old Old Charlotte Colliseum).

I was testing a desktop program that posts to several blog systems, one of which is WordPress (even though it appeared the program’s author never bothered testing with WordPress and WordPress’s author(s) didn’t bother including the needed xmlrpc file with this version of WordPress). After far too much time wasted searching for how to [...]

Bill Moyers is retiring and using his newly found freedom (that which comes from knowing you can’t be fired) to point out the very real problem with our news media, problems few seem to want to admit: they are hacks, they are lazy, or they are both. The bottom line may be that the [...]