I hate having multiple applications open. So it’s either web-based, or a fireworks plugin. Checked out Google Reader today because they just redesigned it. The interface is great, finding new feeds is easier than any other RSS reader I’ve ever used. The option to share feeds is cool.
All the same, I’m going to stick with Wizz RSS for now, because it displays posts using the same design template as the original source. I check my gmail account every hour, I don’t need my news reader to look the same.
October 1st, 2006
Categories: Technology, Web . Author: Renie Ravin . Comments: 7 Comments
Have you noticed that everything new on the web seems to have a “beta” affixed to it? It’s getting tiring. According to Wikipedia - “A beta version or beta release usually represents the first version of a computer program that implements all features in the initial software requirements specification. It is likely to be unstable but useful for internal demonstrations and previews to select customers, but not yet ready for release.”
That makes sense, but labelling everything as beta just because you don’t want to take responsibility for the bugs you’ve left in it? I say quit the beta tag and start developing software without the damn bugs/compatibility issues.
October 1st, 2006
Categories: Cribs, Web . Author: Renie Ravin . Comments: No Comments
I just love the stuff on this website. Had me rolling on the floor and laughing. Don’t miss the satanic quotes by rock musicians and the page that describes how Beyonce is a child of Satan himself. Makes me think of the backwards message Iron Maiden put into “still life” as a joke. Reverse it and you hear drummer McBrain saying “Hmm, Hmmm, what ho sed de t’ing wid de t’ree bonce. Don’t meddle wid t’ings you don’t understand”, followed by a belch. 
Incidentally, a few accidental 666 messages on Anwin’s Blog.
October 1st, 2006
Categories: Cribs, Music . Author: Renie Ravin . Comments: 2 Comments
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Challenged for language and sexual references.
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger - Challenged for being “anti white” and “obscene.”
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - Banned due to the words “damn” and “whore lady”
The Lord of the Flies, William Golding - Challenged because the book is “demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an animal”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey - Labeling it “pornographic,” they charged the novel “glofiries criminal activity, has a tendency to corrupt juveniles and contains descriptions of bestiality, bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and human elimination.” (I’ve never read the book, now I wonder why?)
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - Burned in Alamagordo, N. Mex. (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic.
“Banned books week”, promoted by Google Book Search just ended. Check out the complete listing of reasons as to why these and many books are banned.
And yeah, right - Frodo IS the anti-christ.
October 1st, 2006
Categories: Cribs . Author: Renie Ravin . Comments: 2 Comments
Viral Video Chart - Tracks the top videos from YouTube, MySpace and Google Video. Hope they add Metacafe soon.
October 1st, 2006
Categories: Web . Author: Renie Ravin . Comments: No Comments
Great new design for DesiPundit, although I can see it deteriorating already. Typical for sites that are not maintained by the original designer, although I don’t know if that’s the case here. By Chugs Designs.
October 1st, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Web . Author: Renie Ravin . Comments: No Comments
Text on an image. How complicated. Will never understand why stuff like this is talked about. It took me 10 mins to get this done. A novice could have done it with any picture manager in 5.
October 1st, 2006
Categories: Cribs, Web . Author: Renie Ravin . Comments: No Comments
