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Hacked
One of my web sites, corybantic.us, was hacked recently! Weird…
I restored the modified files but left the hacked page up as well.
Thing a Day overview
I haven’t been posting every day, but I’ve been doing things every day.
On Wednesday the “thing” I made was a tattoo. On Saturday I took a picture of my sweet electric guitar. Today I made a hand-held fireball (following along with this youtube video). Friday I “made” Manu Ginobili of the Spurs sign […]
business card cube
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business card cube, originally uploaded by bantic.
Today’s thing: A cube I made out of my business cards.
Here’s Tuesday’s thing.
Wednesday’s thing is kind of a secret, but I’ll be putting pictures up soon.
outside.in switches to rails
I wrote a post for outside.in’s official blog a few weeks ago detailing some of the troubles and successes (mostly the latter) we encountered when switching over from PHP to Ruby on Rails last fall. It was kind of a herculean task for Christian and I, but has been well worth it so far. […]
Chili fixings
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100_2696.JPG, originally uploaded by bantic.
The Thing I made on Sunday was Pork Chili. This is a picture of the garlic, onions and jalapeƱos. The recipe is called Tierra Verde Chili, and contains no […]
orange balls (or: I’m doing thing a day)
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orange balls, originally uploaded by bantic.
Ok, I’m doing Thing A Day (http://www.thing-a-day.com/) this year!
I missed the official registration deadline, but that’s not going to stop me. I’m setting the bar rather low by just […]
Bush and the Tolstoy Syndrome
That is a clip from A Charge to Keep, Bush the younger’s favorite painting because he believes it reflects pioneering ideals — he sees a man forging on into the wilderness, blazing a trail for all to follow. The reality is somewhat different. That Harper’s article goes on to explain that Bush has “Tolstoy […]
Volubilis
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volubilis, originally uploaded by bantic.
Someone named John wrote me the other day to ask permission to use this pic of Volubilis on his myspace page. Cool.
Hatred in America
Talking Points Memo posted a video of Bill Moyers explaining Hillary’s LBJ quote from a while back. It’s worth watching if you haven’t seen it, although it seems the flap has mostly died down now. At the 1:33 mark there’s a photo from the fifties of some teenagers holding a sign that I’m not […]
Bobby Fischer, dead at 64
Bobby Fischer died today. What an interesting iconoclast.
A related side note: For the past week, Choire Sicha (pronunciation mp3), formerly of Gawker, has been guest-blogging for kottke.org all this week. Jason did this before, and both times I’ve found it interesting how the particular interests of the guest blogger take the blog […]