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version seven. http://demongin.org |
Archive View for 2009:
| January | ||
| 6 | Impellation of the Undead | A brief statement of position on the current cultural consensus regarding the creative and thus impelling force responsible for zombie attacks. |
| 6 | Coda: Against George Romero | ...braaaains? |
| 12 | Kali Iconographies | A quick report on my recent time under the needle; a summary of last week's attempt at incorporating Hindu philosophy into my life (and epidermis). |
| 13 | Anki - Latin Deck | I created ancient Latin deck for anki, the popular SRS software, based on http://classicsunveiled.com. Feel free to use and distribute at your own risk. |
| 15 | Virtue and Vice | Praise, blame and the mechanics and pitfalls of recognizing (or failing to recognize) virtue and vice. |
| 26 | The Office (US) - Season One | *** (Television Serial, 2005) |
| 26 | The Office (US) - Season Two | **** (Television Serial, 2006) |
| 26 | Gears of War 2 | *** (Videogame, 2008) |
| 28 | Hold, Please | A short note about where demongin.org has gone and where it's going. |
| February | ||
| 3 | Blackstrap Molasses | The epistemological and sociological imperative to offer and accept advice. |
| 4 | Prognostications from the Horse Latitudes | Polemic against prognostication and hype that touches upon the fundamental nature of |
| 6 | Ironman | ** (Film, 2008) |
| 6 | Tropic Thunder | ***** (Film, 2008) |
| 9 | White Noise | **** (Novel, 1985) |
| 9 | A Walk on the Wild Side | *** (Novel, 1956) |
| 12 | Metropolis | On things seen and heard in the eponymous cafe. |
| 19 | Giant Rat Caught in China | A bamboo rat the size of a large cat, to be specific. |
| 26 | Pen Fifteen Club | Notes on effective written correspondence. |
| 27 | Bangladeshi Rat Hunter Claims Nearly 40,000 Pelts | Friday rat blogging continues! |
| 27 | Mnemosyne Gradiva | Metaphors mix as the myth of mythology is summarized. |
| March | ||
| 2 | Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia | *** (Videogame, 2008) |
| 2 | The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion | ** (Videogame, 2007) |
| 3 | The Great Escape | ** (Film, 1963) |
| 3 | Sterling Silver | A demongin.org serial on how recent debates over information systems illuminate a difficult question facing the study of the history of human consciousness. To wit: to what extent is any belief in the Supernatural compatible with a humanitarian agenda? |
| 4 | Food Hack - Recession Edition | Improve the scalability of your yogurt solution with this easy to follow how-to. |
| 4 | Signal to Noise | A demongin.org serial on how recent debates over information systems illuminate a difficult question facing the study of the history of human consciousness. To wit: to what extent is any belief in the Supernatural compatible with a humanitarian agenda? |
| 5 | Yojimbo | **** (Film, 1961) |
| 5 | Sanjuro | *** (Film, 1963) |
| 13 | Rat Island | Friday rat blogging! |
| 18 | Against Greed: an Apocalypticist's Perspective | This one is for the environmentalists. And anyone who ever wanted a reason to hate proprietary software. |
| 23 | More Fun than Miniature Golf | The conclusion to my trilogy of essays on information systems and whether or not it is possible to arrive at an epistemology for them without relying upon magical or supernatural ideas and notions. |
| April | ||
| 2 | IRL | Wherein I take a break from serious, hard-hitting, obscenity-peppered invective and ruminate briefly on the state of this project.. |
| 11 | Fast and Furious | A review of Justin Lin's Fast and Furious, in theatres now. |
| 13 | IRL 2 | Wherein I briefly discuss the big talking points surrounding Web 2.0, Millennials and the shifting definition of what constitutes privacy. Shortly thereafter, I paint myself into a moral corner and pout defiantly. |
| 15 | Fast and Furious | ** (Film, 2009) |
| 15 | Zatoichi | *** (Film, 2003) |
| 15 | The Road | **** (Novel, 2006) |
| 17 | Ratkind | Friday rat blogging! |
| 23 | Disgorged | A short essay on Pfizer's new PSA spot. |
| 27 | Version Seven | The new demongin.org won't be finished any time soon, but it is officially in "active" development. |
| May | ||
| 7 | Version Seven | A further report on the progress toward the new DemonGin.org |
| July | ||
| 8 | Hiatus | In which I resign once again from public life. |
| 24 | Create a tagcloud in Django | First test of the new, django-based demongin.org. |
| 26 | Changelog | In which I describe the salient differences between Version Six and the newly released Version Seven of http://demongin.org. |
| 28 | Syntax Highlighting in django | In which I describe how I added codeblocks and syntax highlighting to the new version of the site. |
| 29 | Corn Zombies | An excerpt from one of my trademark, early morning NewAthens rants. |
| 29 | Update | Details on the work already in progress. |
| August | ||
| 1 | Moon | *** (Film, 2009) |
| 2 | Devil in the White City | **** (Novel, 2004) |
| 3 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season One | *** (Television Serial, 1997) |
| 3 | Twilight | * (Novel, 2005) |
| 3 | Spook | *** (Novel, 2005) |
| 3 | To the Pain | ** (Album, 2005) |
| 4 | Django and #twyt | A short "how to" that describes using "TWYT" to automatically tweet about new blog posts. |
| 6 | Six Go Through the Whole World | A sortilege post in which I work backwards from a title to an essay, starting with Culhwch and Olwen. |
| 12 | Black Rain | ** (Film, 1989) |
| 18 | Il pendolo di Foucault | **** (Novel, 1988) |
| 26 | The Fame | ** (Album, 2008) |
| 26 | Tokyo Underworld | *** (Novel, 2000) |
| September | ||
| 4 | A Severe Strain on the Credulity | An early morning reverie in which Yours Truly reflects on arrogance, communication disorders and catachresis: business as usual, essentially. |
| 7 | Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld | *** (Novel, 1995) |
| 7 | Sci-Fi Crimes | ** (Album, 2009) |
| 8 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season Two | *** (Television Serial, 1998) |
| 11 | City Rat, Country Rat | In honor of the fact that rats have taken up residence on my back porch, Friday rat blogging resumes. |
| 18 | The Resistance | * (Album, 2009) |
| 23 | DC Metro Sucks | In which I lay down the general answers to the frequently asked question, "how does DC Metro suck?" |
| 24 | New Tag: Cryptology | In which I explain and inaugurate the eponymous new tag. |
| 29 | If You Can't Do the Math | ...then get out of the equation. No, seriously: a blog post about cognition, chaos, &c. that ends with hilarious puns. |
| October | ||
| 1 | Shelter | Animal rights versus human rights...and puppies! |
| 7 | Twilight | * (Film, 2008) |
| 7 | FRA BA WRT EAR AY | On the popular appeal of steganography. |
| 13 | How I Styled the Archive View | Or, how to iterate over your archive tuples in Django and produce a zebra-stripe archive view without any fancy crap. |
| 16 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season Three | *** (Television Serial, 1999) |
| 16 | Exorcist: The Beginning | ** (Film, 2004) |
| 16 | Exorcist: the DemonGin.org Serial | The intro to my series on the ill-starred prequels to William Friedkin's The Exorcist. |
| 23 | Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist | *** (Film, 2005) |
| 27 | Exorcist II: the Heretic | ** (Film, 1977) |
| 28 | Exorcist: Typology | In which I explain why Friedkin's original enjoys pride of place and what this means for all subsequent exorcism and Exorcist flicks. |
| 30 | Combined RSS Feeds from Multiple Models in Django | I push a minor update to the site and describe how I did it. |
| 30 | Batch Script to Start Selenium RC Server on Windows | Notes on some work I've been doing...at work. Posted for their potential use to posterity. |
| November | ||
| 2 | Pray for Villains | **** (Album, 2009) |
| 3 | Ignore Deprecation Warnings in Python Scripts | A short post about deprecation warnings and how to ignore them. |
| 4 | Schrader's Exorcism | ** (Film, 2008) |
| 4 | Exorcist: Variorum per Schrader | Excerpts, quotes and notes from Tim Silano's documentary Schrader's Exorcism. |
| 4 | Exorcist: Premise | In which I search for the missing link between Friedkin's The Exorcist and its prequels and find it in John Boorman's sequel, Exorcist II: the Heretic. |
| 6 | Exorcist III | * (Film, 1990) |
| 10 | Prince of Tides | ** (Film, 1991) |
| 12 | How To Install Pymad on Fedora/RHEL | A short explanation for those having trouble building from source in a Fedora environment. |
| 12 | Sample Selenium Init Script | How to start and stop a Selenium server on boot: don't expect a lot of nuance here, just a script that works. |
| 14 | Check Laptop Battery State on Ubuntu Server | A short "how to" describing how to write a script that emails when the primary laptop battery is discharging. |
| 16 | Re-released: TheProscriptions.com | A short post commemorating, announcing and explaining the re-release of TheProscriptions.com. |
| 17 | CSS Overflow: Preventing Child Divs from Expanding Parent Divs | A short "how to" in which I show an example of how to "frame" a page and prevent annoying bottom scrollbars from appearing and ruining your layout. |
| 19 | Python: Decorate a Function Without Losing self | In which I lay to rest a long-standing head-scratcher involving decorated unittest classes in Selenium test scripts that lose their original class attributes once wrapped in a decorator. |
| 23 | Grandma's Boy | * (Film, 2006) |
| December | ||
| 3 | Simple BASH Script for Debian Updates and dist-upgrades | An example of a simple script that makes managing a large intranet require much less typing. |
| 4 | Ring of Death | ** (Film, 2008) |
| 5 | Baudolino | *** (Novel, 2000) |
| 8 | It Dwells Within | * (Album, 2009) |
| 15 | Pointer Finger | In which several examples direct the reader towards an unstated conclusion. |
| 16 | Changelog | A quick update on recent updates. |
| 28 | Up from Below | ** (Album, 2009) |
| 28 | Love Actually | ** (Film, 2003) |
| 30 | Elf | * (Film, 2003) |
| 30 | The Family Stone | ** (Film, 2005) |
