Smack Speaks

Accents from Around the World

2005-05-22T12:01:00.000-04:00

Just a fun toy to hear many languages spoken by natives, including 100s of English accents.

Galloway on Charlie Rose

2005-05-18T00:27:00.000-04:00

MP George Galloway was just interviewed on Charlie Rose (a great late night American interview show. The best. The only).Charlie had some talking heads on before Galloway, so I quickly caught up with this. I don't know how its going over in Britain, but this is huge here. I imagine the blogosphere is abuzz, which means that there will be articles and editorials in the big papers for weeks. The

Blogger: How to Keep Trackback, Remove Haloscan Comment System

2005-05-14T13:34:00.000-04:00

Read about how to use the Haloscan Trackback System without the Haloscan comments system, and how to remove one if you've auto-intalled. There is method in the madness, and Haloscan still wins for Blogger users...Like many of us blogger.com users, I was quick to grab up the Haloscan Trackback system. If you have no idea what I'm talking about when I say 'Trackback', you may want to move along to

Blogs: Blogger "Categories" on the Horizon?

2005-05-14T12:20:00.000-04:00

Methods for hacking up the equivalent of Blogger Categories. I have a new method I'm working out using Atom or RSS. I link to other methods used.Why is it that some of us programmer types always find ways (not to mention reasons) to hack anything to suit our needs?Maybe in this case its because Blogger is behind the times: Blogs need categories, or as billyjoejimbob would say, "topics" sections.

Excerpts from "The Darth Side"

2005-05-14T09:40:00.000-04:00

A Syndicated Excerpt from "The Darth Side". Yes, that means this post is dynamic! It goes and fetches the latest journal entry of Darth Vader and posts it here. See below the entry for how I did this and what I plan to do with this trick...View RSS feedI used several tools to do this:First, used Feedburner to convert the typical blogger atom file into http://feeds.feedburner.com/http/

Morality Questions

2005-05-13T19:46:00.000-04:00

Here's my homework, courtesy of Nihil. We've been over the first one pretty well. The others are taking me awhile to plunge into...Morality Questions: For my later blogging"Well, my understanding of the initial question was - if a people's or a culture's morality is nothing but an arbitrary system derived from differing customs, traditions, regligions etc, how can morality be real or have any

Oh, I miss the flute...

2005-05-11T19:31:00.000-04:00

My old Shakuhachi teacher... He is the man.

Pim Fortuyn, Intolerance, and Europe

2005-05-11T18:48:00.000-04:00

Some conclusions:It is easy to point out that these reactions are not necessarily rational or useful, but it seems that sometimes the further use of a system of thought must be entirely rejected in order to culturally 'move on'. Feminism as a viral idea (meme), became co-opted into western civilization, much like an organelle (Evolution of organelles). In a sense, feminism-as-virus became

Poll on this blog format

2005-05-11T15:50:00.000-04:00

Take a poll on my blog formatThanks, Smack

Welcome to my weblog

2005-05-11T07:16:00.000-04:00

Welcome.I'm busily working on the technical details I'd like to implement here. So the posts may seem a little un-organized. Eventually there will be categories, so that if you want to read the technical stuff you can, or if you only want to hear about politics or funny blogs I've found, you can see just that. I'm adding all sorts of features, so look for many updates to the form and content over