Posts from April 2001

George Carlin website

Webbified I’m always amazed and excited to find a web site of a real famous person. I found a link at BrainLog to the personal web site of George Carlin. Did you know he won his third Grammy this year? There is a ton of useful (and fun) information there, including a rant by the

require www in URL

It drives me nuts that you need to enter the www to get to the University of Florida Home Page. Just typing ufl.edu won’t get you there.

Music

I was very happy to see that Bruce Springsteen‘s Born to Run, Paul Simon‘s Graceland, and The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated were among some of my favorites mentioned in NPR’s list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. [link via dollarshort.org]

Thongs Sales

The best two lines in this article – Undergarment Trend Gets New Cheeky Exposure – are: “Thong sales have unseated traditional women’s underwear as the fastest-growing lingerie niche,” and “In the same way push-up bras lifted the sagging lingerie business 10 years ago …” link via the obscure store and reading room

pecus blog

I like pecus. Nice css work. Very impressive.

DMCA

The First Amendment v. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act On January 20, 2000, United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan … issued a preliminary injunction … prohibiting the defendants from distributing computer code for reading encrypted DVDs. If code that can be directly compiled and executed may be suppressed under the DMCA, as Judge Kaplan

lust for beer

A strange thing happened on my way to the west coast. At some point along the way I seem to have misplaced my lust for beer. I’m not frantically searching for it or anything. Usually I barely even notice that it’s missing. But. I can’t help but wonder where it went.

Crutchfield

<swoon> I think I’m in love … </swoon>

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.