Nick BradburyPersonal ramblings from the creator of HomeSite, TopStyle and FeedDemon.George Carlin is Up in Heaven Now- June 23, 2008 Damn.&160; Last year we lost Kurt Vonnegut, and now we've lost George Carlin.&160; Two darkly hilarious guys who despite their cynicism still made us (or, at least, me) laugh out loud at the human condition. I never subscribed to the growing bitterness that Carlin showed as he aged (I agree with Terry Heaton that his best work was earlier in his career), but I still loved his insightful, biting humor.&160; You can count me among those who will miss the dirty old bastard. PS: Check out...http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/george-carlin-i.html Flippin' Dummy- June 20, 2008 When I was a kid, one of my weirder hobbies was ventriloquism.&160; I dont remember why I got started, but I do remember that some people thought I was pretty good at it.&160; In the short time that I was a ventriloquist, I won several local talent shows, and one time I even got to appear on live TV. The TV appearance started off badly. The crew sat me and my dummy in a chair in front of the camera, and soon afterwards the cameraman made some sort of hand motion at me.&160; I had no idea...http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/flippin-dummy.html Techmeme Search Update- June 7, 2008 Techmeme now supports returning search results as RSS, so Ive updated FeedDemons Techmeme search definition to enable quickly subscribing to Techmeme search feeds in FeedDemon. Here's how to use it: View this page in FeedDemon, then click here to install the updated Techmeme search definition Click the Subscribe button, then type the keyword you wish to search for and click Next Select "Techmeme" from the list of search engines and click Next Select the folder you...http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/techmeme-search.html |