Posted on 03-26-2008 under
web crawling… without having to be reminded of it.
Here’s a website that lets you record what shows you’ve watched, want to watch, and need to get. Its pretty cool in the way that it takes off a (not-so-huge) load of organizing what you watch. Just what we needed, eh? More organization. So now, in addition to the time I spend watching TV shows, I can spend yet more time logging it too :)
Seriously though, this is a very nice idea. And it really does save some time tracking down all those episodes you haven’t seen. Web design is smooth and sleek, not like most bloatware sites, that just assume you have a sewage pipe sized internet connection. It loads fast, and has a sufficiently easy interface. And almost everything links to a summary on tvrage.com, which is also fast to load (unlike tv.com).
The feature I like the most though, is the “Time I’ve Wasted” page. Blooming brilliant. According to the site, I’ve wasted 1 months, 1 days, 14 hours of my life watching TV. Of course, thats just the stuff I’ve logged. Who know how many hours I’ve wasted on shows that I haven’t logged.
Kudos to the creators and hope it keeps running.
Posted on 03-16-2008 under
generalThank you Mr. Feldman for this enlightening piece. Its a breath of fresh air in all the negative vibes Islam has been getting.
Some excerpts.
When the British applied their law to Muslims in place of Shariah, as they did in some colonies, the result was to strip married women of the property that Islamic law had always granted them — hardly progress toward equality of the sexes.
The extremes of our own legal system — like life sentences for relatively minor drug crimes, in some cases — are routinely ignored. It sometimes seems as if we need Shariah as Westerners have long needed Islam: as a canvas on which to project our ideas of the horrible, and as a foil to make us look good.
The explanation surely must go beyond the oversimplified assumption that Muslims want to use Shariah to reverse feminism and control women — especially since large numbers of women support the Islamists in general and the ideal of Shariah in particular.
For many Muslims today, living in corrupt autocracies, the call for Shariah is not a call for sexism, obscurantism or savage punishment but for an Islamic version of what the West considers its most prized principle of political justice: the rule of law.
Recommended read.
Posted on 03-14-2008 under
generalI was watching the 10th episode of season 4 of Family Guy, and I found something that I just had to share.
Most animated sitcoms have jokes embedded in newspaper headlines, and I like to pause the video to read them. In this particular episode, … well just see for yourself.
Thats what I love about Family Guy. It doesn’t think twice about making fun of itself.
Posted on 03-12-2008 under
general,
pakistan“And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked; and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune.
Perhaps we can relate?
Posted on 03-11-2008 under
web crawlingI was browsing apache.org, trying to download the docs. The server presented to me was LUMS! How very interesting. Download speed is not so hot though. :-S
This will increase my respect for LUMS a little bit.
