Last Friday I went to see The Passion of the Christ, deciding that anything this controversial would have to be interesting, if nothing else. I just had to write an article about this — not that I will be able to say anything different or novel, but just to get it out of my head. [...]

Sometimes, you read something on the web that just sounds so intriguing yet unlikely that you have to prove that it’s incorrect. From a discussion in Metafilter I ran into a site that claimed that all of the U.S.’s power needs could be met with a 50 square mile solar array in Texas. Just on [...]

Horrible, horrible hack to automatically parse the “Recently Played” section of an iTunes XML file, convert it to HTML, post it to a web site. Uses regex instead of a proper XML parser! Has everything inline instead of using Text::Template! Gross, gross, gross! I have it set up to run every hour; it checks the [...]