Racist and Ignorant McCain/Palin Supporters in Ohio — I ran across a couple of interesting blog posts in which some enterprising bloggers (Blogger Interrupted and BlueOhioan) got their cameras out and asked people standing in line for a McCain Palin rally in Ohio what they thought about Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin.  It’s truly scary. I don’t mean like kind of scary like Halloween, I mean really truly terrifying like Nazi Germany.
Racist, Fascist and Lying Their Heads Off — McCain is behind in the polls because he has no real plan for the average citizen and Obama does and anyone that’s paying the least bit of attention knows it.  So how does the McCain campaign react?  Do they get their shit together and come up with a plan other than “the heels are on, the gloves are off?”
Spoonamore Reveals the Plan to Steal the 2008 Presidential Election — It may be crazy — or then again maybe not.  I guess we will see come November 5th when all the “votes” are in.
Why Conservatives are OK with Palin Not Talking to the Media — Found on reddit and written by marko34. I don’t think I could have summed this up more concisely.
The American Republic will endure until… — “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
Which one is the Elitist? — Talk about fucking ridiculous.  The GOP continues to make Obama out to be an elitist and yet he lives relatively humbly while McCain can’t even remember how many homes he owns at times.
The Blind, the Clueless, and the Mentally Disturbed vote McCain/Palin — I can’t help myself – I have to say it.  Anyone, anyone at all, who votes for McCain/Palin is either blind to the truth, utterly clueless when it comes to their claims or mentally disturbed and living in a universe where supernatural entities exist.
GOP Convention Spin (a.k.a. GOP Bull Elephant Shit) — Here are some nice untruths and outright lies that that GOP is trying to fool people with.
$400 haircuts vs. $520 Italian leather loafers — If I were a right-wing blogger, and I found out that Barack Obama was wearing Ferragamo loafers that cost $520, I would spend about 50% of my waking hours making sure everyone knew this.

23Systems

FLIR for WordPress 0.8.0 — FLIR 0.8.0 release notes
WordPress Developer’s Toolbox — An extremely comprehensive list of sites, tools, tutorials, tips and tricks for WordPress developers
This site looks awful in IE 6, but FLIR works — A brief bit about FLIR bugs in IE6
Lightbox Plus and FLIR, Projects and Frameworks — Various projects and the like that were pecolating
FLIR for WordPress — Announcement for Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for WordPress
10 Ways to Save Time While Building a Website — Tips and tricks for expedient web development
14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs — Useful links for web designers
End of Life for PHP 4 — PHP4 Has reached the end of support
Theme Bugs — A bit about some bugs with some of my themes

Also at 23Systems:

Lightbox Plus

A WordPress plugin which implements Lightbox JS from Lokesh Dhakar. This plugin automatically enhances image links in WordPress to use Lightbox to display images in an overlay.

Actionable

A WordPress plugin to create a checklist of actionable items for users. Final release not yet available. You can try out the beta. Expected release date is 9/16/08.

Facelift Image Replacement

Facelift Image Replacment is a script that generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that visitors would not be able to see.

23Systems

23Systems

Lightbox Plus – I just finished version 1.0 of Lightbox Plus, a WordPress plugin that is used to create overlay images for display on a web page.  You can download it and get support on the Lightbox Plus page.

On Iraq: McCain vs. McCain

Hollow Men

UPDATED – House Judiciary Votes to Cite Karl Rove for Contempt – The House Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines, had elected to push the motion for contempt to the full House of Representatives
John McCain, the new Ronald Reagan? – McCain’s inability to either tell the truth or remember what he said the day before.
FOX News Outed as Mouthpiece for Bush Administration – It should probably read: FOX News Outed as Mouth of Sauron. Not particularly surprising.
Americans Have Become a Bunch of Lazy, Worthless Citizens – Former U.S. presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a speech on America’s future energy needs in Washington, D.C. Commentary on how Americans could solve our energy problems if we wanted to but will probably just go along with big business.
Houses votes 238 to 180, including 9 Republicans voting yea, to move forward an impeachment resolution – 9 Republicans broke ranks the party to put country first, voting to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary

Ashes to Ashes

Basic Roleplaying

Basic Roleplaying Supplements – Nick managed to get a post up about recent supplements for Basic Roleplaying from Chaosium.

MetaMythos

Steve Perrin’s Quest Rules (SPQR) – Steve Perrin creator of the original RuneQuest rules has recommenced working on his latest rules system. If you are a subscriber now would be a good time to remind him.

Basic Roleplaying

Basic Roleplaying . Net

Chaos Project Update
BRP Review – Someday
BRP is on the Truck

Also Nick had a couple of recent posts on Basic Roleplaying as well

Character Sheets…
After the Scouring – The Way Forward
It’s Out!

D&D GSL Logo

MetaMythos . Net

D&D 4th Edition Game System License and System Reference Document are Available!
The 20-Sided Die

The Hollow Men

American Civil Liberties Union

ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Spying Law
Liberty and FISA Amendments Act of 2008
Petition Against Fox’s Racist & Hate-Filled Smears
FISA Passes Senate
Kerry: McCain’s judgment ‘dangerous’
An Open Letter To Senator Obama: Vote NO On Telecom Immunity
Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer Bytes
The Constitution Dies Tomorrow
John Hagee: Idiot or Genius?

Basic Roleplaying . Net

Basic Roleplaying Release Date and Cover – Chaosium announces Basic Roleplaying release date and cover.
The Chaos Project – Information about Peter Maranci’s Chaos Project.
New and Improved Basic Roleplaying . Net – Basic Roleplaying . Net has undergone a rebuild and re-imaging.

MetaMythos

Basic Roleplaying Release Date and Cover – Cross posted from above.
PCGen Beta (5.13.11) – Information about the beta-test of the latest version of PCGen for d20 character generation
My Life With Master – A preview of a unique roleplaying game about being the servant of a master in the sense of Igor to Dr. Frankenstein.
Basic Roleplaying Advanced Readers’ Copy a.k.a. BRP Edition Zero – Preview edition of Basic Roleplaying.

Hollowmen

Practical Politics – H. L. Mencken always has something insightful to say about politics.

Also I have redone my wife’s gallery site using WordPress

An Online Gallery of Melanie Sallis’ Artwork

MetaMythos

Gary Gygax Co-Creator of Dungeons and Dragons Passes Away
Posting Issues

Hollow Men

March 4th Primaries
The Fantasy Years
Election Year

Technologue

“Some look at the world and ask why? I dream of things and ask why not?”

The World According to Nouns

The Road (Not Quite a Review)
i cannot continue with such insidious memory

Also posted on MetaMythos Sub-Cult of Humakt Truthseeker (RQ3) and Societal Domains (d20).

Just for the record I’ve got too many blogs that I’m trying to run, which is probably a mistake. I’ve got a political blog with no posts currently that would be http://www.hollowmen.net. Then I’ve got another blog that I want to use as an outlet for creativity and that would be http://www.danzappone.com, yes, using my real name. The I have another that is a technology and futurist sort of blog (again with very little yet) and that’s http://www.technologue.com, it’s just been moved to a new server. Then there’s LiveJournal but I’m less interested in using it these days. I’ve tried it but never really liked it.

This one I’d like to keep for weirdness sake and that probably how it will stay. I might add a domain directly to it – I don’t know. Depends on if I can find one that’s right and open.

I’ve made the jump from Win/Mac to Linux. It was high time. I’ve been using Linux on and off for long time now but never as my primary OS. Prior to that (e.g. before the WWW) I accessed the internet over a modem using telnet into my account on Unix and did everything there. While I find the ubiquity and availability of software for Windows to be good and the dedication to user friendliness and lovingly crafted interfaces on the Macintosh (MacBook or whatever the hell they are call now) to be good, neither OS was really doing it for me. I just like open source that much better and in any event I was trying to stick to open source or freeware for the most part anyway. What can I say, I like me some command line interfaces. I also like not having to worry so much about spyware/virii and the like or the ego of Steve Jobs telling me what kind of OS I should have. I’m even going to do my best to stick with Linux at work even though it’s primarily a Mac Windows environment. And if I really need to use something from Windows well there’s always Wine or Parallels. I’m just hoping that there will be a coherence like setup for Parallells in Linux at some point. I also have to say that the amount of open source software available for Linux is really astounding.

For those interested I’m using Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) running the X Window System with GNOME desktop and Beryl window manager. The interface is so awesomely cool that Mac users will beg for the features and Windows Vista users will swoon with wonder.

No transparency means no trust in my eyes. As things stand now, voting is a privilege. It should probably be mandatory for everyone over the age of eighteen. At least that should be the case in national elections, hence the will of the people. When elections are won based on who can market their candidate better and move people to vote based on that marketing determines the turnout there’s something seriously wrong with this basic premise of a democratic republic. Failing the marketing campaign there’s always the possibility of just altering you non-transparent, receipt-less electronic vote.I am extremely disgusted with the amount of corruption in our government. There is so much I can’t even keep track of it all. The level of hypocrisy that the Republicans have managed to attain alone should be cause for their being voted out of office, or in some cases jailed. No sane person should even consider voting for any of them at this point. I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Now I’m not saying the Democrats don’t have problems – no one party could ever come close representing me but the Democrats are generally closer than the Republicans at this point.

Its obvious that a two party system is not working. Vote for the lesser of two evils. Meh. I want some freaking choices here people! I want to be able to elect candidates that arent politicians, but rather statesmen. I want to see the money taken out of their pockets. I want to choose someone who, really cares about the environment. I want to elect a scientist. I want religion out of politics. I want to elect candidates who have a long view. I want to elect someone who doesnt care about politics. I want to elect no one.