Archive for February, 2005

Bush Wants To Stop Funding Needle Exchange Programs

Posted by Mike on February 28th, 2005

I 100% agree with this New York Times Editorial:

The Bush administration has contributed to suffering and death through the so-called global gag rule, which prohibits Washington from giving money to any group that performs - or even talks about - abortions. Organizations that provide desperately needed family planning and women’s health services have lost their [...]

Google Maps Support Safari!

Posted by Mike on February 26th, 2005

Awesome news from Google: Google Maps now supports Safari. Sweet!

Project Runway Finale

Posted by Mike on February 24th, 2005

So I just watched the finale of Project Runway. Jay won the competition and I agree with the decision here. He was the only designer with a unique vision that didn’t feel so out there as to be unwearable. There was a palpable theme to his work that held the whole line togeher. There was [...]

Google Maps

Posted by Mike on February 8th, 2005

Holy crap, Google Maps is amazing. You can scroll and zoom as if it were an application running locally instead of across the web, all done with DHTML and Javascript. First Gmail, now this. Wow.
Too bad they don’t support Safari, but they are working on it

Battlestar Galactica

Posted by Mike on February 5th, 2005

If you aren’t watching this yet, and you like good sci-fi tv shows, you really should watch Battlestar Galactica on the sci-fi channel. It’s phenomenal. I watched first runs of Star Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5; and this is as good or better.
The basic plot is based on the original [...]