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Archive for January, 2006

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Akismet and Spam Karma 2

I’ve been using Akismet to stop comment spam for a while now. It worked fine, but I was never quite sure what it was doing. I went back to using Spam Karma 2 today, since the plugin that lets SK2 and Akismet work together is out of beta. So now I can have the added [...]

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Friday, January 27th, 2006

Cats eat weird things

Mizzou is weird, and not just because she lives in the Greene household. Yesterday she ate a ribbon. Which had to be removed by a vet. Stephanie has more info and a picture of Mizzou post ribbon eating.

1 Comment » - Posted in Pets and Thoughts on Life by Dan

Friday, January 27th, 2006

More on Firefly

The Sci-Fi channel has picked up on the Firefly Season Two story. Like this article says, it’s a complicated story and Firefly Season Two probably won’t happen.

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

A second season of Firefly

Brilliant Screen Entertainment is looking to see if there is an audience for a second season of Firefly. Fill out this survey and show them that you want more Firefly.
This company has stirred up quite a lot of buzz from Firefly fans and it remains to be seen up the company actually has any [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Of Interest Online and Science Fiction and Fantasy by Dan

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Toyota and NASCAR

And now for something completely different. Toyota has been racing in the Craftsman Truck Series since 2004. Now they will be racing in the Nextel Cup Series, starting in 2007. There hasn’t been a foreign nameplate in NASCAR since Jaguar in the 1950s.
Update: The offical announcement
Not there are any “American” or “foreign” cars [...]

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