Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

(Forbes.com): [D]uring the final, halcyon days of the Internet boom, the St. Louis Rams played the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV, a moment that will be forever remembered as the dot-com bubble’s Waterloo.

I was about as far from Silicon Valley as you could get in 2000, but, nevertheless, I was involved in Internet newspaper publishing at the time and got to see a lot of capital go up in smoke. Newspaper “web teams” in neighboring states were staffed with dozens of people and were getting priority to print in terms of equipment, salaries, and believe-it-or-don’t, news coverage. My paltry staff of two watched in amusement as these experiments imploded over the next few quarters, while we managed to break even (better than even if you count our “free” website). I wonder, though, how much of the “Interweb” we have now would have been possible if it were not for the folly of venture capitalists?

Colli is featured on the cover of this week’s Wee Freakly Free Weekly (freeweekly.com)! Somebody else had to tell me about it, of course.

I found a cool WP plugin that lets you publish your Flickr photo gallery. You can see the rough results here. The plugin is available here.

I think more than a few cats might be offended at this prospect, too.

(nationalgeographic.com) : Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that’s part human, part animal.

(tamba2.org.uk) : A good tutorial for WordPress and for people like me who do “hunt & peck” CSS changes.

Yeah, I’m playing around with the style sheets again. A lot of what you see is me figuring out what everything is named. Wordpress has more options than I understand, but it’s been fun installing and playing with it.

I’m looking for some sort of grid comparing all the Christian denominations and their various theological and political viewpoints, but haven’t had much luck.

(religioustolerance.org) : Many Christians now hold diverse beliefs about the nature of sexual orientation, the role of women, and other topics. Some hold traditional gender and theological views; others have adapted their theology to accommodate findings of human sexuality and biblical criticism. Many members want to remain in the denomination in which they were raised. The result is that liberals and conservatives within many denominations have different visions of the future for their faith group. The result is often intense conflict and even potential schism.