http://www.danwalmsley.com Putting the nerd in comnerdedy Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:52:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Satire! So, when Barack Obama says he will put some lipstick on my pig, I am, like, Are you calling me a pig? If so, thanks! Pigs are the most non-Élite of all barnyard animals. And also, if you put ... http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/10/03/george-saunders-has-perfected-sarah-palins-speech-patterns/ It used to be about re-cutting new trailers from old movies (see Something Blue for the ultimate). Now we're getting completely original trailers for movies that never existed at all. This is a really, really impressive video. Matt Damon was right: Sarah Palin's life really is a bad Disney movie. See more ... http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/09/28/internet-satires-cambrian-explosion/ Greetings Evildoers, As occasionally happens, I have a show in Fringe. This time it's an improvised musical show -- we create a new band at that the beginning of the show from audience suggestions, and then play a whole gig as that band. The music is rehearsed, but the lyrics are ... http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/09/24/fringe-show-set-list/ Today I had a small revelation. I was wracking my brains trying to figure out the SMS messaging provider to use to send myself service outage notifications for my clients' web sites. Given that I have just a handful of clients so far, it makes no sense to use a provider ... http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/09/23/free-sms-service-notifications-using-google-calendar/ This is the umpteenth in our ongoing saga of the ACN Video Phone. To bring any newcomers up to speed: I was conned into meeting with an ACN representative under false pretenses, and blogged it. I don't like the way ACN does business because it exploits family relationships, desperate and/or naive ... http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/09/13/acn-video-phone-part-xcviii-the-acn-enning/ Reader Matsonian writes: Wow dan. I was very interested in your post, until you attacked Ravi about how he responded to you. Oops… look I did it to. Compliment you on your post… wow, I must be trying to manipulate the argument. And then to throw Scientology into it? A bit ... http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/08/23/my-slightly-crap-comparison-between-acn-and-scientology/ An ad spotted on Facebook: WTF? Michael Phelps? Isn't the point of fad diets that they're easier than becoming an Olympian? http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/08/21/has-convenience-come-full-circle/ This made me laugh in the Huffington Post: I don't believe Condoleezza Rice can actually play piano. Everything else she's ever touched has been a fraud and a catastrophe, why should her alleged musical abilities be any different? Think about it. Think about any event she's been even remotely involved in ... http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/08/13/the-uss-condoleeza-rice/ Smiley-face explosions. That was one heck of an opening ceremony. http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/08/08/the-ultimate-expression-of-the-contradictions-of-modern-china/ Is the BBC getting ruder? I mean, I realise on some level they're competing with Fox News, but... is this necessary? Headline: Injury eased Olympic nerves - Gay They're just one exclamation mark away from discrimination. Go BBC! http://www.danwalmsley.com/2008/08/08/gay/