General Motors announced today that they would be closing 9 plants and RIFing 30,000 people in the next 3 years. 30,000 people. For Michiganders, that means the Lansing plant, the Flint engine facility, and the service and parts center in Ypsilanti will be closed, with the potential for another plant closing. For three areas that […]
Meh.
10 topics to get over the hump. Link
A freakin’ awesome tool for generating color schemes. Makes me want to work on this site again. ColorMatch Redux
Looking for a CMS? How about a screen reader? Or try a new email client. This Wikipedia list of open source applications can point you in the right direction for any of those and hundreds of other needs.
Has anyone installed Drupal on a 1&1 hosted site? I’m trying to uplaod the SQL file that creates the tables in my MySQL database, but I can’t get it to run. Google, so far, hasn’t been any help. Any advice would be much appreciated. Update: Nevermind, I got it to work. Had to run the […]
Quick note for today, Google Base is live. (Insert obilgatory “All Your Base” joke.) Link
Got a novel in you? How about a chapter? What about that great character? Toss any of them into the mix a Glypho, what appears to be an online, collaborative novel-writing site. I wonder if this would help NaNoWriMo participants gets over the hump.
A Zurich University team has named a newly-discovered species of lemur after comedian John Cleese. Cleese has been a long time spokesman and campaigner for the endangered animals. The new species, avahi cleesei, declined comment, but did hit Michael Palin in the head with a halibut. Link
Via Boing Boing, a link to a flame against the developers of Sony’s rootkit. (NSFW) MY GOD MAN!!! Do you realize what you’re doing? DO you? What kind of HONEY BITCH TOOL have you become? Have you no shame? None at all? Look at you. Look at yourself. Look at what you’ve BECOME. Your job […]