Category Archives: QuickLinks

Links and sites that may (or may not) be funny or interesting. I call ’em as I see ’em.

Five Iron vs. Banana phone

Nick Bradbury wrote about Banana phone and now I’m responding by saying: get the new and last Five Iron Frenzy album. There’s two CD’s (a live last concert album and their last official studio album). I’ve listened through the two and am actually finishing up their last song. Good stuff. But I won’t make any promises you won’t be walking around singing ‘cannonball.’

Hope others enjoy them as much as I do. I saw Five Iron (FIF or 5Fe) several times in concert in the last 8 years and loved every bit of it. I was actually in Denver the night of their last concert and couldn’t go (I was visiting family for a short weekend, no time to go). Bye Five Iron, we’ll miss you, but all is good – new bands have sprouted from this dead one.

Note: if you haven’t seen it, you should check out: “You have bad taste in music” [not responsible for content on this site]

Influences

Eric Meyer’s writes about his influences: Under The Influences. He thinks he’s not an influence. If it wasn’t for him and Jeffrey Zeldman my passion for web standards would not exist. On top of that Alt-N‘s site would in no way be standards compliant (OK, it took more than those two without Dave and Trint working so hard) because I would have never been interested in standards. I put a bug in Dave’s ear about standards and he screamed through DWWS and then anxiously awaited the new site design.

Eric, you’re an influence, be proud, but keep going: with your help some day Internet Explorer may see the light of web standards [or, it doesn’t hurt to think optimistically].

Playboy seeks Home Depot women

I’m thinking that this is just as wrong as the ‘Women of Walmart’ issue.
Playboy seeks Home Depot women for pictorial – May. 13, 2004

  • This is not liberating to women
  • It will degrade them into being objects
  • Try to ask, “May I help you?” to a construction worker who’s seen you in the buff and get anything but a come-on

I know I may not hold the majority view on this, but I don’t see it as being morally good, productive for a work environment, and I find it most frustrating on a biblical level. What men who look at Playboy are doing is engaging in adultery. What women who pose for Playboy are doing is being adulteresses. Yeah, that’s a good industry to work in.