Vox recently posted that “rap” inherently leads to a dead end. > Seriously, is there a bigger pop music abomination than the massive steaming dump that Jay-Z inexplicably slathers all over Alphaville’s “Forever Young”? But when I got to thinking about it, I realized that this musical dead end was inevitable. It was always going to be the case. Most of the early “rap is crap” critics were committing a category error when they complained about “rap music”. Their instincts were right, but their s…
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Jon Del Arroz is posting in support of John Wright’s crusade, and decided to highlight nine christian artists he thought worth supporting [http://delarroz.com/?p=738]in the fields of writing, comics, and music. Looking at the list, I realize that I only recognize three of the names. Now, three I don’t recognize are in comics, which I’m not as familiar with, but not only had I not heard of Nadine Brandes [http://www.nadinebrandes.com/]under writers, but the only musician I had heard of, in passin…
I actually tried using Drupal for several projects a few years back and my final thought on it was to walk away and never look back. Sure, it was insanely powerful and customizable at it’s ground floor, but even before WordPress figured out how to better handle contributions from multiple users and became as much a website management system as a blogging platform, getting Drupal to do some very simple stuff that was effectively baked in for WordPress was… onerous. It’s not the power – it’s eve…
…and not a caricature of what normally think a smart person is (sortof like Colbert used to play a caricature of what liberals *thought* conservative commentators believed, when parodying what they actually did would have been both more honest and funnier). Eric Raymond was encouraged to view a clip of the Big Bang Theory, [and wasn’t impressed](http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7451):> Bleagh. This is supposed to be a show about geniuses? It’s not. It’s a show about a dimwit’s idea of what bright peop…