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“One more?”

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

As the [SNL broadcast 11/20] ended, Bono could be heard saying, “One more?” as he returned to the stage.

A reader who attended the show tells us that the band gave an encore of three songs after the broadcast ended. They performed “All Because of You,” repeated “Vertigo” (without the countdown intro), and played a third song, which the reader cannot recall the title.

Can’t recall? Seriously?

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G-CANS

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

The G-CANS project has been making the rounds today, which by itself is not worth a mention here. The fact that the thing looks like a videogame—but is in fact a real flood-and-runoff-control system underneath Japan—is, in fact, noteworthy.

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Michael Schwab

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

So Chris posed me the question: “We can’t for the life of us think of the name of the designer who did all those prints for San Francisco (Presidio, Golden Gate Park, etc.)… Ring any bells?”

You bet. I used to have a bunch of those postcards, maybe six or seven years ago; I loved the Art Deco stylee, evoking liquor posters and agitprop. Of course, I didn’t remember who the designer was, either. An extended session of Google-groping ensued, finally leading me to Michael Schwab.

His website’s posters department has a few of the Golden Gate National Parks series, but the full poster series is out there if you know where to look.

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The past and future of dsandler.org. (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love WordPress.)

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

So, as you may have noticed, dsandler.org is now a WordPress site.

How did this happen? How did I, unrepentant DIY code junkie that I am, abandon my own code and pick up an off-the-shelf product? Worse still: How did I end up with another PHP web application, after swearing an oath of fidelity to Python?

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