Month: March 2003

Ghengis Kahn died hundreds of year ago, but his lineage lives on according to a National Geographic article. Up to “16 million” people living today could be descendents of Kahn, due to his ruthless conquering of land and, obviously, the ladies.Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior of the 13th century, may have done more than…

Please help me test out my Super News Feed. It’s a collection of RSS feeds from some of my favorite sites. It uses the Magpie library to do the fetching and the parsing and I wrote enough code to cache the results every two hours and only display the last three entries from each site.…

My favorite show for the past few years has been HBO’s Six Feet Under and last night was the season premier. It started out great, but not even Alan Ball has the nuts to kill off his lead character, at least not yet. The first half went great as Nate viewed alternate versions of his…

I love Johnny Cash and he’s done some great covers over the years, most notable for me were Beck’s “Rowboat” and Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage.” When I heard he was doing “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails I got really excited. Cash and Reznor seemed a perfect fit, but sadly I don’t think Cash’s cover lives up…

Thanks to various websites, message boards, word of e-mouth, and a link in the Need To Know newsletter, this site transferred more data in February than the past 8 months combined. On Friday I saw 240 guests on here at one time. My previous record was a mere 36. Thanks to all the sites who…