make-believe.org http://www.make-believe.org/ The writing portfolio and weblog of Joseph Pearson; a writer, a student, a programmer, an agitator. en-us hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 The Patriot Act http://www.make-believe.org/posts/05/12/17/0 The Patriot Act is an alternative to the brand of Australian "patriotism" that we believe has become far too prominent in the eyes of the nation and the world. We think it's a truer representation of how it feels to be Australian. If you agree with that, and you have two minutes to spare, please sign it at http://www.thepatriotact.org.]]> 051217-0http://www.make-believe.org 2005-12-17T00:03:00-10:00 Thumbin’ http://www.make-believe.org/posts/05/12/01/0 This is a Community Service Announcement, alright, okay, it's a Me Service Announcement. I've got a Friday pass to marvellous Meredith, and Friday is the day I'm keenest on, what with the likes of Okkervil and the Cities raising the canvas.

Turns out Kelly, who is likewise equipped with a Friday pass, can't leave the lights of Melbs til late that night, missing the aforementioned sets.

Me, I'd like arrive in the mid-afternoon, to stake out a little patch of turf and to start, well, drinking and singing and et cetera.

So I'm sticking my thumb out. If you're going to MMF on the Friday, can you fit me in the back seat or something? I'd be most grateful.

  • There's a six of Boag's Draft or a silver balloon of De Bortoli's finest in it for you.
  • Don't be creepy.
  • Write me!

This has been a Me Service Announcement on behalf of you get the idea.

Update: Sorted! Thanks.

]]> 051201-0http://www.make-believe.org 2005-12-01T12:05:00-10:00 Always thinking http://www.make-believe.org/posts/05/11/21/0 I just registered a business name that I can only pronounce when I'm sober. This is a sensible safeguard.

]]> 051121-0http://www.make-believe.org 2005-11-21T12:32:00-10:00 Get your highlighters out http://www.make-believe.org/posts/05/11/20/0 Okay, melbs.org has a brand new look. It's, like, rock and roll.

]]> 051120-0http://www.make-believe.org 2005-11-20T05:33:00-10:00 Three things I found funny today: http://www.make-believe.org/posts/05/11/12/1
  • This is fucking brilliant (esp. this)
  • I wanted to separate a burgeoning object-oriented JavaScript codebase into per-class files, then concatenate them back into one big file in a "deployment" step. Concatenation via the Windows command shell is unintuitive—you use the copy command and point to a file as the destination—and appends an unrecognizable character at the end of the resultant file, causing some JavaScript engines to barf. Before I got it working (you have to tell the copy command that the output will be binary, even though it's not, eg: copy js\*.js main.js /b), I was considering using Poof!™ to do the job. Visit the PoofPage for more information.
  • Roger Smalls
    • ]]>     051112-1http://www.make-believe.org 2005-11-12T13:41:00-10:00     New correlations in the cows/stupidity matrix http://www.make-believe.org/posts/05/11/12/0 My distaste for middle-aged women is already well-documented. But the ways I'm gonna kick Lynne Truss's arse will one day be the stuff of legend.

    What she, like Don Watson, like the Apostrophe Protection Society, like all socio-linguistic conservatives, fails to realise is that language and social interaction is constantly shifting. At a certain age of course you fall off the crest of the wave of change—the point is to take it with good grace and humour. But they think that they're members of the Last Great Good generation, the last ones who could be trusted with language and human communication, which is plainly insulting and I'll prove it with all kinds of deep red welts on her ample buttocks.

    Theirs is the dim narrow purview, the appreciation of an apparent decline across one century or two, revealed as hopelessly mistaken by any broader look at language and society, which has certainly taken these hits and worse before, and been made stronger and more beautiful for it. I'm saying I ain't talking your granmama's language, cos your granmama's language didn't do what I need. Keep movin, Truss, or git ya fat butt off the sidewalk.

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