http://giantkicks.com The Vancouver blog starts kicking... Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:23:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Soundproof - 80s video on tv in the eighties Vancouver style. Now here's nostalgia. I remember watching a lot of music video on Soundproof. Punk, alternative, new wave, and all kinds of goofing around. Some great fun. A UBC Archives pdf of a UBYSSEY newspaper story on Soundproof from 1984. A year ... http://giantkicks.com/youtube-soundproof-alternative-music-videos-in-the-80s/ I just noticed that Firefox 3.0 no longer has the "Links" tab in the “Page Info” window. The "Links" tab shows all the outgoing links of any web page. Found French blogger Florian Quèze who has kindly posted, in English, a link to his Links and Forms extension/addon. It's ... http://giantkicks.com/links-tab-restore-extension-firefox-30/ Scot Hacker’s Foobar Blog » Notes on a Massive WordPress Migration I once ran giantkicks.com on Moveable Type. I thought it was utterly unintuitive, too complicated and kind of ugly in the back-end. I gave it a couple months and threw my hands up in exasperation. Installed cafepress/b2 and then wordpress ... http://giantkicks.com/massive-wordpress-migration-from-moveable-type/ I've restored all the posts from 2003-2007. I currently have no access to posts from 2000 to 2003..but some day I will. My intention was merely to restore the site. I don't know yet if I will start posting again. The problem I resolved in order to restore the site was that ... http://giantkicks.com/giantkickscom-is-back-online/ + I found myself sinking into a sort of heartbreak while watching this, thinking about how trapped the people of Iraq must feel. Trapped in a perpetually dehumanizing social chaos. The Death Squads - Google Video The torture and slaughter of Iraqi civilians is reaching unprecedented heights with estimates of up to ... http://giantkicks.com/the-death-squads-google-video/ The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow (Horizon 2006) - Google Video Dr Temple Grandin has a legendary ability to read the animal mind and understand animal behaviour when no one else can. But this is no feat of telepathy; her explanation is simple. She's convinced she experiences the world much ... http://giantkicks.com/the-woman-who-thinks-like-a-cow-horizon-2006-google-video/ + Pure unadulterated sectarian verbal violence. If there were weapons in the room, someone would be dead. LiveLeak.com - Screaming match on AlJazeera over Saddam Hussein http://giantkicks.com/screaming-match-on-aljazeera-over-saddam-hussein-liveleakcom/ New Orleans: Big Easy to Big Empty - Google Video In this half-hour film, Greg Palast and his team travel to New Orleans to investigate what has happened since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast last year. On his visit, he discovers that the population of New Orleans is miniscule, the reconstruction ... http://giantkicks.com/new-orleans-big-easy-to-big-empty-google-video/ Oil, Smoke & Mirrors. - Google Video “Oil, Smoke & Mirrors” offers a bleaker view of present global circumstances than many of us would dare consider. It deals with issues that are largely marginalized, if not ignored, in the discourse of mainstream media and politics. However, as the film argues, it may ... http://giantkicks.com/oil-smoke-mirrors-google-video/ YouTube - Exxon/Bush Admin Killing Polar Bears and Worse http://giantkicks.com/youtube-exxonbush-admin-killing-polar-bears-and-worse/