Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’ve given and collected a lot of advice on how to improve your writing particularly online. That advice is spread over a number of different posts some of which get read, others go unheeded. While updating one of these old posts today I decided to collect the best of the best tips and links together [...]

I just finished watching the documentary “Hitler’s Children” on the Knowledge Network.  It isn’t a great film, but it did get me thinking. Adolf Hitler of course had no children, but other members of the inner circle had children and now grand children. A Jewish filmmaker interviewed several of them and asked them about how [...]

And why do he and his buddies over at Caltrops.com find this acceptable online behaviour? Until this week I’d never bothered to read Caltrops.com or really look into who was running the website and why the hell they think they are so damn clever and superior to the rest of us lesser Internet users. Fussbett [...]

Although I perhaps should have been using the time in other ways, I’ve spent considerable time and effort building a custom news aggregator.  I was able to leverage SimplePie and PHP to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but I also wanted to scour the Internet, social media, and all the trendy Web 2.0 [...]

It was someone else’s idea to cast her as Chun Li, but Morgana Mou (牟丛) is an aspiring model, actress, and martial artist. She has a demo real online which hopefully I can embed from Youku.com. Given how popular my blog is for some keywords I decided to share her clip. Chun Li despite being [...]