Eric Ingrum's Project Blog

TaxFoundation.org has an announcment on their site that today, the 120th day of 2007, is Tax Freedom Day. As Americans, we work an average of four months of the year – from January 1 to April 30 – before we have earned enough money to pay this year’s tax obligations. You might not think about [...]

Inbetween getting our new designers’ themes up, I’ve been working on the new link system. We’ve been bombarded with requests to allow more custom links at the bottom of your page. This has somehow been impossible with the old system. The code of this section is a fucking mess. This morning, however, I finally figured [...]

Put your knowledge of zombie survival to real world use. Zombie Squad, frequently abbreviated to ZS, is a non-profit community service and disaster preparedness organization that uses the metaphor of a “zombie Apocalypse” as a metaphor for any natural or man-made disaster (hurricane, terrorism, earthquake, etc.). Horror fans who combined their shared interests of zombies [...]

Anthony Cooper? Dead Survivors? That woman spoke 16 goddamn languages. I thought Patchy’s brain expoloded! What the fuck is going on??

Steven Landsburg has a new book out called “More Sex is Safer Sex.” Here’s a brief breakdown of the theory. If people who don’t frequently have sex sleep with more “strangers,” it will slow down the spread of STDs. Reason has a good breakdown – “One such prude walks into a bar, and he’s uninfected. [...]

I just got the Planet Terror score. It’s kicking my ass.

The other day I finished two new startpages. I love them. Planet Terror Google Theme Death Proof Google Theme Especially Planet Terror.

My brain is in a knot trying to follow all the stories of the shooting. My heart really goes out to the families of those lost and injured. School shootings have gladly become a rarity in this country, which makes it even harder when something like this happens. I was talking to Shannon yesterday, and [...]

Everyone has an iPod. Who listens to the radio anymore? Even talk radio is being quickly overthrown by podcasting. HBO, Showtime, and other premium channels can say and do essentially anything they want. Coupled with the rise of HD programming, even cable will be overtaken by digital services. Subscription to the previous mentioned networks shows [...]