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Gay marriage!  Playboy “Hate Fuck” Lists!  Racist Latina Supreme Court Nominees!  Federal Ownership of the Means of Production!   There’s so much going on these days I’m almost inspired to put some borderline-coherent thoughts together on a few topics. Almost.

Greetings!  If you are here, that means you have successfully moved over to the new and improved Geek Soap Box.  Now featuring more (less?) colors!  More parenthetical comments!  More complex clauses and rhetorical questions!  More, more, more! Basically, as a professional Web designer and marketing communications guru, it was time to once again set up [...]

Congratulations to the 50,000th visitor to Geek Soap Box: an unknown individual from North Carolina who arrived searching for “eagles long road out of eden tour set list.” I guess I should be glad it wasn’t something like “tentacle porn” or “hot naked pictures of Anne Hathaway.” Actually, if you have the latter, please feel [...]

I am Twittering this evening, on occasion. Go read me there. In the meanwhile, I got some beers in the fridge and am hunkering down for the worst.

As a professional Web developer/editor, I’m always reading articles on the net about best practices, metrics and analytics, and which styles in layout and structure are en vogue. So, it should come as no surprise that I stumbled upon an interesting article about 7 Fonts That Should Die. There was nothing patently offensive about any [...]

People that search Google for “Theodore S. LaBarbera” and wind up here on Geek Soap Box. Well, you obviously know who I am, sir or madame, so hope you found what you were looking for. Out thyself, damn spot!

Movie Reviews Eh…I blame the fact that we are forced to work with a small sample size, being that I deleted four years of prior blog content in a fit of paranoid melodrama. H/t to d o r k e l i n a.

Sigh, I miss this place. The friends, the witty commentary, the sense of community, and that special feeling that came from meeting someone special solely through the power of your words. Am I back? Who knows. Let’s just let it flow and see where the lightly trickling waters take us. Really, though, life has sucked [...]