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Thornton 2 Productions is a spare-time solo Internet venture run by Don Thornton II. Thornton 2 produces unique media and intellectual property creations: art, animation, creative and technical writing, and Web development. Thornton 2 Productions is also the home for Don Thornton II's spokesman, mascot and avatar, Ariel Millennium Thornton (or ArielMT). Check the Projects page for the current production projects.

Internet yard sale of sorts

I need money. I have entirely too much stuff. Those two things meet, rather conveniently, here on the Web. I have some of my stuff listed on Amazon.com. I don't list on eBay anymore because the fee structure is out of control, their own item listing system is broken to the extent sellers are stiffed routinely, and they're banning good payment systems in favor of their own scammer-friendly system.

So... Please check out my stuff.

(At least I'm not bumming for donations, although I'll take those as well.)

RSS 2.0 Newsfeed

Most recent of the all too infrequent updates:

	Journal 4/3: Dvorak on Model T; Ad banners; NaNoWriMo.
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	[Links] The TRS-80 Model 100, the world's first good laptop PC, can do the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard! Yay! [Links] It's obvious what's wrong with Web ads, and the solution is equally obvious. [Links] NaNoWriMo is still more than half a year away, but at the rate I'm going, I should start planning for it now. There's no way a 50,000-word novel will fit in 24K of RAM, but the 25-year-old TRS-80 Model 100 is among the best for banging out disjointed pieces of such a story.

	TurboTaxed: Intuit Don't Want My Business Either.
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	[Rant and Log with Links] I tried doing my taxes this year through TurboTax Online, just like in years past. It did not go well. Out of need, I got to experience Intuit's customer support in three different ways. The short version: Intuit managed to make even Dell look good! I should've switched to something else years ago.

	Journal 1/16: Pirates!; The most expensive liquids; DreamHost oops; the Disintegrator!
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	[Links] News about how the pirates of the Internet can't be stopped. [Link] Old story, but guess what the most expensive liquids in the world are. [Links] DreamHost accidentally overbilled most of their customers by a huge amount. [Links] Meet the Disintegrator, a 24-barrel rubber band minigun. If you ever get into a rubber band fight, bring this.

	Journal 1/15: The EFF are the good guys: RIAA, ISPs, TSA websites, NSA, and DRM.
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	[Links] Mostly the EFF's writing, but they're loaded with links elsewhere, and I've linked to some of them as well. [Link] The RIAA want to claim that "attempted distribution" is proof of a crime. Again. The EFF says the law disagrees. Again. [Links] Leave it to the RIAA to muddy the clear answer to the simple question, "Are personal copies of digital music files legal?" [Link] Wired tried to get a straight answer about that out of the RIAA. See how straight their answer is. [Link] Comcast interfered with their customers' use of the Internet and lied about it. Would you believe that Comcast have supporters? [Link] Is your ISP interfering with your legal use of BitTorrent? Find out through the EFF's "Test Your ISP" project. [Links] The TSA Web site that was supposed to get your name off the secret terrorist watch list exposed your identity to theft as well. [Link] It's apparently budget time in Washington. The No-Such-Agency wants the power to spy on every American's Internet traffic. "Those who would give up essential liberties for temporary security..." [Link] The RIAA's member companies may have finally conceded that DRM is bad, but guess what failed ideology is coming next? [Link] Will ISPs become the copyright police? [Link] Tell the NSA/CIA/FBI/other TLA (three-letter acronym) agencies to wiretap this!

	Journal 1/13: Fun links.
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	[Links] Mona Lisa in MS Paint; Walking wall; Rednecks build spider mech.

Web site compatibility and design

This site is not at all designed to look right in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Given the choice between Internet Explorer compatibility and W3C Web standards compliance, I chose the latter. Since Internet Explorer breaks key Web standards, the two are mutually exclusive. This site uses HTML or XHTML with CSS , and it is designed for maximum accessibility while preserving good looks.

If you use a Web browser which does not let you change CSS themes on the fly, then you can select a CSS theme by way of a magic cookie over on the Select CSS Theme page. Warning to Internet Explorer users: this will let you see for yourself just how wrong your browser gets CSS.

If your browser identifies itself as Microsoft Internet Explorer, then you are seeing a special stylesheet just for IE. This stylesheet is an extremely simple design specifically to preserve content accessibility. This was done because almost all other CSS themes on this site are known to be poorly handled by IE.

This site is .GIF patent tax exempt.

Notice of Web standards compliance and browser compatibility.

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