http://www.bortsportal.com Soon to be Rebooted Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:16:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is sort of a movie review, but it sort of isn't. My time today is spent writing about the movie V For Vendetta. More specifically, I am writing about how tired I am getting of seeing movies so falsely advertised. V For Vendetta is advertised as an action ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2006/03/23/v-for-propoganda/ Some time ago I decided to stop buying anything Sony. I finally realized that everything I had ever bought that bore the brand Sony either stopped working properly or stopped working entirely. Whether it was a whacky WalkMan or a dingy DiskMan, Sony's sordid sound machines always went on the ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/12/05/are-my-roots-showing/ My design work is getting its spread on. I recently submitted a design for a contest held for a new blog engine. Typo is a new blog engine built on Ruby-on-Rails, and they needed more templates for new users to choose. Prizes included PowerBooks, iPods, hosting, and software. How can ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/12/02/almost-famous/ The Web Standards Project, or WaSP, created a test many moons ago that was meant to test web browsers. The Acid2 Test puts web browsers through a rigorous test of standards prowess. The test basically has code that should only, by standards accounts, be rendered one way. Most of the code ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/11/11/browsers-on-acid/ If anyone saw Spike Lee on Real Time with Bill Maher a couple weeks ago, you already know and agree that perhaps he should go shopping for one of those white jackets with the extra long sleeves. He is convinced that the government blew up the levees in New ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/11/04/spike-lee-taking-his-crazy-pills-again/ If you're a fan of the show, you should know exactly what to expect here: rapid-fire gags. It's a hilarious story from beginning to end. Joke after joke. I was hoping that since it was straight to video and unrated, it would be more tasteless and raunchy, but alas, since ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/11/02/family-guy-presents-stewie-griffin-the-untold-story/ Peter Griffin: "You know what really grinds my gears? This Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan with all those little outfits, jumping around there on stage, half-naked with your little outfits. Ya know? You're a... You're out there jumping around and I'm just sitting here with my beer. So, what am I ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/11/02/ya-know-what-grinds-my-gears/ How many words are there for the word vagina? Let's find out. Sorry if this offends anyone. Let's see George Carlin come up with a list like this! vagina, bearded clam, vertical smile, beaver, trim, hair pie, bearded ax wound, tuna taco, fur burger, cooch, cooter, punani, snatch, twat, lovebox, ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/11/02/vagina/ About a year or so ago, a new movie theater opened up in Council Bluffs, The Star Cinema. 16 movie screens, comfy seats, lots of room, really nice. Well, there is also another theater in town called the Omni 4. It's been around for some time. Erik and Melissa used ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/11/02/the-omni-4-theater/ I've been meaning to re-purpose this site for a while. When I saw the CSS Reboot, I found my opportunity. This was finally a chance to update Bort's Portal for 2005 (well, almost 2006). Still a Portal? No, not really. Bort's Portal was conceived way back in 2000, back when portals, or ... http://www.bortsportal.com/2005/11/01/re-boot/