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- An Al Qaeda attempt to recruit elderly suicide bombers failed miserably -- after one geezer forgot what his target was, wandered back to base and blew everybody up. [More] |
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- The single biggest thing that fiscal conservatives could do to overhaul government would be to force agencies that collect taxes to estimate the costs and benefits to every individual taxpayer. Yes, it is difficult to estimate just how much non-income... |
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- The newly elected steering committee of the Irish Anti-War Movement met for the first time in UCD on Saturday, 18 October. What follows is a brief report of the main decisions taken. ... |
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- http://www. explodingdog. com/january2/ihaveloveforyou. html... |
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- The iTunes Link Maker (discussed here: ITMS Link Maker: http://linkfilter. net/? |
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- In keeping with the Connections theme suggested by Glitch: A sociopath is an individual whose behavior is socially acceptable, and in fact, who appears to be an ideal person. In reality, this individual sees no value in other people except as they may affect his/her own self-gratification. We think sociopaths are grossly misunderstood by their fellowpersons, and are dedicated to correcting this abberation of human perspective. In keeping with current self-help, feel- good trends, we have gathered together, sociopathically, to create awareness of the problem, scold society for allowing it to continue unabated, whine about the trauma it has caused in our lives, seek justice (and perhaps a healthy class-action settlement), and to generally behave in sociopathically- acceptable ways. |
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- Microsoft would be negligent if it didn't see Apple's music ambitions as a competitive threat. On the eve of Apple's splashy launch last week, Microsoft offered a Q&A which warned users not to be seduced by iTunes, Apple's integrated MP3 player/ripper/burner/radio/mus store, which is now available on Windows. Microsoft's David Fester (and whether Fester is his birthname or an homage[*] to his CEO, we don't know; Intel employs a Mr. Jason 'Ziller', which isn't at all relevant here) warned that iTunes carried several disadvantages. |
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- "Typical of most things Apple does, the recent unveiling of iTunes for Windows and the iTunes Music Store has made quite a splash. Reactions run the gamut from the fawning praise of the 'Apple can do no wrong' crowd to the Apple-haters who complain so much its hard to believe that they have time for much else. Much of the reaction has been positive, and even the griping is mostly benign. But there are some substantive issues that Apple is going to need to address to make their service truly competitive in the Windows world. It's Saturday, and I've just got my flame retardant suit back from the cleaners, so here goes... |
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Sneakery (Oct 21 2003 18:48 GMT) - Bringing together the world's finest covert operatives, Sneakery offers these spies and secret agents the opportunity to take a break from the hectic pace of espionage and counterintelligence. This colourful roster has assembled for various and disparate reasons. Some seek relief from their clandestine routines and desire an outlet for their creativity. Some hope for a way to reach the masses and advance a particular ideology. Others plot against their fellow spies and hope that someone will mention a detail that betrays their secret identity and makes them an easy target. |
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- A very long investigation into how conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons. Includes some surprising findings, such as an entirely believable explanation for the "missing" WMDs from the Iran-Iraq war which I hadn't seen before. |
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- The differences are often significant: "Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Third Edition," for example, lists for $146.15 on the American Amazon site, but can be had for $63.48, plus $8.05 shipping, from the British one. |
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- Remember how at the end of every G.I. Joe Cartoon they would have some short educational segment and it would always end with the line "And Knowing Is Half The Battle"? These clips are dubbed over with new dialogue and even some of the animation is changed and remixed. The result is so hilarious that I almost wet my pants the first time I saw them. |
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- New York physician and inventor Raymond Damadian bought a second full-page advertisement in The New York Times in 10 days to make his case, quoting the two laureates as earlier crediting him for work on magnetic resonance imaging for which they won the award on Oct. 6. Related op-ed in NYT ... "No Nobel Prize For Whining" |
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- Cartoonist Gary Larson calls his 20-pound opus -- a two-volume set that includes every Far Side cartoon in its 14-year twisted history -- ''a hernia giver.'' But, he says, the heft has mostly to do with the quality of the glossy paper. ''I don't think the cartoons weigh that much.'' The Complete Far Side (Andrews McMeel, $135) will be published today, nearly nine years after Larson retired as a daily cartoonist. Or, as he puts it, ''I hung up my eraser, the most essential tool I owned. |
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- The first part of a lengthy, 4-part study of the American voting system. About touch-screen voting and Diebold software. • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Or read entire article: here |
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- My breakfast every morning is a cup of coffee and a hearty serving of Lew Rockwell.com. As a UK resident, I enjoy the flavours and textures of traditional American libertarianism, a delicious alternative to the stodgy full English breakfast of deference and defeatism. Can you imagine living in a USA that never had a revolution, a Constitution or a Bill of Rights? That’s what it’s like living here. |
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- The FREEDOM RYDER by Brike Int. Ltd. is a hand powered cycle you steer by leaning your body. It combines the fun of cycling and the benefits of an upper-body workout with the thrilling sensation of slalom skiing. Riding these bikes, three world-class athletes set a world record when they handcycled 13,026 miles around the world. |
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- An amazing 16 second video clip (small AVI, 0.5mb) showing a motorcycle rider who loses control of his bike but somehow manages to hang on. |
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- Rogers Cadenhead: On Scripting News today, Dave Winer notes UserLand's absence from the weblog tools category of the Google Directory. Google creates that directory by importing the Open Directory Project database and sorting category pages by PageRank. Radio UserLand is included on the Open Directory Project's weblog tools category, which is edited by John Grohol and Laura Tripp, so it appears to be a problem that will be correcting itself during the next import.[Workbench] |
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- Ein Blogger auf der Systems. |
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- First there was the CSS heart done with border slants. Now we have a picture of a CSS house created with just empty DIVs and 3d border effects. For those less technically inclined, this is the web design equivalent of recreating MC Escher's work with Lego blocks. |
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- Instant Classic; Bloody Samurai Incidentally, some several days ago I saw School of Rock, and I laughed so so so hard. Leah and I saw it to "cleanse our palate" after being gored and stimulated to the redline while seeing Kill Bill Volume 1, which was quite a lot to take, and a movie I want to see again, but is also bloody with a capital "B." The counterpoint to the bloodiness is that there's a sense of humor and unreality behind it. It's a kung-fu picture. |
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- Black Panther Party I am, in fact, excited about Mac OS 10.3: Panther coming out this Friday. I intend to be at some Apple Store, either Fashion Valley or UTC, which is having its GRAND opening. Oh, and iTunes for Windows is great on the home network Leah and I share. |
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- Yup, I'm cute. Check me out: I believe I'm predicting the Cubs loss in 2003 in that picture. Just kidding, I don't follow baseball. that's what Tony Pierce of Busblog does. |
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- Glass Houses Bill McClellan wonders: if Bill Clinton were an addict, how might Rush Limbaugh spin it? |
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- More local thoughtfulness Mitch Wagner's post Blame the mother is thought provoking as well. I was sometimes a latch-key kid, but had something happened to me I can't see holding my parents responsible for whatever that might have been. Read it, it will make you think. |
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- Photoblogging and Phototography? Emese wonders Is photoblogging good for photography? -- Emese's Photoblog has wonderful photos, is local, and is readable. What more could you ask for? bookmark the site now. |
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- From Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler, circa 1787, Re: The Fall of the Athenian Republic "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. |
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- Search Result: Satay I find it idiotic that the first search result for "satay" is the "Flash Satay" method of including a .swf file. http://www. |
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Randomness (Oct 21 2003 18:47 GMT) - Randomness Here comes a bucketful of randomness. |
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New Header (Oct 21 2003 18:47 GMT) - New Header For those who did not notice, there's a new header on the blog. |
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Munge (Oct 21 2003 18:47 GMT) - Munge 1. To imperfectly transform information 2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program. (source and complete definition at The Jargon File) Lately I've been noticing sometimes I, and others, "munge" together related concepts in ways that interfere with understanding the original concepts. Sometimes, one does not even realize that one concept has been confused for the other. |
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- JOICE, IOWA--Governor Howard Dean, M.D. announced today his six point plan to create a thriving renewable energy industry to provide clean, reliable, and secure power for millions of Americans. Dean joined local Worth County, Iowa residents in a discussion of... |
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- Most kids are picky. Generally kids don't like spicy or sour foods. I'm sure that a lot of this has to do with taste buds being stronger when you're younger. I was no different as a child. I hated lots of stuff. |
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- Oct. 21 - A new theory is surfacing in the murder of Wall Street Journalist Daniel Pearl. U.S. officials now think he was slain by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. |
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- It all started in 1997 when I began doing a drawing of Spider-Man. the picture of everything navigation im detail ähnlich wie bei communimage. (via fishbucket) |
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Yana Cova (Oct 21 2003 18:46 GMT) - Yana Cova: Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Gallery 4 Gallery 5 Gallery 6 Gallery 7 Gallery 8 Gallery 9 Thanks Axel!... |
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- Tehtyäni yhdestä cd-r:stä lasinalustan totesin, ettei Disk Copyllä |
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- Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger left Patrick Vieira on the bench as the influential midfielder lost his fitness battle to make the starting line-up away to Dynamo Kiev. |
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- Oct. 21 - A new theory is surfacing in the murder of Wall Street Journalist Daniel Pearl. U.S. officials now think he was slain by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. |
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