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- Last night I picked up cake mix and frosting and candles from the store and baked a premium vanilla cake... |
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- Carlos Tejada of the Wall Street Journal on steel tariffs: WSJ.com - Bush Weighs Softer Stance on Steel: A day after the World Trade Organization ruled against President Bush's tariffs on imported steel, the administration is reluctantly considering whether some compromise could satisfy its trade partners and the domestic steel industry.... Steel lobbyists in Washington acknowledged that the tariffs are likely to be reduced, if not eliminated -- despite the White House's initially defiant stance.... |
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- From my perspective, the remarkable thing is not how many sober, centrist, policy substance-oriented commentators and analysts sound like Paul Krugman--"shrill"--in their assessments of George W. Bush. The remarkable thing is how long it took so many of the great and good to wake up and smell the coffee--and how many continue to tiptoe around reality out of fear of offending Karl Rove and company. Here the Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray joins the ranks of the shrill: he compares George W. |
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- Stan Collender tells us what he really thinks about the Republican Ascendancy: Budget Battles (12/02/2003): The conclusion is as inescapable as it is unassailable: 2003 will go down as one of the absolute worst years for the federal budget in U.S. |
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- Speaking of turtles... don't forget the badgers... |
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- PPC INSULATORS ANNOUNCES EURO SIX MILLION INVESTMENT IN EUROPEAN DIVISION Vienna Austria – (August 20th, 2003) – PPC Insulators, one of the largest manufacturers of porcelain insulators in the world, has confirmed plans for a Euro 6 m... |
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- death to spamvertisements |
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- My vote for the new blog showcase this week is this tale of puppy truth from Blown Fuse. It made me laugh and it reminded me of Nick Nick, SWMBO's dog who sadly passed away but while he was with us had a penchant for my right leg. |
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- Dec. 2 - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took his political message to the people of San Diego Tuesday in hopes of gaining support for bond measures. |
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- Dec. 2 - North County fire chiefs have unveiled a new tactic to fight deadly flames: They're erasing the boundaries between their cities. |
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- Mike [7] you're definately not going mad. I have seen that kind of documents too.Are you by chance playing around with document IDs? Deleting a document and the forcing the documentuniqueid of the de... |
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Prose (Dec 03 2003 04:58 GMT) - Like it or not, I have discovered that there is an informal "old-boys'-network" in the legal profession. As a youngster... |
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- I've been doing some graphs and charts for a site I'm working on and used an array of hex color values to highlight the different bars of the graph.Sadly, the pie-chart routines take the color values for pie-slices in RGB instead, so I knocked up this little loop to switch the colors to RGB on the fly. // set up the colour array$hex_colors = array('#0066B2', '#6CAAD9', '#B1D3EC', '#285577', '#4C7899','#2C83E7', '#7C94A5', '#B8C7D2','#D7E8F5', '#607C90'); while (list($ |
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- O que aconteceu com aquele cara que estudava contigo e tinha o blog todo verde? Aquele cara era legal, esqueci o nome dele... |
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- Ah, claro que Enya é legal. Tu tambem deve ser um sujeito muito legal pra gostar de Enya. E a versão do Rappa ficou massa, Rafael. Mas as covers definitivas de Chico Buarque foram cunhadas por Oswaldo Montenegro no seu clássico disco de covers definitivas de Chico Buarque. Por um tempo até achei que todas as músicas do Oswaldo eram do Chico, de tão bem que ele emula a poesia chicobuarqueana enquanto ser humano cantante. |
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- acho que os dentistas usam essas músicas pra tentar deixar os coitados calmos antes da tortura com o motorzinho!!! :) |
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- Sampleswap, that website where music makers, producers and DJ's can download all sorts of free high-quality audio samples (drum loops, instruments, etc.) is BACK ONLINE! |
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- Still no word on the job... "I'm in the system and there is still a sense of urgency to get... |
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- This is my entry for The Most God Damn Depressing Song Ever Written Contest at Feministe . I'm not a folk or country fan but for a brief period of time, with no money, and no ideas of how to get any, me and Ron would get drunk on ... |
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Mailer (Dec 03 2003 04:57 GMT) - "I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered." -- Norman Mailer "Violence is the last frontier in literature." -- Norman Mailer |
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- Children of the Rust Belt Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. Children of the Cold War; lovers of Art, Freedom, Equality, and Truth; Unite! |
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- I've been giving a bit more thought to the Ypsilanti Planning Commission's adoption of the Master Plan's changes to the zoning of the "Cross Street District". In an earlier post I characterized the Commission's rezoning of the area decision as questionable, but now I think the Commission may be ... |
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- "Dear BlogShares players, I am sorry to announce that BlogShares will not be reopening after the current technical difficulties are... |
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- A New Website for Harper's Magazine: I've never heard of Harpers, but apparently it's a magazine published continuously since 1850, which makes for a lot of content. This article is from the guy who re-did their Web site. He explains... |
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- Last February my wife and I stumbled upon a Frontline... |
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- Democrats struck a blow for democracy with a huge victory over the Republican redistricting scheme in Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court threw out the Republican-drawn congressional districts, declaring it unconstitutional to draw new districts in the middle of the decade. |
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- McAuliffe: "It's a shame that President Bush's trips to Pennsylvania outnumber the net jobs created over the last three years by his disastrous economic policies." |
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- McAuliffe: "As Democrats, we believe the HIV/AIDS epidemic requires a comprehensive, coordinated national strategy that includes increased funding and strong presidential leadership." |
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- McAuliffe: "This decision is a major blow to the Republicans who try to win elections through lies, loopholes and lawyers when they can’t win them legitimately. We applaud the Colorado Supreme Court for their decision and hope that the Texas Courts follow suit." |
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- Solis: "This week the House of Representative passed a prescription drug bill that will have a negative impact on the 40 million seniors in this country. When President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill that created the Medicare program, he fulfilled our responsibility to help those who worked so hard to provide us with the prosperity we enjoy today: our seniors." |
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- A new nonprofit organization aimed at welding file-swapping and open-source computing advocates into a political force is launching online this week. |
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- Business News: USA founder to chair Reality Central board USA Network founder Kay Koplovitz has been named chairman of Reality Central's board of directors. Digital cabler, devoted to all things reality TV, is set to launch mid-2004 with more than 3 million subs. |
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- Potatoes are yesterday's portrait media. It's time to stop playing with your food, wlak away from the tuber, and give Mr. Picassohead a refreshingly cubist whirl. |
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- This is too tedious for words because I have things I need to be doing, but I would not be me, which would be remiss and inconsistent and therefore uncomfortable for you and that's to be avoided at all costs (at least on a Tuesday, shaking your world being allowed on a Wednesday), if I did not make some form of response to this newest of weblog awards, the 2003 Weblog Awards. Normally I find these events to be, well, rather uninspiring except for the... |
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- According to Editor & Publisher, it seems people are disputing the 50+ insurgent KIA in this past weekend's firefight ... claiming, instead, and number closer to ... uhh ... eight. Oh, and the US soldiers who had their throats slashed ... |
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- This guy is lucky. This guy is not.... |
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- The StarPhoenix, 01 Dec 2003 |
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- State Journal-Register, 30 Nov 2003 |
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- Tullahoma News, 01 Dec 2003 |
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- Commercial Appeal, 02 Dec 2003 |
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- Press-Enterprise, 02 Dec 2003 |
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- Dallas Morning News, 02 Dec 2003 |
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- Miami Herald, 02 Dec 2003 |
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- Financial Times, 28 Nov 2003 |
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