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Hit & Run
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List of Lists (Dec 31 2003 17:59 GMT) - If you need to make sure you didn't miss anything in 2003 before it slips away, Fimoculous supplies about a million best-of lists for your last minute perusal. |
Warning: Neurons Fire at Random In This Area
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Quote of the Day (Dec 31 2003 17:58 GMT) - Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. —Thomas Mann (1875–1955) |
Armavirumque
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The fruit police (Dec 31 2003 17:57 GMT) - A few years ago, my wife and young son, aetat. 2 and a half, visited some friends from England who were staying in Newport, Rhode Island. Soon after arriving, my wife pulled out a banana for our son. Before she could give to him, our friend Davi |
The Daily Chump
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Graveyards, upstate New York style (Dec 31 2003 17:57 GMT) - edd: "A lot of the headstones shown signs of having been shot, probably by hunters chasing the deer who leave clear evidence of their presence in the cemetery."; (2003-12-31 14:58) |
The Daily Chump
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Airline and pilots agree over armed marshals (Dec 31 2003 17:57 GMT) - edd: Balpa said it was still opposed to the concept of armed sky marshals, but it agreed details with one unnamed British airline about how the marshals would be deployed on flights to the US. Under the agreement the captain of an aircraft will be told when sky marshals are aboard, will know who they are and where they sit, will be in regular contact with them and will be in command at all times, the union said in a statement.; (2003-12-31 10:37) |
Polemics
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etc (Dec 31 2003 17:56 GMT) - VOA News :: (December 31, 2003) Afghanistan's transitional President Hamid Karzai is optimistic the country's constitutional assembly will soon decide... |
Blackbeltjones Work
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Metropopular (Dec 31 2003 17:56 GMT) - "Metropopular is an animated short film about what the cities of America would say to one another if they could... |
Daily Kos
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Open Thread (Dec 31 2003 17:55 GMT) - Just a reminder what we are fighting for next year... |
Matthew Yglesias
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Jacques Said There'd Be Days Like This (Dec 31 2003 17:54 GMT) - The big trouble with this sort of inter-ethnic violence in Iraq is, as I've said before, that it's really not clear who's right and who's wrong about these issues. Or rather, both sides are pushing somewhat wrongheaded agendas for reasons... |
Blog of Rob
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DHL Ramblings (Dec 31 2003 17:54 GMT) - Had I been home at 9:17am this morning (or rather, had I been awake), I would have received my Blink 182 concert tickets. Alas. Rescheduled for Friday morning. Why don't UPS and DHL (in this case) realize that packages that require my signature should be delivered to a partnering (TPG) post office, to be picked up at my convenience? |
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