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The never-ending conversation on life, liberty, and sequential art…

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Archive for October, 2003

“We have top men working on it right now.”… “Who?”….. “Top…. men…”

Posted on October 30th, 2003 by Shawn L.

VodkaPundit answers the question : How are weapons of mass destruction like the Ark of the Covenant? (via Hit & Run)

Daring Fireball: Command-Tab

Posted on October 29th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Daring Fireball tears into a Macintosh developer who’s griping that Apple “stole” their softawre design with the latest update to the MacOS (10.3, aka “Panther”). Their claim rings more than a bit hollow.Some of us were discussing this very topic on the Your Mac Life fourms., which referred me to the article.

The Betty Ford Center opens it’s children’s wing, the Drew Barrymore Center.

Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Shawn L.

BuzzMachine… Jeff Jarvis has a photo of an amusing sign he came across in his travels.

“Invasion of the Liberal Elite.”???

Posted on October 27th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Pop!Tech conference update:For weeks leading up to the conference the local educational access channel had been promising to have a schedule up. I had no idea if the conference was to be broadcast live or on tape delay. As of the day before the conference, no schedule was up. I foolishly assumed that to mean […]

Reader Beware…

Posted on October 22nd, 2003 by Shawn L.

Your Mac Life Forums :: Joe Wilcox’s Track RecordIn this article, Matt Deatherage shows how technology journalist/analysts can get things very, very, wrong; with little to no accountability. And in the example given, said “journalist” gets a job with an business that acted as a source for a story that proved to be dead wrong.

Kaus never consulted Red Sox fans.

Posted on October 20th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Mickey Kaus: “I predict that within five years Steve Bartman will be a beloved figure in Chicago. My reasoning: the Cubs’ image as a cursed team is much more precious to the city than a mere World Series appearance.” Try telling that to Bill Buckner.

Monsters, Inc. was right…

Posted on October 17th, 2003 by Shawn L.

The proof that the monsters under kid’s beds have switched from scaring children to making them laugh: Gnat’s wakes up giggling.

Geeks like us…

Posted on October 17th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Wow, I’m not the only one with a “Maus” CD-ROM. It seems a bit absurd today, a multi-media CD-ROM presentation of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novels. But, like James Lileks must have also done, I thought it was pretty darn good thing.Media without a set, static standard, just isn’t going to work in the […]

Virginia in Maine… Pop!Tech conference blogging

Posted on October 16th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Virginia Postrel in her Dynamist blogI’m off to Pop!Tech early Thursday morning. Assuming all goes well, it’s about an 10-hour trip, door-to-door, and those hours don’t include Internet access. Conference organizers, do, however promise Wi-Fi once I’m there, so I’ll try to blog a bit on Friday.One of the big name bloggers will be in […]

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…

Posted on October 14th, 2003 by Shawn L.

It’s not often that one can bring the Fibonacci sequence into a discussion on sports.I did it once in a humorous speech about R.I.T.’s hockey cheering section, the Corner Crew, where we counted up the goals in an incredible scoring game.Baseball Musings finds another way to reference Fibonacci, in tonight’s Yankees vs Red Sox ALCS […]

The lengths that some libertarians go to in order to get the message out…

Posted on October 6th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Look down on the asphalt! Is it a construction worker? Is it a car thief? No its… Angle-Grinder Man !!!This self proclaimed “superhero” takes on the U.K. equivalent of the “Denver Boot”… He’s got a good point to make… But… Well… Why is the GOOFY ones who get all the publicity!!! It’s one step forward, […]

“Jane, you ignorant slut.”

Posted on October 6th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Somethings got “Jane Galt” excited… Oh… its the Yankees…Between this and the Cubs fan that I work with, the Red Sox had better win tonight.

Musings…

Posted on October 6th, 2003 by Shawn L.

Y’know there have been damn few posts where I write just about something on my mind. I’m always reacting to something else I’ve seen or read. Usually elsewhere on the blogosphere.When it comes to spouting off opinions, I haven’t had the desire to launch into talking about things cold. I’m seized by the “perfecting the […]

Stretching the definition of “intervention”…

Posted on October 6th, 2003 by Shawn L.

(from Instapundit.com )Glenn, the notorious hyperblogger finally gets his intervention:Halley Suitt and Adam Curry showed up, declared that they were staging an intervention of the sort that Andrew Sullivan said I needed, and made me stop blogging and have a drink. Er, drinks.This must be the first intervention where lots of alcohol was consumed. Usually […]

Electronic Voting Testing Inadiquate

Posted on October 3rd, 2003 by Shawn L.

Even the computing industry is appaled at the lack of security standards for electronic voting machines. Over at Embedded.com they lay out how the standards are substandard, and a very unique solution from an unexpected source, who’s need for security is extremly demanding.(via instapundit)