Now it can be told!!! “Jolting” Jim Henley tells the tale of the Origin of Suicide Bombers!!! Before it became the weapon of choice for Islamofacists, strapping explosives to yourself, walking up to someone, and going BOOM was first started by opponents of robosexual marriage.An amusing tale of life imitating art.via Hit & Run
An Austrian village has the same name as a naughty word in English. Here’s the headline of the story:Fucking villagers vote against name changeWilliam S. Burroughs is right, “Language is a virus”via Arthur Chrenkoff, via Instapundit
Winer’s technique of announcing the change, too, leaves an awful lot to be desired. He blew away access to all of the blogs, replacing them all with a generic announcement. Actually the announcement itself didn’t explain his reasoning. For that, users had to listen to a ten-minute, 3.76-megabyte MP3 file. Winer explained his choice thusly:My […]
Rexblog talks about the recent shutdown of weblogs.com, and how the real problem isn’t the loss of free server space, but the links to posts that no longer live at those addresses.This is one of the great reasons why I’ve owned my own domain. It allows you to change your web hosting, your e-mail hosting. […]
The music has been recorded. The song is now playing on the radio. So why is “3 Speaker High’s “Make Me Dance All Night” not available until “Fall 2004” according to their website.Summer has just begun. People can forget about the song by the time it gets out into the market. Maybe there is some […]
More proof that touch screen voting does not work, and undermines voter confidence, from Wired.Not suprisingly the League of Women Voters have recinded their prior endorsement of electronic voting. (story also at Wired)Simple paper ballots, that can be counted by scanners and humans alike are the best option.Electronic voting puts too much power in the […]
Spinsanity chronicles the rather dubious choices of quotes used to scoff at Bush over the years, and more recently Kerry. Eugene Volokh, over at the Volokh Conspiracy has been calling Slate on this for quite a while now.The addition of the Kerryisms show that it’s not bias that is the problem here. Incompetence, maybe. These […]
Dean Esmay has a piece against the Libertarian Party,“Libertarians make me blue” that links to many silly stories about oddball politicians who are identified as Libertarians.But never fear coming to the defense is Andrew Ian Dodge who in this comment about Dean’s post writes… If you have only met Libertarians who are loons then you […]
(Note; I actually wrote this a couple of weeks ago. I have a few articles sitting around that could be posted, after a bit of polishing. This is one that is actually still rather timely, since the first version of the New CBG has yet to hit my mailbox.)Print vs. the Net / The Comic […]
According to my referral logs, a recent visitor was reading a translated version of this blog.It’s cool to see my blog translated to a language I don’t understand. (translation by Yahoo)
…is the frequent mantra of Jeff Jarvis over at Buzzmachine. Which is to say that all to often news is preached from a pulpit of “objectivity” where editors tell us what is news, and readers are just an audience.That’s why this article in the Dallas Morning News by Rod Dreher is so refreshing. It examines […]