Prattling about picayune peccadilloes and petty amusements since 2003.
July 31, 2003
July 30, 2003
July 29, 2003
July 28, 2003
- >God speaks XML, and yea, verily, he provideth an RSS feed
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- >Jim Henley: "I never want to hear another word about the alleged iniquities of Justin Raimondo, ANSWER, Robert Fisk, Patrick Buchanan, Lew Rockwell or even, god help us, the French. Not one more f}#&ing word."
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- >I'm trying to imagine "[t]ake it off, baby, take it off" being put through a vocoder — but, like this picture, it's just sick and wrong ...
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July 27, 2003
July 25, 2003
- >Sweetness — George Hincapie from the Postal Service cycling team has a Tour de France weblog
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- >Matt Yglesias: "[A]s a result of the lying a certain number of people — call them the 'chumps' — believe that the stated case for war was the real case, but a small minority — the 'elect' — have discerned the true causes of the war ... The trouble is that, once we concede that the road to war was paved with deception, there's no way to know that we're not the chumps."
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- >Meryl Yourish: "I say again, there is definitely a boys' club in the blogosphere, and this list is entered into evidence as Exhibit A."
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- >Russell van der Woning: "Forget the bomb, guys, the fish I had on my line was this big ..."
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July 24, 2003
July 23, 2003
July 22, 2003
July 21, 2003
- >The Redland Baptist Church: powering its website with the Lord Jesus and Movable Type
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- >"The neo-conservative ideologues who planned this Operation Iraqi Freedom systematically excluded dissent, shouted down critics and accused questioners of treason. In the Army, this kind of organizational behavior is called a circle jerk."
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July 19, 2003
July 18, 2003
July 17, 2003
July 16, 2003
July 15, 2003
July 14, 2003
July 11, 2003
- >"The summer months give shape and meaning to Moussa's life. This is when he parties hardest, staying up to see the dawn. This is when he comes to the Jersey Shore with his buddies and fixes his hair and hits the nightclubs and admires the girls, again and again tipping back the sweet, fruity shot he calls life."
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- >It's not just better for trees: men are manlier in New York, too. Who knew?
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- >Hightail it to your local 7-11 today to get your free Slurpee [link courtesy of Boing Boing]
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- >Susan Smith — remember her? — writes a personal ad: "I love rainbows, Mickey Mouse, the beach, the mountains, and waterfalls."
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- >Praises be — there's a Tour de France weblog! [Link courtesy of Anil Dash.]
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- >"Hamilton sits on a flimsy lawn chair and he needs both trembling hands to hold onto a Diet Coke. A team trainer helps strip the soaking wet Team CSC bicycle shirt off Hamilton and what bystanders see is horrifying." Yet he's still riding in the Tour de France. As Lance Armstrong says: "That's one tough dude."
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- >R.E.M. works to turn Georgia congressman Max Burns (R) into a world leader pretend
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July 10, 2003
July 9, 2003
July 8, 2003
- >From Opium, 'Non-Sequiturs in the Lyrics of Greg Nice.' "Greg Nice, my life's like a fairy tale. Orca was a great big whale. I knew a fat girl who broke the scale. You won't tell, I won't tell."
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- >Oyez makes U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments available in *.mp3 format under a Creative Commons license. [For instance, you can listen to the arguments from Miranda v. Arizona here.]
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- >When twenty-first-century historians look back at the breakdown of the United States patent system, they will see a turning point in the case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com and their special invention: 'the patented 1-click feature.'"
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- >This is one General Sherman I'd consider more than welcome in Georgia. [Courtesy of Teresa Nielsen Hayden.]
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- >Scrambled eggs: "Forty per cent of women have the biological potential to ovulate more than once during a cycle."
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- >"[I] am pleased to present to active gentlemen everywhere a revolution in comfort and support ..."
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- >"Picture it. During the most political event American politics has to offer, a quadrennial nominating convention, the assembled honchos trudge down to ground zero and perform their ceremony. Pataki, Bush, Giuliani, Bloomberg; former president Bush, no doubt, and every major Republican figure from the past twenty years, with not a Democrat in sight ... An event like this would make every person who died on the site a martyr — to a reelection campaign."
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July 7, 2003
- >The Tin Man: "The notion of a gay man not only being hit on by a lesbian, but also being rather turned on by it, is almost too confusing for words."
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- >The Guardian readies plans to storm America. Whoo-hoo!
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- >Who'd have thunk it — it's a country club built for Rastafarians! [Update: D'oh! My bad.]
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- >Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.): "The world expects something more of an American president than to prance around on a flight deck dressed up like [a] pilot."
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- >"Have you heard the phrase 'come to Jesus meeting'?" Hell, I've been to a few.
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- >"Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just now ..."
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- >Dave Suthibut, gonzo job applicant
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- >"The long and short of it is that Bush not only is a liar, he is both a prodigious and a brazen one."
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- >"Up for the challenge, I’ve written a simple censorware program ... By default it only blocks www.microsoft.com."
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- >Welcome to Riverside, Iowa, home of Capt. James T. Kirk
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July 4, 2003
- >Welcome to Freedom Paradise: "The first thing visitors to the resort see is a lobby gift shop displaying 5XL polo shirts as big as tablecloths, and enormous matching mango-colored sweat pants, bearing the resort's logo: 'Live Large, Live Free.'"
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July 2, 2003
- >OctoDog! [Link courtesy of Accordion Guy and his trusty sidekick Asparagirl.]
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- >Yeah — where is thy bratwurst of inspiration?
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- >"Take it from a world champion: The best way for a man to carry a woman is to dangle her upside down over his back, with her thighs squeezing his neck and her arms around his torso."
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- >"Once the English language’s most shocking, egregious, off-limits word, it’s become just another cultural noise, thrown around with the casualness of a summer softball."
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- >"When an athlete says, in effect, 'God helped me catch that touchdown pass,' he's saying that in a world of poverty, inequality and war, higher powers thought his touchdown catch so vastly important that God intervened on Earth to make sure that both feet came down inbounds, while doing nothing to prevent slaughter in Africa or the Middle East."
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July 1, 2003
