The Green[e]house Effect: On the Side

August 31, 2003

• Terry Tate: strong enough to be an office linebacker, but too chicken to run for governor  (0)
• "Deep-fried candy bars"?! Why not just hand the money straight to a cardiologist?  (0)
• Courtesy of Jessica Harbour, it's the Great Atlanta "Going Native?" quiz  (0)
• Rolling out this weekend: Deanlink, which ought to be known as Friendster for political junkies  (0)
• John @ Wanting Seed: "[Y]ou know what? I’ll never forget the Chinese for toilet paper."  (0)

August 28, 2003

• Idle Words gives a thumbnail summary of the Columbia investigation: "The orbiter design does not anticipate anything ever falling off of the tank. ... Foam falls off of the external tank on every Shuttle mission."  (0)

August 27, 2003

• Matthew Yglesias comes up with a good definition of Democrat: "[W]e're the ones who don't want to sacrifice all of this country's foreign policy goals on the twin altars of tax cuts and a weird aversion to securing allied assistance."  (0)
• Liz Lawley, from Mamamusings, talks black dog: "[I]f I’d known that what I was feeling was so common, and that medication wasn’t necessarily a life sentence of drug dependence, I might not have resisted so strongly the first time … which would have saved me, and my family, from months of unnecessary pain."   (0)

August 26, 2003

• I found the playlist from Radiohead's turn behind the mike at Q101. Here it is.  (0)
• For the Julie/Julia Project, it's time for the 40-second chord: "I do know that I have doorways to choose from that I would never have seen a year ago. I know now that sometimes the most irrational, nay insane, path is the one that will bring you around to the other side. I know how to make béchamel."  (0)

August 23, 2003

• Don't you think most guys in his position would look a little lower?  (0)

August 22, 2003

• Shoot -- Radiohead's doing the rush-hour setlist at Q101 Chicago this afternoon, and I'm missing it.  (0)
• Tell it like it is, Josh Marshall: "Our situation in Iraq is bad. But our situation in Washington is worse."  (0)

August 21, 2003

• I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly jonesing for an Afghanistan vacation.  (0)
• Scott Rosenberg vents about this week's worm outbreak: "Microsoft email is broken, and it's time for people to wake up and move on."  (0)
• The Real Live Preacher talks about spirituality and Superballs: "You take a guy with a chunk missing and bounce him off a communion table, and he’s liable to end up just about anywhere."  (0)
• There are some things in life that money can't buy — but for California, there's MasterCard.  (0)

August 20, 2003

• Methinks Michael Eisner doesn't quite get it.  (0)
• One thing that makes a blackout bearable? Super-sized gelato.  (0)
• The Onion peeks in on the California candidates  (0)
• Treat yourselves to some poetry at the Mississippi Review; you have to give credit to anyone who would run "Ode on My Waist" and — yes, this is the title — "How the Dumb Were Granted the Right to Have Sex"  (0)
• Legs, legs, shapely legs, walking across a book cover near you  (0)

August 19, 2003

• Salam Pax reports on the scene after the bombing at the Baghdad U.N. mission: "[W]e have plunged into darkness."  (0)
• An interesting stat: the U.S. now incarcerates more people, per capita, than any other country on the planet  (0)
• A bear that can do what?!  (0)
• One giant leap for mankind: Alabama sorority admits its first black student  (0)
• Music out of left field: The Tuvan throat-singing blues  (0)
• Jason Shellen asks a question: "How about a young Pope from a non-European nation? I'm thinking of a globe-traveling, uniter, Howard Dean-type Pope." A Pope with a blog? Hmmm ...   (0)

August 17, 2003

• The Power Mac G5: in stores now.  (0)
• Governor J.J.? Dy-no-miiiite!  (0)
• Before your next Hogsmeade vacation, whip out the Harry Potter currency converter  (0)

August 15, 2003

• Jack Balkin lists ten theories about the blackout: "5. Department of Homeland Security seeks to confuse terrorists by hiding location of New York City."  (0)
• Howard Dean plays a little fixin'-to-win-the-Iowa-caucus blues. [Link courtesy of Stonefishspine.]  (0)
• Blackout? It's big government's fault, of course.  (0)
• The famous Julie Powell toughs out the blackout of 2003: "I love being a nonessential employee. The guy on the radio is telling me to 'stay in, relax, don’t over exert yourself.' Check. Maybe I’ll ice a cake."  (1)

August 13, 2003

• Maciej Ceglowski complains about the weather: "I ventured out into the garden today to look for ripe tomatoes, only to find that half of them had split open, unable to take the pressure. The most promising survivor, large and red, disgorged a seedy pink paste when I tried to slice him."  (4)
• It looks like the schools in Japan have some funny ideas about discipline ...  (0)

August 12, 2003

• Darn — I wish I could have gotten up to New York for this.  (0)
• Is überblogger Kos diversifying into nightclubs?  (0)
• "Madonna is launching her new book," the Bookslut says. What's the title — No Sex, Please, I'm British?  (0)
• I don't think I'll ever want a t-shirt this badly.  (0)
• George Will goes over the top: "[Schwarzenegger] is intelligent enough to be governor. But Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon -- and Lenin, for that matter -- were intelligent."  (0)

August 11, 2003

• Nick Denton: "[F]orget about whether [Bush is] sufficiently presidential; he's not a good Republican."  (0)

August 09, 2003

• Sugarmama thinks a little too hard about hit songs in the ’80s: "Aaawwww, he is so sweet. I love you too, Chris DeBurgh! I am wearing red today!"  (0)
• The presidential blogging craze continues: John Kerry  (0)

August 08, 2003

• Better late than never: Bob Graham blogs ... and so does Fast Company  (0)
• Looks like Krispy Kreme is crossing the pond.  (0)

August 07, 2003

• Prof. Lessig: "It is a measure of this Enron era that neither our President nor over 200 candidates in this California recall election live up to the moral standards of even Richard Nixon."  (0)
• Slate shows us the many faces of Howard Dean  (0)
• Another newspaper jumping on the blog bandwagon — the Sacramento Bee has an MT-powered blog on politics  (0)
• A bookstore with a piranha tank?!  (0)
• While we're on the subject of German speakers and genitals ...  (0)

August 06, 2003

• It looks like Mike Luckovich has found the weapons of mass destruction ...  (0)
• A Spy anthology? Hmmm — sounds like that might be cool.  (0)

August 05, 2003

• Lileks, on Woody Allen: "At this rate he's going to make a movie where he's 93 years old and soul-kissing a blastocyst."  (0)
• Do we really want to give the Germans penis envy? [Link courtesy of Scott Martens.]  (0)
• "Will you use this Dell© Dimension™ to make nuclear weapons? No? Good."  (0)
• "Go Janet, it's your birthday — we're gonna party like it's your birthday ..."  (1)
• Ben Hammersley, flipping his lid, says he plans to run in a 140-mile race across the Sahara  (0)
• Andrew Sullivan [!]: "The difference between Republicans and Democrats right now is not between big and small government. It's between the Democrats' Big, Solvent Government and the Republicans' Big Insolvent Government."  (0)
• This gumbo looks gooood.  (0)

August 04, 2003

• From Reason: "If the president cannot use national security to justify the unilateral seizure of U.S. steel, how can he use it to justify the unilateral seizure of U.S. citizens?"  (0)

August 03, 2003

• Gil Garcetti, acclaimed photographer?!  (0)
• Looking for a liberal counterpart to the Federalist Society? The wait is over.  (0)
• That's funny: I don't see bread, and I don't see pies ...  (0)
• Lance Arthur: Après ça, le deluge   (0)
• Teenage terrorist scares the bejesus out of TSA with nasty note buried in his suitcase; agents throw the book at him  (0)
• "Are those robots in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?"  (0)

August 02, 2003

• I've had some strange subway rides, but this beats them all, hands down.  (0)
• The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a Movable Type blog about baseball? Pretty nifty.  (0)

August 01, 2003

• Let the TypePad countdown begin ...  (0)
• Fifty things every guy should know: "'Tranny' isn't always part of a car." It isn't?  (0)
• "She's still, she's still Meggy from the block ..."  (0)