The Green[e]house Effect: On the Side: October 2003 Archives

October 30, 2003

>P. Diddy must be quite the man about town — he runs the city and the sweatshop! (0)
>... but how can we know the sweatshop isn't really Wilco's fault? (0)
>Does anybody else get the feeling the sun might have melted Jason Kottke's brain? (0)
>Looks like Britain has yet another blogging MP. Congress? Hello? Anybody home? ... (0)

October 29, 2003

>Michael Hanscom wrote a post about spotting new Macintoshes at Microsoft headquarters. Then he lost his job. (0)
>Atlanta's strip clubs: Where the men are men ... and the women are yelling 'take it off' right alongside them (0)
>Hey, Cher: do you believe in life after calling C-SPAN? (0)
>Gary Wolf spots Howard Dean on the cluetrain: "[T]he Dean campaign is different. Yes, it is centered on a single man — the candidate. But its activities are widely dispersed, control is decentralized, and many of the 'happenings,' for lack of a better word, seem to have equal weight." (0)
>Univ. of Md. president calls Univ. of Va. "overrated"; U-Va. president says: "Huh? Did somebody say something?" (4)

October 27, 2003

>Dude, I love you Dean people, but do you think you're beginning to take all this enthusiasm a little too far? [Link courtesy of Patrick Nielsen Hayden.] (0)
>"Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation's oldest venture capital firm, carrying on an unbroken practice of venture capital investing that stretches back to 1911. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up." (0)
>Real Live Preacher: "Have you gotten one of AOL’s complimentary CD cases? They’re adorable! These are the cutest little tin boxes, perfect for carrying CDs around in your briefcase or purse." (0)
>MIT students say: who needs Napster when you can get music by request over cable TV? (0)

October 23, 2003

>George Gurley goes undercover and manages to touch a raw ... well, something: "I remember one time, I really felt like I was just seriously yodeling into the abyss." (0)
>A textbook case of arbitrage: college textbook publishers take American students to the cleaners, then sell their wares overseas for half price (0)
>Our tax dollars at work: www.shame
lesspropagandizingfreedom.gov (0)
>Ladies and gentlemen, the star of Unbreakable 2 (0)

October 22, 2003

>More and more kids count off the three 'Rs' as reading, writing, and rock-hard abs: "Fabian Navidi-Kasmai, a sixth-grader at Janney Elementary School in Northwest Washington, is enrolled in another fitness center program designed for 9-to-11-year-olds." (0)
>And the award for Best Use of the Words 'My Neck, My Back' Outside of a Khia Song goes to ... (0)
>Hmmmm ... so David Blaine finally got hungry, eh? (0)
>It's tha D, to-tha-O, to-tha-dizz-o-dubble-G, turnin' just one year shy of 33 (582)

October 21, 2003

>Wil Wheaton tells that guy @ the Cubs game that he's got his back; meanwhile, Sour Bob looks at the whole episode and prays for a nuclear apocalypse (0)
>Time for News About Fonts™: the New York Times dumped Bookman and Latin Extra Condensed in display settings today for multiple weights and widths of Cheltenham. [Result: so fresh and so clean!] (0)
>A few reservists have reservations about the treatment — correction, lack of treatment — they get from Army doctors (0)
>Meg Ryan looked much, much better before tragically falling victim to Iraq's biological weapons program (0)

October 20, 2003

>A German retiree kicks it on welfare checks in Miami ... and an ex-American firm with a Bermuda tax shelter wants to stay on the government contracts gravy train. Which of them faces an imminent crackdown? The German. (0)
>Kristen of Mad Pony delivers deep thoughts on sports: "I heart baseball pants" (0)
>Uhhhh .... What the h---?! (5)
>Jeff Cooper says farewell to blogging ... and David Niewert explains why (0)

October 17, 2003

>Bargle nardle zouss with the mimsy borogroves, thanks to Amazon.com and Qwert Shmarble. [Doodle doodle dee!] (0)
>His name is Dash! And he is FUNK-AAAY!
When it comes to funk! He is a JUNK-AAAY! (0)
>Need advice on math, insurance, your love life? Ask General Zod. [Just remember to kneel.] (0)
>Wil Wheaton, correspondent for the BBC, tells the world of the election of the Governator (1)
>Brian Tiemann goes googly-eyed for the president: "In landing on that carrier, Bush put himself at greater risk of life and limb than perhaps any President has been in during living memory .... And it's not recklessness; it's a carefully calculated way to convey familiarity and confidence." (0)
>The Center for American Progress — a new center-left counterpart to the Heritage Foundation — looks ready to launch (0)

October 16, 2003

>Gen. William Boykin knows God's M.O.: "Why is [President Bush] in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. ... I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this." (0)
>When you start going this overboard with Lego, you might need a new hobby. (0)
>Hey — Wesley Clark may have found a running mate ... (0)
>Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) raises the specter of hitting computer companies with asbestos-style lawsuits: "[Lawyers] might argue that the high-tech companies know their products are being used to steal music, invade privacy, collect personal information, and distribute pornography. Yet they have neither warned consumers of these dangers nor taken steps to prevent such outcomes." (577)

October 15, 2003

>The Missouri Review doesn't look kindly on the President's skills as a poet. (0)
>... and in the latest episode of 'Those Wacky Scots™,' an enterprising lad goes diving for Nessie (0)
>The NRA keeps an enemies list? Who knew? (0)
>John Scalzi: "Guys who can remember every single set list of every single concert of an entire Metallica World Tour, or can tell you the batting average of every person who ever wore a Rex Sox uniform, have the intellectual wherewithal to process the word 'no.'" (0)

October 14, 2003

>World, get ready for bloggers in love — for starters, Margaret Berry and Brian Mason ... and Don Bruns and Michelle Kinsey-Clinton (610)
>Emma Thompson signs on for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (0)
>The Scotsmen of Travis get mad: "You don't need an invitation / to drop in on a nation ... " (0)
>Mark Pilgrim: "I pray that [Rush Limbaugh] has the will and the strength and the support to get out of the hole he has dug for himself. I pray that someday he can become a recovering addict who is as much a monster, a bully, a hypocrite, a big fat idiot, and a lying Nazi whore as he ever was." (0)

October 13, 2003

>Joey DeVilla: "D'you think the taikonauts will read their fortune cookies and then add '... in space'?" (0)
>Matt Haughey finds a way to bank his memories for the long haul: TenYearsOfMyLife.com (0)
>From the annals of poorly executed parodies: Ghettopoly™ (0)
>What happens when online music trading goes underground? Clay Shirky takes a guess. (0)

October 11, 2003

>Music fans, take note: Pavement, Belle and Sebastian, Boards of Canada, Cat Power, and Interpol have hit the shelves at the iTunes Music Store — and Matador promises more to come (0)

October 10, 2003

>China readies itself to commence manned space flights. [Meanwhile, the space shuttle program is ... where, exactly?] (0)
>Al Gore edges a few steps closer to buying himself a news network ... (0)
>... and the Scots, meanwhile, amuse themselves by throwing hefty-sized chunks of black pudding (0)
>Whassamatta wit’ DJ Margaret Cho — don’ she know that she got the touch? (0)

October 9, 2003

>Gene Healy asks the money question: "If we elect Wesley Clark, and he invents time travel, will he promise to go back in time and un-occupy Iraq?" (0)
>Governor Perdue sees metro Atlanta smart-growth and transit agency as rarin’ to have an anti-smart growth, anti-transit chairman (0)
>"Tell me I look gut in these shoes, mein herr, or I vill send you to das Korner!" (0)
>Blogging: Your road to glory and riches? (0)

October 8, 2003

>Teresa Nielsen Hayden sends her love to the president: "Rudy Giuliani in drag has infinitely more dignity than Flight Suit Boy." (1)
>... and which "good old days" would these be? (0)
>Sony releases a [Re]PlayStation? (0)
>When you think Simon LeBon, don't you think book club? (0)

October 7, 2003

>Think our election officials have learned their lesson about ballot design? Think again. (0)
>Shouldn't law professors on the public payroll have bigger questions to ponder? (0)
>President Bush gets bloggy wit’ it (0)
>The Matrix Vibe: a peripheral that gives 'plug-and-play' a whole new meaning [link courtesy of Gizmodo] (0)

October 6, 2003

>... and on his nights off, President Flightsuit likes to get into something a little more comfortable (0)
>New McDonald's Chicken McNugget formula to use actual chicken (0)
>BloggerCon photo or Apple ad? You make the call. [Special bonus points to the first one to identify the gent sitting right behind the woman wearing the black jacket, to the left.] (2)
>Republican high-roller Grover Norquist compares estate taxes with the Holocaust, yet somehow survives the hour without getting struck by lightning (0)

October 3, 2003

>Go to the Museum of Bad Art. Go directly to the Museum of Bad Art. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. (1)
>One thing's for certain: this sculptor knows how to put the pieces together. (0)
>Flirtations in French on my cell phone? That's a problem I wish I had ... (0)
>Sez Lane Becker: Pluck the brows, kill the pleats, and use Bioré. Gosh — was looking spiffy that simple all along? (0)
>Elizabeth Spiers has a new blog @ New York magazine: The Kicker (0)
>China celebrates five years of Big White Guy blogging (0)

October 2, 2003

>Dell, the noteworthy innovator, develops paradigm-shattering audio player, online music store (0)
>I want one! (0)
>Note to self: run shorts through dryer before going out to jog (0)
>So P. Diddy's running a marathon ... but isn't this just a wee bit grandiose? (0)

October 1, 2003

>That wacky Anderson Cooper suggests a do-not-call list for undercover agents (0)
>Crest: answering America's craving for extreme toothpaste (0)
>It's the most important milestone of the year: The mixed tape turns 40 (0)
>Who ever heard of a chocolate traffic jam? (0)
>Cucumber salad. Mmmmmmm ... (0)
>The latest signee to the upcoming left-wing radio network: former Daily Show head writer Lizz Winstead (0)