In case you haven’t seen it, the Top 20 Blogger Insults are over at Davezilla’s place. Howard Kurtz offers quotes from John Leo of US News, who has found an anti-NY Times slant in some blogs. I’m not sure I agree that it’s anti-NYT as much as it is obsessive refusal to take “facts” blindly …
I’ll be damned. Bill Safire has noticed the terms blog and props in the same column (note: this is Safire’s On Language column in the magazine, not his editorial column). Speaking of newspapers, an outfit called ProQuest has digitized the entire New York Times archive, from 1851-1999. That’s four terabytes of info, folks. There’s a …
Why I deplore George W. Bush, Part whatever: because he continues to bash and belabor civilian employees of the government he’s supposed to be leading. As previously noted, he would dearly love to eliminate civil service protection from all those folks about to get merged into the Department of Homeland Security, but that’s not the …
What a freaking morning! I had intended to get up and begin exhorting kd & skarlet, Faith, Cooties, Michele, and all the other myriad folks (212 participants, 2,207 sponsors for $54,258.06 at this writing) taking part in the 2nd annual Blogathon, but… We have an automatic sprinkler system for the yard; it has four zones, …
Here’s a tricky question: should scientific journals and their publishers self-censor articles which might reveal information potentially useful to terrorists? There’s precedent: back in the ’30s and ’40s there was an embargo on articles having to do with uranium in 237 different journals. On the lighter side, herein find a few humorous squibs from the …
Privacy advocates, take note: here’s a cautionary tale about Google and its ilk. Here’s another privacy article, with some useful links in the right sidebar. The initial act of a suicide bomber isn’t the only danger he or she presents; his victim may end up with embedded bone fragments from the blast. One such injury …
1. Koko and Yum Yum–Lillian Jackson Braun’s “The Cat Who…” series 2. Pyewacket–van Druton, “Bell, Book and Candle” 3. Mehitabel–Don Marquis, “Archie and Mehitabel” 4. Hot Dog–Dennis the Menace’s Cat 5. Macavity–T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats”. Master criminal. 6. Graymalkin–Macbeth. Shakespeare makes the Witch in Macbeth say, “I come, Graymalkin,” Malkin being …
I’ve had a mustache continuously for about thirty years. Once during that time, for about three years, I had a full beard. For the past year-and-a-half or so I’ve had a goatee. At 11:00 am Tuesday morning I shaved off the goatee, keeping the mustache. As of 3:30 pm Wednesday, my mother had not yet …
Do not balance a newly-opened 9-lb bag of dog food on a kitchen stool; it may fall off. This message brought to you as a public service announcement. The SF Chronicle chimes in on blogging. This, of course, brings responses. In other blogging news, if you have any interest in the merits/demerits of various self-publishing …
Just when I thought this Administration had exhausted its attempts to destroy civil liberties, at least through September or so, Fascism, here we come. Ridge seems to think the posse comitatus law forbidding US military personnel from enforcement of civil laws “should be discussed.” General Eberhart’s comments, cited in that transcript, can be found here. …