Housekeeping
Oct. 23rd, 2002 08:28 amIdeas, etc. is an interesting blog which has just gone on hiatus as soon as I started reading it. I can't help but feel responsible, on the same principle that makes me culpable for all the man- and woman-hours wasted by New Yorkers endlessly waiting for busses since I quit smoking (since of course the only thing that ever caused a bus to come when I personally am at the bus stop was my lighting up a cigarette). Now the bus lurks around the corner until the guy smoking the swampweed upwind of me finishes his.
Philosophy & Literature is where the Arts and Letters Daily guys went.
Computer go south? Time not set? You can get it here.
AllWords.com is word junkie crack. In other crossword puzzle news, One Across will enable you like a trooper if you want to cheat erm use reference material to help you solve the Times puzzle, and the Guardian gives you hints here for solving those odd cryptic british puzzles.
Off the Kuff linked to the MoveOn.org post here, and I very much appreciate it.
Woke Up This Morning, Got Myself a Blog is a Sopranos tribute blog. Funny.
Sluggy Freelance is kind of like Zippy with aliens and poop jokes. No, it isn't. Well, maybe. Anyway, it's daily and it's weird and it's funny.
Speaking of weird and funny, Political Predictions - Elections is keeping track of the oracular pronouncements of our pundits and following up with what actually happened.
A cool new map page similar to MapInfo but with a really spiffy interface. Can't vouch for the accuracy.
Some folks at the Universiteit Leiden untwisted an Escher, finished it, twisted it up again and animated the whole thing. Way cool.
The hairdresser guy is back in the race in Montana. Local republican officials were concerned that an empty top spot would cause low turnout for races down the ticket. His campaign website is here. As TBOGG points out, the train wreck aspect of this whole thing only became that much more cringeworthy when Mr. Taylor announced at his press conference that he was going to "go down for a good cause" (as if it weren't squicky enough that every story has to say how long he's been married to his wife and how many kids he has).
Body and Soul links to an interesting new series by the Agonist on replacing the dominant (failed) political paradigm. Also she's Kermit. (I personally appear to be Rowlf. Go figure).
I keep seeing Shou? in other peoples' sidebars and thinking I should read it. This is a beautiful little vignette.
Nitpicker is unhappy with some of our verdant brethren and he'd like to discuss it with you.
P.L.A. rocks like a big rocking thing that rocks in a rocking manner. Here they give a helpful list of ways that the Bush administration has been other than completely accurate in response to Dana Milbanks in the Post. Which article, by the way, follows the first few paragraphs of Bush flat out lying with this lovely analysis:
As Bush leads the nation toward a confrontation with Iraq and his party into battle in midterm elections, his rhetoric has taken some flights of fancy in recent weeks. Statements on subjects ranging from the economy to Iraq suggest that a president who won election underscoring Al Gore's knack for distortions and exaggerations has been guilty of a few himself.
Dana Milbanks, if you recall, is the reporter who announced on TV that he despised Al Gore so much that if Gore ran again, he would have to recuse himself because his journalistic integrity won't allow him to be wildly biased and inaccurate in two consecutive elections.
Dana Milbanks is an asshole and a bad, bad journalist.
Seeing The Forest nicely sums up the grotty feeling I have about being manipulated into caring terribly about a war that the president mowed down the constitution to get, but that he has decided on reflection that he doesn't care about.
Ignatz has been discussing a judge who apparently believes he was hired to sit in judgment of people who violate (what he believes to be) God's Law. Presumably he has direct deposit and hasn't seen the name of his employer printed on his paychecks.
Lisa English at Ruminate This on her thoughts about being included in the freeper Enemies of America list and related issues.
Eric Asimov on New York Restaurant Battles Sometimes this is a very strange place.
Republicans Use Age Issue in Criticism of Lautenberg In related news, Heston Takes Last Lap in the Cause of Guns
SEC Said to Tell Martha Stewart of Evidence for Civil Complaint and about time, too. That forty thousand dollars she got when she sold that stock perfectly legally on receipt of the information that someone with insider information sold theirs illegally has destabilized the market and destroyed peoples' faith in their retirement plans and dammit, they should throw the book at her.
#$%^$&**&)(*^&*^@@$%&
Which mostly clears out about half my history file.
sigh.
Philosophy & Literature is where the Arts and Letters Daily guys went.
Computer go south? Time not set? You can get it here.
AllWords.com is word junkie crack. In other crossword puzzle news, One Across will enable you like a trooper if you want to cheat erm use reference material to help you solve the Times puzzle, and the Guardian gives you hints here for solving those odd cryptic british puzzles.
Off the Kuff linked to the MoveOn.org post here, and I very much appreciate it.
Woke Up This Morning, Got Myself a Blog is a Sopranos tribute blog. Funny.
Sluggy Freelance is kind of like Zippy with aliens and poop jokes. No, it isn't. Well, maybe. Anyway, it's daily and it's weird and it's funny.
Speaking of weird and funny, Political Predictions - Elections is keeping track of the oracular pronouncements of our pundits and following up with what actually happened.
A cool new map page similar to MapInfo but with a really spiffy interface. Can't vouch for the accuracy.
Some folks at the Universiteit Leiden untwisted an Escher, finished it, twisted it up again and animated the whole thing. Way cool.
The hairdresser guy is back in the race in Montana. Local republican officials were concerned that an empty top spot would cause low turnout for races down the ticket. His campaign website is here. As TBOGG points out, the train wreck aspect of this whole thing only became that much more cringeworthy when Mr. Taylor announced at his press conference that he was going to "go down for a good cause" (as if it weren't squicky enough that every story has to say how long he's been married to his wife and how many kids he has).
Body and Soul links to an interesting new series by the Agonist on replacing the dominant (failed) political paradigm. Also she's Kermit. (I personally appear to be Rowlf. Go figure).
I keep seeing Shou? in other peoples' sidebars and thinking I should read it. This is a beautiful little vignette.
Nitpicker is unhappy with some of our verdant brethren and he'd like to discuss it with you.
P.L.A. rocks like a big rocking thing that rocks in a rocking manner. Here they give a helpful list of ways that the Bush administration has been other than completely accurate in response to Dana Milbanks in the Post. Which article, by the way, follows the first few paragraphs of Bush flat out lying with this lovely analysis:
As Bush leads the nation toward a confrontation with Iraq and his party into battle in midterm elections, his rhetoric has taken some flights of fancy in recent weeks. Statements on subjects ranging from the economy to Iraq suggest that a president who won election underscoring Al Gore's knack for distortions and exaggerations has been guilty of a few himself.
Dana Milbanks, if you recall, is the reporter who announced on TV that he despised Al Gore so much that if Gore ran again, he would have to recuse himself because his journalistic integrity won't allow him to be wildly biased and inaccurate in two consecutive elections.
Dana Milbanks is an asshole and a bad, bad journalist.
Seeing The Forest nicely sums up the grotty feeling I have about being manipulated into caring terribly about a war that the president mowed down the constitution to get, but that he has decided on reflection that he doesn't care about.
Ignatz has been discussing a judge who apparently believes he was hired to sit in judgment of people who violate (what he believes to be) God's Law. Presumably he has direct deposit and hasn't seen the name of his employer printed on his paychecks.
Lisa English at Ruminate This on her thoughts about being included in the freeper Enemies of America list and related issues.
Eric Asimov on New York Restaurant Battles Sometimes this is a very strange place.
Republicans Use Age Issue in Criticism of Lautenberg In related news, Heston Takes Last Lap in the Cause of Guns
SEC Said to Tell Martha Stewart of Evidence for Civil Complaint and about time, too. That forty thousand dollars she got when she sold that stock perfectly legally on receipt of the information that someone with insider information sold theirs illegally has destabilized the market and destroyed peoples' faith in their retirement plans and dammit, they should throw the book at her.
#$%^$&**&)(*^&*^@@$%&
Which mostly clears out about half my history file.
sigh.