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“Anyone unwilling to contribute to the cause, and curbside waving of the flag or pony-wishing doesn’t count, must be considered deeply unserious.”
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“* The title of George Orwell’s novel is 2006. It has always been called 2006.”
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Didn’t General Gordon find this out the hard way?
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Meanwhile, this, one of the most beautiful pieces of music of our age.
Month: November 2006
facts are stupid things
Hoisted from comments here:
A woman, in a hot air balloon, realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude, and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago. But, I don’t know where I am.”
The man consulted his portable GPS, and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 11 degrees, 14.97 minutes North latitude, and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes West longitude.”
She rolled her eyes, and said, “You must be a Democrat.”
“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But, I have no idea what to do with your information. And, I am still lost. Frankly, you have not been much help to me.”
The man smiled, and responded, “You must be a Republican.”
“I am!” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well…,” said the man, “You do not know where you are, or where you are going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep. And, now you expect me to solve your problem. You are in exactly the same position you were in before we met. But somehow, now it’s all my fault.”
debts and judgments are for little people.
Judge orders Coingate crook, Tom Noe, to pay back $13.7 million. Good luck on getting the money.
What do you bet he ends up a contributor to dubya’s think tank at SMU?
on BBP messenger bags
Missed this in the earlier bag roundup. cheaper than most of the others too.
I enquired of them where they were made (just to compare apples and apples) and admitted their production takes place in China but they are aware of the issues surrounding that and are doing their best to monitor it.
Transparency is good: score one for BBP.
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links for 2006-11-27
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Missed this in the earlier bag roundup. cheaper than most of the others too.
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well, he doesn’t actually mention tenure, other than to point the fatuousness of people or more precisely, law professors, who enjoy its perks. But they respond predictably enough.
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too much to excerpt here but there’s so much wrong with the Zune, it’s amazing it ever shipped. Just read the article for yourself, especially if you have been at all tempted.
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Yup, this is what we’ve come to. A longer campaign that was needed to defeat the Axis powers in WWII on three continents and two oceans, for what? To inflame civil war/ethnic cleansing and now someone proposes this?
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yeah, that’s about how it looks from here.
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“Here is my suggestion for the friend who already has everything: make a donation in their name to one of the many great organizations that work tirelessly to support the ideals of open source and free culture, including, but not limited to:”
it’s worse than he feared
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a
muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can
make of capitalism.
— Walter Lippmann
And what if you have “[c]orrupt, stupid grasping functionaries ” in the thrall of “stupid, selfish and acquisitive” capitalists as we have just seen in the defeated GOP congressional majority?
Yeah, Lippman is right in the fundamentally flaws of human nature. Where I come down on this is that I’d rather have a corrupt inefficient socialist bureaucracy leaking money into the pockets of the many than a corrupt inefficient capitalist state funneling into the pockets of the few.
Now playing: Change (Peel Sessions) by Killing Joke from the album “Peel Sessions Demo”
links for 2006-11-26
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“My 18 year old brother is all into Ayn Rand now. Can’t he experiment with something less likely to leave him messed up for life, like drugs?”
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is it that long ago?
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clever. Might be able to fish out some worn-out stockings and try this.
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more than you wanted to know about domestic fires (of the destructive kind, not the warming sort). But not more than you need to know: go read.
almost there
Less than 1500 words a day will get me there.
% echo “(50000 – 43572) / (30 – `date +%d`)” | bc
1285
Now playing: Tough by Roddy Frame from the album “Surf” | Get it
Do you use email filters? Don’t you wish everybody did?
There was a time when email was actually useful, when you could communicate with strangers and bridge gaps of all kinds. Now we have this.
I get a couple of hundred pieces of spam a day, almost all of which get zapped by Mail.app’s filtering. I see perhaps two per day that get through and fewer still false positives.
I liked the Internet better when it wasn’t a collection of walled gardens.
Now playing: Don’t Ask Me Questions by Graham Parker & The Rumour from the album “Passion Is No Ordinary Word—The Graham Parker Anthology (1976-1991)”
links for 2006-11-25
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So how Prof Myers really feel about this, d’ya suppose? I better read the pamphlet just to up to date.
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how many pixels is enough?