October 2003 Archives
Many other have claimed to be Atrios, but none are. Go figure. What is this all about?
Guess I'm no longer Atrios...
It's really disgusting how Congress and the Bush administration are running around trying to cover their butts on the Iraq thing. All fingers are pointing at the CIA right now.
Now if you work in the government, you have to ask yourself, "do I really feel like trying to shaft the CIA?" I haven't checked my Magic 8 Ball® lately, but I'm guessing that it will lean towards "Not in my lifetime!"
If it keeps getting uglier, they may have to toss somebody overboard. Will it be Tricky Dick II?
So today I revoked my EFF GPG key. It's a bummer, but I don't work at EFF anymore and it was for my personal address, as well as the webmaster alias. True, they should have been separate keys but I never thought I would leave.
Speaking of GPG, check out my latest post on Forwarding Address about GPGMail. It (GPGMail) rocks.
I still have my personal key if you need to send me sekret messages.
Yes, the new Neal Stephenson giganta-novel, Quicksilver has made it into my reading pile. It has evoked some really nasty responses, but I continue to plug away. It certainly hasn't gripped me like Cryptonomicon did, but then again, it isn't Cryptonomicon. It's Quicksilver.
Amazon has some major funk in their html. Safari has problems with a few pages. Gold Box™ has a blue bar below the product that gets all jacked up for some reason. Sorry Hyatt, no HTML-redux for you yet.
Another place, even harder to see is in the Amaon Associates area (which is of course, down right now). You can generate ads that you can place on your site. The preview area (a textarea box) doesn't display the HTML for you to copy. I'm guessing this is a javascript bug. Again, no HTML-redux, so while these are mostly just whines I thought you might want to know.
The only Apple exec that I know of with a weblog, Ken Bereskin is back, has moved to TypePad, and is starting to talk about Panther.
If you see letters to the editor that follow this basic format, your paper has been Bush-spammed.
"Recent developments highlight the principled leadership of President George W. Bush."
You don't think they mean these highlights do you?
- The outing of a covert CIA agent by "someone" is his administration.
- The attempted gutting of environmental regulations, even though they have been shown to save this country over $100 billion.
- Going on a trip to Asia only to find out that they all hate us, and be surprised about it.
"On taxes, economists agree that President Bush's tax relief is fueling economic growth by putting money back into the pockets of families and small business owners. We're already seeing its effects in new jobs, renewed economic growth, and a booming stock market."
Whiskey Bar debunks this.
"President Bush is bringing freedom and hope to an oppressed people. Last week, The United Nation's Security Council – including France and Germany – unanimously passed a resolution in support of the rebuilding of Iraq."
Yet the UN is in no hurry to get back in to Iraq with it's own staff.
I'm honestly curious as to what the differences might look like between a "written security guarantee" and a "formal nonaggression treaty."
Although I have to say, any peaceful way of getting North Korea to ditch nuclear weapons is okay in my book.
Maybe three people getting hit by lightning on your movie set is, you know, a sign. From somebody. About something. Just sayin'...
The bad news is, we're all gonna die. The good news? See for yourself. Thanks Kat.
I came home today and saw that our dogwood had lost most of it's leaves. I know that we have abbreviated seasons here but this is ridiculous.
I tried to get a few more pictures before it got too dark. They aren't great. You've been warned.
The local lefty rag, and I say that as a compliment, has a feature about a local boy in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division. It paints a different, much darker picture of how things are going.
He ends the letter by saying that his three and one-half years in the Army have made him "numb to watching people hung out to dry." What really bothers him, he says, was a photo he saw in The Stars and Stripes of a sign at a gas station in the States showing gasoline selling for $2.07 a gallon.
"Didn't we secure the oil fields? Aren't we a capitalist country anymore? Can't we sidestep OPEC now? Can't we at least, somewhere in the midst of deception, half-truths and outright lies, catch an honest break?
"If we're going to fight for a cause that isn't known, get fired on by our own weapons, and get screwed out of our benefits, then at least for God's sake give us something concrete to say we fought for--even if it's as trivial as being able to fill our gas tanks for 98 cents a gallon."
To those that would attack Sgt. Garth Talbott as a malcontent, please go take his place. Now. Or shut the hell up. Perhaps President Bush should get around the news filter of his "objective" staff.
Stay safe Garth.
MoveOn is asking for donations to help with their new ad campaign to point out how President Bush basically speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
- President Bush's actions can't be trusted. He tells us he will leave no child behind, but he cuts funding for education. He launches a "healthy forests" initiative that is actually a smokescreen for more logging.
- Bush's actions reflect a lack of concern for working families. He reduces benefits to pay for tax breaks for the rich. He favors drug companies over seniors who need cheaper medications.
- Bush's actions and record show a lack of competence to solve our nation's problems. He's mismanaged the war in Iraq. He failed to plan adequately for the post-war period. Deficits are out of control. Now, he's got no solution to the jobs problem.
I'm a bit annoyed with the last point. I think a focus on how it was a bad idea in the first place is harder hitting. But the reality is we are there and that isn't going to change and if we are there we should at least do it right. Which we aren't. That being said, it's still a good idea to get the word out and I'll help out as much as I can.
Here is the order in which I hate compute operating systems from least to most (lower numbers equal less hate)
- Mac OS X
- Linux
- tied Solaris, AIX, HP/UX
- "Windows"
"That question was stupid. I will now use my psychic powers to melt your brain."
Feel free to add your own captions in the comments.
I had fun with PHP today at work. I used sessions for the first time. I've never used sessions before, mostly because I've never had a reason to use them. It's stupid easy to use them so I'm guessing I'll "find" more places to use them in the future. I also got to use ldap authentication for the first time. While not amazing, it's nice to try new things once in a while.
From #pirates (pirates as in Arrr! not as in g1v3 m3 wAr3z d00d):
<pberry> man, spamassassin on skull has gotten deadly accurate
<kucharo> really? Is it hunting down the spammer and wasting them?
<pberry> um, not yet. I think that's in the next version
This came in off the wire:
From the Desk of the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla,
This is a message from your Holy Leader al Karim al Abdul bin Jabbar el Kucharo, praise his name!
This fatwa is to command all unfaithful to proclaim that Osama bin Laden should spin on it! Furthermore in accordance with holy teachings, he should also ram it and get a real job! We also herby and thereafter call for a Holy War with fresh fruit against things that the infidels like and we don't!
All Praise Corn Nuts!
The CIA has yet to verify the authenticity of this note.
Many, many thanks to James Seng for his work on MT-Bayesian for MT comments. Although now that it's installed, I'm sure why I bothered since I don't really do comments anymore. Those 8 spams I did get pissed me off so much though...
What do you get with two trips to Lowe's, three trips to Home Depot, and $150?
Good question.
Those wacky kids at EFF have done it again. Everybody must watch The MP3 Caper.
"Get bent punks! I'm not going anywhere," declared a suddenly invigorated Pope John Paul II.
Warren Ellis concludes he week of original content with a blast from the past. Spider Jerusalem.
I quit politics a while back. And now, finally, politics have quit me.
Seeing as how I'm a complete wanker, I didn't read the series and I have to live off trade paperbacks. Luckily Transmetropolitan: The Cure, the last trade in the series, is coming soon. I can't wait.
I was going to write some stuff about this and then saw most of it at the MacSlash article, Redmond On iTMS: FUD and Irony.
Note to "Youth of America:"
You haven't been able to trust this guy for at least a year.
Rules your mother never taught you:
- If you don't have anything nice to blog, don't blog anything at all.
Rules your boss should have taught you:
- Don't blog any of this and if you do (and if you do) don't use any real names.
Rules your friends won't teach you:
- Don't blog about lame crap.
Rules your editor (you do have an editor right? of course you do.) tries to teach you:
- Spelling is important.
- Grammar is important.
- Substance is important.
- Tone is important.
- Spelling is important.
Craig: Congress Must Change Patriot Act
A key Republican senator said Wednesday that Congress must modify parts of the USA Patriot Act or see the law die in two years.
If you still don't think USA PATRIOT Act is a bad thing check out EFF, and Slate's 4 part series by Dahlia Lithwick and Julia Turner.
Bruce Schneier, of Cryto-Gram fame, also weighs in:
One of the problems with laws is that the crimes that justify their passage are not always the crimes they are used against. In the United States, the RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations) law was passed to help fight organized crime, but was used against anti-abortion protesters and relatively minor drug offenders. And the Patriot Act, passed to help fight terrorism, is being used against a variety of other crimes.
Floatutorial: Liquid three column layout (via The Buzz)
Step 1 - Start with the semantically marked up code
I had to laugh at that one. Some other great "first steps" that came up on irc.
- Balance the federal budget
- Peace in the Middle East
That's my secret word today. Everytime I have to reboot, you have to drink.
Reboots so far:
- New keyboard
- Outlook wasn't happy
- Keyboard stopped working
- Outlook wasn't happy, again
I really need to speed up the migration to my new Powerbook...
The Dean sticker has been pulled from the Whiskey Bar window. Not a surprising move considering the main reason it went up was Dean's brave words on Israel and our role as a moderator. You know, a moderator is supposed to be non-biased and even handed. We are not. Therefore we make a poor moderator in that situation because one side doesn't trust us.
Anyway, Dean took a step back from those brave words. It may cost him the Whiskey Bar endorsement, but I doubt he will feel the loss.
Dahlia Lithwick gets cheeky with it on the "will it happen or wont it" Do Not Call list.
Freedom to talk, or freedom not to listen?
Well, here is one way not to think about it: The fact that 50 million Americans signed up for the list is not constitutionally compelling. Nor are the tens of irate letters-to-the-editor complaining about how annoying telemarketers are. It might seem intuitively obvious to you that the right to be left alone is more constitutionally urgent than the right to hear crap in which you have no interest. But the First Amendment exists to protect unpopular speech. Fifty million Americans probably would sign up to ban speeches against the war in Iraq or to bar Carrot Top from ever performing again. And that's why the First Amendment is not about the popularity of the speech in question.
I ♥ Dahlia. It's one of the important things I learned while working at EFF, Free Speech is hard. You have to really buy into it. You have be able to listen to the most hateful speech you can imagine, and then fight for the right of that person to spew it. It's really hard and it should never be turned into a popularity contest to determine what is acceptable and what isn't.
I was reading a rant from Mark Pilgrim's b-links. It was a rant against ads on independent websites. I spent a little time this weekend working on a way to put amazon affiliate ads on my individual archives. There are a few things that my system is missing and the most important thing is relevance. The ads are placed randomly. I don't want to put too much time into this because I don't get enough page views to really make it worth my while. But one thing I was thinking about taking the time to ad was a way to turn off the ads.
The ads are inside a div, so my plan is just to have a little box or link you can click and a cookie will be set which prevent the ads from being loaded. I was just going to serve up a style sheet with the div's display set to none, but then you have the problem of that code being downloaded.
Anyway, soon you will be able to turn off these ads. It's the least I can do.
The dark side of energy.
Astronomers announced Friday that the expansion of the universe started to accelerate about five billion years ago because of the influence of a mysterious dark energy.
When I hear "dark energy" I can't help but think of "Dark Eco" from Jak and Daxter. If you have a PS2 and haven't played it, you really should. It's incredibly fun and Jak II is coming out this week. Sweet.
I stop following a sport once my team is eliminated. But seeing the Cubs, the poor, pathetic, hapless Cubs, are one game away from the World Series. This is essentially a minor miracle. I guess it would be equivalent to, well...I don't really know what it would be equivalent to. Anyway, since the Giants can't be there, go Cubs.
Straight from EFF:
Hollywood is at it again, trying to control the design of new digital technologies. If the motion picture studios have their way, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will force all future televisions to include Hollywood-approved "content protection" technologies. Fair use, innovation and competition will suffer. What’s more, the "broadcast flag" technology that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has proposed is so weak that it will do nothing to stem Internet redistribution of television programs. In fact, the only people hurt by this are legitimate consumers, innovators and researchers.
This may have already been tried and been a complete failure but I was pondering the idea while skimming the pool. The tree in our backyard seems to think that fall is coming. Anyway, back the idea.
I was thinking about Bill O'Reilly. His troubles with Al Franken, Terry Gross of Fresh Air, and FAIR all seem to stem from Bill being accused of playing fast and loose with the facts.
Then I remembered Pardon the Interruption on ESPN. It's like Crossfire for sports, where two guys yell at each other about how wrong the other is. But at the end of the show there is a great feature where the fact checker comes on and tells them both where they made factual mistakes.
Well, why don't we turn that into an entire show where we fact check all the talking head shows? Here's my pitch.
To avoid "partisan" problems we get at least four people from various political backgrounds. They get assigned shows randomly on a weekly basis. They do the fact checking and report when somebody makes a mistake.
The fact checkers will be checked by allowing the accused to challenge the source of the fact. At that point, it is up to the viewer to decide if the source of the facts are valid or not.
It has problems of course. If people don't decide to defend their facts then it might be seen as admitting they were wrong. The other problem might be that there is simply too much erroneous information on to debunk. "Flooding the zone" as they say in politics.
Too funny (xml).
"No further documentation is available; this sample is normative and should be all the documentation anyone needs. Furthermore, this sample may be "edited" at any time (before 10 PM) without warning. Implementors are expected to check back daily and implement all unannounced changes to this specification."
FAIR ACTION ALERT: O'Reilly Smears L.A. Times on Sex Abuse Story
In his continuing criticism of the Los Angeles Times for printing stories about Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged record of groping and sexual assault, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly (10/8/03) pointed to what he saw as a double standard: "Do you think the L.A. Times sent a squad of reporters to Arkansas to investigate Bill Clinton's problems with women? No, it did not."
In fact, the L.A. Times did investigate Clinton sex stories in Arkansas. A 4,000-word piece appeared on the paper's front page on December 21, 1993, running under the headline "Troopers Say Clinton Sought Silence on Personal Affairs." This article was one of the first to report on the scandal known as "Troopergate," which led to Paula Jones' lawsuit against Clinton and thus indirectly to Clinton's impeachment.
ACTION: Contact the O'Reilly Factor and ask them to issue a correction about the host's erroneous charge that the Los Angeles Times failed to investigate Clinton's "problems with women" in Arkansas.
CONTACT:
Fox News Channel
The O'Reilly Factor
oreilly@foxnews.com
Lisa Rein has QuickTime clips of Hillary Clinton on The Daily Show. Although her dreams of a Dean/Clinton ticket will probably never happen since all the Clinton insiders are working for Clark.
Everybody knows that whoever "won" the California recall election, that person was going to have a nightmare job. Everybody and their brother has pointed out that 2/3 of the budget is "micro-managed" by propositions passed by us, the voters of California. So there is not much room to move. Arnold is still living in La-La Land.
"I'm absolutely convinced I will be working very well with the legislature, Democrats and Republican alike," he told a news conference. "If there is a problem you can be assured that I will go directly to the people, because the people of California have made it loud and very clear that they want change."
He was referring to California's tendency to bring contentious issues to voters through initiatives and referendums. Analysts say California's finances are particularly difficult to untangle because previous referendums give politicians little leeway to adjust the budget.
He's going to provide "leadership" by running back to the people who don't like taxes, but love mandating spending on services, to get to mandate what exactly? Taxes? Cuts in spending? We've already shown we don't like either of those options. Tell us Arnold, what's option #3 going to be?
I almost feel sorry for the guy, but screw it, he wanted the job...
I posted this elsewhere but I don't really think it can be overstated.
The more commercial television news you watch, the more wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq War and its aftermath, according to a major new study released in Washington on Thursday.
And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News channel, in particular, the more likely it is that your perceptions about the war are wrong, adds the report by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).
In times like these I need a good strong dose of Bill Hicks.
How long will Arnold's honeymoon with the California electorate last?
Schwarzenegger to discuss policy goals
Schwarzenegger's toughest and first challenge: the looming, $8 billion deficit. It will grow by $4 billion if Schwarzenegger makes good on his promise to immediately repeal this year's tripling of the car tax. He has said he will not raise taxes except in case of emergency. He also promised not to cut education. But he never specified what he would cut.
Don't worry, he'll just crack open "the books" and the answer will magically appear right before his eyes. We'll all be saved! We'll get all the services we're used to all with paying no taxes! I can't wait.
sacbee.com -- Politics -- Tour rolls into capital
"As soon as the campaign is over I will -- I can get into all of the specifics and find out what is really going on," he said on "Dateline NBC." "But right now, I'm just really occupied with the campaign."
It's over. You won. You promised. Now deliver or get the hell out you empty shell.
The SacBee Insider has some from Larry King:
KING: If you do go down tonight, will you cooperate with the governor-elect?
DAVIS: Yes. That's an obligation, I believe. Governor Wilson cooperated in my transition from him to me, and I'll cooperate in the transition, if that's the voters' will, with whoever they choose tonight.
The filthy bastard writer, Warren Ellis has got me hooked on a web comic, Spiders. I paid for the guys other stuff, but Spiders was far superior. The detail is amazing. The amount of effort is astounding. I'd gladly pay a lot more than $0.25 for a trade paperback of Spiders.
You know, despite all the bad acting, bad special effects, and the bad stories...I still love Bond movies.
High Court Opens Term, Disposes of 2,000 Cases
Outside the court, several hundred religious demonstrators gathered. They opposed the court's rulings that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion and one in June that struck down laws that make it a crime for gays to have consensual sex in private.
They also supported the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings. Two demonstrators held up a banner declaring, "The Lord is our Judge."
Okay, so...the Lord is your judge. So what are you worried about the US Supreme Court for? Go home.
From the SacBee Politcal Insider:
The Schwarzenegger camp insists that its internal polls show their candidate gaining strength since the groping charges first appeared. But en route to Modesto, reporters following the campaign started hearing by phone that Democrats were claiming overnight polls showed support for Schwarzenegger plummeting and the recall election's fate within the margin of error.
Then, upon arrival, the campaign distributed a piece published just minutes before on the website of the LA Weekly by reporter Bill Bradley. The article noted that peace activist Jodie Evans, who helped organize a press conference with one of Schwarzenegger’s accusers, has known and worked with Davis since their days in the Jerry Brown administration. But The Times, Bradley wrote, failed to point that out in its coverage today.
Bradley wrote his short piece on a Blackberry portable computer from aboard the bus and told campaign officials that it was coming. They quickly arranged to print it out at a Modesto copy shop and make copies for the entire press corps. As they were handing them out, the emcee revving up the crowd for Schwarzenegger asked the audience to welcome the media to town. With one exception:
“Who’s the guy with the LA Times?” the host asked. “Find him and beat him up, will you?”
Good times everybody! What's a little media intimidation between friends? Arnold is definitely getting some tips from the White House on how to handle negative press.
Lets do the Arnold campaign in short form: Anything bad I've ever done in the past, I don't remember and I'm sure it's not true, but I will say I'm sorry anyway. I have no ideas on how to run the state but Davis sucks. Audit. Leadership. I'm in movies. Vote for me.
Since I was completely unaware of the imminent start of WWIII last night, we went to see The Rundown. I laughed a lot. I was surprised at the quality of some of the stunt scenes. Christopher Walken is in it. What more do you need?
I'll give it a Full Price rating.
Israeli Warplanes Bomb Target Deep Inside Syrian Territory (AP)
Israeli warplanes bombed what the military called an Islamic Jihad training base in Syria on Sunday in retaliation for a suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant. It was the first Israeli attack deep inside Syrian territory in more than two decades.
Uh-oh.
"The world will have to accept our decisions," Olmert said.
Will Israel accept the decision of other countries to stop backing them? Not likely. This attack can be seen as an extension of the Bush Doctrine, just not the preemptive part, unless you see it as a "warning shot" across the bow of Damascus.
I'm sure Powell is tried desperately to get them not to attack, if the US was consulted at all, although I don't really see how they could pull this off without talking to the US first. But it comes to, "if you can do whatever the hell you please to protect your people, why can't we?" Bush can go on and on about how each situation is different but at the end of the day we have no answer to that question.
Bad things are happening in the Middle East. The more things change...
5 years of DMCA goodness unintended consequences.
On the recommendation of the local comic shop owner I tried out Fables.
It's pretty good stuff. Check it out.
You will all be happy to know that I'm drinking tea again. Twinings Earl Gray to be exact. I'm not entirely civilized since I take my mine with sugar and milk. But we can't all be perfect now, can we?
It was a habit that I picked up during our visit to Australia. I am still a bit "off" since I missed afternoon tea by an hour. But practice will make perfect, I'm sure.
On a side note, for those keeping score at home, I consider this my most useless post. Ever. My apologies.
Once again, the San Francisco Giants have not won the World Series. This sucks.
Secretary Rumsfeld resigns after Kay report, citing pledge to grandson
So I sitting at the kitchen table doing my morning news round-up and this headline pops out at me. Rummy quit?!?! Holy hell! Did I wake up in some strange universe where there is justice and evil people get screwed? I quickly skimmed the first bit of the story.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned today, in the wake of a report by weapons inspector David Kay stating that the U.S. had found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report, Rumsfeld said, "humiliated me by showing to the world that I have no regard whatsoever for the truth." To the stunned amazement of reporters at a press conference, Mr. Rumsfeld added that he had been lying consistently to the public since taking office, but that the Kay report was "the straw that broke the camel's back." Mr. Rumsfeld stated that "the Kay report shows definitively that I misled the American people when I repeatedly claimed we had evidence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction that posed a serious enough threat to justify our invasion of Iraq."
Then just a glimmer of hope passed through my brain, breifly, before it crushed with one word: satire. I missed it in the header. It was my own fault really. I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up like that, in these dark times. But hey...good times.
Dark times? Aren't you being a little melodramatic about all this Pat?
I don't know. Maybe I am. Maybe I'm seeing the world through crap colored lenses. Maybe I'm just being partisan. Maybe I'm really just a tree-hugging, tax and spend, bleeding heart, die in the wool, liberal. Maybe the country isn't being run by crooks, waging war at their own whims, and looting our national treasure for themselves and their cronies. Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me. Maybe I'm insane. Maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about. Maybe the Clinton years were really, really horrible and I just somehow "missed" how bad it really was.
- We went to war to stop a "bad man."
- It's gone all to hell and nobody will help us.
- The President can't rally the international community because he told them all to go to hell before the war.
- It's quite possible that people in the administration thought it would be cool to out a CIA agent to get back at a person who made the war evidence look bad. (Actually it was bad, it didn't just look bad)
- Not only is the agent's cover blown, but now we are starting to see all the things she was connected to, which are now blown.
- The administration is trying to tear down environmental laws, which we now have studies showing that they save the country money.
- The administration promised to restore honesty and integrity to the White House, yet we continually get "word parsing" and outright lies.
- Back in Iraq, we're trying to install some screwed up version of democracy and cronyism in place of totalitarianism and cronyism. I guess 1 out of 2 isn't bad. Right?
Good times everybody! Don't listen to the liberals, they hate America!
But hey, unemployment stayed steady. Things are starting to turn around!
We can hope. Of course, the tax cuts were supposed to make how many jobs again? Where are they? We get 57,000 new jobs. This administration is still very, very deep in the jobs hole and 57k isn't going to cut it. Is this the "trickle" in Trickle Down Economics®? Whiskey Bar has some points on those jobs:
- 57k jobs is about 1/4 the average monthly payroll expansion during Clinton's last term in office.
- If the economy continues to gain jobs at this rate, it will take almost four years to recover the jobs lost since Shrub was installed in power.
- Over half the jobs gained in September (58% to be precise) are what the Labor Department calls "temporary help services" -- temps, in other words. That may be great news for Manpower Inc., but it suggests business confidence remains quite fragile.
Good times!
Tiger mauls Las Vegas magician
Illusionist Roy Horn, half of the superstar duo Siegfried and Roy, was attacked by a tiger during a live performance at a Las Vegas casino on Friday night.
The craziest thing about the story is the fact that they have been working in Vegas for 30 years! Did they buy the same pact with the Devil that Dick Clark bought?
We're screwed.
This is what's about to happen. We are on the verge of electing a new governor of the largest and most powerful state in the nation, the one with the fifth largest economy in the world and the most frighteningly intricate political infrastructure and infinitely complex and delicate network of water/energy/environment/immigrant/agriculture issues in existence, just one year after electing the last one.
Whiskey Bar said it was a surreal day. Boy, if that isn't an understatement. This have blown up on BushCo. Arnold loves hooters, buns, and Hitler. Rush might be addicted to pain killers or he might just sell them. Who really knows right now. Sure it's all speculation right now. But Arnold himself said it, "where there is smoke there is fire."
Did they finally go to the well one too many times. Have people finally said "enough is enough" and all the B.S. is going to stop? Will the current administration retreat to true conservative values and knock whatever the hell they are doing off? 8 Ball? "My sources say no."
Yeah, mine too.
They will go down to the last minute, not knowing they are beaten until they are out. It will probably be better that way. It might get ugly if they think they might be loosing. Which they are. Shhhh. Keep it down, Rove might be listening. (Not here mind you, but some place important)
The good news is that Nina has the bulb order form.
The bad news is that I have no idea what that means.
Odd notes left on my office door worry me. Should I know who Nina is? Should I know how many bulbs I should order? What kind of bulbs? Light bulbs? Flower bulbs? Help! NINA!
MIT OpenCourseWare (Hat tip John)
With the publication of 500 courses, MIT OCW offers educational materials from 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT's schools.
EFF Commentary on Coleman hearings
At Congressional hearings yesterday the RIAA announced that it was ceasing its campaign of "sue first and ask questions later" in its crusade against American filesharers and would begin to write letters first before launching litigation.
Wow! Of course, EFF would never let the RIAA off the hook that easily.
"It's too bad that it took episodes like the mistaken lawsuit against the 65-year-old grandmother Sarah Ward and a Congressional inquiry to bring the RIAA to follow the basic practice of contacting a potential defendant and attempting to resolve matters informally before suing," noted EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Now that they've taken this first step, the RIAA should take a second and more important one that could end this entire matter tomorrow -- offer all Americans the opportunity to continue filesharing by paying a monthly fee."
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