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August 31, 2004
Using Instiki as your personal notebook
I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks on WinXP, and it’s great!
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European Union claims it won Olympics
When the countries of Europe cast one collective vote at the UN, I’ll recognize their silly medal claims. And start mocking European nationalism.
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Photo: When Nerds Protest The RNC.
Only 5% of viewers may get it, but that’s a darn funny protest sign
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August 30, 2004
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August 28, 2004
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A video preview of coming election attractions: “Swift Vets, The Revenge”
“Former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes on getting Bush into the Texas National Guard”
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August 26, 2004
$500,000 in lenses mounted on $1,000 in Bogen clamps
Scroll through the pictures, and see how the sports shooters prefer Canon to Nikon
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Clientcopia : Stupid Client Quotes
“Never use blue, I hate blue because I hate people with blue rugs”
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August 24, 2004
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Test Your Pet
Is your cat a lefty? Mine is.
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August 21, 2004
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August 20, 2004
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Six Apart: “Cute... and Evil!”
My conspiracy theory involves the number *6*, times MT *3* equals Mena Trott is the Anti-Christ. It should have been obvious all along
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A rare photo of a Monkey Man
What’s really scary is how much he’s taking after his dad ... at 10 weeks old
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August 18, 2004
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August 17, 2004
“It looks like Earthlink has hired performance artists to staff its live online help department”
I wave a dead chicken over my DSL modem every night, in hopes of avoiding Earthstink tech support
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August 16, 2004
“The programs that are listed in this article may experience issues after you upgrade to Windows XP SP2”
Will my software need therapy to resolve these issues? Prescription drugs? Should I ask it how it feels?
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Warner Brothers’ tone deaf pitch to MP3 blogs blows up in their face
WB employees left ‘teen-pop fan’ comments from the same IP the MP3 had come from
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August 15, 2004
Phil Carter calmly filets Max Boot on the failures of “Phase IV” in Iraq
“as a good soldier, Gen. Franks is not going to come out and say that the White House and Pentagon screwed the pooch on Phase IV - he’s going to imply it in subtle ways”
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Sometimes advertising requires no words
Note, this is not an official Johnson and Johnson ad. But maybe it ought to be...
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August 14, 2004
Macromedia FlashPaper: The PDF Killer?
Looks like a new way to e-mail invoices, to me.
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August 13, 2004
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August 12, 2004
NY Times: “How did Saddam Hussein amass so much money while under international sanctions? The United Nations let him do it.”
“they describe the program as a drifting ship - poorly designed, leaking money and controlled by a Security Council that was paralyzed by its own disputes”
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The anatomy of a smear campaign
“The idea is to find some piece of personal information that is tawdry enough to raise doubts, repelling a candidate’s natural supporters”
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An American in Tunisia
A wonderful story from Michael Totten about alleged ‘anti-Americanism’ in Arab lands
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August 11, 2004
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August 10, 2004
The PC EZ-Bake Oven
Comes with Dehydrated Caffeinated Meatloaf
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KSL-TV News: $30,000 Missing from Operation Give
The ugly media coverage begins, with more sure to follow
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Izzy’s Revenge
“Olympic mascots Phevos and Athena ... are catching an ungodly amount of abuse around Athens”
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August 09, 2004
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An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market
Only about 15% of bloggers use a ‘stand-alone’ program like MT, WP, TXP, etc.
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August 08, 2004
30 War Articles for the German People
“It would be unfair and destructive of the general welfare to spread rumors that force the government to speak about matters important or even decisive in the war.”
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August 07, 2004
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August 05, 2004
How not to be an ‘ugly American’ at the Olympics
“The whole idea of Americans beating up on other countries is going to be very interesting in the context of today’s political situation”
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August 03, 2004
Holocaust Museum Calls Crisis in Sudan ‘Genocide Emergency’
A sad variation on the childhood expression, ‘it takes one to know one’
