November 2008
30 posts
Textpattern 4.0.7 is out →
Huzzah.
This is for all those people who supported Obama and knew that William Ayers was old, old news and can’t we just forget about someone from 40 years ago.
Listen to Ayer’s interview on NPR last week. If you had wanted the Ayers story thrown under a bus, you may feel very, very sad that you did not stand up for him when it mattered.
And with a stroke of a pen, Britain sells Tibet to China and bins one of Tibet’s best international law arguments to exist as a state.
[I]n the British view China’s control over Tibet was limited to a condition once known as suzerainty, somewhat similar to administering a protectorate. Britain, alone among major powers, had exchanged official agreements with the Tibetan government before...
Conrad Black asks George Bush for clemency →
cameronr:
Oh, Lord.
Wrong. Conrad Black was railroaded. Free Conrad.
Fun with the Gender Analyser which uses an algorithm to guess whether a blog is written by a man or a woman. (% is per cent chance)
Amil man (99%) Cam man (86%) Me man (85%) Adam man (69%) Chuck man (67%) David woman (78%)
That all seems right to me.
If anyone could hook me up with an Eggnog Latte here in London, I would appreciate it. Email
Russian PM Vladamir Putin wanted the tanks in Georgia to roll to the capital and ‘hang Saakashvili by the balls’ but was talked out of it by French president Nicolas Sarkozy because that would make him like George Bush.
Mr Putin told him: “I want to hang Saakashvili by the balls.”
“Hang him?” a startled Mr Sarkozy interjected.
“Why not,” Mr Putin replied. “The Americans hanged...
Dead Set: episode 1 →
thehandshake:
This is the BBC show about a bunch of Big Brother participants trapped on the set of the show during a zombie outbreak. Zombie, zombies, zombies…and commentary on the state of media, natch.
15 years ago, Michael Crichton gave this speech to the National Press Club. It’s amazingly prescient about the last days of the mainstream media.
Consider the following: I don’t know much about the military. I don’t follow it. Someone says to me, Okay Crichton, you’re doing an interview will Les Aspin. You have two hours to prepare questions. What am I going to ask. Well,...
Here’s a suggestion for the nearly-bankrupt US Auto Manufacturing industry that doesn’t require flushing money straight down the bog.
The US government should order a complete replacement for its vehicle fleet to be delivered over the next four years. The new vehicles must be either plugin electric hybrid, pure electric, or possibly natural gas. Obviously retooling both at the...
you live in the manhattan co-op, i work across the... →
Obviously, she doesn’t know that I have moved.
NYT interview with Nate Silver →
Great piece on the baseball statisician behind US politics website, fivethirtyeight.com.
If you are looking for individual replacement Scrabble tiles, Vintage Heaven at the Columbia Flower Market has them. Just so you know.
If you want a job in the new Obama/Biden administration, they’re hiring.
And check out the fine print:
The Obama-Biden Transition Project does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other basis of discrimination prohibited by law.
Even gender identity? I think...
Sarah Palin in six minute interview with Montreal... →
1984 Watch: Aberdeen pub-goers may face drug test... →
Police plan to swab the hands of patrons and put the results in an analyser. If it reads ‘green’, you can go in, ‘amber’, you get a drug info pack. ‘red’, you get searched and, if drugs are found on your person, arrested.
The test is ‘voluntary’ in the same way that a search at the airport is voluntary. Do it or go home.
