31 August 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
Our safety does indeed depend on winning “hearts and minds” among the supporters of totalitarian Islam: their hearts must be made to despair at the futility of their cause, and their minds must be convinced that any threat to our lives and freedom will bring them swift and certain doom.
— Keith Lockitch, 30 August 2005
31 August 2005 – 4:04 pm +0800
… but this has got to be the worst picture of the divine Ms. Lima, ever!
Take the quiz: “Which Victoria’s Secret Angel are you?”Adriana LimaYou are wild,crazy,exotic, and love to wear as little as possible!
(And yeah, apart from Yasmeen Ghauri — who was mid-1990s, and thus ancient history now — Adriana’s my favorite. Even [...]
31 August 2005 – 8:30 am +0800
Like this two-part write-up of the career of crime writer Ed Lacy (real name: Len Zinberg) by Ed Lynskey.
Ed Gorman & Friends (Ed Gorman himself is beginning radiation therapy, which he notes at the beginning of the first part — our thoughts are with you, man) does this sort of tribute on a [...]
30 August 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
SHAM. A cheat, or trick. To cut a sham; to cheat or deceive. Shams; false sleeves to put on over a dirty shirt, or false sleeves with ruffles to put over a plain one. To sham Abram; to counterfeit sickness.
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
30 August 2005 – 6:26 pm +0800
From Owen Winkler.
As for myself, I don’t see the necessity. They seem like a mid-step between categories and searching and, excluding separate tag-aggregating sites like delicious, it seems like an unnecessary extra step.
Which probably marks me off as an old fogey.
30 August 2005 – 4:24 pm +0800
Boomer parents are meddling and over-protective!?
HAMILTON, N.Y. - They’re called “helicopter parents,” for their habit of hovering — hyper-involved — over their children’s lives. Here at Colgate University, as elsewhere, they have become increasingly bold in recent years, telephoning administrators to complain about their children’s housing assignments, roommates and grades.
Who’d’ve thunk it!
(Postscript: [...]
30 August 2005 – 3:51 pm +0800
Craig Mazin has a great post on pitching. For screenwriters or wannabes, it’s a must-read.
30 August 2005 – 3:48 pm +0800
Newsflash:
Sola (Sora) Aoi is still insanely cute.
That is all.
30 August 2005 – 3:36 pm +0800
We are shocked — shocked! — to hear of a major security flaw in MS Internet Exploder!
30 August 2005 – 3:22 pm +0800
Joe Gandelman does not like Ann Coulter’s style, but fails to see its causes.
29 August 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
There are two types of Iraq war veterans that have a tremendous appeal to the anti-war crowd — the fictional and the dead. Both types have a common, irresistible trait — others can claim to speak on their behalf.
— Greyhawk, Mudville Gazette, 28 August 2005
29 August 2005 – 3:55 pm +0800
Stephen Green:
Sure, there will be a few idiots. Some people wouldn’t leave their homes if they were made out of those really yummy Pepperidge Farm cookies with the chocolate chunks and Macadamia nuts, and CNN had video of a 100-foot Cookie Monster bearing right down on them.
And that’s not even the good part!
29 August 2005 – 3:31 pm +0800
Linux news site Mad Penguin has a very interesting interview with MEPIS founder Warren Woodford. He strikes me as unusually canny:
MP: How are you going to avoid being crushed by the bigger companies like Red Hat, Novell, and Microsoft?
WW: The only way that Microsoft could crush us is by spreading FUD such as a [...]
29 August 2005 – 2:09 pm +0800
Idiots!
SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas - Thirteen surfers had to be pulled to safety Sunday after becoming fatigued in 15-foot seas created by Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Troy Davis said the rip tides were strong and most of the rescues were 400 to 500 yards off Quintana Beach, about 60 miles [...]
29 August 2005 – 11:39 am +0800
I’m number two!
And isn’t the essence of comedy taking an odd idea, running it into the ground, and then getting out the sledge hammer to drive it in further?
Well, maybe not.