31 January 2007 – 4:18 pm +0800
US Gov’t Earns a ‘D’ in Cybersecurity
How much of the gov is still running Windows? Not a hundred percent, or they’d have failed outright, I imagine.
31 January 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
A roll of paper in his hand, with a little satchel containing a few chalks, or pencils, completed his stock-in-trade; and his acquaintance with the remains of ancient art gave him a power of talking on the subject which unfortunately bore more than due proportion to his talents.
— Sir Walter Scott, Count Robert of Paris
30 January 2007 – 11:36 am +0800
Saw this quite some time ago, but never linked it. Subtitles retranslated back into English from the Chinese translation of the original English are… well, follow the link and find out. They’re rather typical of the kind. (þRice Bowl.)
Then I came across this hilarious re-analysis of the first Star Wars in light [...]
30 January 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Americans are considered crazy anywhere in the world.
They will usually concede a basis for the accusation but point to California as the focus of the infection. Californians stoutly maintain that their bad reputation is derived solely from the acts of the inhabitants of Los Angeles County. Angelenos will, when pressed, admit the charge but explain [...]
29 January 2007 – 8:01 am +0800
Us caffeine addicts have a new god to add to our pantheon:
So the molecular scientist who moonlights as a cafe owner developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, one that eliminates the natural, bitter taste of caffeine.
[...]
The amount of caffeine in his creations can vary, but Bohannon can easily put 100 milligrams of [...]
29 January 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Thanks for all of your comments on how romantic you are. I read them with a mixture of confusion, shock and dismay.
— Scott Adams, 20 January 2007
28 January 2007 – 2:32 pm +0800
Like this, for instance:
LOS ANGELES - Brian Emmett’s childhood fantasy came true when he won a free trip to outer space. He was crushed when he had to cancel his reservation because of Uncle Sam.
Emmett won his ticket to the heavens in a 2005 sweepstakes by Oracle Corp., in which he answered a series of [...]
27 January 2007 – 7:05 pm +0800
Gee, do you think?
Guess that motto should be amended to “Don’t OK, maybe be evil, if it, y’know, makes sense on a business level.”
27 January 2007 – 6:52 pm +0800
Cinema Minima is a great blog, and they usually get some top-notch reporting from the important film festivals.
However, they’ve posted a story on the new documentary about the bombing of Hiroshima, titled White Light, Black Rain, in which one single sentence called the entire article into question:
By simply sharing their personal recollections, the survivors make [...]
26 January 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
“I follow,” said Quentin, drawing his sword; “but the moment in which I detect the least sign of treachery, thy head and body are three yards separate.”
— Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward
25 January 2007 – 7:03 pm +0800
Pejman puts it so well:
Pity. It would have been fun to watch another Kerry campaign make its unique mark in American political history.
Yeah, sure would have.
25 January 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Many of them were of that ancient race of Highlanders who not only willingly made their couch in the snow, but considered it as effeminate luxury to use a snowball for a pillow.
— Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose
24 January 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
Nothing illustrates better how implicitly supportive mainstream Islamic organizations are of Islamist terror groups than their own words!
— Isaac Schrödinger, 10 January 2007
23 January 2007 – 12:01 am +0800
When a microphone is thrust in their faces, some blacks will always, always drone on about subjective “racist” incidents that may have little, if anything, to do with race or might be legitimate reactions by whites.
LaShawn Barber, 17 January 2007