Bruce S on creeping Lysenkoism in the federal government under Bush.
Just incase someone is thinking about a career change. Reykjavik
"The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission."
any thoughts on billmon going commentless?

i dont spend that much time in comment threads but i still find them useful. wasnt one of the innovation of blogging the possibility for an open forum? i understand they can be unruly but should that be the determining factor?

im grateful for billmons prodigious output but he sure can be thinskinnned at times.
x1B (ESC)
Incredibly Advanced Video Compression
barbie loses suit.
medicinal leeches
Oh yeah, it’s Election Day in Canada. How’d that slip my mind? Haven’t seen it on the TV news yet...
Hey Bill, Selma or anyone, I'm working on a storyboard and looking for loads of interior (esp. interior) and exterior shots of a house, a sort of vertual tour. The house I'm after is a big family home, Modern design but not a masterpiece. Ideally but not necessarily the pics would capture the personality of the residents- their furniture, possessions, dishes cluttering the kitchen counter etc.
So far I'm having trouble finding what I'm looking for (kind of a tall order I guess) Seen anything like this? Any ideas?
TIA
Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red and Green?.
I looked up and thought of you.
(and here are the 568 entries.)
tonights king of the hill and the simpsons both had olive garden restaurant jokes. product placement or joke meme?
Kim Jong Il's eating habits:
The North Korean leader might be one of the world's most enigmatic figures, but thanks to a growing and eclectic body of books and articles that detail Kim's epicurean habits, more is known about what he eats than nearly any other head of state.
911
Classic Cheney takedown from Billmon:

There's been speculation that the Veep's surliness, like his current neoconservative extremism, is a byproduct of his bypass surgery, which has been known to induce dramatic personality changes in the patient (turning him or her into a "pump head," to use the vernacular.)

Personally, I doubt it - the heart doesn't seem to have ever been a particularly important organ in Cheney's psychology. (A man who produces an offspring nine months and one day after learning that only fathers will qualify for a student draft deferment can't exactly be called someone who is ruled by his emotions.)

I'm trying to be good, I really am. I installed the Mozilla Firefox browser today because I keep reading that using IE is going to destroy my computer. Two problems right out of the gate:

My Norton Internet Security prompts me that "firefox.exe is attempting to access the internet" every new page I go to. I have to write a rule allowing that for each page. Some pages cause 6-7 prompts, so forget that. If I turn off the firewall, I'm vulnerable to outsiders trying to access the computer even if firefox is blocking malicious pop-ups. So I'm back to IE.

Another thing I noticed is Firefox reads Tree pages in the "one column" format inconstistently. E.G., when I first go to Jim's page it fills the entire screen left to right, but if I hit "older posts," it returns to the correct width (the width of the clouds picture). As I page back through my and Sally's pages, the width changes from correct to screen-filling to correct, almost at random. I can't figure out anything from my own html that would make one /pageback page different from another. The same thing happens when I view groups of posts by date from the archive--there, almost all the pages are screen-filling; in Sally's archive it's a mix. Again, back to IE.

Also, now I have this "Java Console" thingy on my status bar that wasn't there before. What the hell is that? (Oh, it goes off when you turn off Firefox. Never mind.)

its not easy being green
White House Says Turkey Blasts Won't Derail Bush Travel Plans--what, they're putting bombs in turkeys now? and putting them on train tracks?
Opium Lantern
i know nothiiiiiing
radio, the VCR and Webcasting — offer important clues for music executives today.
the nude bomb
quack quack
seuss ads
pepper primer