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Robotwisdom is back. Riothero is back.
Sadly, neither lemonyellow nor sevencrabrangoon are back although the above blasts from the past did make me check.
pinchbeck launching paradigm. more noise at mousemusings.
"Am I boring you?" Dr. Gene Scott RIP. I don't want to think how many hours I spent watching this dude on late night TV in the 80s.
gannongate : its worse than you think
the dubya tapes
Why is everyone mad at the mainstream media?
Now would be a really good time for me to revitalize the Syria page, but work precludes it. The US is going to use the assasination as an excuse to bash Syria, whether or not they are behind it. At this point, with an unpredictable tyrant in charge, it's hard to predict what the US will do.
surge in jonestown reference use
term useful to dems ? as in "we wont drink bush's kool-aid anymore" bumpersticker ?
an oldie but a goodie
Slashdot: In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?
Neal Stephenson: You don't have to settle for mere idle speculation. Let me tell you how it came out on the three occasions when we did fight.
The first time was a year or two after SNOW CRASH came out. I was doing a reading/signing at White Dwarf Books in Vancouver. Gibson stopped by to say hello and extended his hand as if to shake. But I remembered something Bruce Sterling had told me. For, at the time, Sterling and I had formed a pact to fight Gibson. Gibson had been regrown in a vat from scraps of DNA after Sterling had crashed an LNG tanker into Gibson's Stealth pleasure barge in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. During the regeneration process, telescoping Carbonite stilettos had been incorporated into Gibson's arms. Remembering this in the nick of time, I grabbed the signing table and flipped it up between us. Of course the Carbonite stilettos pierced it as if it were cork board, but this spoiled his aim long enough for me to whip my wakizashi out from between my shoulder blades and swing at his head. He deflected the blow with a force blast that sprained my wrist. The falling table knocked over a space heater and set fire to the store. Everyone else fled. [more...scroll down]
the 9/11 report is out
you know this one jim ? picturephoning
Weblog dedicated to Christo's Central Park exhibit The Gates.
NBC News just did a spot on the owl invasion in Minnesota. The Boreal Owl in Central Park recently was a big deal; it’s probably the hardest North American owl to see. But we haven’t been getting the more spectacular (and seeable) Great Gray and Hawk Owls that have been showing up south of their normal ranges this winter. This report from near Ottawa sounds amazing: over 20 Great Grays in a day. Check out these pictures; I particularly like this one taking off; it reminds me of the Jabberwoky.
(And don’t miss the rest of Jody Hildreth’s kidwings site; turn a youngster on to virtual owl pellets.)
any opinions on raid array ?
whats happening in nepal, in the sunday nyt there is noarticle in the "week in review / front section".....there is an article on page #2 (front section) "China's Holiday Homecoming Creates Travel Nitemare" and the last page is "SHANGHAI / the exotic new scent for woman / BLOOMINGDALE'S"....this has nothing to do with the Mao Rebel's i assume.....the king is doing nasty shit (no planes, no internet, no press, etc) but w/o any news i wonder "whats up superbowl sunday"....Q: do these moaist rebels have relatives that took over Tibet Q: are they fun to hang with, better or worse than the King Q: would the USSA let internet go on in if the "Al whatever" rebels were causing serious trouble homeland.....i have not followed Nepal of lately, but the lack of news in the NYT is interesting / standard operation??...(skinny)
Google Blogoscoped research tools
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Just heard the Feelies on a citibank commercial.
from a europe contact (skinny)
Man peed way out of avalanche
A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.
Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.
He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out.
But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through.
He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it, local media reported.
He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."
Parts of Europe have this week been hit by the heaviest snowfalls since 1941, with some places registering more than ten feet of snow in 24 hours.
Does anyone have photo editing software recommendations? I introduced D to MS Paint, because it's free, simple as dirt, and a fall-back for any Windows environment. But at some point she needs to step up to something with a bit more power. Has any one tried Photoshop Elements 3.0?
Apparently bloggers can make permanent, no login required, links to NYTimes articles. Aaron Swartz has a handy link generator (copy the regular NYTimes link into Aaron's form and it spits out the blogger permanent link.)
Strangely, this seems to have been in place since 2003. How did I miss this? Or am I just forgetting? I haven't tried it so maybe I am misunderstanding. People should give it a shot when linking to the Times and we'll see what happens.
Also, possibly I could automate this so the system here will translate regular NYT links into their permanent blogger format.
[edit: added the link to Aaron's link generator.]
