Monthly Archives: January 2006

Greenspan goes out in style.

Invaluable help in your Star Wars vs. Star Trek debates.

via Fark

Only 20 years to live it up before the end is nigh.

Bush doing better in the ratings. No film at eleven.

American’s savings rate is now a negative number. That is amazing to me.

Major company makes profit. Film at eleven.

The Enterprise home theater. So rad.

I’m pretty sure Despair has the trademark. Cingular could be in for a fight over the patent on emoticons. Oh, and Cingular is a bunch of morans for even trying.

The internet allows people to say what they are really thinking without any annoying social inhibitions. Now we see the real you, jerk.

Happy Birthday, Trogdor. If I had known, I would have baked a cake.

While I’m discussing my health, FitDay is a handy thing for tracking your food consumption and composition and activities. So far today, 834 calories: 49% carbs, 23% protien, %28 fat.

Okay, I get a cold once in a while but the only things I take are Ricola (Reeeeeecooolaaaaa, to stop the coughing), Theraflu (soothing to go to sleep), Nyquil (knocks me out so I can sleep), and Sudafed (not actually for treating any symptoms but because it makes me so happy I can get through the day) or their generic knock-offs.

All of that just to tell you I don’t buy cough medicine so the fact that they don’t work doesn’t bother me at all.

Google bows to its Chinese overlords roundup.

Joel Stein on Hugh Hewitt’s show, explaining how he knows nothing about the military, but that wasn’t his point.

The government wants Google to turn over all searches for an unspecified week. Google said no. I bow to our Google overlords.

Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is beating Brokeback Mountain in sales. Clearly, Steve Martin knows what Americans want to see.

The old spy rock trick.

Kerry adds his two cents over at Daily Kos. You can tell it’s a slow news day, since this is news.

Protest robots. Yeah, that’s a good idea.

Until they become sentient, realize they’re dupes and go on a killing spree.

There ought to be a law against this sort of thing.

Hillary thinks the administration should be dealing more strongly with Iran. Which, of course, would be condemned as war-mongering by an imperialist president if he actually mentioned Iran, even if it’s just sanctions.

VDH on what is wrong with the US in the Middle East.

Work, work, work. Perhaps I’ll be posting some later.

What’s missing from this article? Any study indicating that you learn less online versus actually showing up.

William Shatner’s kidney stone bought by??? Yes, of course, Golden Palace.

Coolio pong clock for sale now. With video.

The Top Ten ways Congress is like a plantation.

But talk is cheap and buying votes isn’t.

Scrappleface has the scoop. The rich, chocolatey scoop.

“Ever since I saw the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I’ve thought, ‘That’s New Orleans’,� Mayor Nagin said. “and I thought, ‘I’m Willy Wonka’. �

UPDATE: You can get the tshirt.

Scientists want to create human-rabbit embryos to grow stem cells. Unnatural, yes. Possible boon to science, yes. Wrong, I don’t know.

The new Intel Macs may be able to boot XP after all.

Kim Jong Il missing? I find it unlikely.

It’s like a Scooby Doo episode, without Scooby.

Which makes it Doo. Let’s just move on…

Video of a lion cub and its adopted mother.

Robertson’s latest inane remarks have made Israel mad at him. Israel won’t allow Robertson’sHoly Land theme park atrocity now. I don’t see a down side.

UPDATE: And now he’s apologizing. That doesn’t seem insincere or anything.

More Alito than you could ever want.

How can the ‘verse go on? Okay, a sequel would be really cool anyway.

UPDATE: I feel I should emphasize, HE KILLED WASH!

Soon your film camera will be a collectible antique.

It’s like it’s just the flu!

What the GOP does need is a House majority leader with integrity and a passionate, fiery commitment to righting the wayward ship.”.

Who has a better chance, do you think?

I don’t quite see a reason to get riled up about this. They’re not being sneaky about it. Is Amazon.com malware too then?

Preemptive fashion advice, unless you’re a babushka.

Wendy’s video here.

The Idiotarian of the Year.

I don’t see how there could have been any competition.

Human skin bound books not as uncommon as I would hope.

From the Ebay song. It’s been a good day. Cause I bought it on Ebay…

Don’t kiss the chickens. Duh.

The real line of succession in the Executive branch.

The best blonde joke evar.

Tim Blair has some awesome quotes from 2005 arranged by month. Just keep scrolling.

* “If I’d have known how freakin’ ugly they were, I would never have gotten so concerned about their endangerment.�—Stephen Green meets a condor

* “Every minute in the world a woman is raped, and she has no one to blame but herself.�—Sheikh Feiz Muhammad at a Town Hall meeting in Sydney

* “I didn’t actually say they were Eichmann, I said they were little Eichmanns.�—Ward Churchill clears things up regarding the 9/11 dead

I grabbed a sugar-free Sobe today, cause it was the flavor I wanted. Here’s the downer, the crap they use to make it sugar-free tastes stronger than the flavor.

WordPress 2.0 is out. I haven’t tried it yet cause I’m waiting for my host to make it automagically available for me, but you can get it if you want.

So, it seems George Bush hates the elderly, not the poor and blacks. Eh well.

Scrappleface says it so well, and so much better than I did:

“God disciplines American Christians for their willful ignorance of the Scriptures by having me embarrass them every 60 days or so with another ridiculous remark.�

You know what would be awesome? No, of course not, but I’ll tell you. If the bank would let me create virtual savings accounts within my savings account. That way I could designate certain portions of my savings for, say, car repair or home improvement or electronical gadgets without having to try to keep track in my head.

And don’t tell me about software I can buy to do that kind of stuff. Unless it integrated with my online banking and popped up there in my browser there’s no way I’m expending the effort to do that.

My coworker’s getting interviewed by KREM 2 News even as I type. Maybe my vehicle will be in the background.

Of course, it’s about some government handout that they don’t want to stop, so maybe I should have been shouting, NO FREE CAR SEATS WITH MY TAXES or something.

On the current Anglo primacy in fighting wars.

A FURTHER asset of the Anglo countries is that they approach war more confidently than their potential rivals. That partly reflects their favorable geopolitical situation. No Anglo country shares a common border with a threatening neighbor. Britain, Australia and New Zealand are islands, while the United States abuts only much weaker Canada and Mexico. So the Anglos often can wait to fight opponents until they are likely to prevail. The same cannot be said of France, Germany or Russia, still less the hapless east European countries sandwiched between Germany and Russia.

via The Corner

Gilding the lily, but with style.

The world began in 1968, and owes nothing to what came before; if we wish to combat the regrettable enthusiasms of some other cultures whose animus appears religious, we should deconsecrate the cathedrals in order to set an example and light the way. Religion is the enemy to the transnational progressives, because religion holds up laws and codes and rules the wise burghers of Belgium cannot amend.

Also:

It goes without saying that selling anti-Christian iconography to European fashionistas is a brave an act as reducing the food pellet allotment to your pet hamster; a true act of bravery would be yanking the dead wildebeest out of a lion’s mouth. Or selling jeans that have the international cross-and-bar NO symbol over the crescent of Islam.

Earliest Darwin Award winner video I know of. (Direct video link)

Woman weds dolphin.

I guessed right. No Google PC.

Yet.

An article on student disengagement has this happy thought:

Surveys of undergraduates like “Your First College Year,” conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles and the Policy Center on the First Year of College at Brevard College, show troublingly high levels of “academic disengagement.” Students say that they feel bored in class, submit assignments that underexercise their talents, and do minimal homework.

Mark Steyn on the decline and fall of Western Civilization.

It would make my not buying the new, useless Coldplay CD more meaningful.

I was going to mention something along these lines, but Ace said it better.

Personally, I like organic milk, I think it tastes better than inorganic milk, but mostly I think organic farming is a bit silly and I certainly wouldn’t force it on anyone. I couldn’t afford to eat that way myself.

Explosion on the moon cause by meteor? Riiiight. Battling aliens is more like it.

Google has burned me before doing things I thought it would never do, but a Google computer?