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Alton should be posting photos today. Stay tuned to find out if he comes through.

Hmm, the guy makes $175,000 a year and he can’t afford to put his kids through college? Are there no student loans? No grants?

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Andrew Sullivan seems to have upset some people.

A “senior Al Qaeda figure” was arrested Sunday in Pakistan.

I’m sure it was done just to make Kerry look bad.

It’s Wil’s birthday. Dang, he’s only 4 months older than me.

/I thought Wesley was cool

Why hasn’t the price of gas budged from $1.98 for, like, the last month? Shouldn’t it be going down to something reasonable, say $1.22, since the crisis is over?

UPDATE: Oh. And oh.

Yes, the chilito is gone, the green sauce is gone, the Dr. Pepper is gone, tacos cost a dollar. Taco Bell is deliberately trying to lose my business. But then again, the Burrito Especial is pretty darn good. And the empanadas are great.

via Lileks

It’s all his fault.

The Return of the King extended version (scroll down) has 50 more minutes of Tolkieny goodness. Woohoo!

When Dan Rather says you’re dull, you might as well just give up and go home.

The New York Times is a liberal newspaper.

via Pete

Iran’s nuclear weapons are no longer guarenteed fresh.

A useless teaser for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is available.

So a quick glance through my links shows me that Jeffery is on probation for paying taxes for some guy named Will from Camelot. Joe Carter is an ugly 18th century pamphleteer. Tony hates school children and still has a painful color scheme (not everyone has 20/20 vision you know). Instapundit like a book so much he read it twice. Michelle Malkin loves The Day After Tomorrow and has started golfing because of it. And I clearly don’t want to read the news and would rather make up lies about these people.

I’m glad that Instapundit is keeping up on the important part of the presidential campaign.

Available now.

Is it just me or are the Nigerians always panicking about something? On the other hand, there’s plenty of people around here that won’t use the 666 phone numbers.

Google has set their IPO price.

None of the cool kids are using IE anymore.

It scares me that some people can’t tell the difference between human lives and animal lives.

Vlasak, who likens animal experimentation to the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews, said he stood by his claim that: ‘I don’t think you’d have to kill too many [researchers]. I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.

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Three months ago, he told a US television audience that violence was a ‘morally justifiable solution’. Earlier this month, he gave a speech in Virginia in which he said: ‘It won’t ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It’s going to happen sooner or later.’

Killing people to save animals is “morally justifiable”? I’m surprised he didn’t spontaneously combust from the contradiction.

Australia says it won’t cave in to terrorists demands.

Steyn on the blame game and Berger’s Pants. Which would be a good name for a band, btw.

A review of the summer movies.

You just know someone is going to sue all computer/electronic storage device makers out of business. Brilliant piece of legislation guys.

“We’re going to do this, we’re going to get this done,” Hatch said. Piracy has been “a doggone catastrophe to these artists.”

Yeah, I see musicians and actors panhandling on corners everywhere. And stores don’t even carry CDs anymore, they just aren’t worth it.

See, someone’s thinking here. Attack the media, they’ll be horrified that anyone would attack them, thereby guarenteeing a doubling of media exposure.

In an, ahem, sad turn of events LaShawn Barber has left Blogger for greener pastures. Finally her sidebar shows up for me.

An inflatable church. Just what everyone needs.

via Fark

And a Public Service Announcement. The Syrian Band was really a band, although I suppose they could be terrorists on the side. And the PSA is: don’t act odd on airplanes. Stay in your seat, eat your peanuts and keep quiet. Otherwise it makes people nervous and causes a lot of trouble.

Someone followed through on my request for a head-to-head competition between Heinz and W Ketchup.

Panorama of the Moon.

via Lileks who makes this excellent point:

It’s maddening: if we’d not only kept going back but figured out a way to stay, can you imagine the video we’d have today? I know I’d keep a window open in the corner displaying a 24/7 feed from the moonbase cargo bay, or the landing pad.

I bet I could do that.

I’d give you an example, but I don’t need the Secret Service calling me up. That would be awkward to explain to the boss.

I fully expected the International Whaling Commission to endorse more violent, and hopefully painful methods, of killing whales.

The International Whaling Commission has approved a proposal calling for the use of more humane ways endorsed by animal rights activists for killing whales used for scientific research.

Save the Smurf campaign. Personally, I say, good riddance. Never liked them anyway.

Krispy Kreme wants to bribe you for your friendship with a free liquid-donut drink.

Threatening to behead hostages unless their countries withdraw from Iraq. Of course, none of the countries have people in Iraq, but that’s a minor technicality.

The Church of Spongebob.

What a world to wake up to today.

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Michael Jackson (news) wants “a celebrity exception to the First Amendment” which will keep much of his child molestation case secret, a media lawyer argued in a motion filed Tuesday.

So does he want to be exempt from the whole thing or just the part that’s inconvienent to him?

Garry Kasparov on Bobby Fisher. I have no gift for strategy. We need the man in black.

Nature vs. Nurture

I don’t know which way this will go.

Why, why, why don’t they ever want to try these things out in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho?

More on the Syrian band practice.

Genius food show person and chock full of common sense.

We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. We hand our lives over to big companies and then drag them to court when the deal goes bad. This is insanity.

Maybe I should go back to school.

Apple also said that this fall Duke University will give iPods to all incoming freshman. Duke will hand out approximately 1,800 iPods that will be pre-loaded with Duke-related content and will allow students to download supplementary university material in addition to being able to play music.

Next up on the Axis of Evil hit parade: Iran.

I noticed USA Today had a front page article on Iran this morning.

Dick Clark will survive the coming nuclear holocaust.

“Like the roach, you could cut off his head or stop his heart and he would go on introducing new musical acts.

That’s quality reporting.

A review. Also, the nerds have their say. I’m still going to go see it. And I’ll hate myself afterwards.

Okay, I won’t hate myself. I might feel a twinge of disappointment though.

This story is all the latest in the blogosphere. And I bet things like this happen more often than we would be comfortable knowing. Which, in part I’m sure, is why we don’t hear about it.

Here’s Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, and Lilek’s takes.

UPDATE: Anecdotal evidence supporting my “let’s not scare the nice people” theory.

Ugh. They had me until the soy lattes. Unless you are allergic to milk, there’s no reason to drink that nasty stuff.

And other exciting things over at IMAO.

Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are getting together to cooperate on instant messaging at the end of the year. Or you can do it today with Gaim.

Apparently black holes are leaking.

Jonah has a point.

Get Fuzzy brings teh funny.

Uproar is building over Bush not releasing the prewar intelligence summaries. Okay, it’ll build, there will be great public outcry, Bush will stand firm, the NY Times will run editorials, Reuters will have inflammatory headlines, Bush will stand firm, there will be more public outcry, and just when everyone gets bored with it, Bush will release the summaries.

I might actually get cable if they did the a la carte thing.

Doing ping-pong matrix style took a lot more work than kids these days with the fancy-schmancy computer effects.

Even more Simpsons quotes from Right Wing News.

It’s the crushing of innovation like this that causes a country to stagnate.

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Frank J. solves the problem of poor people. And killer robots. Not killer as in “dude, killer waves”, killer as in “Aaagh! run for you life!”.

Is it just me or has it been a slow news and opinion couple of days?

Office Depot will recycle my computer junk. Yours too. But not you, yes you, there in the back.

An excellent opportunity for the comeback of the “Da Bears” SNL skit.

Threat fatigue.

I’m afraid if we don’t make improvements in the system,” Mr. Turner said, “the public’s going to lose trust and confidence in that system and won’t pay any attention to it anymore.”

Seriously, why don’t they just put out press releases when there is a credible threat. Threats that aren’t realized, whether by their action, or the terrorists bad planning or whatever, are all going to contribute to the “crying wolf” syndrome. There’s no way around that, except a sucessful attack, and that would be–as we say in the trade–bad.

Ain’t they cute. Now I have to name them. I’m not good at naming cats. Feel free to make suggestions.

Book publishers are starting to worry about used book sales. What will the next industry to be challenged by the internet be?

IE security concerns are causing a mad rush to Mozilla. Sort of. More like a slow trickle.

I suggest Opera.

I wonder if these people live anywhere near all this land they are so worried about.

The Roadless Rule, finalized in January 2001, was the most popular rulemaking undertaken in Forest Service history.

Really? A quick google found this: “In January 2001, following the most extensive public involvement in the history of federal rulemaking, the US Forest Service issued the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.” (emphasis added)

Oh, wait: “The “roadless rule” was developed during the last three years of the Clinton administration after more than 600 public hearings and more than 1.6 million official public comments, making it the most popular federal rulemaking in history.”

600 hearings? 1.6 million official public comments? Sounds like a heck of a fight.

Indians are upset that Bush named his cat “India”. I can’t help but think this is an Onion story that got out of hand.

via Inoperable Terran

Frankly, I’m shocked that the federal government doesn’t have contigency plans for major disasters around election time already.

With cool new gadgets. Like the Segway Bubble.

Oh, this is a beauty. Also this one. If only I had a reason to need one. Unfortunately our 6-year-old SR32 is still going strong. Even after I dropped it. I need to carry it around more.

A poll on love at first sight (from the hard-hitting Bonner Daily Bee). There’s so many ways to answer that, I can’t decide.

La Shawn Barber has an interview with The Daily Dispatch. It highlights the difference in world-views between the liberal and conservative blacks quite nicely.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Do the trivialists want Saddam and the Taliban back in power? Does a Mr. Allawi repulse them? Do they wish 10,000 American troops back in Saudi Arabia? Perhaps they want Libya to resume its work on nukes? Do they care whether Dr. Khan returns to his lab? Or do they think it is child’s play to hike back through the Dark Ages into the Pakistani borderlands looking for bin Laden? And is it all that easy to have prevented another 9/11 attack for almost three years now of constant vigilance? Perhaps they would like to deal with the corrupt, duplicitous, and tottering Saudi Royal family, which just happens to sit on 25 percent of the world’s oil reserves — without whose daily production the economies of Japan, Korea, and China would almost immediately grind to a halt.

On why Sudan has been at war for the last 20 years. The Arab government wants the land sans the people. Having failed in the south, now they are trying the west.

There’s no such thing as brontosauruses (brontosauri)? What?

School, they kept doing this to me. They teach you one thing in Algerbra, tell you to forget it and it’s really this in Geometry, then in Algerbra II, forget all that other silly stuff and now it’s this. And let’s just not talk about Pre-calc. Not that I’m bitter about that.

If you are ordering french fries at McDonald’s healthy eating cannot possibly be your main concern.

It is reported that the Monty Python musical is coming along nicely. It may be a sign of the Apocalypse, but that’s quite a cast they got there.

Probably not.

More on Tblisi. Wow, now I know more about Georgian politics than I ever wanted to.

Yes, come to Idaho where it is safe to be a conservative.

via Instapundit

South Ossetia? Uh, Ghost Recon anyone?

The US comes in dead last in software piracy.

Obviously, I need a new motherboard with this PCI Express thingy on it so my games look even better. I love Adventure.

UPDATE: Check out this page, lots of cool stuff about Adventure.

Cough syrup doesn’t work any better than water. It’s all in me head.

Drudge has the best take on the Kerry/Edwards ticket. The “We’ve Got Better Hair” platform. Made me laugh.

Well, this clears it up not at all. But at least a college professor is unsure too.

Lileks has a couple of points concerning Minnesota “where millions of consumers were apparently forced at gunpoint to buy Windows machines.”

The sun is a mass of incandesent gas, but Saturn is just a mass of gas.

Professor Stan Cawley of Britain’s Leicester University, who is involved with the spacecraft’s magnetic field measurements, says Saturn is a huge ball of gas with no rocky surface.

Funny comments on the creation of Linux.

Iraqis (my tinfoil-hat-half says “paid by US”) are threatening al-Zarqawi.

It’s Vacation Bible School time! I have the “I just want to be a sheep; baa, baa, baa, baa” song stuck in my head now. If I had more time and bandwidth, I’d post it for you to get stuck in your head, but alas, I don’t. The morning will be slim pickings. This afternoon, however, will be a cornucopia of fascinating posts, I’m just sure.

POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.

— John Henry Patterson

Dumb Idaho laws.

Interesting, and some good points, but how boring would it be for Christians if every message started with a half-hour (being generous, it’d probably take longer) defining term and outlining the underlying philosophies.

Church is for Christians to fellowship, worship, and learn. Evangelism takes place out there in the big bad world.

via Evangelical Outpost

I suffer from doubt that it is better than Heinz ketchup. Someone with money to burn should look into this.

Finally a use for math. Finding the best seats in the house.

Minus points for not working sound into the equation though.

/boy that doesn’t look right: “a use”. But “an use” is just plain wrong.

…Right.

And this is good stuff too.

Now the Department of Homeland Security is saying don’t use IE.

Opera.

Marlon Brando may or may not be dead.

UPDATE: Yes, he is dead. Way to go, Phoenix, with the scoop.

Car manufacturers are running out of VIN numbers. Looks like good times are here again for the programmers.

And the new Walkman will be there.

I’ve been saying we need to use up all the oil all along.

We need SUVs twice the size of the Lincoln Navigator, capable of fuel inefficiencies in the two-to-three mpg range.We need snowmobiles as big as tanks, motorcycles with six-liter V-8 engines, gas-powered carving knives, blenders, and toasters. And we’ve got to make a much larger national commitment to RV’ing and speedboating.

Hillary to give up book advance for “common good”.

US claims it hit al-Zarqawi’s safe house.

Alf gets a talk show. We all knew the commercials were leading up to something.

Wow, even the government thinks IE is troubled. And the government knows troubled.

Glenn has a couple of interesting links concerning the war and the Iraq handover.

He also has lots of good links today over at Instapundit.

Idiots! Stop clicking the spam links!

Huh? Oh, yes, I do have an opinion on this subject.

Kristin, Your ideal job is a Professional Hippy.

The Job Predictor.

In light of how eco-friendly these are, but are they comfortable?

via Fark

I predict they will go the way of the Yugo.

This sounds rather communistic:

“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you,” Sen. Clinton said. “We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

Here. You can listen to Saturn.

via Slashdot

Khartoum can’t seem to keep from killing with it’s own people. They barely have the almost 20 year war with the south done and they start in on the west.

Saddam has got to be a little nervous about all this.

It’s 4 in the afternoon, they started at 7 this morning, and some are still on the bike leg, going past the church. They still have to ride back to Coeur d’Alene and then they have to go run a marathon. Crazy.

Doing an album with William Shatner. Can you rise any higher in the musical universe?

So Wolfowitz apologized for saying that reporters are afraid to leave the Baghdad hotels, but does that mean it’s not true, or he just shouldn’t have said it?