Not So Fast

IMing like it’s 1995. Could they make it more primative?

I never got this out of Leviticus. I think I’m going to go build a landing strip in my backyard though. Just in case.

You are ‘French’. In the nineteenth century, it
was the international language of diplomacy.
It is a ‘beautiful’ language, meaning that it
is really just a low-fidelity copy of Latin.

You know the importance of communicating
‘diplomatically’, which for you means both
being polite and friendly when necessary and
using sophisticated, vicious sarcasm when
appropriate. Your life is guided by either
existentialism or nihilism, depending on the
weather. You have a certain appreciation for
the finer things in life, which is a diplomatic
way of saying that you are a disgusting
hedonist. Your problem is that French has been
obsolete for a long time.

What obsolete skill are you?
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I have really got to do something about WordPress not returning to the post page after posting a comment. Remind me some time when I have time to fix that. Thanks.

Read the first sentence.

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Bush and Alito and his friends deal with the senate.

“The American people must know the truth!” Reid responded.

“How are they going to know anything with the doors locked?!”

Reid was quiet for a moment. “Leaks!”

Aren’t.

You can just assume that conservatives are racists.

Theodore Dalrymple and VDH on the inherent problem with Islamic suicide bombers in the West.

This just in: People waste time reading blogs during the work day.

Bird flu = Nuclear War. Oy.

Mmm, roasted chicken.

Keep your iPod Shuffle like-new with Legos.

The historical revisionism must stop. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes first.

So, Mr. Sulu is gay. This changes everything!

Flying Space Monkey has some questions that would give the Speaker of the House something to blog about.

It’s like people are people, no matter the technology!

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God is trying to tell this guy something.

So you’re walking along the street in Manchester, and you discover you need to make a call right now. What can you do? Luckily Vodafone is there for you.

Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat flap. Who knew?

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Manolo says, the fashion, it is not the nuclear rocket brain surgery.

Dilbert has a blog now.

So I was stuck on the latest Teen Girl Squad and totally failed to notice the last couple Strongbad Emails, both of which were quite decent.

It’s a good thing I didn’t see that picture until now. I wouldn’t have like the cartoon as much. Of course, the 80s was a bad time for everyone picturewise, I think.

Now all pigs are banned from one UK school’s classrooms.

Disney has Rocketman available on DVD, but only if you’re a Disney Club member. This does not endear me to your franchise, release it publicly already.

“Despite the seriousness of the Bush White House, more than one Bush staffer reads The Onion and enjoys it thoroughly,” he said. “We do have a sense of humor, believe it or not.”

As shown by the cease and desist, right?

I don’t quite understand why I’m not on the list.

Everybody relax. There have been 121 cases of bird flu in humans since 1997. All of them got it from either handling chickens or eating undercooked chicken. It’s not transmittable from human to human. It could theoretically mutate, but then again, I could theoretically mutate into Superman. It’s just the same old there-isn’t-enough-vaccine-quick-go-get-a-shot scare that happens every fall, only more so. I expect, if it hasn’t happened already, that talk radio commercials will be extolling the efficacy of grapeseed oil and gold in combatting the bird flu.

Trying to expand its holiday selection, Jones Soda has Halloween flavors out.

But you have to respect that amount of political know-how.

What is with this guy from Alaska and his stupid spending of government money?

Big old debate about barbecue over at Instapundit. I’ve never had real pork barbeque so I can’t give you an informed opinion. I don’t see how pork can top beef in anything, but I’m willing to give it a fair trial.

Some blackberry user from Post Falls has sore thumbs.

Alton is very dissappointed in you, humanity.

How to blog good: part 1, part 2.

Open Office 2.0 is now available for download. Get it while it’s fresh.

Transparent aluminum is now available for all your aquarium building needs.

John Derbyshire points out the future of conservatism.

Wanna see someone ruin their PSP? You’re in luck. And now you know why movies about hackers and computery things are always wildly inaccurate.

I can’t put my finger on it but Lileks is particularly amusing today.

Due to popular demand, it’s lighter, it’s brighter, it’s tons more fun! If I were really cool I’d do some beveling action at the top, but I’m not feeling that cool tonight. Especially since there is a not inconsequential chance I’ll completely redo it again tomorrow. Holler if you see any unreadable fonts or really hate it or whatever.

Some of the new VAIOs are going to be made from carbon fiber.

So you get a meme: type “[your name] needs” into Google, bold the results that are true, skipping of course the people that did this before me.

1. Kristin needs monthly prayer and financial support as she moves to Spain – I’ll take the prayer and money, but I’m not moving to Spain for it.
2. Kristin needs to move, of course, and check other corners – I always forget to check the corners
3. Kristin needs a family who can provide her with nurturance, consistency and love. – one family is enough, thanks
4. KRISTIN NEEDS TO DO SOME SORT OF UPDATING – I’m working on it, STOP SHOUTING AT ME!
5. Kristin needs help chalking and speaking at freshman classes about our kickoff meeting – I never touch the stuff and freshmen are icky.
6. Kristin needs volunteers for grilling and event coordination – You organize the barbeque and I’m totally there
7. Kristin needs help – no doubt
8. Kristin needs her family now more than ever – not really, no
9. Kristin needs to be represented – Reprezent, yo
10. Kristin needs to invest in a full-length mirror – I have two, thanks

EFF has cracked the not-so-secret code that Xerox laser printers print on every page.

It frightens me that Amazon just sent me an email congratulating me on creating my wishlist. Uh, yeah, that was 6 years ago.

Also, basmati rice is amazing. I’d do my impression of an Iron Chef taste tester with the delicate texture and the reminding me of the slopes of Mt. Fuji and all, but I’m sure you don’t need to see that.

w00t! Yes, you did come to the right place. I just spruced it up a bit. Obviously more needs to be done, but it’s a good start. Feel free to tell me what you hate about it.

UPDATE: The good news about the comments is that it’s not the theme. The bad news is that I don’t know what it is yet cause I was really betting on the theme.

FURTHER UPDATE: Problem solved. MT import/user issue. Comment away.

So I can answer my phone. Not quite as lame as the mp3 player sunglasses, but right up there.

It’s actually about safety and an armed society, but those that charge puppy-blending are going to go wild.

Dance Dance Revolution on your calculator. Why didn’t we have this when I was in school.

Mark Steyn on the death of Russia and the rise of China.

Apparently the Cardinals and the Astros had a game last night.

It was a dark and stormy Karl Rove.

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A couple is duking it out with signs along the highway.

“They must be very angry to do this in such a public way. It is certainly very immature and we would urge them to seek counselling… they seem furious.”

Jonah is done with Miers, for now.

Word is that former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie made a brief visit to the Oval Office and accidentally drank some of the tap water. Shortly thereafter, he showed up at National Review in a tie-dyed muumuu, set fire to a very sensible bra, and chided editors for opposing such an admirable American womyn.

As I’m sure you know, my birthday is coming up soon.

C’mon, it’s almost $1,500 in savings!!!

Finally, you can order a PEZ mp3 player.

via Engadget

If you’re going to get breast implants, they might as well play music or something.

Results here.

I didn’t catch a major disease or die today. Yet.

If I put .6 kilometers ^2 in acres into Google I get 148.263229 acres. But if I convert .6 kilometers to miles first .0.372822715 miles and then do 0.372822715 miles ^2 in acres I get 238.606538 acres?

UPDATE: The correct answer is, of course, 90 acres.

The Manolo has made me laugh out loud.

Form of: An Instant Messenger! Microsoft and Yahoo team up their instant messengers to slay the evil AOL.

You want to be politically active, but you don’t want politicians to use you? Good luck with that.

Ah. Finally a way to figure out how far you ran/walked using teh Google.

Okay Google, get on the ball. I need the calculator to tell me how many kBs and Kbs are in an M and vice-versa.

New teen girl squad! Teh funnay.

Some Australian dude is actually the heir to the British throne.

Western government’s reaction time in helping Pakistan is too slow. Nobody saw that one coming. World’s policemen, world’s emergency managment, anything else we can do for you?

The warehouse where Wallace & Grommit stuff was stored has burned down.

UNICEF bombs the Smurfs. I never liked those annoying little smurfs anyway.

I had completely forgotten about some of these bits. The typewriter, Billy Joe Jive. On the other hand, I was singing one, two, three, Four, FIVE, six, Seven, eight, NINE, ten, eleven, Tweeeeelve just this morning.

Curse of the Furry Things doesn’t have quite the same ring.

The mystery contents of the soda that closed down Penn Station have been identified. Turns out it was Green River.

The Shining as a romantic comedy.

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Maybe it’s cause it’s late, but that’s funny.

Crash cymbal! (direct video link)

AOL is buying Weblogs, Inc. I’m fearful for Engadget.

The Guardian is reporting that the EU, obviously unimpressed with the US’s refusal to relinguish control of the Internet, will be forming several comittees and forums with a mind to forcibly remove control of the Internet from the United States.”

Might as well just give up now.

Don’t tell the script-kiddies that it may be possible to DOS cell phones. Yes, I know DOS is not actually a verb.

Or at least, “I neeeed this” mode. Nice watches, yo.

This doesn’t mean I’m going to stop complaining about how much I have to pay, or how the government is spending it.

I got my wireless router set up, paid my water bill, AND installed WordPress from scratch! All in one evening. Imagine how the world would change if I applied myself regularly.

Email? He emailed the information? Why not just sky-write it?

I think I need this for my basement.

Picking the legal online music download program that’s right for you.

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Piglet gets the boot. In England. You know, where he came from. Ah, tolerance.

NASA: pork or beef?

The odds aren’t in your favor.

I’m not convinced we want to teach robots to self-assemble. Pretty soon you have a nanite civilization in your main computer system wreaking havoc.

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For the reallllly long car trips when rock-paper-scissors just isn’t enough.

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British “surfers” taking on Hawaiian surfers. That’ll go well.

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Blu-Ray backers strike back at HDDVD backers. woo.

Um, Oliver Twist—the book— isn’t that depressing.

So, Plame is out of jail and talking now. No doubt this is of vital importance.

The first polygamous civil union has been registered in the Netherlands.

Spacemonkey’s birthday is tomorrow and someone let him near MS Paint. It’s not pretty.

The reason the Gulf Coast is suffering from hurricanes is that hurricanes form over warm water. Why would God punishing everyone, Christian and non-Christian? Whatever happened to no longer saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes and set their childrens teeth on edge? Does God now punish the righteous for the deeds of the unrighteous?
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Popular British barometers have no idea what blogging is. Galileo unavailable for comment.

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Oh, this changes everything

MIT wants to manufacture and distribute 100 million or more $100 laptops for kids in developing countries.

Space shuttle might not have been such a hot idea after all. Der. And like a stunning number of bad ideas *cough*double-knit polyester*cough*disco*cough*, it all started in the seventies.

Having run out of the insane and the poor, in Mexico doctors now learn to operate on robots.

It seems Louisiana is being greedy. Careful, we don’t feel that sorry for you.

And if a third-party devestates the Republicans, I won’t feel too bad. I have this funny feeling a Democrat won’t be spending too much more than the Republicans are, and maybe it’ll shock the Republicans back to that whole fiscal repsonsibility thing they used to say they believe in.

btw, Anne Applebaum has a great book on Soviet gulags, appropriately titled Gulag: A History

Bible literacy, eh? Welcome to Calvary Chapel. Yeah, those backward, anti-intelectuals who just teach the bible.

Grab a zip tie. Do it now.

It’s all about MEEEE!

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The Manolo, he has made me laugh aloud. Okay, this one too.

Of course, it’s not like I”m sitting here depressed or anything, but it’s still an accomplishment.

No freaking way! Hmm, a few blogads, some google ads might spruce the place up a bit…

Happy Birthday, Google.

Key sentence:

Nature is not really a reliable source for ethical norms

Don’t tell the RIAA that people have been recording songs off the radio for decades.

I made ginger ale! From scratch. It’s dead simple too. Very tasty. Next time I’m using a little less ginger, cause I’m not a huge fan of ginger, but wow! It’s all fizzy and everything. Science is fun!

Surprisingly little bad language in this fisk of some BBC reporter that is upset that Americans are so charitable because it puts a damper on “the revolution”.

Give every state delegation jurisdiction over the pork outlay for another state. The delegation that cuts the most gets a 10 percent increase in its own outlay. Let them bleed one another dry instead of the rest of us, in other words.

That’s why it’ll never fly. They’d just trade each other projects.

Missed it by that much.