Not So Fast

Piper is very serious about everything.

Isis, not so much.

If you want to get into all the cool journalist shindigs and get around the yet to come McCain-Feingold crackdown, here’s your chance.

McCain-Feingold causing a ruckus.

/I’m me and I approve this message

Sorry Kansas City, but I’m glad they are out of here.

Mark Steyn. Old, but worth it for the quotes. Like:

One wouldn’t commend a den of gambling and fornication to every spot on earth, but, driving through the Sunni Triangle, I couldn’t help feeling the history of the Middle East would have been a little different if smack in the middle of the Arabian desert you could have seen Wayne Newton with full supporting orchestra.

And there’s more, read it all.

Victoria has made it illegal to harshly criticize religions. Don’t they have freedom of speech in their constitution there? Do they even have a constitution? There’s so much to know about the world.

via Tim Blair

Scientists say galaxies formed faster and sooner than they thought.

“We have underestimated how quickly the early Universe matured into its present-day incarnation,” said Piero Rosati, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), headquartered in Garching, Germany.

Or your teddy bear is.

How do I sign up for the publishers-send-me-advanced-copies gig?

I like Enterprise and all, but these guys really like the show.

Phillips is getting serious about flexible displays.

If everyone jumps at the same time, shocking the earth into a new orbit, global warming will no longer be a problem. Genius.

via IMAO

He’s right. Of course, the last modest proposal I heard was, um, not that good an idea, so I’ll wait to see what he says.

Surprisingly there are more blog readers than there are blogs.

Set low? 99 cents is the same price as if I bought a CD, in most cases. And I don’t get a CD if I get it online. If anything prices should drop.

You try this first and let me know how it goes.

Bill Gates to be knighted.

Easter is not on the 28th of March. Contrary to the copy I wrote. Fantastic. I’ll be busy this afternoon.

If I’m ever really sick, or taken hostage, I want it to happen in the US. The chances of living through it are so much better here.

So, it’s him. Although I admit sleeping in on a Sunday morning sounds very appealing. Of course, sleeping in any morning sounds appealing, which is why I squeaked into work with only three minutes to spare this morning. It was totally worth the seven extra minutes of sleep.

Ted Rall gets schooled.

If I’ve erased one of your comments please don’t be offended. It was a tragic spam cleaning accident.

It’s like there’s a plan! Who knew?

Why would I stop a behavior if there are no consequences? At least none that I care about.

The Syrian-backed government resigned. Who is taking over? I’m sure the State Department has it well in hand, I’m just wondering.

Where the climatologists blog.

I feel sorry for smokers. Now the World Health Organization has passed a law against smoking.

And while we’re on the topic, that ad on the radio that only 20% of people in Washington are smokers and how dare they think they have rights is really annoying. I dare whoever wrote that ad to apply that logic to any other hot issue.

Yahoo, Ebay and Amazon are 10 years old. It seems like yesterday I was using Yahoo’s awesome search engine for the first time.

How is Drudge getting popups past Firefox? This really bites.

CBS is a tool of the White House. Putin’s been reading the Democratic Underground a little too much.

Okay, I just made this and it’s fantastic.

1 cup white rice (not instant or that fast cooking stuff)
1 can black beans (drained, reserve juice)
1 cup chicken stock
enough water to bring liquid amount to 2 1/2 cups

some olive oil
1/2 bell pepper diced finely
same amount of onion diced finely
3 garlic cloves diced finely
1 tsp tomato paste
~1 tsp chili powder
~2 tsp parsley
salt

In a saucepan heat olive oil and sweat garlic, onions, and bell pepper. When the onions are translucent, stir in tomato paste, keep stirring and let it cook a minute or so. Add rice. Add liquids, stir. Add chili powder, parsley, and some salt. Bring to boil, add beans, reduce heat, cover and simmer for, um, till the rice is done.

Share and enjoy.

Probably sacreligious. Made me laugh out loud though. And right after church too. Good thing salvation is by grace.

Yeah, it’s about fashion, but it’s still true and applicable to life in general.

It is, as the Manolo hopes he himself proves, possible to be both happy and have the seriousness of purpose at one and the same times. These things they are not imcompatible, it is simply the matter of everything having the proper place and the proper time.

The more I read the Manolo, the more I think he is deserving the permanent link.

He totally stole my line.

Maybe this summer they’ll do giant frogs since the meese were such a hit.

via Dave Barry

I have that very caculator sitting on my desk.

Oh wait, I put it away. I have that very calculator in my desk.

VDH makes some predictions. Although, Hillary has never been too critical of the War, so that’s not quite the stretch he seems to think it is.

Blog haters. If you want to see poorly informed opinions, these are the links for you.

Those crazy ex communists.

I have come to realize that personal relationships are more important than history

Should have thought of that before you released those tapes, nimrod.

A washed up camera has the evidence. Eerie.

UPDATE: More, better pictures here

So, I got my cavity fixed. No wifi there or I would have blogged it for you all. It was painless and quick. A cleaning is more painful. What’s with the fear of dentists?

At the CPAC.

Less celebrated, but equally artistic, Gates.

If you have no idea what this is in reference to, go here.

via The Corner

It’s the motherlode! I’m so happy!

Hopefully I’ll be able to post later this afternoon.

A Newsweek writer in Baghdad answers readers questions. Heh.

via Inoperable Terran

Amazing picture of the first ever dark galaxy.

Send them off to work in the coal mines for 10 hours a day and the little darlings can “need a vacation”.

via Fark

I forgot to mention it earlier, but it’ll be a group blog for a while here. If it’s more than two sentences, I didn’t write it.

Well, I prefer double flak cannons, but I guess this is a good thing.

The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. It’s good to be human.

via Slashdot

EO has moved, and switched careers.

The weather in Southern California is atrocious.

With a name like Sudan 1, you know it can’t be good for you.

So, Hunter S. Thomson died. Never heard of him, but apparently he was a journalist who worked with Gonzo.

In other news, Abe Vigoda is still alive.

Because the remote is just too much work.

No life on Mars according to NASA.

Scrappleface was on a roll this weekend.

Battle for Middle Earth. Like Age of Empires, well, Age of Mythology, only in Middle Earth. I like it.

And I’m glad Galadriel did the voiceover for the prologue now that I’ve heard Gandalf do it. He wasn’t bad, just Galadriel was better.

It’s like adversity builds character or something.

via i am always right

Why play it on a computer when you can play at your coffee table? With all those fiddly little pieces to step on in the middle of the night.

Why?

A l33t primer for parents. Your kiddies pwned j00.

I have won 2 million euros!

Remember all winning must be claimed not later than 31st of
Feb. 2005.

By the 31st, eh?

If Coeur d’Alene is ever attacked by Orcs, we have a place to defend ourselves from.

Now that’s a good idea. You know, the decline in revenue from removal of traffic cameras could more than be made up for by fining stupid people.

via Fark

Why the life on Mars story hasn’t taken off yet. That and all the previous false alarms.

Oil traders fight their way back into work through the Greenpeace protesters trying to block them. Heh.

I guess I’ll skip getting DDR2 and wait for the DDR3 to come out.

IMAO is now a group blog. Make sure you check the author before reading now.

Cheese and onions. No, not really. That we would take care of Syria before Iran.

Life in Mars.

BTW, Comedy Gold

So lame. Don’t “reimagine” them. Start over with new characters. Cause that’s what they are.

Scammers got, potentially, 100,000s of credit data reports.

The Kyoto Treaty goes into effect today. Now to see if anyone meets their target reductions.

Microsoft says it will create IE 7. Did they think IE 6 would last forever or something? There were no more advances to be made in browser technology? Are they high?

Frank J. says:

Plus, most bloggers I have met in person are crotchety loners who are uncomfortable in large crowds, so the mob part is slander.

He has a great point there.

Leaked Hitchhiker’s Guide preview. There’s a few parts in there that I don’t remember from the book. Makes me nervous.

A new group in Idaho wants to bring moderation to the government. Interesting idea.

J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame says he has a 5 year Star Trek arc that he would be willing to make. That would be hot.

UPDATE: Never mind. But don’t think I won’t bring this back up in a couple years.

The Tulsa World doesn’t want a blogger linking to them. Um, that’s what the internets is all about there champ. HyperText Markup Language. Learn it, love it.

The problem with the UN.

All this derives from a UN culture in which the free nations have met the thug states so much more than half way that they now largely share the dictators’ view of their peoples – as either helpless children who need every decision made for them, or a bunch of dupes whose national wealth you can reroute to your Swiss bank account, or a never-ending source of fresh meat.

I need to get one of these.

What the heck is he talking about?

Dean declared that though the Democrats have tried to follow maybe 25 of the 27 main values of the New Testament, they have been poor at communicating this story.

via Evangelical Outpost

Making me use IE to watch a video does not endear me to your site. I have Windows Media Player installed, just play the freaking video. Whether I use Firefox, Opera, or IE shouldn’t matter. Interoperability and all that.

Sincerely,

Kristin Hoppe

Their roles in the blogosphere.

The Left seems to want to be where conservatives have been for most of the last 50 years: shooting from the outside in; questioning fundamental arrangements and assumptions about the role of government; griping about media coverage; standing athwart history, yelling stop. Meanwhile, conservatives have had enough of that. We’re slowly, inexorably, moving in on, or replacing, the ossified institutions of the old regime. It will be a long, long struggle and I still think liberals have the commanding heights. But the good news is that for the first time in our lifetimes, the liberals look like they want to switch places.

Walk into Mortor. With old skool animated gif action.

This is where you should buy your chile pepper seeds.

While bloggers do tend to be a bit too self-congratulatory for my taste when they bring down some journalist or crack open a story, they aren’t evil or stupid.

Most of them.

UPDATE: An excellent fisking.

It’s Valentine’s Day. I guess this means these will be on sale tomorrow.

Probably when postmodern thinking took over art. I could draw some stick figures if that would help.

Ray Kurzweil plans to live forever.

Eason Jordan quit.

Opera’s Chief Technology Officer chews out Bill Gates on “interoperablity”.

Ten Reasons by VDH

Peasant’s Quest: The Movie. It’s like Peasant’s Quest only LIVE!

You may remember him from your American Lit. class. Death of Salesman was probably the second most painful thing to read in that class. Nothing will ever beat The Sound and The Fury though.

Sometimes it’s good to look back at the good old days.

How to tell a Democrat from a Republican

The lifecycle of a news story

Google’s PigeonRank

Another accident.

Keep in mind these are not 5th graders, these are college students writing this dreck.

Your homework: Write a better essay on lasers and their practical application.

Software company is suing modders.

“If they’d offered a competing video game with Tecmo’s code in it, it’s a legal issue. But here, they have simply offered a way for legitimate game owners to modify how the game looks on their screen. Its like a home customization kit. It’s not competing in any way with Tecmo’s product. In fact, you have to own Tecmo’s product to use this stuff.”

Yahoo! released a toolbar for Firefox.

Worried that the US might be paying too much attention to Iran, North Korea says it has developed nuclear weapons in response to the US’s being so mean to them.

It said Washington’s alleged attempt to topple the North’s regime “compels us to take a measure to bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to protect the ideology, system, freedom and democracy chosen by its people.”

Care to let the people vote on that Kim?

I’m not a complete n00b when it comes to cooking, but I cannot get the hang of eggplant. From now on, eggplant is out. At least the large purple ones are. Maybe I can work with the smaller ones. Cause those are just lying around the grocery stores around here.

But this part made me laugh:

Now comes the most detail yet in the Bible as God explains step by step how to build an ark. Yeah, people popping out of nowhere and giants wandering around doesn’t need any explanation, but we learn how the ark was built down to about where each nail goes.

At least now we know where Jesus got his interest in carpentry from.

US coasts could be hit by tsunamis. Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Head of GoDaddy.com was the founder of Parsons Technology.

And anyone that was offended by that ad must not watch TV much.

The Baby Name Wizard. Seems my parents were always just ahead of the curve.

via Reason.

A star is escaping the Milky Way galaxy.

Flashmobs against 419 scams

You might want to consider dusting the inside of your computer. Unless you are hoping to burn it out to get an upgrade.

First of all, it’s interesting that in America to proclaim something a scandal all you have to do is add “gate” to the name and everyone knows what you mean. Secondly, all the links you need, and more, to keep up with Easongate.

Don’t forget Poland. Okay, they probably aren’t doughnuts, and I’m not Catholic, or Polish, but those look good.

It’s still legal to make fun of lawyers.

Q. What’s wrong with lawyer jokes?

A. Lawyers don’t think they’re funny and other people don’t know they’re jokes.

via Fark

Bring back Enterprise. It won’t work, but the whole idea of fans paying for shows and having them available on torrents…veddy interesting.