Not So Fast

The Dullest Blog in the World is back and full of fresh dullity.

Daily Mirror infiltrated by journalist.

Britian set to do away with double jeapardy law “if compelling new details, such as DNA evidence, come to light.”

I see trouble coming.

Victor Davis Hanson:

If privileged Western protesters cannot tell the difference between what Saddam did and what America is trying to do in Iraq, if they think that tomorrow’s Saddams, Milosevics and Kim Jong Ils will be awed by Nobel Prize awards, barristers in The Hague and EU resolutions rather than aircraft carriers, or if they assume in their end-of-history world that their worship of reason is equally shared by all those outside the West, we may be soon entering a far scarier world, when America in exasperation — as it did for most of its history before the European wars — will simply shrug and say: “Good luck to you all.”

This road is at the bottom of a mountain. The village is 11 miles up that mountain. Mostly straight up. These villagers had gone to the market and were walking back. We picked these people up and added them to the 13 people and bunch of luggage we already had in our truck. It was a nervous drive up that mountain.

Nuetlong. He just looked at me like I was nuts the whole time.

This is Somchay. He was very concerned with teaching me Thai and him learning English. Him and Nuetlong were a crack up. (All spellings are phonetic and probably wrong.)

Islam strikes back.

There’s pictures of the trip here. I am in the one with the rad tribal vests. Oh yeah, I’ll get Jeff back for that one. I’ll post some here when our internet connection improves.

No really, that’s not an oxymoron. I suspect the Return of the King is already available.

UPDATE: Here is the Register’s article.

The Atkins Diet is worrying the bread makers of the world. They shouldn’t worry so much, it’s just a fad. I know one person who has stayed on it for more than three months. I expect them to keel over of good health anytime now.

You know, there’s nothing like a good toilet and yesterday was World Toilet Day. Sorry this is late, but it’s never to late to go give your toilet a hug. Use a squatty potty for a week or two and you’ll see what I mean.

Well, the people have spoken and the blogging will continue, but not until tomorrow. I need to go watch The Two Towers: Extended Version to recover my strength and put me on the right timeline.

I don’t know if I feel any better knowing that despite the fact that there has been no new content, the number of visitors hasn’t changed. Perhaps I’m putting too much work into this.

Two weeks cut off from civilization and nothing changes? Iraq, Bush, Shwartzenegger, Michael Jackson, and gay marriage. Geez.

Watch out!

It’s pretty bad when a third-world country, with horrible drivers, has a better traffic light system than the one in the city you live in. I had managed to forget that.

What I learned on this trip is that the American flush toilet is the greatest invention ever. And knowing where your toilet paper is is more important than knowing where your towel is. Airplane food sucks the world over. Rice should not be served for breakfast. Much less served for breakfast every day. Dog meat is good, so is squid jerky. And people and churches are essentially the same no matter where you go.

More fascinating geopolitical commentary, and possibly a picture or two, when my brain begins functioning again.

I have duct tape. I know where my towel is and my Zaurus says “Don’t Panic” in large friendly letters. You guys are on your own.

Kelsey should be filling in occasionally to make you all more pretentious. I’ll be back in two weeks.

P.S. Don’t have any fun.

This made me laugh out loud. Go now

via Dave Barry Blog

Well I am hopping on a plane tomorrow, so I fully expect trouble to break out. That’s right, America’s terrorist troubles revolve around my vacation plans. You could chart an astrological-like table based on my travel plans and that would clue you in to key events. Aren’t you glad I don’t take more vacations?

What?

Or something like that. Some guy grew a “tomacco” based on a Simpson’s reference.

Episcopalians divided over gay bishop.

Nigeria’s Anglican leader Peter Akinola bluntly signaled a north-south divide, saying: “We can not and will not recognize the office or ministry of Canon Gene Robinson as a bishop.

“We deplore the act of those bishops who have taken part in the consecration which has now divided the Church,” he said in a statement representing over 50 million Anglicans in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Archbishop Greg Venables, the Anglican leader in South America, said: “The United States have declared independence. I think the chances of consensus are very slim.”

Australian Church leaders joined the conservative camp with Sydney’s Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen telling Reuters: “It is a very sad day for the Church… As far as I am concerned, he is not a bishop.”

I wonder how long until Africa and Asia start missions in Great Britian and Europe. I know a few Americans missionaries there myself, but I could see a whole reverse of the 1800’s coming, African and Asian missionaries flooding into Europe to save the heathens. I may be wrong, but I think it’s an interesting thought.

The guy trying to destroy power lines has been caught.

A member of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, Wash., Poulin participated in anti-war rallies earlier this year.

Not helping the Inland Northwest’s reputation here.

Iraq’s constitution and ours.

Well, a nice costume for sale. But the real reason I posted this was to say I actually saw a homestarrunner bumper sticker the other day. That’s just wrong.

Over at Instapundit there’s this story about honesty and this story about Chief Wiggles.

I’m going to Thailand tomorrow, so this is fascinating to me. YMMV.

A Bangkok businessman was slightly injured after his mobile phone exploded, a news report said.

Company executive Wichai Thongwiangchan, owner of the exploding mobile phone, was slightly injured on his hand.

“I was using a remote control to open the front gate. As the gate was closing behind me, I took my mobile phone from my belt, thinking the battery had run down,” Wichai was quoted as saying by The Nation newspaper.

When Wichai tried to turn his phone on, it exploded into small pieces, spreading fragments over a three-metre area.

Rumsfeld’s mojo has been found. Phew.

I feel sorry for the kids around here. It’s what, 20 degrees out? It really limits what you can dress up as. Uh, a polar bear, a snowboarder, or any of those animal jammy things. Otherwise, it’s just going to be miserable.

Simpson remark a joke. Imagine my surprise. I thought it was funny.

Rumsfeld and Mojo (Jojo).

Here’s a reflective paint. Can you tell what I’ve been doing today? That’s right, insider trading. I haven’t tried it naturally, but I really like the potential, with a name like Screen Goo you can’t go wrong.

Kids reading Harry Potter books get headaches. Instead of going outside to play for a while, they get meds.

“If children can take a break from time to time, read at a desk and with good light, that certainly would help,” he advised parents worried for their sons’ and daughters’ health.

Duh.

Microsoft wants Google. Heaven help us all.

The always clever Andrew Stuttaford discusses modern witches. He’s okay, even if he does hate Dr. Pepper, the greatest drink created by man.

There are tales of devils and stories of ghosts, depictions of demons, and everywhere, orange, black, and nasty, the pumpkin’s evil grin. And don’t forget the witchcraft, except it’s “Wicca” now, and slicker. The wicked witches of old, warty, cackling, and vile, slinking out of deep, dark woods to cast spells over crops, tiny tots, and the unlucky peasants’ luckless livestock have vanished, only to be replaced by even creepier creatures. Heaped like kindling (unfortunate simile, I know), are books by and about those legions of women (and it is mainly women) who have taken to “magick,” chanting, drumming, howling at the moon, and delving into the supposed wisdom of a largely invented past.

It’s Friday. This is how it starts:

There are certain predictable symptoms to watch when a widespread amorality begins to infect a postmodern society: cultural relativism, atheism, socialism, utopian pacifism. Another sign, of course, is fashionable anti-Semitism among the educated, or the idea that some imaginary cabal, or some stealthy agenda — certainly not our own weakness — is conspiring to threaten our good life.

It just gets better from there.

I like this discussion on money and its worth.

“Money is like fertilizer. It should be spread around encouraging things to grow.”

Fox News may or may not have threatened to sue the Simpsons.

The episode of the Simpsons in question showed a rolling news ticker at the bottom of the screen, which read: “Pointless news crawls up 37 per cent… Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com… Rupert Murdoch: Terrific dancer… Dow down 5,000 points… Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay… JFK posthumously joins Republican Party… Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple…”

via Juan Gato blog

Apparently people should all just cram together on the coasts. Granted they tend to do that, but why eliminate the choice of living a hundreds of miles from anyone if you want to? The idea is to turn the Midwest into a vast federal reserve (reg.req.). Of course, enviromentalists tend to not want anyone soiling the beauty, so there goes tourism. Can’t have those nasty people driving around scaring the animals.

Israeli company looking at making optical processor. Now that’s fast.

World’s Ugliest Laptop Bag (and bag is an appropriate term). Available from Intel. Luckily it’s a limited edition.

via The Register

Cutting back on piracy.

“We are trying step by step to eliminate Microsoft,” said Nguyen Trung Quynh of Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology. Quynh and other government tech officials want Vietnam to be on the cutting edge of an international movement to embrace open-source software — products that can be downloaded from the Internet for free and perform the same tasks as Microsoft Windows or Office.

The initiative is Vietnam’s solution to software piracy, a rampant problem that threatens to derail the country’s economic aspirations.

Interesting solution. Just go around the problem.

What 11 people want from technology (evil reg.req.) in the future (actual requests on sidebar). Some are cool (laptop that does it all), some are dumb (non-addictive recreational drugs: Hello Utopia!), some are hilarious (instant communication).

I like the smart laptop.

via Slashdot

Longtime enemy of computer users, Gator, has changed it’s name to Claria. I know I’d feel better about letting them hijack my computer with a nice name like Claria.

Pay your fines or lose US aid.

If I wanted to live under the laws of some other country, I would move there.

The computers in your car are recording more than you think.

The data these devices record varies with the make, model, and year of a particular vehicle. One recent GM model, for example, keeps track of vehicle speed, engine speed, brake status, throttle position, state of driver’s seat belt, and time from vehicle impact to air-bag deployment. Other metrics of a more technical or administrative nature, like how many times the engine has been started, are recorded as well.

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THERE ARE THOSE who think there’s a major privacy issue here–specifically concerning who owns the data in the black boxes and what those owners should be able to do with that information. There seems to be general agreement that use of non-personally identifying data for safety studies should be allowed. But beyond that, there’s still much debate.

It is a interesting article, read the whole thing.

Possibly to you. If the sky is clear tonight where you are, don’t forget to look up.

Google looking to copy Amazon?

Google declined to specify its plans, saying only that it has had some contact with the book industry. “We’re talking to a few publishers and always looking to add more content that will make the search more useful for customers,” said the firm’s Cathy Gordon.

But according to a report from one publisher, Google has said it has reached agreements that allow it to enter as many as 60,000 titles in its database and also presented extensive mock-ups to publishers of how book-relevant searches will look.

Gender Genie. Plug some type in and it guesses your gender. It guessed me right.

via Instapundit.

It is taking me longer to install a stupid keyboard than it did to add a hard drive. Stupid USB. I’m back on the old one for the moment, but I haven’t given up yet.

On top of everything, it’s sort of snowing, more like sleet, but darn close to snow. But it won’t stick.

UPDATE: The snow didn’t stick, but I gave up on the keyboard. And to clarify it was one of those keyboards with all the other non-alphabetical/numerical buttons on it, it was a Compaq, and from what I can figure out, rather old and not compatible with XP. So it’s not like I can’t install a PS2 keyboard or even a USB one, given the proper drivers.

This is great:

“These rumours are all wishful thinking,” Simon Khaya-Moyo, Zimbabwe’s envoy to South Africa, said. “President Mugabe is in good health and he is attending to his official engagements.”

Not that the people of Zimbabwe want Mugabe gone or anything.

I think he’s right.

Iraqi constitution (reg.req.) woes. Why don’t they just xerox the US contitution (and the Bill of Rights) and change the names to protect the innocent?

The new $20’s are being counterfeited. I’m shocked, shocked at this development.

Of the Enterprise. And Slashdot’s take on it.

I keep seeing this article so it must be something big. I think it’s a good sign that there is so little wrong in our lives that we have time to worry about stuff like this. If nuclear bombs are going off or everyone is in abject poverty this sort of thing sits on the back burner.

Being fair and even-handed requires me to admit that Canada is good at something. Something besides beer and hockey I mean.

Details here and here. If I go down Thursday, you’ll know why.

A Japanese woman in her 20s is seeking asylum in North Korea after swimming across a river from China, government sources said Tuesday.

I think she might be sorry in the long run.

via Fark

Sez hacker. It was the computer. I could see it.

Mugabe collapsed. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like too much change is coming for the country.

Scott reams Michael Schiavo.

I need to read this.

Here’s On The Fritz on the Santa Ana winds. He’s wrong, but I thought you would like another opinion.

Scrappleface got one of those little icon dohickeys. Keen.

It takes 98 tons of dead plants to make a gallon of gas. So what? The plants are long dead. What else are you going to use them for?

via Slashdot

Slashdot on comment spam on weblogs. There’s some helpful information in there. If I were to be important enough to get spam I would definitely use some of it.

This is cool. For short periods of time.

via The Corner

Death threats against the gay bishop-elect.

Bishop-elect Gene Robinson, who will be consecrated bishop of New Hampshire next Sunday, told a conference for homosexual priests in Manchester this weekend that there were grave concerns for his safety.

The threats are being taken seriously in America because of the growing militancy of religious extremists.

I happen to think the guy is dead wrong to be in any sort of leadership while openly walking in what the Bible clearly calls sin, but death threats aren’t the answer. Telling people the truth is the answer.

And hilarious. Disclaimer: not for the squeamish. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Brazil leads in cyber-crime (evil reg.req.) You have to be good at something

Interesting, but there’s major fires in SoCal almost every year. And while there has been signifigant loss of property and even a few lives, this isn’t the most inspiring of terrorist acts. If you live in a dry, brushy area with hot winds and large populations you really have to expect them to go up once in a while.

UPDATE: But if I was still in high school I could have gotten out of school today. Darn. And when did Valley Center get a high school?

Someone shut him up.

Keeps for years, usable with any blood type. How cool is that.

EULA (End User License Agreement, like what you agree to when you use software) on woodworking tools. I’m still looking for the punchline.

I gotta new hard drive! I gotta new hard drive!

If you don’t hear from me for a long time you’ll know I messed my computer up bad putting it in.

Norway fans waiting for tickets outside, in the cold. Here in America we buy the tickets off of Ebay.

via Fark

Wrigley’s is going to hike gum prices for the first time in 16 years. Maybe Congress does need that pay raise.

via Fark

The Department of Defense wants to put RFIDs on all it stuff. Seems logical.

“RFID policy and the corresponding RFID tagging/labeling of DoD materiel are applicable to all items except bulk commodities such as sand, gravel or liquids,” the DoD said in a statement.

Gravel suppliers rejoice.

Today at lunch we discussed corporate stooges (Barq’s has bite), the staff becoming sermon illustrations, and nasty food, mostly British, but also Swedish. Lutefisk, it’s fun to say.

From Sony. It’ll be interesting to see if they catch on.

EMI releasing a majority of its catalog online. A step in the right direction I think.

This is the best line in the article though:

Consumers can burn the songs onto CDs, transfer them to portable music players supporting Windows Media Audio or store them on a computer. Customers keep the music even after their subscription ends, Myers added.

Ohhh, thank you!

How odd. But that’s not important right now. What I want to discuss is the Santa Ana winds. I love those. As soon as you wake up you can smell them in the air. And the air has a whole different feel to it. Then you go outside and get knocked down by the wind. Yeah, those were the days.

At lunch yesterday we were discussing Terri Schiavo in our usual fashion, everyone talking at the same time. We were surprised that the ACLU hadn’t jumped in the fight yet, and lo and behold, here they are.

This is disturbing:

“We are afraid of lawyers all the time,” said Dr. Lofty L. Basta, a retired Clearwater cardiologist and founder of Project Grace, a non-profit group devoted to educating people about end-of-life planning. “We practice defensive medicine. We do things that we know are wrong to protect our behinds. So this ruling from the legislators makes us very leery to carry out any order for dying patients.”

Americans and the afterlife:

Belief in life after death, like the existence of God, is widely embraced: 8 out of 10 Americans (81%) believe in an afterlife of some sort. Another 9% said life after death may exist, but they were not certain. Just one out of every ten adults (10%) contend that there is no form of life after one dies on earth.

Moreover, a large majority of Americans (79%) agreed with the statement “every person has a soul that will live forever, either in God’s presence or absence.”

This is good though:

Most Americans do not expect to experience Hell first-hand: just one-half of 1% expect to go to Hell upon their death. Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) believe they will go to Heaven. One in 20 adults (5%) claim they will come back as another life form, while the same proportion (5%) contend they will simply cease to exist.

Of course no one (and by no one I mean 99.5%) thinks they personally are going to hell. It’s for those bad people out there.

Read, as they say, the whole thing.

via Drudge Report

I’m listening to the Classical music station on Musicmatch and I just noticed if John Williams had gotten any closer to Wagner’s The Valkyries with his Imperial March he could have been sued. Except it’s public domain and all that.

I’m sure this is well known to all the sci-fi loving classical music listeners, but it was news to me.

Searchable books over at Amazon.com. The article is long and full of unimportant details. Here’s the gist:

An ingenious attempt to illuminate the dark region of books is under way at Amazon.com. Over the past spring and summer, the company created an unrivaled digital archive of more than 120,000 books. The goal is to quickly add most of Amazon’s multimillion-title catalog. The entire collection, which went live Oct. 23, is searchable, and every page is viewable.

This wins the coveted “SUPERRAD” award.

Yes, I did just make that up. Work’s a little slow today.

There ought to be a law against them voting pay raises for themselves. Can’t the president veto it? And $154,000. That’s a freaking lot of money. And they don’t even work all year.

A comparison.

Jack Elam died. He was great in all those westerns.

Flu victims and people with flulike symptoms are flooding local hospital emergency rooms, health experts said Wednesday, straining an already taxed system with cases better served with Tylenol and bed rest.

If everything from Ebola to SARS to a common cold didn’t have flu-like symptoms, maybe this wouldn’t be a problem.

I don’t know about this, it is from Lindows, but I do know I won’t be getting Office 2003 any time soon.

via Instapundit

UPDATE: Here’s Slashdot on it.

Frank isn’t doing so bad today either.

There is now a Centrist Coalition blog. I hate moderates… much more than even liberals. I bet Satan is a moderate; the best way to get evil accepted is to package it with some good. That’s what moderates do; they’re always like, “Oh! I’m so special because I don’t take a firm stance on issues, and I see value in everyone’s viewpoints.” I bet right now a moderate is reading this and partially agreeing with it.

Lileks is on his game today.

Starbucks’ regular coffee tastes like old donkey hooves soaked in burnt crankcase oil.

He also discusses the Rumsfeld memo which is apparently HUGELY IMPORTANT, but I don’t know why.

I got betta. This is interesting too. And I don’t think it has all the ethical baggage that cloning parts comes with. But I haven’t thought about it much either.

Looks like someone noticed what real piracy is.

via the quaintly named ArsTechnica. It’s all Greek to me.

Lord of the Rings Musical!

I shocked, shocked at the fact that ALL of the child-porn suspects were (A) white and (B) male. Clearly some profiling or something is going on. Get Jesse Jackson on the phone, it’s another Selma. And Pat Ireland, she’s available now. Equal rights and all that.

I guess there is one born every minute. I can’t believe people fall for the Nigerian scams, but they do. To the tune of $1.5 BILLION dollars a year.

I heard that!

Next on the piracy hit parade: the FCC plans to do something, somehow, that keeps you from downloading digital TV shows on the internet.

The Federal Communications Commission will likely adopt rules that will allow programmers to attach a code to digital broadcasts that will in most cases bar consumers from sending copies of popular shows around the world, said the officials, who declined further identification.

So you have until 2006 to watch those analog Enterprise episodes.

via Slashdot

We can’t evolve fast enough to keep up with our innovations. Maybe fast food killed the dinosaurs too. Darn rodents.

TV executives don’t understand why they are losing viewers.

“Frankly what we’re seeing strains credulity,” said Alan Wurtzel, the president of research for NBC.

I believe he and the viewers have reached a concensus.

Which is worse, that she got through with the knife, or that she didn’t know better than to take a knife on a plane. I, for one, am paranoid about taking the smallest blade through security. Those Leatherman Micra’s are twenty bucks. I don’t want it confiscated.

The alleged sniper changes his mind and decides to get a lawyer. He’s just working on his insanity defense.

An acquintance gave me his set of Robotech DVDs. Very cool. Sure, cheesy soundtrack and awkward dialogue, but great story.

I’m Back!

Here’s the roundup for today:

Microsoft mad at Apple because of their monopolist practices.

The “Jew Remarks” taken out of context, says Mahathir.

Free taco and Pepsi at Taco Bell if a World Series home run hits the target.

iPod for the rest of us, via Creative Labs.

And since I’m going to Thailand soon, this happy news about the mentally ill bomb expert that’s gone missing.

PDA’s are dead. Say smart-phone makers.

via Slashdot

No need to worry about the red wire/blue wire dilemma. Just let the dog play with the bomb.

Octupi:

“Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be the characteristics of this creature,” the Roman natural historian Claudius Aelianus wrote at the turn of the third century A.D. Today’s divers marvel at the elaborate trails the eight-leggers follow along the seafloor, and at their irrepressible curiosity: Instead of fleeing, some octopuses examine divers the way Steve checked me out, tugging at their masks and air regulators. Researchers and aquarium attendants tell tales of octopuses that have tormented and outwitted them. Some captive octopuses lie in ambush and spit in their keepers’ faces. Others dismantle pumps and block drains, causing costly floods, or flex their arms in order to pop locked lids. Some have been caught sneaking from their tanks at night into other exhibits, gobbling up fish, then sneaking back to their tanks, damp trails along walls and floors giving them away.

Ugh. Smart octupi make me nervous.

John Muhammad defending himself in court. Wasn’t he going to plead insanity? Hmm.

Here is an awesome entry in IMAO’s comments:

James,

You ask a profound question. What do conservatives like me want? Well take it from a guy who has traveled to every continent except Antarctica, I sure don’t want what the Third World has.

There is this depressing similarity among Third World nations, be it Morocco, El Salvador, Vietnam or Saudi Arabia. It’s the trash, dirt streets, emaciated animals, poor construction techniques, corrupt cops, prevalent violence, undrinkable water, racism, hatred, bigotry and depression. It’s being stopped by four cops with machine guns in Cambodia and being “asked” to pay the “road toll.” It’s meeting a missionary couple and their three small kids at a hotel in Colombia, then finding out a week later that Marxist guerillas kidnapped and killed them. It’s walking through the market in Marrakech and getting nauseated by the unrefrigerated meat covered with flies. It’s driving down roads in Angola and seeing all the bloated corpses by the side of the road. It’s having a prostitute in Thailand tell you that she has a great job – it pays so much more than any other job she could get. It’s getting so violently sick in Calcutta that you think you’re going to die because the bartender put ice in your drink. It’s driving through Saudi Arabia and seeing piles of discarded tires, abandoned cars and trash to make an American Indian cry along the highway.

Then it’s returning to the land of heaven, better known as the United States. The land of paved streets and lawns, and houses with paint on them, and water you can drink, and low crime and good paying jobs for women and responsive government and, well and just about everything else from free emergency medical care to clean air to people who stop at red lights and use the on ramps to get on and the off ramps to get off the highway. It’s not seeing adolescent girls selling themselves openly without comment by the locals.

James, I don’t want to live anywhere other than the United States of America, despite having an enjoyable visit to Australia. But I know for a fact that millions of men, women and children in the Third World watch television and movies and see what we have here and they crave it. They crave it because they live a life of pain and s–t.

So James I find your comments depressing and ironic. You and Michael Moore advocate a hatred of the system of government and economics which has created a virtual heaven on earth. You asked “Do you want western culture to conquer all the minority groups it can?” And I answer, “YES.” And all the billions of your so-called minorities in the world scream “YES.” You asked “Do you want corporations to be more rich and powerful?” And I say, “Yes, I want corporations which produce the medicines which cure the poor of the world, I want the corporations which feed the world, I want the corporations which produce washing machines and cars and airplanes and cell phones and computers to be more rich and powerful.”

Then James you asked a most interesting question, “Do you want to live in gated communities where you don’t have to mingle with the poor?” How odd. In order to conquer the world, we would need to leave our gated communities. And you implied, by the way you phrased your questions, that you don’t want us to leave our gated communities to conquer the world’s minorities. So I would answer this last question with “No I don’t want to live in a gated community, blocked off from the poor. I want to bring the benefits of my culture and wealth and beauty to the sick, poor and downtrodden everywhere.” You, James, oppose that. In other words, you want me to remain in my gated community so that the poor remain poor. Because as long as the poor remain that way, you have meaning to your life. You care nothing and do nothing for them. You use them as a crutch for your self-righteous evil.

And James, that is why I despise you and Michael Moore and all those who profit from hating and loathing the very thing which brings hope to the poor of this world.

Today I discovered I spend to much time using my computer. I had picked up the print edition of the Nickel’s Worth at the grocery store. I was rather irritated that I couldn’t Ctrl-F to find what I was looking for. I had to read, or at least scan, every ad. How annoying.

Speaking of annoying, some idiot is driving around the block honking his horn. This is going to stop soon.

Waaay overpriced on Ebay. I was going to go, but since I’d like to keep my job, I can’t make it. Think of the money I’m saving.

Got a question? Ask the Magic 8-Ball. Remember though, if it gets one wrong you have to stone it (Deuteronomy 13).

While we’re at it here’s J.I. Packer’s take on the Cubbies curse.

Apparently the Muslim’s were taking that Malaysian dude at his word, because the reason my host went down last night was a Denial Of Service attack originating (unofficially, so far) from a bunch of Islamic sites against this site [Internet Haganah]. Here is the official word. Discussion about this is here on LGF. And the Instapundit word.

I had McDonald’s for lunch today. (Disclaimer: This is unusual, I don’t normally eat there.) And I swear the Coke tasted like their “apple pie”. How on the earth does that happen? It is sorta worrying me. On the plus side, I got a Best Buy buck. That’ll come in handy when I get that $4000 plasma TV.

Why didn’t someone tell me?

It’s a little poignant.