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Media
Books, video, and things that go bump in your ear. Stuff I like to watch, and things that piss me off every time I see them. Helpless rants against the cool kids.
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Turns out the incredible speaking pottery of Pompeii is nothing but a well-crafted 2005 April Fool's Day joke from Belgian television. The admission is here... although, oddly, the April-Fools disclaimer doesn't show up every time you load the page. In Read More
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Note: Sadly, this story turned out to be a hoax. Click here for more detail.
Many thanks to my old classmate Collette McNeill for turning me on to this amazing story.
It turns out that a group of French archaeologists made a remarkable discovery while Read More
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You heard it here first.
Arrianna “Oh, what famous friends I've got” Huffington, founder of the eponymous Huffington Post, wants you to quit driving your SUV. In particular, her “Detroit Project” wants you to watch this video, Read More
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Surprised?
Actually, what did surprise me is where I read it: The Huffington Post. This blog, as it turns out, offers this and other similar drivel from an absolute gold mine of cranks, including Deepak Chopra, Bruce Cohen, Walter Cronkite, John Cusack, Read More
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Chris Bertram over at Crooked Timber has written the political equivalent of a Rorshach Inkblot Test, entitled “I'm Offended.” Read it! The comments are pure comedic gold: they run fast and furiously, and a good half of the respondents clearly Read More
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So my dad calls me up from Los Angeles to tell me to turn on ABC. Hey, I'm not a football fan... I was reading a Conrad novel. Cripes.
I turn on the television, and what do I see but a pack of geriatric lizards lip-synching to a Rolling Stones song! Read More
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Well, you have to hand it to Torgerson: when he's right, he's right.
This historic occasion was prompted by my last post, in which I commented on a hard-to-trace newspaper clipping that floated up out of the swamp that is the pile on my desk. As Torgerson Read More
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I really should clean my desk more often.
This morning, while shoveling out a patch to put my mouse on, I ran across a small news clipping. For the life of me, I can't remember where I got it, or when. Based on the paper and color, it seems to have come Read More
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I think I needed a vacation.
Anyway, I'm baaaaack... and, since I actually did take a vacation—in Jamaica—I've been playing with online photo editing and sharing services.
What I've found is that they pretty much break down into two categories: Read More
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I've been griping long enough about blog-spammers... you know, the idiots who flood your blogs' comments sections with ads for penis enlargers, time-shares, and Texas Hold 'Em, Highest Limits Ever!
Yah.
So I thought, why not actually do something about Read More
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Just got this e-mail from PETA:
PETA Breaking News
Time's Up for the Australian Wool Industry
Vigorous protests at Australian Embassies throughout the world signaled the end of a 45-day moratorium that PETA had declared on its international boycott Read More
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Here's a nasty little sound-bite from Daniel, over at Crooked Timber:
If anyone is proposing a quick sing-song outside the gates of 10 Downing Street singing “Glory Glory O Bin Laden” I think I am probably up for it.
Any questions?
Of Read More
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A few days ago I embraced my inner iconoclast and fired Internet Explorer in favor of Firefox. Then, just to add insult to injury, I canned Outlook in favor of Gmail, and switched my home page from My Yahoo! to Google. Ahh, progress...
Anyway, by default Read More
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It's nice to know I'm not just whistling in the wind regarding the curious inability of the good people of New Orleans to look after their own house.
Bill Whittle over at Eject! Eject! Eject! has crafted a statement that, at some points, damn near Read More
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Last weekend, the city of New Orleans was hammered by what will almost certainly be remembered as the worst natural disaster in American history. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin currently predicts a final death toll above 10 thousand, which certainly places Read More
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