Archive for June, 2006

New blog feature: Five-by-fives

June 22nd, 2006

So, my pal Viv pointed me to this thread on an Oz site that she’s part of. Forum folks making a contribution to charity for folks posting comments summarizing movie plots in five sentences of five words. So this gave me an idea. The basic idea is to rip off that idea wholesale. Once a [...]


More lunacy

June 21st, 2006

“Some branches are more equal than others,” asserts the executive branch in the EFF case about the domestic spying program. See, that whole “separation of powers” thing actually doesn’t separate powers, it’s all a sham. The court can’t rule against the executive when the executive doesn’t want it to. Can you imagine what the Republicans [...]


"That's how I’d run that country — just like Saddam ran it.” – Bill O’Reilly

June 21st, 2006

Yeah, he actually said that. Those sounds actually came out of his mouth. So, when do the war naysayers, those of us who said long before it started that it was never going to work, when do we get credit for being right? Everything folks who were against the war predicted has happened, pretty much. [...]


Flock is in open beta

June 15th, 2006

I tried the developer preview of Flock a while back, and liked it OK, but it was too early to really recommend heartily. But the public beta is out, and I can very much recommend this version. The importing works now, there are real bookmarks instead of a webpage you have to visit, and it’s [...]


DS Lite

June 15th, 2006

Man, is the DS Lite something special. It’s the iPod of handheld gaming devices (the iPod is nowhere near the iPod of handheld gaming devices). And I think that we have Sony to thank for Nintendo’s DS Lite. See, the DS came out before the PSP, and it was typical Nintendo crap: cheaply made, with [...]


For Pete's Sake

June 14th, 2006

The M’s had the bases loaded, no outs, top of the 9th in Oakland, down 2-0. Couldn’t score. Bleah.


More Republican shennanigans

June 8th, 2006

This stuff just makes me sick. Dems have done it, too, which is also sickening, but I don’t think they’ve ever done it to the extent that the Republicans have. And to see them get away with it again and again and again. And have themselves call themselves moral, and Christian. They’re evil. Punishments for [...]


URLotD

June 7th, 2006

I hate to link to something I found on BoingBoing, because hell, boingboing is now read by everyone on the planet (time was you could pass on bb tidbits and folks wondered how you managed to find such cool stuff), but I want to elect this guy President. Or at least make him our current [...]