My favorite blog ever was Steven Den Beste’s now retired USS Clueless, which I started reading in early 2002. One of the other blogs I remember from back in the day was Eject! Eject! Eject!. I ran across it today after a long absence, and was pleased to see Bill Whittle still in fine [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2006 by pwyll
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Or maybe it’s the same old face. Credit for the picture goes to Zombietime, who covered the World Naked Bike Ride 2006 in San Francisco. There are many more such pictures available, should you have the stomach for it.
Mark Steyn covered this event; he makes a prediction:
Those naked bicyclists are emblematic. The flesh is willing [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2006 by pwyll
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The Essential Albums: Derek and the Dominoes: The Layla Sessions (1990 box set, originally recorded August to October 1970)In the early 1990s the editors of Rolling Stone magazine chose the Top 50 albums of the last 40 years. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs was in the top five, the editors calling it “music [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2006 by Paco Malo
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One of the often ignored features of OS X Tiger is a powerful search utility call Spotlight. I know I don’t use it much, mostly because I use my Mac for things that don’t require much searching: net surfing, email, blogging, and command line work on remote linux systems. As a result, I have never [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2006 by pwyll
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I am going to quote (piecewise) a complete post from a very fine blog called Mind Hacks. I disagree with the article, and so do not want to abridge it.
Suicide itself now an act of war:
A motivation not yet mentioned in the extensive scientific literature on suicide was offered by the US Government [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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Via Pete Puma’s Lair, hat tip to American Future
Hitler’s Death Seen as Insignificant to German War Effort
BBC “News”Berlin, Germany. April 31, 1945
Militant leader Adolf Hitler has been killed, Prime Minister Churchill has announced.“Hitler has been eliminated,” Mr Churchill said at a news conference in Paris, sparking sustained applause by non media personnel.
Hitler was considered the [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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