(Simul-post)
I’ve been looking for an excuse to rave about this film for a while, one of only two DVDs I own; now I’ve got it.
Every Wednesday, the floridacracker posts a new photo of Duane Allman. And every Wednesday a crew of Duane’s ultra-fans comments on both a fine new photo and also a broad [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Paco Malo
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The Duke Group of 88 is back in the news. They have issued an open letter to the Duke community stating that they stand by the We’re Listening ad. La Shawn Barber smacks them down so hard that I have little to add. But I must quote K C Johnson:
Intriguingly, the rump Group’s statement links [...]
Posted on January 17th, 2007 by pwyll
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Towards the end of December, I recommended Peter Gutmann’s article A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. Recently, Gutmann was interviewed by Steve Gibson on the Security Now podcast (episode 74, also available as a transcript). Gutmann and Gibson discuss in some detail the extreme redesign of the Windows operating system undertaken to [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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I ran across a link to an article called How to Hurt the RIAA. When I tried to read it, I got a page that stated the host account had been suspended. The page did not explain why. So I dug the article out of a Google cache. Here it is.
How to hurt the RIAA [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by pwyll
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Steven Warshawsky gets to the heart of the matter, via American Thinker:
Perhaps most outrageously, Nifong’s attorney explained that Nifong is seeking to remove himself from the case because “he feels, as a result of the accusations against him, that he would be a distraction and he wants to make sure the accuser receives a fair [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by pwyll
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The lyrics are by Mark Steyn, and should be sung to the tune of The Candy Man. Via Powerline.
THE SANDY PANTS
(from the film Slick Willie Wonka And The Shop-Lift Factory)
Hey, everybody! Gather round, the Sandy Pants is here! What kind of archival material do you want? Classified documents? Confidential minutes? Intelligence briefings? Cables? You’ve come [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: politics | 2 Comments »
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