Credit where credit is due. The second cartoon is from XKCD, by Randall Munroe. Mr. Munroe is a geek’s geek, and a very fine cartoonist. I don’t know who drew the first cartoon. If you do, post a comment and I’ll update the attribution.
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by pwyll
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Roger Simon, at Politico.com:
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.
This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by pwyll
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Ann Althouse made a very useful observation:
I keep reading about how hybrid cars and compact fluorescent lightbulbs can reduce the production of greenhouse gases, but I have yet to see an article about the savings that could be achieved if we were to stop delivery of newspapers and magazines and do all of our news [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: eco-catastrophe, humor | 3 Comments »
I imagine this will be a boon to men named Pelosi.
(AP) - SACRAMENTO-When couples marry in California, the bride simply signs a marriage certificate to take her husband’s surname. The other way around? Not so easy.
Under legislation approved Monday, men would be granted the same rights to change their surnames as women. It would [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: humor, law | 4 Comments »
I ran across an interesting piece of Haskell code in a post on teideal glic deisbhéalach.
sum (map ord “al gore”)
Bryan O’Sullivan, the author of teideal glic deisbhéalach, attributes the code to diffbavis on #haskell. Mr O’Sullivan does not explain the code; his audience already reads Haskell. But I want to present this program [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: humor | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 30th, 2007 by pwyll
Filed under: humor | 1 Comment »
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