Red Cross warned about abuse a year ago – The thing is, nothing in this administration surprises me any more. Tell me that Bush plans to launch nukes to blow up the Moon for the good of America, and I’ll just sigh and go back to my work.
Category Archives: Aside
Why can’t I get a gmail account? 🙁 Of course, even if I could, the 6 character minimum means no zeno at gmail. Oh well.
Was Freaks and Geeks too real for network television? – Another lamentation about the sorry state of television, another show for me to watch on DVD.
Post-9/11 Immigration Crackdown “Ineffective” – Justice didn’t find any terrorists, but they used tougher terrorism laws to lock hundreds of people up for months without cause, and occasionally find people who had broken minor immigration laws. This is not new, it’s just a little more official now.
Apple to unveil new laptops Monday – I, for one, figured this out when on my visit to UCLA I saw that they were selling my laptop at $300 off the educational price.
Crazy About Bluetooth – Ever since I got my new laptop with Bluetooth built in I’ve been looking for some place to use it. I with Nextel had a phone that supported Bluetooth. And GPS. Imagine the possibilities!
- How did I get here, Sarah?
- Space Lane – Scroll all the way down. Wow.
- R.I.P., Nick and Mary Yankovic
- Google values its own privacy. How does it value yours?
- First they came for Howard – but I didn’t speak up, because I don’t like dirty sex humor…
- Hello, Skynet: Google takes over the world
- RIAA Sues Amish Man for Illegal Whistling of Copyrighted Material – It’s funny. Laugh.
- Stop complaining about cancelled TV shows – A good point, but this is FOX we’re talking about. They seem to like to doom shows to fail after investing heavily in them by putting them in crappy timeslots, mispromoting them, and mixing up episode order, and then being all surprised when they under-perform.
Reason Mag’s customized cover – Your name and a satellite picture of your house appear on the copy of the magazine that you get in the mail.
A War President’s Job – The last paragraph is chilling.
The New Yorker searches for Osama – “I feel that if they had not gone to Iraq they would have found Osama by now. The best people were moved away from this operation. The best minds were moved to Iraq. It’s a great shame It’s the biggest military failure in the war on terrorism so far.”
- Rides Through Chernobyl – [P]eople lived, had homes, country houses, garages, motorcyles, cars, money, friends and relatives, people had their life, each in own niche and then in a matter of hours this world fall in pieces and everything goes to dogs and after few hours trip with some army vehicle one stands under some shower, washing away radiation and then step in a new life, naked with no home, no friends, no money, no past and with very doubtful future.
- Who is that with Jeremy?
- Bob Edwards yanked from Morning Edition – A shame…what does NPR have up it’s sleeve?
- Dick Clarke Is Telling the Truth
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Slate calls it the best movie in 10 years.
How to really take a bath – I’ve never liked the American idea of bath tubs…who wants to soak in dirty water?
Google Good News – The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined by a beautiful young person with a wonderful heart.
- Profile: Teresa Heinz Kerry – I like her better then the candidate.
- Dean Post-Mortem – Not the first, not the last. The dust still hasn’t cleared.
- The Tragedy of Colin Powell – How the Bush presidency destroyed him.
They saved TV, a lot. Sniff.