July 02, 2004
Get your Culture on
A really cool site via k10k.
Get Lost. Another Yahoo Pick site.
Here's the link to the JPL site for the latest Saturn pictures. Awesome.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a major exhibition of Spanish paintings, called casta, and NPR has a great gallery here.
Slate covers the great big book of architecture porn. Architecture porn?
A log cabin in Park Slope, Brooklyn? Yep, only $1300/mo for 900 square feet.
From Letterman's "Top Ten Things Overheard At Saddam Hussein's Court Appearance": That's cute - - out of habit, Courtney Love showed up.
July 01, 2004
All Politics
Ex-GOP Consultant Pleads Guilty to Phone-Jamming. The purpose? To keep voters from calling Dem headquarters for rides to the polls. Sleazy.
Quitter Jack Ryan's campaign will refund donors. He's raised $1.5M since the primary, but he has to pay bills and staff first.
TX House Dems want to impeach Gov. Perry on corruption charges. Something about pesky lottery funds going to private firms. Feh.
Mass. lawmakers, fighting back like Republicans, don't want Republican guv Mitt Romney to appoint a successor to Kerry if he wins the WH in November. Kerry's term as senator ends in 2008. "Heaven forbid the governor gets to make an appointment" said Republican rep George Peterson. Damn straight.
CT gets a new governor after the last one (a Republican) quit amid corruption allegations and impending impeachment.
The Reverend Sun Myung Moon's "Washington Times" says Commerce secretary Don Evans urged to run for TX governor. Urged by whom? "Unnamed GOP source" says the paper. My magic 8-ball says "No". Don't these people have any political instincts? Ask me first! I'd be more than happy to tell you how the political winds are blowing.
Add-ons
John Kerry is being sued for heresy! Because of his "pro-abortion" stance, apparently, he's doing harm to other Catholics. It will never end, I tell ya.
According to ABC's The Note, Matt Drudge! Matt Drudge! has only a 37.8% accuracy rate.
Howard Stern says he'll "work like a dog" to urge his listeners to vote for Kerry.
No link, but Pete Sessions will air the first commercials in his race against Martin Frost, according to "The Dallas Morning News". The ads start this week on a few cable stations, no broadcast outlets. Frost calls the ads "empty".
Discuss, Don't
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
-Gloria Steinem
Topics off the Discussion Table Today
The "trial of the century". That's all you'll hear about today.
Hillary for VP. It's just wishful thinking on Drudge's part.
The fact that even more reservists will have to be called back to active duty. You knew that already.
Ann Coulter says the Democrats want Saddam back. WTF??
How frightened the Republicans really are about the election.
How come we're not sending troops to Sudan? Oh right, there aren't any left to spread around (see above).
Topics of Real Importance
Good for Los Lonely Boys. Their single "Heaven" is in the iTunes top 25. They recorded their CD at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio near Austin and Willie plays guitar on many of the tracks.
Sony gives Apple some real iPod competition.
Cassini enters into Saturn Orbit. Watch for cool pics coming soon.
Finally, the Las Vegas Monorail is opening to the public on July 15th. How long did that take?
Email snooping is legal according to a court in Mass. Of course, email is not private in any way, shape or form, so no surprise there.
"Keep Your Jesus off My Penis: The Video" has been released. Get your copy now.
Florida student finds drunken burglar wearing her clothes. Channel 6 is there with pics and video!
Remote control included! Weapons of mass destruction sold separately. Get your GW Lying Action Figure.
The 26 Things list is out today.
June 30, 2004
Wednesday Leftovers
If you read the RSS 2.0 feed of this site, I made some changes to the template to include the entire entry with comments and trackbacks. I don't know if I'll keep it this way, but I think it looks better.
A blanket "You're welcome" to all the thank-yous I received for doling out Gmail invites. I still have several on the list to get to, but as soon as I get them, I'll pass them along.
Hump Day Madness
Well, surprise, surprise! Your Supremeness Clarence Thomas agreed with the majority to bar enforcement of the Internet porn law. Long Dong Silver lovers can now rest easier. Of course, the fine folks at the Family Research Council are "disappointed that Justice Clarence Thomas was on the wrong side of this decision."
Nah, our military isn't stretched too thin! When they have to call up over 5,000 from the Ready Reserve, things aren't looking that great. Slate's "Explainer", um, explains it all for us. Kerry calls it a "backdoor draft", which, of course, it is.
Tax cut? Spending cut? Republicans get all bipolar over the state of the government.
Your headline from The Dallas Morning News website: "What Causes High Water?" Gee, I don't know...too much rain, maybe? By the way, if I hear the media compare the Six Flags closure from flooding to "a white-water raft ride" one more time...
Quote, Unquote
From the Chronicle's interview with Kiki and Herb (on what to do at their show): "The audience should just take drugs. When we started in San Francisco, the first year and a half we did the show we took mushrooms every week in the cab ride on the way to the restaurant. But, like bestiality, I'm not encouraging or discouraging it."
David Sedaris via Gawker on an audience members' question as to why there are so many funny gay people: "Just so everyone heard that question, she asked me, 'is there a relationship between me putting a penis in my mouth and being witty at a dinner party?' "
June 29, 2004
One Big Post to Cover it All
We are all special cases.
- Albert Camus
The Supremes tell Bush "Not so fast, asshole." Or something like that. I guess there is a light at the end of the tunnel that's not an oncoming train, huh?
Oh yeah, it's going to be a grand old party all right. Next thing you know, they'll be acting like Methodists! Speaking of the convention, resistance is not futile!
Abortions? Have one! It's good for the GOP. boingboing with link to WSJ.
Kerry refused to cross the police picket line to speak at the US Conference of Mayors, and the police now say they won't picket the Dems' convention as a thank you. Thank you.
Texas Tuesdays profiles Jake Gilbreath.
via Catch: Tourists in Thailand greeted with "international"-sized condom. And, the international size is larger than the local one.
I'll take the 30", please. PLEASE!!!
Speaking of Apple, here's a cool demo of their RSS reader for the Tiger version of Safari (Apple's Web browser).
Hangover? Try a prickly pear. Also good for dry mouth and nausea.
June 28, 2004
Monday Lite Stuff
BBspot thinks the new reality shows "While You Were Frozen" and "Surprise Surgery" may have gone too far.
Goats Comic Strip is offering up a "Jesus Loves Dick" t-shirt $18 + $4/shipping.
Here's a neat little collaborative photoblog for "DIY posters, guerilla stickers, home-made stencils, etc." Sign up and upload away.
Ahhhh...Hawaii.
Thoughts on gmail: It's just email, stipped down and simple. Keyboard shortcuts are cool (o for open, c to compose), archiving is good if you want to keep stuff but get it out of your in-box. I love the interface, it uses java-scripting to update, and, knock on wood...no spam so far. By the way, to all the people I've promised invites to, I haven't received any lately. They seem to have slowed down on the invites, but when I get some, I'll let you know.
I like the concept of collecting a bunch of links on the net and aggregating them into one page which you can then email to friends, etc. Amplify is supposed to do just that. Not supported on Mac or Linux yet.
