October 31, 2004

Record Player

I stumbled across a link for this cool church: The First United Church of the Fisher Price® Record Player. Upon seeing the picture at the top of the page, a flood of memories hit me. I had one of those record players as a child and remember it fondly. From a very early age, I loved the record player and spent hours playing records. (The 'very' part is according to my mother.)

I can even recall some of my favorite records from ages three and four - not so much by name, but by the record covers and the color / size of the vinyl. I remember playing (and scratching) a certain half-transparent red one so much that I wore it out. I remember a Chipmunks album with a gold cover and a Disney Electric Light Parade picture disc... I thought that one was so cool. (Download an MP3 for a sample of the very 'futuristic' electronic sounds and music I so enjoyed on that record.)

Later, I played everything from children's records to stuff my mom had and - disturbingly - stuff my sister had. I remember a 7" single of a Bangles song... I figured if it had something to do with tigers, it must be cool. (Around this same time, I had a "rad" Trapper Keeper with a Bengal tiger on it.) I listened to records ranging from classical and choral (we had lots of Mormon Tabernacle Choir stuff from my grandpa) to pop. Occasionally I picked out classical for myself (Beethoven was my favorite), but it was almost always pop. I loved the Beatles albums my mother had saved from her teenage years. I liked the Second Album - given to my mom by a boyfriend - and also liked Sgt. Pepper's (mostly because of the cover, I suspect) and Revolver (mostly because of Yellow Submarine). I also got warped by a fair share of bad 70s pop, too. I think she had something by The Carpenters (I assumed they were woodworkers and musicians). I also remember she had a copy of Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman", a fine piece of 70s nostalgia. (The idea of my mom ever listening to that song or buying the album is quite odd.)

So, anyway. Yes, the fine Fisher Price® Record Player. Sadly, I think it might have finally succumbed to the abuse my siblings gave it from '78 - '83 and the abuse I gave it thereafter, because I remember having a different blue & white player later.

I also remember my first cassette player & recorder... a little brown thing that might also have been Fisher Price for all I know. (Recording was cool, but even at age five I hated the way I sounded.) I also remember my first CD player and the first CD I bought (too embarrassing to reveal).

These days I've graduated to an iPod, but all things considered, I haven't really changed since being a nerdy three year old listening to vinyl using my Fisher Price® Record Player.

31 Oct 12:00 | Link | Category: Music, Opinion & Thoughts

This is America... right?

Read about people reciting a "Bush Pledge" and then read the commentary at billmon.org. If that doesn't upset you sufficiently, continue...

Read about the scene outside a Bush-Arnold rally in Ohio and once again read the commentary at billmon.org.

Loyalty oaths, group pledges during rallies, public mob denunciation of Democrats as "communists"... sometimes it's hard to believe I'm living in the United States of America in the year 2004. Maybe I'm just momentarily trapped in a dream I can later turn into a cautionary sci-fi novel.

31 Oct 1:12 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts, Politics

October 30, 2004

Pondering the recent discovery of Homo floresiensis

Hopefully you've read at least a bit about the recent momentous scientific news: the discovery in Indonesia of the remains of what may be a tiny and hitherto unknown species in the genus Homo that lived perhaps as recently as 13,000 years ago. The discovery has been heralded as the most important paleoanthropological find in 50 years, and could radically alter the accepted picture of human evolution.

In an article for BBC News, Desmond Morris (one of my old favorites among pop-sci writers) explores some of the questions the discovery raises:

The truth, if we are honest, is that there still remains a huge gap in our knowledge of what happened between the time of our remote ancestors and our more recent ones.

What occurred in that "great gap", several million years ago, is anybody's guess - and guesses there have been aplenty.

But the new discovery of a tiny, 3ft tall, flat-faced, bipedal "ape-man" on the Indonesian island of Flores is rather different.

Here, the skeletal remains are not only much more detailed, but they are found in caves along with delicate stone tools and evidence of fire-making and the hunting of large game.

What is more, these hunters existed as recently as 12,000 years ago and, who knows, living groups of them may still be lingering on in odd corners even today.

This is shattering news and will create fascinating problems for both political and religious leaders.

See also:

(Previous three links via BoingBoing)

30 Oct 0:34 | Link | Category: Human/Primate Evolution & Behavior, Science

Farewell, Kilgore Trout

Somebody linked to Requiem for a Dreamer, a piece written by Kurt Vonnegut. I enjoyed it, so I did a quick scan through the archives of In These Times, and I found more articles by Vonnegut that I thought were worth sharing:

30 Oct 0:05 | Link | Category: Art & Entertainment

October 29, 2004

Lynne Cheney's steamy romance novel

Some of the better excerpts from Lynne Cheney's book Sisters can be read at whitehouse.org. Enjoy.

For those of you unfamiliar with Sisters, it's a racy historical novel written by Lynne Cheney in 1981. It includes "vivid tales of whorehouses, attempted rapes, a suspicious murder and several lesbian love affairs." (It makes Lynne's angry denunciation of Kerry's remark about Mary Cheney in the third presidential debate all the more humorous, and further exposes it as the phony political move it was.)

Considering the embarrassing details in the past (and present) of so many in the Bush gang, it's amazing they can still pull off their image of righteous protectors of 'American values' and 'Christian morality' so well. Behind that image is a group of people who will do anything for power -- some will even abandon and bury their old "radical, pro-feminist agenda." (The titles of two books written by Dick and Lynne Cheney are perhaps revealing: "Kings of the Hill: How 9 Powerful Men Changed the Course of American History" and "Kings of the Hill: Power and Personality in the House of Representatives".)

It also begs a question. How do these people avoid Clintonesque scrutiny and witch-hunting? You know if Hillary had written a book like Sisters she would have been burned at the stake. (Think of all the crap she took for "It Takes a Village" - and it didn't even have any girl-on-girl sex scenes!)

29 Oct 0:06 | Link | Category: Humor, Politics

October 28, 2004

A few interesting Bush-related links

28 Oct 0:13 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts, Politics

October 27, 2004

Bob Jones & Fitch

The time is fast approaching when I have to decide whether or not to attend school next semester. I even have an appointment with someone to talk about it. (Aren't you proud?) But the other day I noticed something that has me considering a transfer. It was a link (from Cynical-C) to a list of student expectations at Bob Jones University. The restrictions include:

  • For the sake of accountability, students must "check out" when they leave the campus. Students gradually acquire more freedom in this area as they become upperclassmen.
  • Students are required to be in their own rooms and quiet at 11 pm. All lights must be out by midnight.
  • Students are required to keep their rooms clean and neat. Rooms are inspected daily.
  • Posters of movie and music stars and fashion models are not permitted. The subjects of personal photos should exhibit the modesty and appropriate physical contact we expect from our students.
  • Music must be compatible with the University's music standards: New Age, jazz, rock, and country music is not permitted. Contemporary Christian music is not permitted (e.g., Michael W. Smith, Stephen Curtis Chapman, WOW Worship, and so forth).
  • Televisions and DVD/videocassette players are not permitted in the residence halls; computer DVD players may not be used to view movies.
  • You may not possess or play computer and video games rated T, M, or A or having elements of blood and gore, sensual or demonic themes, or featuring suggestive dress, bad language, or rock music.
  • Residence hall students may not watch videos above a G rating when visiting homes in town and may not attend movie theaters.

(You can also peruse the dress code. Poke around the rest of the site, too. It's quite, uh, fascinating.)

(I mentioned the site yesterday in an online conversation with a friend. She pointed out that hip-hop / rap, blues, techno, and lots of other music isn't explicity disallowed. So there you go!)

So, I'm thinking... maybe I should try for a transfer to BJU. Just to see if I could get myself in. Maybe do some sort of undercover documentary (or at the very least just try to corrupt a few people). Update: As I expected, other people have had the same idea. You can read an account on salon.com of one guy who "had a few days off" and decided to check out the campus as a prospective student in an interracial relationship.

I do agree with them on one thing: that Abercrombie & Fitch sucks. (See the dress code page.) BJU says the company is evil. I say it's just lame. Everything from the way they ensure all their employees are attractive to the way they use nude, tanned Aryans in mostly homoerotic poses to make pubescent high-school suburbanites instinctively yearn for over-priced pseudo-fashionable sweatshop mass merchandise. (That having been said, if buying their dorky clothes could really magically transport me into the catalog's blissful, carefree, orgiastic world of bare-breasted young women, I might reconsider my objections.)

27 Oct 12:00 | Link | Category: Humor, Music, Opinion & Thoughts, Site/Life News

Double Lives Gallery

Check out the Double Lives Gallery for a very entertaining collection of celebrities who look like famous works of art.

(via J-Walk)

27 Oct 1:02 | Link | Category: Art & Entertainment

October 26, 2004

The Young Karl Rove

Among the latest clippings from my grandma was a very interesting recollection of the young Karl Rove. (He went to high school and college in my city.)

For Karl, winning is the only goal and the tactics used have no ethical, moral, factual or even legal restraint.
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I can't say that in 1968 I saw all the seeds of what Karl Rove would become. I am surprised more people haven't been willing to stand in his way. But a person that relentless, that single-minded, that focused loses peripheral vision, and that's where someone more introspective might see the collateral damage of their obsession.
If Karl the Terminator would pause long enough to turn his head a little to either side he would notice that in the movie of real life the victims scattered all over the highway are not just the Democrats but democracy itself. An electorate distracted by dirty tricks is less able to vote to protect the public interest, which is the whole purpose of democracy. A distracted, deceived and fearful electorate is the precursor of fascism.
Far better than any of his old friends, Karl truly has achieved his dream job. Unfortunately for the rest of us it's become our nightmare.

26 Oct 20:07 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts, Politics

The White House Wasn't Always God's House

In a piece for the LA Times, historian (and top Kennedy aide) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. explains that George W. Bush's presidency is the first faith-based administration in U.S history. "The founding fathers did not mention God in the Constitution, and the faithful often regarded our early presidents as insufficiently pious." Moreover, previous presidents of ardent faith did not apply "religious tests to secular issues" or "exploit their religion for their political benefit." But "these are the standards that Bush has systematically violated."

But, as author Bob Woodward said in "Bush at War": "The president was casting his mission and that of the country in the grand vision of God's master plan." There is a messianic certitude about our president's pronouncements.

A fanatic, as Finley Peter Dunne's fictitious Mr. Dooley said, does what he thinks the Lord would do if he only knew the facts in the case. The most dangerous people in the world today are those who persuade themselves that they are executing the will of the Almighty.

Lincoln summed it all up in his second inaugural address. Both warring halves of the nation, he said, had read the same Bible and prayed to the same God. Each invoked God's aid against the other.

As Lincoln said, " ...let us judge not, that we be not judged... The Almighty has his own purposes."

26 Oct 19:45 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts, Politics

"Give us back the America we loved"

In short letters in The Guardian, John Le Carré, Antonia Fraser, and Richard Dawkins beseech Americans not to vote for George W. Bush. Dawkins says:

Don't be so ashamed of your president: the majority of you didn't vote for him. If Bush is finally elected properly, that will be the time for Americans travelling abroad to simulate a Canadian accent. Please don't let it come to that. Vote against Bin Laden's dream candidate. Vote to send Bush packing.
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Decent Americans - there are absolutely more intelligent, educated, civilised, cultivated, compassionate people in America than in any other country in the western world - please show your electoral muscle this time around. We in the rest of the world, who sadly cannot vote in the one election that really affects our future, are depending on you. Please don't let us down.

26 Oct 19:40 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts, Politics

Which File Extension Are You?

This is only for major geeks: Which File Extension Are You? I only link to it because I liked my very accurate result:

You are .*
You are a wildcard. You are everything to everybody. You can't make up your mind as to what you want to be.

26 Oct 19:08 | Link | Category: Interactive

October 15, 2004

Today's Photography Links

15 Oct 20:57 | Link | Category: Photography

Presidential vacation time

My mom noticed this in her local newspaper:

Average vacation days of the past five presidents:

1. George W. Bush - 98 days a year
2. Bill Clinton - 19 days a year
3. Jimmy Carter - 19 days a year
4. Ronald Reagan - 41 days a year
5. George H.W. Bush - 135 days a year

15 Oct 19:25 | Link | Category: Misc. Tidbits

October 14, 2004

Carl Lewis

I can't say it any better than riotnnrd of memepool.com:

"Carl Lewis may be able to run much, much, much faster than you but, unlike him, you still have your dignity (QuickTime)."

14 Oct 0:11 | Link | Category: Humor, Video

Americans and Nobel Prizes

In an interesting article for BBC News entitled Monty Python and the spirit of inquiry (read the article to find out why he mentions Monty Python), Stephen Evans considers the fact that when it comes to scientific inquiry, Americans dominate the Nobel Prizes. He doesn't belive it's simply because Americans have the money to spend on research. "A culture of research and inquiry is also necessary."

Nobody quite knows how culture and economic development interact but it's clear that they do. Theocracies, for example, don't tend to foster technological breakthrough. If the only questions deemed relevant are those pertaining to a god, then other questions don't get asked.

There are other innovative countries, fast catching up. Britain is a leader in stem-cell research; South Korean scientists have made the big breakthroughs in cloning; Asian laboratories are making strides. But America is strides ahead - and that's good for all of us.

I hope the current cultural climate in the US (political and otherwise) doesn't cool that "culture of research and inquiry." (The debate over stem cell research is an example.)

14 Oct 0:05 | Link | Category: Science

October 13, 2004

Sudan

It's strange and sad that in all the recent foreign policy debate, there has been only the briefest mention of the genocide in Sudan. Nicholas D. Kristof writes about it in his latest column and concludes:

It's progress that the world has denounced the genocide without waiting the customary 10 years before wringing its hands in regret. But there are many other steps the United States could take: a no-flight zone, an arms embargo, an asset freeze on businesses owned by Sudan's ruling party, and greater teamwork with African and Islamic countries to exert more pressure on Sudan.

President Bush is already in the forefront of the world leaders who have addressed the slaughter in Darfur, and he has done far more than President Clinton did during the Rwandan genocide. But there is so much more the United States can still do.

Mr. President, you pride yourself on your willingness to stand up to evil - so why do you remain so passive in the face of such evil?

13 Oct 23:52 | Link | Category: Current Events

Current Playlist

This month's installment...

Pixies - Hey >>
Yet another utterly perfect Pixies song. One more reminder I was born ten or fifteen years late.
Yo La Tengo - 3 Blocks From Groove St. >>
It isn't terribly remarkable, but it's a great jangly tune that takes me back. (Nice lyrics too.)
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - Threw It Away >>
A beautiful cover of a song by Angel Corpus Christi.
Belle and Sebastian - Dog On Wheels >>
Odd and very catchy. I like the horns. At the moment, it reminds me of small desert towns in chilled lonely morning rain.
Tahiti 80 - Mr. Davies >>
One of Tahiti 80's best songs, this is an amazingly catchy ode to Ray Davies of The Kinks.
Ween - Ocean Man >>
Ween rocks. 'Nuff said.
The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine >>
A fine old Motown classic.
The Beatles - Doctor Robert >>
I don't know why, but I've always liked this stupid song. It's been in my head lately.
Leonard Cohen - The Future >>
Only Cohen could pull this off... toe-tapping rhythm, keyboards, bluesy guitar riffs here and there, background singers, and wittily apocalyptic lyrics. Yes, somehow that combination works perfectly.
Bob Dylan - Up To Me >>
This is a song that didn't make it onto "Blood On The Tracks" but was later released on "Biograph". I suppose it's a bit long and rambling, but that's alright because the lyrics are so impressive. It has a "Blood On The Tracks" sound - a lot like "Shelter From The Storm" or "Simple Twist of Fate".
Bob Dylan - Man In The Long Black Coat >>
A haunting masterpiece. Lyrics here. Listen to Dylan's recollection of recording the song (Windows Media stream), from his autobiography (read by Sean Penn).
PJ Harvey - You Said Something >>
During the last few weeks I kept listening to three songs from the same PJ Harvey album... I'm not sure of the reason. This fine song is one of them. (When I first got the album a few years ago, I disliked it - but it slowly grew on me over months and years and now it's one of my favorites... odd.)
David Byrne - The Man Who Loved Beer >>
A flowing, mournful cover of a Lambchop song. Flawless. (Lyrics)
R.E.M. - The Ascent Of Man >>
The best song from R.E.M.'s latest album. Stipe's vocals are superb, and his lyrics are vivid. The music is mellow yet expansive. It's reminiscent of... maybe "Strange Currencies" or "Be Mine".
R.E.M. - The Outsiders >>
The second best song. Evocative lyrics, moody music. (R.E.M.'s recent penchant for adding elements of electronica to their songs even works really well here.) Q-Tip's cameo will probably meet with mixed reviews - but I think it's one of the best parts of the song.

13 Oct 13:45 | Link | Category: Music

October 12, 2004

Dispatches from a Public Librarian

Hopefully those of you who haven't worked for a public library will find this as humorous and interesting as I did: Dispatches from a Public Librarian.

It includes lists of lost & found items for the day, odd stories about patrons, notes about books, items found in the bookdrop, etc.

(The only gift I ever had the luck to receive in the bookdrop was a meal from McDonald's. The fries had flown everywhere making many of the books greasy and smelly. But apparently this was pretty mild - in years past employees found, among other things, a dead cat and what one of the librarians gingerly referred to as "fecal matter".)

12 Oct 14:32 | Link | Category: Libraries & Digital Information, Misc. Tidbits

October 11, 2004

How to fake knowing everything about popular music

Music critic (and NASA scientist?) Dr. David Thorpe of Your Band Sucks has written some brilliant advice on how "to impress people with your boundless wit in the field of music" - "all you have to do is convincingly fake it."

First of all, you have to break through the more-indie-than thou barrier: sometimes, people are going to bring up a band that you know nothing about, and you have to be able to beat them at their own game. Secondly, you're going to have to create an air of pretentious snobbery in order to assert the superiority of your taste (and who would know more about that than me?). Finally, you must fake a sick obsession with some sort of musical cult figure.

Please read this one, especially if you're a former / current / future pretentious twit.

11 Oct 20:11 | Link | Category: Music

Five more

  • There were several interesting moments in last Friday's debate. One was Bush saying he wouldn't appoint anyone to the Supreme Court who would support the Dred Scott decision. (Phew!) Another was Kerry staring into the camera and promising not to raise taxes. (He only missed the "read my lips" line.) Perhaps the strangest moment was when Bush was asked to list three mistakes he had made during his term, Bush couldn't seem to think of any. E.J. Dionne Jr. writes about it in The Washington Post. For more debate-related fun, look over the transcripts and ask yourself who makes more sense.
  • See how you fare on the Most Important Election Ever - Spot The Difference Quiz Game, a very tricky little political quiz that does a great job at pointing at that while this is supposedly "the most important election" in years, the statements of both candidates are remarkably similar. (I got 85%, but I'm a freak.)
  • My sister called me today and mentioned something she read in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday: "Where did the middle go?" I read it and thought I'd "pass it on" - do read all of it.
  • Another interesting read is Kerry's Undeclared War from yesterday's New York Times. (It's the source of some supposedly controversial remarks on terrorism, but it was an interesting article even before the attack dogs siezed it..)
  • And, finally, Sinclair Broadcast Group freaks me out again.

11 Oct 19:45 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts

October 8, 2004

Exhuming McCarthy

John pointed me to this ominous item:

After the FBI was alerted about handwriting in the margins of a library book about Osama bin Laden, they confiscated the book from its small rural library and demanded to know the names and addresses of everyone who ever checked out the book. Since the FBI didn't invoke the Patriot Act, the library was able to fight back. They don't give out circulation information without a court order. When the FBI got a grand jury subpoena (how??) the library filed a motion to quash it. The FBI withdrew the subpoena but reserved the right to file it again.

If the feds had demanded the records under the Patriot Act, the library would have had to hand them over without question and without help from the courts.

I used to joke with one of my co-workers at the library about John Ashcroft coming in someday to peruse all our records for depraved evildoers. (Or when people would check out something controversial like Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, or The Communist Manifesto, we'd always say "oh, yeah, that guy's definitely gonna get a Justice Department investigation now.")

Somehow those jokes don't seem funny or ironic now... just sad and frightening.

08 Oct 0:17 | Link | Category: Current Events

October 7, 2004

Two funny video clips

A couple of funny video clips for you today. These link directly to Windows Media files, so if your browser doesn't open them, just copy the URL into Windows Media Player (or whatever software you use for ASX files).

07 Oct 23:42 | Link | Category: Humor, Video

October 6, 2004

More politics...

A couple of interesting reads:

  • Bush Like Me, in which Matt Taibbi spends ten weeks undercover in the grassroots of the Republican Party.
  • The God Squad, Andrew O'Hagan's thoughtful - and scathing - report from the RNC.

06 Oct 22:21 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts, Politics

More fatuous e-mail propaganda

Somehow I ended up on the e-mail list of one of my neighbors. Along with familiy e-mail dispatches and internet jokes, I also get lots of pass-it-along propaganda from him. I usually don't read it. When I do, I just blow it off. But the other day I got one that was such an obvious, ridiculous lie that I almost felt compelled to respond.

It's the inexplicably prolific one that starts off listing about twenty Biblical events or characters from Iraq (Babylon/Mesopotamia/Assyria) and saying that "No other nation, except Israel, has more history and prophecy associated it than Iraq."

Then it says that if you read chapter 9, verse 11 (sooo clever) in the Quran it's about the wrath of the Eagle cleansing the lands of Allah. It doesn't take a genius to look at this and decide it's fake in about three seconds. (Unless, of course, you're so confused that you're willing to believe another supposedly false religion correctly prophesied not only your successful holy crusade but the righteousness of it.)

The big question is whether or not I should reply to this guy's e-mail to let him know that he's fallen for a very clumsy hoax. (I've asked myself the same thing several times before, but this one really got to me.) The thing is, it won't make any difference in his warped worldview, nor will it give him any critical thinking skills or decrease his likelihood for falling and propagating more brainless e-mails. So, really, there's no point in responding... I just have to sit here being depressed with (and highly annoyed by)... these people. (That one household outnumbers me 5:1 in the way they'll vote on November 2, so I guess it's no wonder our country pursues the silly policies it does.)

A Latin proverb says: Ubi dubium ibi libertas -- Where there is doubt, there is freedom.

06 Oct 22:02 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts

Windows 2000, 98, and Linux on the same PC?

I was messing around with my old PC last weekend and I wanted to get Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Linux coexisting on the same system.

Getting two of those systems to coexist (a version of Windows + Linux) is no problem at all. The trick was getting both versions of Windows to play together - along with Linux. It helped that my computer had two hard drives, but it was still problematic that Windows 9x likes to think it's the only OS on the computer - it thinks it needs to be on the primary drive and control the boot sector.

After trying some approaches that didn't work, I finally figured out how to get GRUB to trick Windows 98 into thinking it's on the primary drive even though it's not. So now all is well and I use GRUB to boot into all three operating systems.

It was the best cross-platform solution (hack?) I've employed since figuring out how to divide an external FireWire drive between FAT32 and HFS+ file systems (and how to access the relevant partitions from either Windows or OS X).

06 Oct 21:30 | Link | Category: Technology & Computing

The future and past cross paths

Of the original Mercury Seven, only three are left. Gordon Cooper passed away Monday.

So it was that we found ourselves saying goodbye to one of the faces of the first U.S. space program just as we watched an important next step in our ventures into space - private entrepeneurs beginning their ventures into space with the success of SpaceShipOne. (For those who don't think we're making progress in the technology or economics of spaceflight, consider this: The private team did for about $25 million what the world's most powerful governments decades ago spent billions to accomplish.)

Anyway... I just thought it was mentionable as one of those odd intersections of events.

06 Oct 1:03 | Link | Category: Science

Kerry's debate prep

Very funny: Kerry's debate prep (RealAudio), from Le Show from Harry Shearer (from Cynical-C).

Did that make sense?

06 Oct 0:45 | Link | Category: Humor, Politics

October 3, 2004

More clippings from Grandma

My grandmother sent me more clippings from her newspaper, including this funny Pat Bagley cartoon about the recent Michael Moore controversy. (I suspect only Utahns will understand C T far R.)

But, hey, to the credit of the folks at UVSC, at least they didn't bow to pressure like George Mason University did.

03 Oct 22:01 | Link | Category: Opinion & Thoughts

Debate 1 Analysis

Just kidding... I'm tired of the endless "analysis" just like everyone else. Just a couple of good links:

03 Oct 20:44 | Link | Category: Politics

No more PhotoStamps

Remember PhotoStamps? I mentioned the service back in September, noting how folks at The Smoking Gun were able to get some questionable stamps printed. Well, the USPS has rejected the request for an extension of the program. So if you were hoping to get US stamps with Slobodan Milosevic on them, it looks like you're out of luck...

03 Oct 20:32 | Link | Category: Misc. Tidbits