Back on March 5th of 2008 and February 10th, I pointed out that we were still missing sunspots. In fact in the weeks since then we have seen a few small sunspots appear, some that were judged to be part of the new cycle, and some part of the old cycle. This was [...]
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Cracked, which I (rightfully) disdained in my youth as a poor imitation of Mad Magazine, has reinvented itself brilliantly in the Interwebz Age by publishing a steady (one might say relentless) stream of articles listing “the <adjective> <number> <items> <further qualification>”, such as these:
The 25 Least Inspiring Military Operation Names
5 Horrifying Food Additives You’ve Probably [...]
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j[UPDATED 05/02/08: Google has lifted the designation; more details here.]
Last Monday (4/21), I brought up the SiteMeter statistics page for this blog and noted in passing that the traffic seemed a bit light that morning. I chalked it up to the usual variations in site flow and didn’t think much of it.
But then I happened [...]
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I was startled a few days ago to see this blog show up in Google as being potentially harmful (e.g., “this site may harm your computer”). As it turns out, we’d been the victims of an exploit in WordPress (my fault for not having upgraded to WP 2.5 sooner).
As a result, we backed up the [...]
Sadly we now have photographic evidence what lies at the end of the rainbow…..
Yes, it’s a portal-pottie. You are invited to dig for the pot of gold within.
As I’ve written here previously, I had the honor many years ago of flying out and landing on the USS Nimitz, then spending 24 hours on her. Well, P. J. O’Rourke — one of my favorite living political commentators — recently had a similar trip. His account is both funnier and better written than mine:
Landing [...]
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I have written before about how our current primary cycle is netting us the weakest / least electable candidates possible. In fact I had advocated that we consider alternate forms of selecting candidates.
Now from the world of pro wrestling, this gem!
I have to marvel at how they got the ears to stay on, and [...]
It’s April 21st, and that means it’s the birthday of the one and only Bruce Webster!
Please join me in wishing him a wonderful an happy birthday.
C. S. Lewis on fascism and the singularity
I am a great fan of Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism, for its willingness to go back and actually look at the historical rise of fascism (and Fascism) in the 20th Century, in our own country (under Woodrow Wilson), in Italy (under Mussolini), in Germany (under Hitler), and in Russia (under Stalin). Indeed, I consider [...]
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