The first time around I missed the importance of Google News, though I figured it had to be doing something right given how Dave Winer was trumpeting RSS news feeds as superior. The other day, though, someone explained exactly why I should be using Google News and after a few days of playing around with…
November, 2002
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Steve Ivy provides a link to this excellent Lego USS Enterprise — the Star Trek: Voyager version. (If only the show had been half as much fun as this guy had building a Lego model).
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Over the past few weeks it seemed like Roger Ailes memo to George W. Bush was getting as much attention on CNN as the DC sniper’s tarot card did. As far as I’m concerned, all broadcast news is nothing but entertainment and should be treated as such, but CNN set out a clear standard of…
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Via Scripting.Com comes word that Creative Commons will unleash its machine readable licenses on December 16. Excellent.
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You just can’t make this stuff up. Thanks to PostWatch for a pointer to this Washington Post story about UN weapons inspections that features this bizarre lede, The United Nations launched perhaps its most important weapons inspections ever yesterday with a team that includes a 53-year-old Virginia man with no specialized scientific degree and a…
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I just can’t think of any better comment on the state of American universities than this headline from the New Jersey Star Ledger about Harvard Law School’s proposed new speech code, Harvard rethinking free speech American universities — where criticizing supporters of terrorism is the New McCarthyism, but protecting students from ever having to hear…
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For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell Eugene Volokh is talking about in this post, which is a roundabout defense of Mary Daly’s position about men that I’ve outlined here. Volokh writes, If one is drawing analogies, while draw the analogy between sex and race, and not, say, sex and…
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As many as 500+ people are dead in Nigeria after Muslim extremists began rioting over what seems like a rather inocuous comment in a story by a Nigerian journalist — that if Mohamed were alive today, he would probably take one of the contestants as a wife rather than protest it being held. There are…
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Via Boing! Boing! is the amusing tale of a library that found its own web site blocked by the very net filtering software it was using to filter out “inappropriate” sites. The library is Piqua, Ohio’s Flesh Public Library, named for local businessman Leo Flesh who 70 years ago donated money for the library to…
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The folks at Slashdot are having a field day over Anti-Leech.Org. Anti-Leech.Org is marketing software that blocks people who use pop-up blocking software from accessing a web page. So when I visit the page above, I get a message that since I am using a browser which blocks pop-up ads (Mozilla), that I cannot view…