Just when it looked like Kerry had finally settled on a position on the war in Iraq — that Saddam Hussein hadn’t attacked us on 9/11 and wasn’t a threat — all of a sudden, Kerry’s back to saying that Iraq was a threat and he might have gone to war against Iraq. From an…
October, 2004
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This is one of my personal pet peeves and something that should never happen in 2004. I’m visiting a site and most of the files are clearly hosted on a second, specialized web hosting company — in this case the web hosting companie specializes in hosting multimedia files and markets itself as such. So I…
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There used to be a regular schedule in my house that my wife absolutely hated — 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. was reserved for watching The Screensavers on TechTV. This used to be a great show, but nobody actually watched the channel so gaming cable channel G4 bought it out and merged the two networks.…
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If you’d asked me a few months ago, I’d have said that Bush’s chances of winning Michigan were about the same as the Detroit Lion’s winning three straight road games this season. Ooops. National Review notes that Kerry is going to be campaigning here on Sunday or Monday. National Review quotes a Bush campaign volunteer…
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My wife IMed me a link to this NASA page about tonight’s total lunar eclipse. NASA notes that, According to folklore, October’s full moon is called the “Hunter’s Moon” or sometimes the “Blood Moon.” It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead.…
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As regular readers know I’m obssessed with hard drives — show me a new hard drive announcement and I start salivating like a Pavlovian dog — but even I don’t understand what Seagate is thinking with its 5gb Pocket Hard Drive. It’s not that I don’t like the device. It’s got a 5 gb hard…
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Robert Harris is apparently lowering himself to agree with an analysis that John Kerry plagiarized portions of his 1997 book, The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America’s National Security. The basic charge is that some sentences in Kerry’s book bear a marked resemblance to sentences that appeared in news reports about the…
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Okay, my first reaction after seeing the iPod Photo is that, other than my children, that’s the most beautiful looking thing I’ve ever seen in my life. This is simply an awesome gadget. But my second reaction was, what’s the point? It’s got a small color screen for showing photos — that’s neat, but I…
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These folks built a Lego Mindstorms robot that plays the first level of Super Mario Bros. Excellent.
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Clifton Snider is an instructor at California State University, Long Beach who got smacked down last week by Mike Adams (who is my favorite op-ed columnist, bar none). Snider decided he wanted to get further embarassed and Adams obliged him. The fascinating thing is that Snider is the sort of ultra-left wing politically correct instructor…