Somebody selling a collection of hats on E-Bay has an interesting sense of humor.
November, 2004
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The other day I mentioned a study which attempted to quanitify the effect that the war in Iraq had on Palestinian suicide bombers, given that Saddam Hussein had been soliciting such bombings with financial awards — money that was cut off after the United States invaded Iraq. The study was performed by Walter Schumm at…
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I was not very happy to open up the student newspaper last week and see another big story about Siraj Wahhaj without a single mention of his history of extremism. Oddly enough, I contacted a number of local media outlets about Wahhaj and none of them mentioned anything about his history (like I said, sometimes…
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This San Francisco Chronicle article describes one of the most bizarre examples of trademark stupidity I’ve read. The folks behind Monster Cables — those ridiculously overprice cables for everything from speakers to modem cords — apparently have a habit of suing pretty much anyone who brings out a product with the word “monster” in it.…
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The Associated Press reported earlier this week that Saddam Hussein was able to divert millions of dollars from the United Nations’ oil-for-food program in order to use that money to pay off the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Which, of course, is impossible since we know that Hussein never supported terrorism and was no imminent…
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I almost made a flier to put up on campus pointing out the information about Siraj Wahhaj that the student paper conveniently left out, but someone beat me to it, Excellent job. If the person who put this up happens to read this website, drop me a line at brian@carnell.com
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Now that David Stern has decided Ron Artest will have the rest of the season to promote his rap album, ESPN has fabulous coverage of the question that all true NBA fans are asking — how will the suspensions affect my fantasy league? I imagine people counting on Artest will be angry enough at the…
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I am an unabashed Google cheerleader. As far as I’m concerned, Google is one of the crowning achievements of human civilization — if you know what you’re doing, almost any question can be answered by Google. Of course, if you don’t know what you’re doing, then using Google is no better than taking lessons from…
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Hugh Hewitt has an amusing rant about Target’s decision to stop allowing Salvation Army bellringers at its store during the holidays. Hewitt tries to tie his objections to Target’s decision into the “roots” of Christmas, which he doesn’t seem to know the first thing about, Now that you are back, you may be wondering what…
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Dave Winer has said a lot of dumb things over the past few years, but this one is his all-time lowest point (at least since I’ve been reading Scripting News), With all due respect to Jeffrey Veen, who I know from my Wired days, his experience with the email model type of RSS reader is…