The CBC has a nice example of how journalists will twist themselves into knots trying to count the number of objective angels on a pin. In a memo, an editor at CBC goes on at ridiculous lengths explaining that the words “terrorism” and “terrorist” are not neutral terms and that they should be avoided by…
July, 2005
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This month I’ll spend about $150 on e-books. Unfortunately, the only way I could get an electronic copy of the latest Harry Potter book was to find a pirated version. HarperMedia doesn’t believe anyone’s reading e-books, so I guess the version I found doesn’t exist), so they’ve refused to release any of the books in…
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This New York Times story, about religious parents who sent their gay kid to a camp to cure him, really mystifies me. So the parents have a 16-year-old son who says he’s gay. This horrifies them, so they send him to a religious camp with rules appropriate for a monastery. This is completely the wrong…
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Matt Drudge has a link on his site at the moment featuring a photo of Democrat hack Paul Begala above the words, “Ex-Clinton Aide Charges Republicans ‘Want to Kill Us’…” Did Begala really say something that stupid? Well, the article that Drudge links to makes that claim, but a close reading suggests that Begala is…
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This story is just bizarre. Some Canadian bookseller accidentally sold 14 copies of the new Harry Potter novel before they were supposed to go on sale. So the publisher asked for and received an injunction which makes it illegal for those people to actually read the copies of the book they purchased. The Times reports,…
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Okay, this is funny. The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed awhile ago which sliced and diced Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s tax proposals. Granholm is between a rock and a hard place with Michigan’s downward spiraling economy, but she just doesn’t seem to understand that the way out of Michigan’s mess is to make…
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On July 7, Muslim extremists bombed London’s mass transportation system. Later that day Declan McCullagh pulled one of his typical bone-headed moves in wondering why there was no footage being aired yet from the thousands of security cameras deployed throughout London? And with all those CCTV cameras littered about London, where’s the footage of the…
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I happened across Thunder and Roses because the person behind that site shares my disdain for Ashanti Alston, a bank robber who is welcomed on college campuses as a “revolutionary voice” because he claims he was a “political prisoner”. But I happened to notice another post at the site about a blogger who was being…
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Scrapbook is an interesting Firefox extension that makes it easy to save and organize web pages and snippets of web pages for things like research projects. It makes a nice complement to Slogger. Use Slogger to capture every page for completeness, and Scrapbook to collect and organize pages around specific topics and projects.
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Lego has released an nice-looking Knights’ Kingdom Chess Set complete with carrying case to store the Lego chess board and all the minifig chess pieces.