A nice appraisal of the reappraisals of Bush41 from TNR.
Bush, in response to such criticism, said he naturally felt “frustration and a sense of grief for the innocents that are being killed brutally, but we are not there to intervene … that is not our purpose. It never was our purpose.” Even when all twelve […]
A follow-up to last years look at the expose on the playstation generation meets yesterday’s games.
Parker: Save the fairy, or save Zelda. It has something to do with the Tri-Force.
Dillon: It always has something to do with the Tri-Force.
Bobby: If you get the Tri-Force, you get the girl.
My application to be an election monitor in the Ukrainian election was rejected out of hand due to my poor Ukrainian (read: none) and scant electoral experience. Aside from defending democracy and liberalisation, I sure would have enjoyed spectacles like this.
According to a Ukrainian custom, a woman rejects an unwanted suitor by handing him […]
Santa is enough to scare any young child as this photo album demonstrates. It seems that we get off easy in Canada though, with a piece of coal our biggest threat (hat tip: Michael Totten).
I have a friend from Switzerland who has explained to me a tradition that makes ol’ Santiglaus seem a greater […]
Michael Powell is a frustrating figure. He alternates from brilliance to near incomprehensibility to admirable hard-headedness to shoulder-shrugging cynicism in the space of a single paragraph. This and more are reasons enough to read the Reason interview with him.
I’m increasingly excited that I can actually talk to you about your TiVo and what […]
The situation regarding the unwillingness of Europe and the UN to assist in the war crimes tribunals in Iraq, as well as declining technical assistance in the investigation of mass graves reads like farce. And people honestly wonder where UN-scepticism gets its feet.
TNR on the issue:
To address these problems, the tribunal desperately needed help […]
The new measure of making it.
The novelty of reading the Onion, seeing a compelling ad, clicking on it to find a Wes Anderson-esque video with a Magnetic Fields soundtrack, and then being confused about whether there is even a product behind the multi-level video-drama that follows it before noticing the lincolnmercury url and the totally tangential mention of the Mariner […]
Great interview with Linus Torvalds
Hey, it’s not like my ego was that small to begin with, but Linux sure as hell hasn’t made me more humble. What it has done is to make me realize just how much the movers and shakers really do depend on the environment they are in, or have been able […]
France’s Millau bridge over the River Tarn is taller than the country’s Eiffel Tower.
I don’t know much about this, but the photos are awe-inspiring. It looks like it belongs in a painting hanging in the window of the Church of Scientology.
Finally an advocacy group for my lifestyle.
Time highlights what makes GWB tick.
In that respect and throughout the 2004 campaign, Bush was guided by his own definition of a winning formula. “People think during elections, ‘What’s in it for me?’” says communications director Dan Bartlett, and expanding democracy in Iraq, a place voters were watching smolder on the nightly news, was not […]
Heh.
DARK night gave way, that Jan the first,
To hopes that now the sun would burst
On where Saddam had once been king%u2014
Tsar, caesar, lord%u2014of everything,
And with his acolytes and thugs,
And poison gas and listening bugs,
Had ground the poor Iraqis down,
In field and dune and marsh and town.
The realisation soon would grow
That in his place was GI […]
All my 10 year old internet utopianism is actually starting to play out. (via slashdot)
According to an e-mail sent today to Harvard students, Google will collaborate with Harvard’s libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University’s extensive library system, which is second only to […]
Re-live the best live music experience of my autumn.
UPDATE: omfg! I could just die all over again.
First it was cell phones and now this! When will the WHO recognize technology is a form of birth control?
A big, if predictable, step forward for individual rights as The Supreme Court of Canada gives gay marriages the A-OK.
The Supreme Court complicated Liberal plans by refusing to answer whether the current common-law definition of marriage, which excludes same-sex couples, is constitutional.
The court said it did not want to create a chaotic situation for couples […]
Considering the three people who comprise my readership, I’d probably do best to not put my foot in my mouth until the comments section.
The Economist on political diversity on the American campus:
Academia is simultaneously both the part of America that is most obsessed with diversity, and the least diverse part of the country. On the […]
This is worth it for the amazing shots of the old city of Ghadames. Also just incredible stuff seeing how bad authoritarian governments screw up a country.
My linux distro of choice for the last few months is Ubuntu; straight out of Africa and simply nailing everything I dreamed of getting in a desktop linux (save for the (optional) Benneton login screen) for the home user.
I’m doing a re-install as I write this because loose fingers hose systems no matter how perfectly […]