Sunday, May 6, 2012
Inspirational Moment...
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This video appears to be a promotional for an outfit called DDP Yoga , and that outfit is the subject of some criticism on the intertubes. ...
McIntyre Got Some of His FOI Information...
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...and it's obvious that East Anglia and its cabal of warmists were diddling the data to get the notorious “hockey stick”. Mr. McIntyre...
Bertrand Russell's Ten Commandments...
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Bertrand Russell is probably best known as a philospher and mathematician, but he was many other things as well. In his autobiography, he ...
Excellent XML and PERL Rants...
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I've not run across Erik Naggum's web site before, but in searching for a coherent argument about the evils of XML I ran across his ...
On C++
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I try very hard to never be in a position that requires me to program in the C++ language again – I've had far more than my share of str...
Water Wings Won the Cold War...
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Well, not directly. But apparently the wily Mao used water wings (amongst other things) to humiliate Khrushchev during his state visit to C...
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Life of Julia: Some Other Perspectives...
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The Obama campaign's Life of Julia is starting to look more and more like one of those exploding Acme cigars. Two people with slightly ...
Fauxahontas...
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That's Mark Steyn's styling in his take-down of Elizabeth Warren and Harvard University over the former's claiming to be Indian ...
Obama's Escape Clause...
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Michael Mukasey was the U.S. Attorney General in the last George W. Bush term. In Monday's WSJ he had a column (which I just read this ...
Unemployment Down
and
Up...
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I've and others been railing about the government's extremely misleading “unemployment rate” numbers, which the lamestream media gen...
Friday, May 4, 2012
A Suggestion for the Obama Campaign...
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The Obama campaign recently selected their official 2012 slogan: “Forward”. We respectfully suggest this graphic to go along with their lov...
GIMP 2.8 is Released!
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GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program , the free open source image editing software) 2.8 is the long-awaited next major upgrade. It (finally...
Cats and Dolphins, Playing Together...
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Via my mom: a cat and some dolphins, playing together (not embeddable, sorry)...
Manure Spreader for Sale...
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Via reader Jim M.: FIFTY YEAR OLD MANURE SPREADER - $1 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Fifty-year old manure spreader. Not sure of brand. Said to hav...
More Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars...
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And the evidence comes via the plucky Mars rover “Opportunity” , currently exploring the Endeavour Crater. It's now eight years into i...
The Life of Julia...
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I just read an apt metaphor for the repeated mistakes of the Obama campaign, but I'm not sure who to attribute it to – it's been pic...
Obama Pissed Off the Wrong Guys...
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Many Navy SEALs and other Special Forces “operators” are quite unhappy about the way that Obama is publicly taking credit (“spiking the foot...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Jon Will Turns 40 Today...
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...and his father, famous columnist George Will, wrote a beautiful column about him today ...
The Unforgettable Cab Ride...
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Not my cab ride – this one . Bring a box of kleenex with you...
One Supermoon, Coming Up!
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On Saturday, the day after tomorrow – and you can see it ...
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