Archive for June 2006

The monthlies.

• Afternoon Politoon… Little Green Footballs (er, Fruitcakes)

  I hope this means war. Tom Toles on GOP redundancy… Image: Yahoo! Tip of the hat to JudiPhilly.

• Sabres v3.0

  UniWatch confirms that the Buffalo News confirms that the rumors are true that the Buffalo Sabres will have new uniforms this coming season, but not the super-lovely ones we had hoped, but some illegitimate-child-like ones… Image: Checking Line I liked this idea. (Checking Line agrees.) Images: Celsius Design

• I Speak (read: blog) ∴ I Am

  An update on the missing mathematical therefore symbol. I guess there is one since I just found it: ∴ (To take advantage, place “there4″ in between “&” and “;”)

• Star Jones, My Atheist Hero

  A brief word on the silly craziness that is the Barbara Walters / Star Jones feud… Rita Cosby has the worst voice on television. Image: MSNBC.com It just doesn’t make any sense to me this woman is on televison. Update: Rita Cobsy has lost her show on MSNBC. What timing.

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  An “archaelogy” team searching for the “lost ark” of “Noah” may have apparently “found” the “vessel” in Iran. “Throughout history, people have been searching for the Ark to help prove God’s existence. ‘There’s this idea, if we can prove that the ark existed then we can prove that the story existed, and more importantly, we [...]

• SWIFT

  Jake Tapper, back in the blogging act, has asked his readers (read: me) to comment on the SWIFT (so-called) controversy. I partook… Way to stay on the subject, Jake. Do you find it interesting parsing words with a former (or, I guess, current) television personality [White House Press Secretary Tony Snow]? What is the press’ [...]

• Ranking The Sopranos

  While the Sopranos is on a mid-season (?) hiatus, I feel I should lend my expertise on the award-winning, critically-acclaimed television show by ranking the first six seasons. Alas, I am no expert, and the show is too darn good, in my humble opinion, to rank in order from 1 to 6. Instead, I will [...]

• In the News

  - Yea, scratch that flag burning idea. It is unAmerican, I tell you. (No, it’s not.) But, seriously, please stop with all of these “amend the Constitution” ideas — it is getting old. – Another capable businessman will be confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury, and then will be forced to resign in a year [...]

• Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em

  This weekend, I will be sure to burn those two flags (the ones that new real estate agent in the neighborhood planted in my front yard for Memorial Day) before the U.S. Constitution is amended. I will, for the first and last time, take advantage of an American freedom, for it will soon be gone. [...]

• No Bud For Me. You Have A Pale Ale?

  I have never taken a sip of a Budweiser or a Bud Light or a Bud Dry (does that even still exist?), nor will I ever. “Simply put, Germans hate Budweiser. Weeks before the inaugural games kicked off the Cup, Germans were furious at the prospect of having to drink what they refer to as [...]

• Beavers Win (Nice Unis)

  I know what you be thinking and you’d be wrong. Should I relish in the fact that a few mere hours after I blogged about the utter beauty that is the Oregon State University baseball team uniforms, the Oregon State Beavers won the national title in the College World Series? Yes, yes I should. And, [...]

• Oregon State Wins On Old-School Letter Styling

  There is no doubt about it – the Oregon State baseball uniforms are the classiest to hit the field in a long time (OSU is currently playing in the College World Series) – especially when you take into account the colors they have to work with, orange and black. (And even so, they are ridiculously [...]

• Bush: Hydrogen = Ethanol [insert mathematical symbol for "therefore"] Nuclear

  Why isn’t there a mathematical “therefore” symbol () in the Windows Character Map? Yes, I know the font SYMBOL has it, but that doesn’t help much… try switching fonts using Blogger. \ You see, I didn’t want that line return. (But that is the SYMBOL font’s “therefore.”) The president made quite an interesting statement today [...]

• Whenever Minutes

  Sometimes it hurts. Last night, while watching one of those “1000-whenever minutes” commercials I said to my fiancee, “We will see in five years if they find out that cell phone usage causes cancer.” And then, in the news today… guess what. I went on to rant about the phenomenon that is the cell phone. [...]

• In the News… Suicide, Skeletons and Bush.

  - Alright, I am breaking my hockey silence now that Sabres coach Lindy Ruff earned Coach of the Year honors, and I don’t have to kill myself. – It is true what they say, everyone has skeletons in their closet, including bloggers. Including Markos and whomever and whomever that help Kos lead this supposed army [...]

• Hey, you, with the iPod. (It’s 7AM.)

  The iPod may have its brand genericized, but I still find myself struggling to understand how so many people insist on listening to their iPods at seven in the morning. Give your ears a break, people. It is one thing to listen to NPR during your morning commute, but to put place earbuds in your [...]

• In the News

  - Sports reporters are wussies. I guess that’s why they aren’t athletes and just like to hang around in the locker room watching the guys change. – Because of the triple-digit temperatures in the Bay Area, today was a Spare-the-Air day, which gives everyone free transit for the day. As I walked back from lunch, [...]

• Frontline Javascripts Opinions

  Frontline used some of its editorial discretion in coding their website dedicated to their most recent documentary, The Dark Side. The not-so-high-tech website allows viewers to see the rise of power of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, starting in the Richard Nixon administration. Donald Rumsfeld was a congressmen, you see, and when you click on [...]

• OVP

  A quick word on Frontline’s documentary last night, The Dark Side… The truth of how the U.S. went to war with Iraq is so mired with deceit, politics and recent history (ca. 1971 until today), the producers of Frontline needed to double the show’s running time (from 90 minutes to 3 hours) in order to [...]

• Say It Again

  History has a way of repeating itself (especially in the Rove/Cheney/Bush administration). Condoleezza Rice. May 16, 2002.“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center.“ George W. Bush. September 1, 2005.“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees [in New [...]

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