How Terrorist Groups End
According to How Terrorist Groups End, a paper put out by a certain group, military force is unlikely to stop Al Qaeda. “Which group?” you might ask, “Cindy Sheehan’s fan club? International Socialists? The League of Overeducated Underemployed Grad Students Who Hate Freedom?”
Nope. It’s the RAND Corporation. That’s RAND as in Research [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Jul
30
2008
To Defeat Al Qaeda, You Have to End the “War” on Terror
Jul
30
2008
The Daily Puppy
“Keeper” is a golden retriever/vizsla mutt who was a stray puppy found by her owner.Click the picture to see her photos.
If you need a daily fix of cute animal pictures and are getting tired of all those cats, The Daily Puppy has got what you need.
Jul
30
2008
Dickipedia!
I’m surprised this didn’t come into existence much sooner: Dickipedia, a Wikipedia-like wiki for people unpleasant enough to be categorized as dicks.
Jul
29
2008
The Weirdest Update from the L.A. Earthquake (or: “Did the Earth Move for You Too?”)
I hereby declare MissRFTC’s tweet (that’s a message on Twitter) about the L.A. Earthquake an “overshare“:
Jul
29
2008
They Know Their Market
Here’s a photo from a t-shirt stall at the San Diego Comic-Con, which took place this past weekend:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Jul
29
2008
How Many A’s in “Khaaaaaaaan”?
Remember that scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where William Shatner yells out “Khaaaaaaaan!”? Someone took the effort of charting the number of a’s that appear in “Khaaaaaaaan!” on web pages everywhere according to Google:
Graph courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Recommended “Khaaaaaaaan!” Reading
Here’s the “Khaaaaaaaan!” scene from The Wrath of Khan.
If you haven’t [...]
Jul
28
2008
Meanwhile, Over at Global Nerdy…
Here are the latest articles posted to my technical/programmer blog, Global Nerdy:
Enumerating Enumerable
Enumerating Enumerable is my series of articles in which I attempt to do a better job of writing up Ruby’s Enumerable module that the folks at Ruby-Doc.org did. Here are the methods I’ve covered so far:
all?
any?
collect / map
count
cycle
detect / find
drop
drop_while
each_cons
Notes from RubyFringe
The weekend [...]
Jul
28
2008
Fashion Statement of the Day
How can a single photo say so much?Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Gary Spivey, “professional psychic”, wears his trademark afro wig whenever making a public appearance. I’m certain that in his mind, the wig says “take me seriously”.
Jul
27
2008
Accordion News for July 27th, 2008
Accordion Death Squad
Brian Jepson forwarded me an email with the preface “Couldn’t let this sit in my inbox without sending it to Accordion Guy!” The email announced some bands coming to his home area (he’s deep in Family Guy country), including an intriguing one called Accordion Death Squad. How could I not like a band [...]
Jul
26
2008
“Ohh How the Tables Have Turned”
I really enjoyed this tweet (a message posted on Twitter) from Sean Tiner:
Click the image to see the original tweet.
Jul
25
2008
What’s REALLY Devaluing Marriage
Bridal botox party! Karen Hohenstein, left, jokes with her attendants-to-be at a Botox party at the Tiffani Kim Institute Medical Wellness Spa in Chicago.Photo from the New York Times.
I’m with Jason Kottke: the thing that’s really devaluing marriage isn’t gays and lesbians getting married, it’s way that people are turning it into excuses to exercise [...]
Jul
25
2008
An Interactive Guide to Bush Administration Lawbreaking
Slate has put together an interactive guide to the Bush administration’s various acts in which they broke the law, a screenshot of which is shown below:
Click the graphic to try out the interactive guide.
As Slate observes: “if all else fails, fall back on this golden rule of wrongdoing in the White House: All roads lead [...]
Jul
22
2008
I Have an Advance Copy of Neal Stephenson’s “Anathem”!
Neal Stephenson’s Anathem
A large, thick bubble-wrap-padded envelope arrived for me at the b5media office. As you can see in the photo of the label below, it’s from HarperCollins publishers:
I opened the envelope to my surprise, here’s what was inside:
I was stunned: it’s the much-anticipated Anathem, the upcoming book by T3H DR4K PR1NC3 0F H4X0R F1C7I0N [...]
Jul
21
2008
“Accordion Idol” Belt Buckle
I have got to get one of these!
Click the photo to see the “Accordion Idol” belt buckle eBay page.
Jul
21
2008
“Stay Thirsty, My Friends!”
It’s silly, but I must admit that I rather like those commercials for Dos Equis featuring a character known as “The Most Interesting Man in the World”. That’s why I love this photo that Austin Ziegler took of me on Saturday at RubyFringe — I look like I’m auditioning for the part of that Dos [...]
