Not to be left out in my galavanting across the blogiverse today, Stupid Evil Bastard points us to an interview with someone who fits that title way better than he does.
Which reminds me to remind you to turn off the Windows Messenger service. No, not Windows Messenger. Well, yes, that too, but this is the one that evil spammers are going to use to insert pop-up messages on your PC–even if you’re not surfing the web.
See: How to Disable Windows Messenger Service.
Do it for the children.
I can’t breathe. I’m still recovering from reading this review of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers at Pointless Waste of Time.
[ A thousand thanks to Mr UnderHill for this one! ]
Total Information Awareness. Poindexter scares me. Enough said?
Get thee to The Liberty Dogs. And read thee Kim du Toit’s words. I can do no better.
[ She always gets there first. ]
Asked if the organisers bore any responsibility for the violence, (Julia Morley) replied: “I think everyone does if they are holding something on a worldwide scale. But if you are asking me, ‘Did we do it?’ the answer is no, we didn’t. It isn’t the fault of the girls or any of us.” – New Zealand Herald
Nah. Couldn’t be your fault. You only took an international beauty contest to a country that treats women like Safiya Husaini (sentenced to be stoned to death for allowing herself to be raped…oops, sorry, having an out-of-wedlock experience) and expected nothing bad to happen!
But, of course, as Nigerian Information Minister, Jerry Gana, said: “I salute the courage of the contestants. They came all the way here despite the conspiracy of the international press.”
*sniff* Those poor, brave girls. The horror of being locked in your posh hotel room while people kill each other over whether or not Muhammad would have picked three or four of you out of a lineup to add to his harem.
I’ve been very, very tolerant of Islamic claims that the anti-Western rhetoric of its radical fringe was nothing more than the ravings of madmen. But where is the outrage over this? This!! A stupid comment in a frickin’ newspaper!
Statia, you better quit it with those action figure Jesus pics, or there’ll be a riot goin’ on.
[ Inspired by A Small Victory ]
Michele mentioned a new term this morning–“blog cocooning”. I followed the link she provided to Smart Genes, who’s author had just returned from a blog conference (getting a little deep there, boys and girls) where one of the featured speakers, Mickey Kaus, of kausfiles, discussed six questions about the future of blogs and blogging.
Well, ahm jest an’ ol’ country boy *spit* but I do believe that about every one of the responses Mr. Kaus made to his own questions is full of bovine fecal matter.
Ack! I almost forgot to change this link from draft to published. THEN where would I be? *shudder*
A Small Victory: feeding the IDF: a call to action
Get thee there and feedeth an Israeli soldier pizza and mmmm…donuts…for Chanukah. Because pizza is the traditional holiday meal… um… I think…. What do I know from Chanukah? Oy vey…
You may not be able to stop the tidal wave of spam and scam headed to your inbox, but you can at least have a good laugh at the moron’s expense. With that in mind, the Nigerian Scam Log is perhaps the funniest site I have ever read.
Here, the author turns the tables on the unending host of emails that typically come out of Nigeria. You know those–the ones where someone claiming to be the legal representative for the exiled widow of the assassinated president or some other official contacts you with the news that a large sum of money has been made available to you, if you agree to help by providing a “holding” bank account. Anyway, according to this guy (gal?), it’s become a hobby for people to respond to the scammer with fake names. This person has taken it to the extreme. There are several continuing stories presented, as the scammer interacts with characters like Tom Herrick, Richard Bolitho and Kendra Moore.
My two favorites are the one in which Tom Herrick serves up a wicked punch line after a long setup and the tale of the dying Kendra Moore…who finally sends her nearly deaf old friend Mike to Holland to meet the scammers…sort of.
[ via DiVERSiONZ ]
Well, as if I didn’t have enough blogs to read (not to mention the bazillion other non-bloggy links I keep), Mark Pilgrim has combined his infinite knowledge with the Blogging Ecosystem to come up with a new toy called the Recommended Reading Generator.
To see who you might like to read, enter your URL, and it will spit out a list of sites with which you might have something in common. You can then tailor the list by indicating that you already read the suggested site or that you are not interested in it.
If you want to see who I should be reading, click HERE. (Pirillo?? Hello? Is this thing busted or what? *snicker*)
via Big Pink Cookie
It is now almost 1:30, and I have done nothing but read blogs and start draft entries for new posts (12 and counting). Life is good.
I am on vacation. The kids and wife are not. What to do? What to do?
I think it’s time for a blorgy–a frenzied explosion of pent-up blogging that was deferred for NaNoWriMo (which there is no way in hell I am going to finish on time). I hereby officially surrender to the inevitable.
So, I’ll just pour myself another cup of coffee, read all the blogs that I ignored this past weekend, and make about seventy-five posts myself.
Seeing as how it’s already 10:30, and it took me this long just to get through Michele’s blog (speaking of blorgies), this might take a while…
