CHICAGO (Reuters) – For want of a small change to the Illinois election law, President Bush’s name is not supposed to be on the state’s November ballot, but officials said one way or another, it will be there. The glitch arose because the Illinois legislature adjourned earlier this week without extending the Aug. 30 deadline for presidential candidates to be certified by the state elections board and qualify for the Nov. 2 ballot. Oh! Oh! There went my ass again. It keeps falling off today. First, Al Franken gets tortured on his show, because Ann Coulter said it had to…
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If you want to skip the MT babbling brook o’ technogoo, skip the next paragraph. After a false start, David got the latest version of MT-Blacklist installed. I couldn’t do it myself because an older version was up at MT-Plugins We tried to use a package called MT-Bayesian, but it’s only partly working and the creator doesn’t recommend using it for now (so that’s why no link). Which is okay, since MT-Blacklist can also delete the stuff, just not in as cool a way as the other plugin could have. And it can’t teach itself to ID spam, either –…
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Yes, it was available at Borders. Yes, the counter guy was puzzled; he’d never heard of it. Yes, I grabbed it with a little “glee!” sound. Happy birthday to David. Hope you like the Firefly DVD! (we watched one of the never-aired episodes, “Trash.” Heh. And there are two more. And extras. And then maybe a movie will come out someday. Because they rolled film today.
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CBS has confirmed that it will air The Amazing Race 5 during the summer of 2004, beginning on July 6, as it originally planned. Thus, CBS chairman Les Moonves’ trial balloon regarding the possibility of delaying TAR5 for the CBS fall schedule, which he trotted out during the network’s “upfront” presentations in May, has been punctured. Yay! More confirmation. And tomorrow, the cast bios go live.
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Bucky is either an All Blacks fan, or he’s a rilly, rilly, pissed-off kitty. Stay out of his way today, or be crushed by his warlike intensity. (and yes, when the orcs do their war chant and dance steps in The Two Towers, that’s a haka)
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Mrs Norman Maine belts a long, funny one out of the park as guest bloggist at Rance’s place. Oh, my God. Still laughing at the concept of “Thinga Thong” – programmable musical underwear. BWAAhahahaha… I wonder when I’ll get my turn at bat? If I do, it’ll be right into the shortstop’s glove with two outs and 3 commenters on. And that’ll be the end of the inning. Game over. 😉
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A major earthquake in Alaska in 2002 set off lots of smaller quakes in the Yellowstone National Park more than 2,000 miles away, say scientists. Within hours geysers in the park changed their eruption patterns, according to the journal Geology. Very glad to run across this article. I’d heard about the changes that happened to the geysers, it’s interesting that they connected it with such a distant earthquake event. And of course, it reminds me of that ski trip from hell in Yellowstone. I think winter after next I’ll be ready for a return to the Snow Lodge.
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Yahoo! News – Utah Fitness Charity Files for BankruptcySALT LAKE CITY – A charity accused of ripping off schools around the country on fitness equipment filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday. Uh, huh. Funny how often the big-bucks scams that seem so squeaky clean and healthy because they’re based in Utah turn out to be elaborate financial scams, pyramid schemes, or plain old swindles. The principals will now commence to bleating their innocence and good intentions.
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Rance had a new guest bloggist up – good choice, since it was a real stinger. Really blows the hair back with a big “whoof!!” sound. I’m still on deck with Mrs. Norman Maine. Maybe we should learn to play 2-handed gin rummy online while we’re waiting. The suspense is killing me. There’s a new and even more wordy “About” section under the ampersands. Thanks again to Elise of “Learning Moveable Type” for the how-to. I still have to bang some rocks together a little more to get certain macros (yes, yes, okay the goddamn Amazon macro) working there. All…