As reported in the New Republic on the 19th: The July Surprise is right on schedule. [Editor’s Note: This afternoon, Pakistan’s interior minister, Faisal Saleh Hayyat, announced that Pakistani forces had captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian Al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The timing of this announcement should be of particular interest to readers of The New Republic. Earlier this month, John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman, and Massoud Ansari broke the story of how the Bush administration was pressuring Pakistani officials to apprehend high-value targets (HVTs) in time…
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The United States is to place tariffs on shrimp imports from Brazil and India in an attempt to tackle cut-price fish being dumped on the market. If my suspicion is correct, Rance ran off from the pressures of slebrity and bloggy godhead and got a job working on a shrimp boat. If that’s so, his paycheck is safe enough for now… unless he ran off to either the Caribbean or the Indian Ocean. If that’s the case, he’s boned. Better re-think the whole “no more slebrity for me” thing. Really, this is just an excuse to open some “Where the…
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Okay, this works for me on so many levels: towleroad reports he’s a friend of TAR4’s Chip (not to be confused with TAR5 Chip). Anyway, the .50 millionaire of Season 4 is at the Democratic National Convention and had an encounter of his own with Bill O’Reilly. Remember him? He was one of the married guys. 😉 ‘Bill, I am gay, was married, and would appreciate you maybe next time on your show recognizing that two same-sex people in love should share the same rights as any other couple.’ He said, ‘I will consider it.’ Someone should start a blog…
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A snarling Staffordshire terrier trapped a German railway worker at his post for hours and even bit through metal trying to elude capture, police say. We’re thinking about getting a dog next spring. Not this kind of dog, I’m thinking.
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It seems that David is now at stage 3 with his WordPress blog: he’s created a button. As in “cool crap to stick on the sidewall.”
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Need to verify if I have Save Href installed per Al-Muhajabah’s Movable Type Tips’ recommendation. I quote a LOT of URLs that have ampersands, and although I tried to set up something to fix it, it doesn’t seem to be working. Nowhere close to validating. However, Elise’s previous advice on the topic is also helpful: don’t get too hung up on having to have every page validate.
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Get Fuzzy has been running a hilarious “Dull Computer Customer Support” storyline starting with the linked strip. Apparently, all the outsourcing talk is a big hoax; it’s just the call center folks improving their phone stats in various creative ways. David will love today’s excuse, but start at the beginning to catch the “excellent Simpsons” reference.
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Anyway, we talked a lot about gadgets, blogs and Creative Commons. I got him to agree that it would make sense to put a Creative Commons license on his site so that people could use pictures of products and clips of his text to review products. I think that his stuff is PERFECT for blogs. I hope no one will be busting down my door and confiscating anything just because I thought those ducks were so damn kawai (cute) a few months back. Not to mention all the other fun things encountered at Dynamism and other sites that were just…
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Apparently, W. isn’t conservative enough for some. And this is a scary thought: 5 reasons Bush isn’t quiiiiite conservative enough for some people (admittely, he is more conservative than his Poppy was, thus more satisfactory to the hardline).