Man, what a week – Miss Alli’s recap for last week’s TAR episode went up a couple of days ago : Television Without Pity » The Amazing Race » Recaps & Extras » Season 5 Episode 5 And then there was tonight’s leg! Holy crap, another great, exciting, funny, sharply edited episode. Plus, the shots in Egypt at Karnak and the Great Pyramid and the other temple were really beautiful, especially the early morning sunrise shots. So many satisfying little moments watched, so many snarky cackles to make. Also, a few bombshells: after weeks of listening to Mirna’s Desperanto (which…
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Salon.com has a story on the Abu Ghraib rape allegations… you know, the one that’s been kicking around since the beginning, with the quote from the same witness as before. They blame civilian contractors in a story titled: “Contract to torture.” The story says “sponsored by the New York Times” at the top. This may be repackaged content from before, but the more major news orgs carrying this story, the less likely it is to remain buried for much longer.
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Weekend? What weekend? This one went by faster than most, and next weekend promises to go by even faster. Friday I didn’t get away from the office until after 6pm. My team leader was out again, and although I wasn’t schedule to stay until closing time, things were hairy enough in the afternoon that I decided to stick around for immoral support. Also, one agent had some sort of personal ticket he wanted issued, but it turned out we couldn’t issue it as an electronic ticket, and he couldn’t use paper tickets. They were for family members to come up…
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Elise made me think I could do it; Moveable Blog’s “Asides” template may point me to a solution to a niggling little problem in a flailing project that’s almost ready for the main stage. If I get it to work, there will be a short sideblog of quick links on the left column; this will tend to get the quick choppy link-only posts out of the way of the content. Also, it’ll be quicker to jump in and out with a new link for those time when I gotta blog from work. I’ll have to cut down on workaday blogging…
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My mom often says this about any hot coffee drink with a shot of Bailey’s or other liqueur added: “that’ll warm the cockles of your heart.” Interesting discussion on the derivation. In the meantime, cockle picking (something like clam-digging, apparently) is still done in Britain, and it can be dangerous.
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In res Pontifex Maximus et Chimpulus Bushii: This unctuous moralizing about family life and sexuality is pretty rich coming from a gang that has presided over the most widespread, elaborately concealed child abuse scandal in the history of religion. But then, rank hypocrisy has never been a bar to militant self-righteousness. Witness John Paul’s fellow public scold in Washington. Not content with the pope’s merely rhetorical flourishes, Bush takes a more pre-emptive approach to inconvenient women — condemning thousands of them to gruesome, entirely preventable deaths with a simple stroke of his pen. Now that is a mighty thundering from…
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As per Wonkette: Affleck and Bush Go Head to Head. She calls photos of pols and wonks holding up young sproggen “baby-eating contests.” Makes sense. However, we childfree types have been eating babies for years. And trading recipes. Ah, the good old days, I remember reading that when it was fresh and new.
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The appearance of Bloglines Plumber page means that Bloglines go sleepy for a while, be all better later. The image is pretty cute – it’s a good take on the traditional “404 error” page. Dang, I depend on Bloglines, now I’ll have to obsessively check international and domestic news the hard way.
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A California lawyer has filed a potential class action lawsuit against the internet search company Yahoo. Stephen Galton says he was subject to a “barrage of harassing, defamatory and abusive messages” from anonymous users on a Yahoo message board. Let’s see – is this guy nuts for attempting to take on trolls and actually sue them, rather than threatening to do so as so many have done before? Being threatened with cartooneys is one of the Internet’s oldest jokes; next oldest is claiming to be one. In this case, it happens to be true. Or is he crazy like a…
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…you should be. See A View from A Broad for a look into the life of a US soldier in Iraq with a point of view that’s as sharp as Captain Comic Book’s knives. Read it from as early as you can – at least go back to April and read between the lines. This blog/journal needs to be collated and published in book form. It’s that good.