As seen at Boing Boing: Kevin Sites wins 2005 Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism. This is great news, and very much deserved. I’ve been a reader of Kevin Sites‘ blog since before the “incident” that put him in the hot story, in addition to reporting it. The award will be presented at the University of Oregon J-school on May 12. As a Duck myself, I’m doubly glad and proud. And if Kevin Sites sees this – go to Taylor‘s and have a beer. Well done you.
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The Nation | Special Cover | Worry, Alfred Dubya Heh. Okay, I’m done licking my political wounds. Time to laugh again. And what better place to start? Apparently, this image can be downloaded, printed off, and posted wherever you think it would show off to best advantage.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Keith Choate and Mark Ceneri turned to each other, grinning. Then they embraced. State representatives had just voted 85-63 to allow same-sex civil unions, something Choate and Ceneri had been waiting for since they became a couple five years ago. The state Senate passed a similar measure last week. “We wanted something that was meaningful,” said a beaming Choate. “We wanted something that was real.” The House action on Wednesday came after more than six hours of debate, much of it centered on adding a definition of marriage – the union of a man and a…
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It’s time to go to India again, and you know what that means. Harrowing driving! A Roadblock of the needle-in-a-haystack variety requires patience and an orderly approach and, in Gretchen’s case, a lot of head-scratching and spinning around. Oh, and there’s a Yield, but no one uses it. The Detour entices all five teams to take on the task of serving tea to a collection of Indian bureaucrats (really!), and chaos ensues. Meredith and Gretchen fall behind by a large margin in a short time and trail all day, leaving us all to speculate about whether they’re about to lose…
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AAAAAAAAAAAH! A double leg on TAR7! With a “To Be Continued” after a totally bitchin’ fakeout flip-flop floozy on the floy floy. It ended with Rob and Amber trotting triumphantly up to Phil on the roof of a Lucknow apartment block. There they were hit with a giant double-eyebrow pop, no pit stop and no hot greeter, just I gotcher clue right here, its name is just Sameer, and there’s no 12 hour rest for you, dear. Can you? Can you? Keep racing or not, can you?” Holy cow. Pooooor Rob and Amber. Sucks to be them, they thought they…
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Build error in template ‘books’: Error in MTBookQueueEntries tag: Error reading XML content: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 24, column 19, byte 907 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/XML/Parser.pm line 187. Well, my bookqueue is somewhat messed up, and I can’t get it to finish updating until my dear in-house geek looks at this error message. And yeah, I should probably just leave it until the upgrade is done.
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Hacking Movable Type (ExtremeTech), by Jay Allen Yeah, I might have to invest in this book, too. I think I may be entering an exalted stage where all the cool crap comes out and a more minimalist aesthetic comes in. Or something.
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Well Blow Me Down: A Guys Guide to Talking Like a Pirate, by John Baur, Mark Summers Another book for the pirate-obsessed: Well Blow Me Down: A Guy’s Guide To Talking Like A Pirate. I can’t add this to my bookqueue yet (error: something about the ISBN number makes the baby Jesus cry) and I’m happy to say that Erik Benson is gradually bringing Allconsuming.net back from the dead, so I’ll stash it there. I use both Bookqueue and Allconsuming.net because sometimes one works when the other doesn’t. Also, I just like the way Allconsuming encourages happy bloggy goodness between…
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Very soon now, I’ll upgrade to MT3.whatever, and then I’ll be able to install BookqueueToo. When I do, I’ll be upgrading my Bookqueue page and adding one for the Holy Moly blog. Currently it’s basically a static page with each division of books (reading, read, to be read) in a standard blog entry div, with a right-aligned sidebar. And all the books are in one long vertically aligned list. I’d rather go with a block of images from left to right for the next iteration, rather like at kwc blog: Reading List, but with a short amount of text associated…
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Yes, that’s David’s new car, a Ford Escape Hybrid. We just drove it home from Woodfield Ford, and frankly, we’re in shock. In a good way. Because we got a good deal and we didn’t have to wait weeks and weeks and weeks for delivery, like some new hybrid owners. First off, what’s a hybrid? It’s a partly gas-powered, partly battery powered car. There’s different kinds of technology involved; this particular vehicle has what’s called a “first generation” power plant. The Ford site explains how it works We weren’t planning on driving the demo car off the lot, but that’s…