I’ve never been able to stomach Kissinger, and the fact that he’s still given comment space and treated seriously in this country is a testament to what jokes American democracy, media, and intelligentsia are. IOZ says it better.
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I know that on Friday I wrote ‘Spam Wave’, but it turns out that it didn’t stop Friday, and it didn’t stop at “several thousand”.
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I think I’ve blogged about this subject before, but with my real web server still down, I can’t check… but even if I have, and even though this was on BoingBoing and probably other major linkgrounds, and even though the primary speaker is a Law Professor at Regent University, it’s still important to watch these videos.
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[A]t one point, two of the top lawyers from the Justice Department developed this system of talking in codes to each other because they thought they might be being wiretapped. [...] By their own government. They felt like they might be kind of weirdly in physical danger. They were actually scared to stand up to Vice President Cheney.
—Jane Mayer talking to Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, 25 July 2008
I still haven’t moved my web and mail servers/services to their new home, and today I was punished for my fragile mail situation: spammers used my domain in their fake from addresses, resulting in several thousand emails of spam backwash (i.e. all the rejected/bounced back messages from the spam) arriving in my inbox.
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Well, it seems I was wrong about Federer recovering from his Wimbledon loss and tenaciously defending his #1 ranking—he lost in the first round of the Rogers Cup last night to Gilles Simon.
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I finished reading Robin Hobb‘s Soldier Son Trilogy last night. I’m a big fan of her Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies, and so was happy to find that she had another out.
However, I have to say I’m quite disappointed in this one, and wouldn’t really recommend it.
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Four years later, an appeals court has thrown out the FCC’s ridiculous fine for Janet Jackson’s infamous Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction”.
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Via MetaFilter I came across the game Pandemic 2. I’m not sure I really recommend it per se, but the concept is rather interesting: you control a new disease and its evolution, and attempt to wipe out humanity.
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The trailer for the film adaptation of Watchmen is out. I’ve always been sceptical of what Hollywood would do to it, figuring they’d manage to mangle the masterpiece that is the graphic novel.
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I think this Black Agenda Report article, “Where Obamaism Seems to be Going”, is a good summary of the some of problems with Obama’s policies.
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Today marks ten years since I started doing morning pages. I read The Artist’s Way and decided I should try them. I was struggling with my American Literature Master’s thesis, working to get into the TCD MSc in Multimedia Systems, and quite stressed, particularly in a creative sense, even though I was doing a fair amount of creative work. So I read it, and decided that the morning pages sounded like a good idea, especially for someone who had trouble sticking to any daily routine.
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Both major US Presidential candidates have been doing highly objectionable things recently, but wow, McCain is really something.
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I wish I could have found a source for this other than the Times, but this article discusses the British Ministry of Defence paying out almost three million sterling to the father of an Iraqi killed in British custody in Basra.
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Apparently, my blog’s RSS feeds were set up incorrectly in the WordPress 2.0 version that I run, and I shouldn’t have been pointing directly to the files in the wp directory, but instead to /wp/feed. With my temporary version running WP 2.5, the functionality of those deprecated links was removed—but they still existed, merely returning blank feeds.
That should be fixed now. The most important article that people might have missed was probably the speech I gave at my father’s funeral, available for those who couldn’t make it in person.
Given the results of the Wimbledon final and the Roland Garros final, it’s hard to argue that Nadal isn’t the best tennis player in the world at the moment. However, he’s not ranked as the number one player in the world—that’s still Federer.
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I wouldn’t have put a question mark at the end of the title if Roger Federer had won, had completed his comeback from two sets to love down.
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I recently came across this rather cute trans-species-romance from Korea, and thought it was quite well done, with an animation style I found striking.
BoingBoing recently revealed that they ‘unpublished’ posts concerning Violet Blue. This caused quite a lot of commentary and some outrage among those who pay attention to such things, and I think it raises a few interesting points.
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Apparently when I considered the announcement regarding MTG changes coming with the release of Shards of Alara, I overlooked a major point: Prereleases as we know them are disappearing.
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Faith-based programs, that is. Excoriated by progressives and the left, Bush’s attempt to funnel money to his constituents, undermine the concept that the state should consider caring for people a priority, and throw in a bunch of free publicity for churches has now been embraced by the Democratic presidential candidate.
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