Month: September 2003

I think I just officially became a liberal. I sent money to the ACLU, Lamda Legal and Howard Dean’s campaign.

Just got done watching The Cradle Will Rock, a movie about the WPA Project that created the Federal Theatre. The movie is a great treat because every other actor is someone you either know by name or recognize outright: John Tuturro, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Cherry Jones, Angus McFadden, Vanessa Redgrave… and the characters they […]

A MeFi thread on Hurricane Isabel reveals how to tell if a big storm is coming if you don’t have a TV: the easiest way to know if a storm is coming is to go to the store and observe the bread aisle. That is so true. I can’t believe how many people can’t live […]

Chris had a great link to a Zombie Infection Simulation (Java). It’s funny how quickly the zombies overtake the population from just one single infection.

You don’t even want to know how many hours I’ve spent at the computer. And loving every minute of it. I’ve been tinkering with PHP and XML-RPC with MovableType. I am SUCH a geek! Ron is gone so I don’t have his usual distractiveness. I pretty much sat here for about 4 or 5 hours […]

Foreigners May Not Have Liked the War, but They Financed It: Figures released this week showed that private foreign citizens bought an unprecedented $129 billion in United States government and agency securities. They now own 38 percent of outstanding Treasuries, more than double the figure of a decade ago.

I know you’ll think I’m crazy but if you have a high-speed connection and a half-hour you should really watch parts 1-3 (of 5) of Unanswered Questions on 9-11. Maybe as a whole it’s hard to digest – but try not to freak yourself out if you take just a couple of the points made […]

Lias has a fantastic post on Ted Koppel’s dissembling of the DOJ, PATRIOT and PATRIOT’s bastard sister, VICTORY.

Great new free music download program availabe: iRATE radio. It links to scores of free legal music downloads and downloads a handful at a time – you preview and rate them and gradually the system learns to predict what kind of music you like. Within 15 tracks the server had figured out I liked edgier […]

A journalist places the entire WMD quote chronology in it’s proper order starting with: “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” — Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002. and ending with “I never believed that we’d just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.” […]