While I initially found the alleged illegal wiretapping authorized President Bush very troubling, it seems much more so after reading Bruce Schneier‘s blog on The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power: … the president’s wartime powers, with its armies, battles, victories, and congressional declarations, now extend to the rhetorical “War on Terror”: a war with …
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On Dec 1, my dad and I set out from Austin to drive to Seattle. It was a pretty uneventful drive out toward El Paso except for the wondrous lunch stop along the way: the KFC Buffet/Taco Bell in Fort Stockton. The $6 KFC buffet was so good that I didn’t even get any Taco …
Mike sent me a link to a very strange cartoon on Weebl’s Stuff, and while I was there, I discovered new Magical Trevor episodes, 2 and 3! Not only that, they have plushies now of Magical Trevor and Badger Badger Badger!
Interesting article and slideshow about Calvin and Hobbes: The last great newspaper comic strip. Someday I might have to buy the 23-pound, 1,440-page hardback anthology, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.
If you haven’t yet had the fortunate of reading The Book of Bunny Suicides, it appears someone has put many of the images on the web. Apparently, there’s also an organization called the Rabbit Welfare Fund, comprised of humorless bastards seeking to ban the book with their stupid petition. It’s Brit vs. Brit for the …
EE Times printed an article today about Jove. It has several quotes from me, gathered from our 45 minute interview, though as you might expect, they really zeroed in on the few somewhat inflammatory ones: “It really didn’t seem like Vera was justified as a separate language,” Robinson said. “It had no tools and no …
Next installment in my religious WTF series: Scripture Candy. Their motto: “Reaching the world one piece at a time!” Thus ends the long standing debate, What (Candy) Would Jesus Eat?
Unless you’re totally xenophobic, you should consider voting for the Europeans of the Year, organized by the European Voice magazine, which “casts a spotlight on 50 individuals who have most influenced the European legislative and political agenda during the preceding year”. (They have to be European, but you don’t.) I took interest in this poll …
Claire sent me a facinating link: Last Night’s Party. It dispenses with the profiles and chit-chat of sites like myspace and gets straight to the voyeurism. My Halloween parties were never quite like this…
A TV news station site in Houston has a story about the KKK coming to Austin to rally for the Gay Marriage Amendment. (Apparently sites like the Austin American-Statesman don’t find it newsworthy…) My favorite part of the story is the protest of a Baptist Pastor they interviewed: Rush said that a group that would …
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