China to bar entertainers it deems threat - International Herald Tribune
[The rules] also call for barring performers who promote ethnic hatred or “advocate obscenity or feudalism and superstition.”
(tags: china olympics)
Ideas and Trends - Conservative Thinkers Think Again - NYTimes.com
“That’s where the Republicans are right now, and it’s demoralizing for think tankers.” Desperation has a way [...]
Upgrading Wordpress nuked all the category names for this weblog.
But way to go, me: Even reading the posts in each category is not enough to tell what’s what.
Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster
(tags: disasters)
How to nap - Boston.com
(tags: napping)
Quest for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie - NYTimes.com
(tags: chocolate cookies recipes)
Recipe - Recipe - Chocolate Chip Cookies - Recipe - NYTimes.com
(tags: recipes)
Flickr: Looks Like A Robot
(tags: robots)
Have you called your Senator about the ADA Amendments Act?
[O]ne of their snot-nosed pimply-faced bow-tie wearing (can you believe that?) punks, Andrew M. Grossman - a “senior policy [...]
stevenf.com
(tags: tablet)
Playlist for Pseu Braun - January 25, 2008
(tags: fakebeatles)
Post Apocalypse - TIME
The horribleness of commenters isn’t really a mystery: Internet anonymity is disinhibiting, and people are basically mean anyway.
(tags: truth internet)
US war crimes court to resume at Guantanamo
(tags: gitmo)
If you want to read a serious book about the intervention in Iraq, try War and Decision. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
I don’t know Feith, but I can pay him two further compliments: When you read him on a detail with which you yourself are [...]
Wash. judge tells verbose lawyer to make it snappy
Judge Ronald Leighton balked at a 465-page lawsuit that made its way onto his desk. He invoked a rarely used rule that requires a “short and plain statement” of allegations.
…
The judge issued his order in a limerick:
(tags: law)
The politics behind Senate wiretap bill
(tags: fisa)
Brothers’ backfire saves family compound in Big Sur - Los Angeles Times
(tags: overcrim)
Plex
(tags: apple mac software)
cabel.name: Yay! Fireworks!
(tags: fireworks awesome)
AIswimming.jpg (JPEG Image, 1400×915 pixels)
(tags: china)
Post-9/11 Dragnet Turns Up Surprises - washingtonpost.com
(tags: terrorism biometrics privacy)
Think Before You Voicemail
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it.
(tags: voicemail productivity)
The Kindergarchy
For the past 30 years at least, we have been lavishing vast expense and anxiety on our children in ways that are unprecedented in American and in perhaps any other [...]