September 30, 2004
Wall Street Journal Reporter Farnaz Fassihi on Life in Baghdad
The intelligent design movement is using scientific rhetoric to bypass scientific scrutiny. And when science education is decided by charm and stage presence, the Discovery Institute wins.
September 29, 2004
Swimming in syrup is as easy as waterbreaking science news headlines/a>
What do we need to know about to discover life in space? The Drake Equation
Section 3032 and 3033 of H.R. 10, the "9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act of 2004," introduced by Speaker Hastert would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue new regulations to exclude from the protection of the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, any suspected terrorist
Abolishing the Electoral College
A voter in Wyoming is worth 2.3 times more than a voter in New York
What, exactly, are the Masons and Shriners?
A good overview of the Masons, Shriners, Odd Fellows and other fraternal organizations
Presidential debates always put more importance on projecting character than on being right. George W. Bush and John Kerry can both boast of never having lost a debate, though the two candidates rely on strikingly dissimilar sets of skills. A viewer's guide to this fall's version of "asymmetric warfare"
Comic using 8-bit NES figures from FinalFantasy
September 28, 2004
Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up
What were they expecting? Did they not know about the Blue screen of Death? Note to anyone in charge: don't ever, ever use Windoes in a mission-critical role, because Windows will end up killing people.
September 27, 2004
Architects help Over-the-Rhine residents draw plans of their own
Citizen journalism bounty hunting: ask the President, "How many times have you been arrested?"
September 23, 2004
The compassion agenda: Republicans continue to beat the poor down
By indexing a tax cut for the poor to inflation, eventhough incomes at the bottom end of the workforce have largely stagnated, the Republicans have raised taxes on the poor
Matthew Yglesias: That Novak Thing
The Iraqi government will try to hew to an intermediate path between an 'immediate pullout' scenario and an 'endless quagmire' scenario
Here's the piece that '60 Minutes' killed for its report on the Bush Guard documents
September 22, 2004
Personal guerilla course in Media Literacy
Excellent bibliography for those who want to learn about our mass media
Ashcroft: Not a Single Post 9/11 Terror Conviction
"Until that reversal, the Detroit case had marked the only terrorist conviction obtained from the Justice Department's detention of more than 5,000 foreign nationals in anti-terrorism sweeps since 9/11. So Ashcroft's record is 0 for 5,000. When the attorney general was locking these men up in the immediate wake of the attacks, he held almost daily press conferences to announce how many "suspected terrorists" had been detained. No press conference has been forthcoming to announce that exactly none of them have turned out to be actual terrorists."
Computer industry to entertainment industry: we lied
"Look at us: every year, we churn out more computer games than your entire industry is worth. You know how we do it? We like our customers."
September 21, 2004
Everything I've ever taught my son I learned from Super Mario
Analog Pong Console
The 27 different and ever-changing reasons Bush went to war in Iraq war
But the Bush campaign has made clear it wants this election to focus on character and leadership. If character is the issue, the president's life, past and present, matters just as much as John Kerry's.
September 20, 2004
September 19, 2004
The underground tunnels of Bucharest are home to thousands of children abandoned when communism fell in 1989, youngsters who are now having families of their own
Crazy Train or Emotional Subway Attack
Fighting homophobia with showtunes
September 17, 2004
The Truth about the 'Endor Holocaust'
A rebuttal to the Endor Holocaust
What happens when you detonate a spherical metal honeycomb over five hundred miles wide just above the atmosphere of a habitable world? Regardless of specifics, the world won't remain habitable for long.
The Death Star Research Project
Geekery to no end
Your camera's memory card was in a taxi; I have it now. I am going to post one of your pictures each day. I will also narrate as if I were you. Maybe you will come here and reclaim this piece of your life. This is awesome.
The Reconstruction: U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq's Future
Just getting in front of this one: this guy, for three straight elections, gets his sign torn - what are the odds of that? This time, his son helps him and is caught in the act.
September 16, 2004
Designing and building a better chicken coop
Refers to the actions of a customer who goes around the normal technical support process by contacting a senior person in the chain of command.
September 15, 2004
'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'
Asking people to give up their seats on the subway was more tramautic for the person asking the question than for the person having to give up their seat
September 14, 2004
Cincinnati writer lies about Florida in 2000, compares election oversight to terrorism
Explore neighborhoods by literature
Death is the return to the natural cycle of life. Death is part of living and therefore created, the Capsula Mundi, a biodegradable coffin, that allows the body to decay naturally. A tree will be planted as a remarker above each coffin at burial. And so the burial ground will grow into a sacred, memorial woodland.
So nuclear terrorism is the ultimate threat, but not so ultimate that it's worth spending money on preventing, inconveniencing the Navy, or overcoming the Bush admnistration's knee-jerk prejudice against treaties. We did, however, find $200 billion to invade Iraq with, over $500 billion for a Medicare prescription drug benefit, and almost $2 trillion worth of tax cuts. It's sort of like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Or meeting the arms control treaty of your dreams and then undermining it for no good reason.
September 13, 2004
The New York Review of Books: Pinning the Blame
In its effort to achieve a unanimous, bipartisan report, the commission decided not to assign "individual blame" and avoided overt criticism of the President himself. Still, the report is a powerful indictment of the Bush administration for its behavior before and after the attacks of September 11.
USAir Asks to Skip Pension Payment
Why Social Security is needed, and cannot be left to the corporation
An experienced writer/editor with a loathing of bad writing and a heart of stone
September 12, 2004
September 10, 2004
Isn't this the definition to kowtowing to special interests?
If President Bush ran aginst Jesus
Bush goes negative on Jesus
Combining Voltron, Mr T, Hulk Hogan, R2D2 and the current Bush administration Cabinet
A Bounty for a Question: How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?
September 9, 2004
George W. Bush thinks of Americans as little kids. No wonder we’ve grown so dysfunctional.
Decks and the City: Home Depot to open north of Union Square
September 8, 2004
freakin cool, man
What will happen when low-tax, low-wage, no-union, no-regulation formula that's brought such a lack of economic success to the Deep South is expanded to all of America
September 7, 2004
September 3, 2004
September 2, 2004
Frequency of differend words at the Republican and Democratic Conventions
Conservative dogma about sex roles ignores inconvenient realities.
