I feel like one of my responsibilities is to pay attention to the ravings of the lunatic right, if for no other reason than that when I encounter someone speaking of these lunatics as though they are respectable scholars or thinkers, I’ll be fully armed for argument. The most recent fringe case to make his [...]
Entries from January 2005
Lunatic literacy
January 31st, 2005 · Comments Off
The elections in Iraq
January 31st, 2005 · Comments Off
Fred Kaplan has the big picture report. All in all, it seems like things went pretty well.
The elections in Iraq
January 30th, 2005 · Comments Off
Christopher Allbritton is posting periodic first hand updates of the elections today in Iraq.
Welcome to Somalia
January 29th, 2005 · Comments Off
Looks like our project to turn Iraq into Somalia is right on track.
Fraud
January 29th, 2005 · Comments Off
I don’t care how jaded you are, this editorial will make your jaw drop.
Struts gets mothballed
January 28th, 2005 · Comments Off
The Struts development team have decided to retire the project and put it into maintenance mode rather than building a 2.0 version that broke backward compatability with Struts 1.2. This is really good news. When I look at the path that many other projects have taken, I realize that big new versions sometimes ruin everything [...]
Authoritarianism as applied to language
January 27th, 2005 · Comments Off
I can’t help but watch with fascination and horror as the President Bush and his supporters try to regulate how journalists apply the English language. Sadly, it’s working.
Philip Johnson
January 27th, 2005 · Comments Off
It seems like far too often I come to appreciate people only after they die. Today I read that architect Philip Johnson had died, and until I read his obituary, I had no idea that he designed my two favorite skyscrapers in Houston, the Republic Bank building (now called the Bank of America building), [...]
Ever expanding search
January 27th, 2005 · Comments Off
When Amazon said that its search engine, A9, would be layering on features on top of Google’s index, they weren’t lying. Update: Russell Beattie points out that this new feature was done long ago by some online yellow pages in Spain.
Another daily dose of shame
January 27th, 2005 · Comments Off
Jeanne at Body and Soul has another powerful post on torture. You may not want to read it, but you probably should.