I usually find those quiz things a waste of time– they have stupid questions, dumb answers, and don’t reveal anything. The PBS snob-o-meter for Manor House is a bit of a chuckle, but really I look down on the entire ‘o-meter’ business. (Yes, I scored more than half-way snob).
Month: May 2005
Burnout Denial
For obvious reasons, I have this song stuck in my head today.
Shame is for Sissies
The PR flak famous for representing dictators has killed himself — apparently by jumping from a castle. Nice touch, there. I’d like to see the suicide note of a man who used to say shame is for sissies.
Portability
My friend Keith had this sore shoulder and got tired of lugging around his laptop and wondered, just how small can this stuff get and still be worthwhile? And so Padpaw got started. This isn’t just a “tiny laptop” project– it’s “what kinds of web services can be added to a tiny laptop to make it much cheaper and much more powerful?”
Hypocrites
Robertson says Muslims shouldn’t be judges and also claims that God doesn’t directly cause tsunamis. Now, he earlier said that God would send hurricanes to Florida if they allowed gay parents to adopt. So… that was an idle threat, I guess? Yes, yes it was.
Also, left-wing media alert: Focus on the Family can get ad time, but gay-friendly churches cannot. Focus on the Family is basically a hate group, and they can get an ad on TV promoting their twisted child-rearing philosophy, while the United Church of Christ can’t get an ad out saying “all are welcome at our church?”
Yay, humanity.
Details on Traveling While Arab
OMGWTF
Latest Government Parody
MyPyramid.org, from the US Department of Agribusiness. A parody of MyPyramid.gov, the food-pyramid of the US Department of Agriculture.
Making fun of government informational brochures is like making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Secretly Ironic 