Over at The Darmouth Review, Nathaniel Ward provides coverage of a debate between Victor Davis Hanson and Dartmouth “History Professor” Ronald Edsforth:
Professor Edsforth presented himself as a “peace activist” and not a pacifist—pacifists abhor all wars, while activists oppose some and support others. He approved of the 2001 Afghan campaign but not the attack on [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
Ivory towers or Augean stables?
February 28, 2005 – 3:45 pm
Flying my freak flag
February 28, 2005 – 3:07 pm
…because it’s all about context.
An exchange at the local office of the postal monopoly:
dff: sell many of these around here?
pw: haha. no. i think it’s a fine stamp, personally. but i guess it’s not an acceptable stamp in east arlington.
dff: i’ll take 20.
I have no complaints about that PW in particular, he was friendly and [...]
p.s. i’ll find my frog
February 28, 2005 – 12:56 pm
I just had to look at this, the world’s most hilarious design project, again. I’m off to get my gut unbusted now.
(it’s not static - there are pages there now that I haven’t seen before!)
Genius
February 28, 2005 – 12:51 pm
Possibly the best album name ever.
UPDATE: I was aware of this, but not this or this. Ignorant geek, that’s me.
hogthrob
February 25, 2005 – 8:51 am
The wireless pig project.
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/hogthrob/
(ok, I’m on the embedded powerpc linux developers mailing list, and this guy from iotech.dk posted, and I checked out his company web page, and they’re collaborating on this research project…)
Management furor
February 21, 2005 – 11:28 pm
Long distance discussion, distilled:
jmd: What is it with German women (in management)? They’re hard workers, but are completely incapable of managing a group process!
dff: Well, they’re German. Have you tried bringing in an Austrian?
jmd: [spits coffee onto keyboard]
Bobwatch
February 21, 2005 – 11:11 pm
Days since first post: 29
Days since last post: 29
When will he post next? And on what?
You can cut the suspense with a knife.
Fuck the AMC - hard
February 20, 2005 – 6:34 pm
Read this article in the Manchester Union Leader.
Fuck the AMC. May it rot.
First it builds a fancy hotel/convention center in Crawford Notch — something it would have been bitching to high heaven about and desperately filing lawsuit after lawsuit to stop if any organization other than itself had done it.
And now it’s whining about [...]
The siren call of the couch
February 18, 2005 – 3:20 pm
In the course of today’s events, I find that I need to reboot my PC.
So, I reboot my PC.
I look at my to-do list, which is a little text file.
Mysteriously, all the stuff that’s been hanging over my head is now nowhere to be found. Instead I see (well, don’t see, technically) ~15,000 null characters.
Do [...]
Upgrade
February 18, 2005 – 1:15 am
Wordpress 1.5, now. So shiny! So new!
We should be safe(r?) from comment spam now.
Another reason to admire Paul Pope
February 9, 2005 – 4:24 pm
So nice to read about a comics creator who’s not a raving socialist:
And how about this for libertarian coolness? In 1998 Pope wrote and drew a remarkable “what if?” story in “The Batman Chronicles” comic book. Pope created “the Berlin Batman” (by day Baruch Wane, wealthy Jewish artist in 1930s Berlin). This German anti-Nazi version [...]
On TV, Part 4: damn dirty apes
February 7, 2005 – 3:00 pm
In an office of one, no one can be the monkey but you.
Great ads, though.
You missed the “Powered by own self-righteousness” bumper-sticker
February 4, 2005 – 3:32 pm
We stake out a Prius.
bird brains
February 4, 2005 – 9:42 am
Bird brains no more
Tyler Cowen
The new [classificatory] system, which draws upon many of the words used to describe the human brain and has broad support among scientists, acknowledges the now overwhelming evidence that avian and mammalian brains are remarkably similar — a fact that explains why many kinds of bird are [...]
The latest news from NJ
February 4, 2005 – 9:33 am
Decapitated man found behind Hazlet theater
BY DAN NEWMAN
Staff Writer
HAZLET — Two juveniles came upon a gruesome discovery Saturday night when they saw a man who had apparently committed suicide and, in the process, was decapitated.
The body of Wolfgang Persieck, 50, of Union Beach, was spotted by the two teens, ages 14 and 17, as they [...]
the obvious joke, but it needs to be made
February 3, 2005 – 11:42 am
and made hard:
Tonya Harding in Horrible Gamma-Ray Accident
Poor White Trash Tonya Harding has been in a horrible accident, whereby she’s been exposed to terrible, enHulkening Gamma-Rays.
HAARP news
February 2, 2005 – 10:08 pm
First Artificial Neon Sky Show Created
Researchers with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP project in Alaska tickled the upper atmosphere to the extent that it glowed with green speckles.