blogmarks: February 2004 Archives

What!? Y'mean McVeigh wasn't aided and abetted by Iraqis? (this reference to a rewarmed warblogger meme courtesy the delicious cheese bagels at Zupan's.) -- 12:05 PM

Feb
24

Henley continues to be an almost-big-l libertarian I can deal with. Nice differentiation between "privatizing" and state capitalist gangsterism. Good springboard material from Polytropos, too. -- 09:41 PM

Misfire in the Marriage War: Turn us into a nation of moralistic busy-bodies and adopt the language of the enemy. Some of the most confused thinking you could hope for. Hint: Getting married = making your "private relationships a public issue." Duh. -- 04:46 PM

If you're not sure whether a blog is interested in changing minds or just scoring points, see what it does when its bête noir is down. Yet another reason we tend to like Josh. -- 04:28 PM

Popular fiddle? Popular fulcrum? Popular front? No... popular fiasco. Here's a good example of why losing the initiative in the gay marriage debate will be a disaster for all but the theocrats: Everyone selling everyone else out. -- 03:07 PM

ESR's megalomania and reigning status as open source's resident quick study now confusing linguists. -- 11:39 AM

Now That's Friendly WiFi -- 11:36 AM

Feb
23

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves thinks mocking the Amish is a hoot. Go sign a petition. Or reclaim the tattered remnants of your soul and quit watching "reality" shows. -- 11:49 PM

Would-be theocrats blog, too. -- 08:39 AM

Feb
22

You say "pop," I say "soda." (via) -- 12:39 AM

Jeepers! Humungous database of every Buffy story arc ever. -- 12:09 AM

Feb
21

Interesting mini-history of conscientious objection in America. (Dug up while considering the fears that might be motivating DoMA in some corners.) -- 11:38 PM

Use Safari with MT? Look out for a hell of a weird bug. -- 10:07 PM

Surprise, surprise: Faux nativist "English Only" proponents have an issue with real native languages after all. -- 06:50 PM

Feb
20

Somewhere Andrew Sullivan is crying over his lost eagle. -- 08:43 PM

Someone finally explains "why Garageband isn't like ACID." (Mostly. ACID has always seemed pretty "intuitive" to me.) -- 07:27 PM

But, you know... corner a Mac-head, and they usually reach for "intuitive."

Dumb springs eternal redux. -- 07:22 PM

Handy reference to electronica. Make mine glitchcore! No, really. (via) -- 02:28 PM

They're heeee-eeere: Fight Over Gay Marriage Comes To Oregon. And contrary to Portland CW, none of the petitioners are from east of the Cascades. -- 01:08 PM

Pedantic but useful: Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text (pretty please) (via) -- 01:03 PM

No anti-veteran smear is too low for the right. Welcome to the 2004 campaign: That's Republican fear you're smelling. -- 12:28 PM

Cool but spotty Google Labs tool: search for wi-fi near 97215 (via) -- 10:29 AM

Ed Anger Dead at 56 (Weekly World News coiner of phrases like "Madder than a beaver with an impacted wisdom tooth!") I, for one, will miss his spittle-flecked homespun wisdom. (via) -- 08:15 AM

Feb
17

Depressing political kabuki with Daniel Pipes -- 10:20 PM

Dvorak on Itanium: "In all my years of following this industry, I have never seen such sheeplike behavior." -- 03:12 PM

The Fallacy Files (via) -- 03:34 AM

I'm going to spend some time with these. Nothing saves more time than boning up on your informal logic and discarding all the scum rotten reasoning that passes for "argument" these days.

"So the only way Google could become useful again is by ceasing to exist." -- 02:36 AM

Feb
16

"...the Republican lawmaker responded: 'I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote.'" -- 08:02 PM

Feb
15

MovableType mobile edition howto -- 11:31 PM

The internet is shit (via) -- 10:16 PM

If you insist on hoping that it's an institution you can reform, there's no arguing with this. If you decide it's a genuine microcosm (a gigantic, crushing microcosm, but a microcosm), then it's fine. Unless the whole world's shit. Because they seem equally fubared to me.

Feb
12

Too bad. I sort of like Palms. -- 06:37 PM

"To me, a healthy society is one in which a seething underground of revolting perverts makes everyone else feel less fucked up by comparison." -- 02:36 PM

Everything considered harmful -- 10:12 AM

Feb
11

Google Search: "worst * ever" -- 01:17 AM

Feb
10

'If you still feel "every day" the way you felt on September 12, 2001, and you did not personally lose a loved one to the savages, there is something wrong with you.' -- 11:49 PM

Anti-boob nutter drops suit, spares Janet et al wrath. But we'll still always have Canada. -- 12:24 PM

Bill O'Reilly don't need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows. -- 11:59 AM

Feb
9

Salon advice columnist has run out of advice. Only so many ways to say "If you're asking, what does that tell you?" -- 09:07 AM