Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Yahoo! News - Police: Mom Threatens Chuck E. Cheese

MACON, Ga. - A teenager dressed as pizza mascot Chuck E. Cheese was pelted with pizza and threatened with a beating by an angry parent who said the mascot wasn't paying enough attention to her child, police said.

Salon.com News | Bush gets checked and balanced

June 29, 2004 | On Monday morning in Turkey, George W. Bush scribbled 'Let Freedom Reign' on a note about the Iraq handover passed to him by Condoleezza Rice. A few hours later in Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court -- led by four of the five justices who put Bush in the White House in 2000 -- accused the president of trampling freedom both at home and abroad.


Does George W. Bush do NOTHING but think and express himself in
cliches? Possibly - he seems incapable of thinking up and saying something original; he requires a script (and reportedly, numerous rehearsals to get word-perfect) in order to deliver an idea effectively.

I wonder if the Supremes are having the judicial equivalent of buyers' remorse at last?

Bush's Rating Falls to Its Lowest Point, New Survey Finds

Huzzah, I say. Huzzah.

Monday, June 28, 2004

Aw, Rance said my post was funny.


Placet qui dixit.*

Nota bene, magistri: Dr Pepper's got a contest going where they're giving away 10 Dodge Vipers. This could have an adverse affect on quality control, if everyone's off doing the "I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper" song and dance and not making with the appropriately sycophantic posts here.

Addendum in res Augustulus versus Cetus Illegetemus: Habio datum, ergo licet legere!**

I knew the moment I posted before that the schizophrenic hamsters running Tripod's servers would eat my comment. I'm keeping files from now on, mister and/or Ms., so you can't blame the AS anymore.

In the meantime more very bad dog Latin made its way into the mix. Bad dog Latin! No! No!

Vale,

ginny
(P.S.) Chat: stitch. Screen names: stitch.
*Either "What he said" or "I agree with this post."
**grade: "(I) have intel, therefore (I) may read (it)!" C- (grammar, syntax)

Is Today Breeder Day Or Something?

Headlines from today's Bloglines newsfeed - did someone declare today "International Day of Breeding" or something? It's all about the chillldrunnnn.

BBC NEWS | Health | Scans uncover secrets of the womb

Atkins 'affects conception chances'

Khat plant 'boosts sperm power'

Mobiles 'could cut male fertility'

Blood drug 'treats womb disease'

'Nazi shadow' over IVF research

Apparently there's a fertility conference on now.

And finally:

"But whataboutthebaybee??" Husband's tirades bother preggo wife

Friday, June 25, 2004

Further Rance

Well, on the one hand, it's still fun reading and commenting on Rance's blog. On the other hand, some people have completely gone overboard in their need for attention - there's some sort of fight or war going on, but it's hard to tell if it stems from a complete misunderstanding, or if a person or persons unknown is employing sockpuppetry to foment conflict.

Meanwhile, another blogger with a similer moniker on another Tripod blog pretty much "outs" Rance as George Clooney, and captainhoof as Keith Thomson. A new detail - there was apparently a party in the Hamptons at Jerry Bruckheimer's place at the same time Rance was sending a postcard from the Hamptons party with the 5 pound lobsters.

Good thing I didn't shoot my mouth off just now about the Amazing Race - weird, but I was suddenly curious, if "Rance" is truly George Clooney or another A-lister, if he'd ever been recruited to appear on a reality show. And on The Amazing Race Television Without Pity boards, people are grousing about "recruits," who tend to be boring models and beauty queens. And a commenter on Rance's blog, having read the "outing" blog... yadda... gets openly mocked. Not so fun. People are going to get hurt if they don't lighten up and stop taking the whole lark so damn seriously.

And it's a little hard to believe that the whole thing could be for the purposes of promoting Oceans' Twelve, though I can definitely get on board with it being for blowing off steam over idiotic Hollywoodiana. After all - hello - that was actually stated in an early post. It's difficult for a well-known person to be a part of a support group without crap hitting the tabbies.

This linksblog continues to be more or less private - although someone could still stumble upon it. If they should, well, it's hard to explain. It's an Internet thing. It's a perfect storm in a teacup.

And over on the Gus Overshaw "whale-killing journal" that was "recommended" by Rance, all the fun and costume-party make-believe is about to come crashing down because someone who was role-playing got hurt when someone else apparently role-played a little harder than expected. I expect it's because some people either can't take a joke, or that once again the lack of non-verbal communication has farked over the meaning of words meant in jest into something that was perceived to be abuse or aggression.

But I have to say - it's fascinating. And most of my comments make it through on both blogs, so they must be entertaining enough to the person or persons on the business end of both.

And damn! It's fun. I'd be sad if it all blew to hell.

And now, back to news links and crap to look at after work, with the occasional excursion into imaginary realms of Bloggerland.

***Dave :: Too-Friendly skies

Need to comment on this later - with memories of AA FA trainees in Dallas more concerned with maintaining laminated appearance before they graduated from training, back in the old pre-9/11 days

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Supreme Court Refuses to Order Cheney to Release Energy Papers

Supremes ensure that this issue comes up AFTER the election by throwing it back to a lower court.

Bastards.

BBC NEWS | Business | Cheney papers to be kept secret

Justice Antonin Scalia refused to step down from hearing the case, despite having taken a hunting vacation with Mr Cheney while the court was considering his appeal.


There is something VERY stinky going on here.

Monday, June 21, 2004

Blogger Help : Are there any more Header graphics for the Scribe template?

Blogger Help : Are there any more Header graphics for the Scribe template?

Whoa! I might be switching this over to Scribe eventually, it's a really pretty template.

Rance Returns

People the Administrative Staff Wish Would Fall Off A Bridge:

1. Those of you whose comment consists simply of "LOL" or a variation thereof. Post one and it's a certainty it will be deleted. Exceptions: Variations thereof that are, for any reason, exceptional.

2. Those of you who write: "Are you _____?" Upwards of 50 of these per day are deleted. If they're original or otherwise amusing, we will post them but, per blog policy, withhold comment. This will be the case even if your provide live webcam feed of Rance posting onto this site (exception: if your aim is blackmail, in which case we will make a deal with you).

2b. Those of who claim to have such evidence, but offer no proof and still try to blackmail us (There's one, at least, every day).

3. Rambling lunatics, unless they're entertaining.

4. Those of you who write in 30 times asking why your first comment has yet to be posted. Actually, on second thought, you stay away from the bridge! We love you! If you have that kind of time and enthusiasm for this blog, help us read the Eleanor Roosevelt essays.


Aw! Rance is back, or on, or posting again. And he says he's not Batman (awwwwwwwww, that's probably a blatant clue innit?). And he says he's not Gus either (okay, I can live with that, Gus is awfully tetchy).

And I can't believe they're gamely trying to read all the Eleanor Roosevelt essays. I guess mine (AJ rappels down the US Capitol building in Enagetics and a sensible dress) is still alive somewhere.

That makes me feel all for the admin staff.

Disregard the weird stuff

I'm still screwing around with Blogger. On the one hand, it's handy to be able to add pictures - this is done using free "hello" software. I won't be adding photos from work, though.

Back to gathering news oddities.

U.S. Is Accused of Trying to Isolate U.N. Population Unit

Funnymentalist basstodds....

Saturday, June 19, 2004


Sighting! Posted by Hello

I don't know whether I'm coming or going.  Posted by Hello
I don't know which way I'm going just now. Posted by Hello

Friday, June 18, 2004

Where The Blubbery Bastard Is

Racing southbound by the stars, having got word of a pod with a really fat straggler at 10° 21' N and 66° 42' W, near Venezuela.


Gus (Fiskus) Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal

BBC NEWS | Business | Halliburton cuts off KBR ex-boss

"Improper Personal Benefits."

My, what a delicious phrase. And it's a Nigeria connection.

The Coming Theocracy

Mr. Bush's courtship of Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant denomination, began Tuesday when he addressed them in a live telecast from the White House and thanked them for their prayers. The campaign's appeals picked up in earnest the next day, when Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition, who is now an official of the Bush campaign, arrived to ask pastors more explicitly for their help in winning votes.


It's coming. Don't think that it's not.

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal

I bought an old wooden cabin cruiser from a geezer in Port Helslop, Washington for $20. Wood boats are a bitch is why. Takes a good couple hundred hours to scrape and paint the hulls every year. Invention of fiberglass made wood boats' asses obsolete. So folks with wood boats they don't use no more are left with this dilemma: 'Do I keep paying two grand a year to keep this sucker in dry dock, or do I pay some guy twice that much to come over, chain saw my family heirloom apart and haul it to the dump?' So the price for these craft is zip. The twenty bucks was for the gas in her. And it was a good fifty bucks worth of gas.

A few days later, a few leagues north of the Equator, I upgraded to a 180-foot superyacht that came with this computer I'm blogging on now. I'll get to that next time I blog. Now I got to hit the head.


At last, something to relax by and be amused. Rance put me on to it - he must have run into the guy in a seedy dockside dive somewhere.

It's kind of like a costume party. I don't know yet if there will be a reveal and everybody standing around chatting later saying "I knew it was you!"

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Probe rules out Iraq-9/11 links

The commission investigating the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US has found no 'credible evidence' that Iraq helped al-Qaeda carry them out.


That's the BBC telling us. NO credible evidence.

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Google Search: bush idiot

Whoa! Lookit all the flash sites that pop up for this simple little search. Must peruse at leisure.

OpEdNews.Com: Eeesh, horrid design, but must read later.

All kinds of hella good muckracking. Not sure yet how good the factchecking is. Greg Palast likes 'em, though.

The One Where Asscroft Gets Yet Another New One Ripped Special

Asscroft, they're onto you: they noticed that when Coleen Rowley's devastating testimony was fresh news, you charged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla. Woops, facts wrong, Padilla will be charged with something a little less sexy - blowing up apartments by renting them, then rigging their gaslines to blow simultaneously.

Now that the memo you refused, in contempt of Congress no less, to release has been posted by the Washington Times...

The memo came out late Sunday. Mr. Ashcroft called a press conference yesterday — to announce an indictment against a man accused of plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio. The timing was, I'm sure, purely coincidental.


Remember when we were all too afraid to go to Woodfield Mall back in the days immediately following 9/11? Well golly, it was real. Wasn't it? Isn't it?

What other big fears do we have? Oh, yes - the terrorists will blow up a nuke plant or cause another cascading power failure. I expect the next embarassment to the Asscroft feudal theocracy formerly known as Justice will result, within a week, of an arrest of someone wanting to blow up some power plants.

Salon: Tuesdays Must Reads (subscription)

More Halliburton/KBR shenanigans:

Halliburton's egregious overcharges
Abandoning trucks because of flat tires: $85,000. Putting 100 workers up at a 5-star hotel: $10,000 a night. Lavish spending and mismanagement by a politically-connected firm: Priceless. Actually, there is a price being put on Halliburton's wasteful shenanigans in Iraq: $8 billion.


Also: John Asscroft gets a new one ripped for him (again) and Tom DeLay accused of political shenanigans (finally).

Bushspeak: "Flag Day" is now "Military Appreciation Day

They had a march in Shit Lake Salty - The Chamber's Military Affairs Committee organized it. They had Cub scouts, business representatives, families, and government employees.

Might as well organize the Bush Youth Brigades now, the time is ripe to groom them for their lives as good little...Repugnicans.

Lobstermania - Rance Has Been Alerted

Hell, yes, I commented on Rance's blog about Maine's lobster eating contests.
He's got time to fire up the Gremlin and get there from Toledo.

I advised Groucho glasses as a disguise.

Monday, June 14, 2004

Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go (answering Roger Morris' call?)

And in the end are they saying Bush Mush Go instead of simply resigning as Roger Morris called for them to do in A Call to Conscience?

Iran On Deck As Next Invadee

Iran has been criticised for its lack of co-operation by the UN's chief nuclear inspector at a meeting to decide on a united response.


Iran's next.

Salon.com News | Reagan blasts Bush

Must watch crap ad and get day pass to read later:

"My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush," says the former president's son, in a flame-throwing conversation about the war and the Bush administration's efforts to lay claim to the Reagan legacy.

April 14, 2003 | The Bush inner circle would like to think of George W.'s presidency as more of an extension of Ronald Reagan's than of his one-term father's. Reagan himself, who has long suffered from Alzheimer's disease, is unable to comment on those who lay claim to his political legacy. But his son, Ron Jr., is -- and he's not pleased with the association.

"The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now," he said during a recent interview with Salon. "Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's -- these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people."


Why Thunder Claps vs. Why Thunder Rumbles

Lightning expert Dr. Martin Uman explains that if a portion of the lightning spark is perpendicular to you, all points on that portion will produce sound that arrives almost simultaneously at your ears. The result is a high-intensity 'crash.' However, if much of the lightning channel is along your line of sight, sound arrival times vary, and the resulting thunder is a low-intensity rumble.


Okay, that's interesting. Now - why is lightning sometimes blue, and sometimes almost pink?

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Atta - Is This For Real?

I don't know. I don't know. Fuck.

Tampabay: TIA now verifies flight of Saudis

And it's not like it was COMMON KNOWLEDGE or anything, and not some
wacky goddamn Internet conspiracy theory...

The New Yorker: Fact - Seymour Hirsh

Need to re-read this later, maybe keep a copy.

Everything isn't Under Control

Jon Stewart helps Joe Biden rip Asscroft a new one over the classifed memos - see if TiVo grabbed this

Man Finds Daughter-In-Law's Body in Freezer

"The paper said he was looking for milk for a cup of tea when he discovered the Korean-born victim wrapped up in plastic bags. "


What was he doing looking for milk in the freezer? Maybe it's a British thing?

Or maybe I read too many mystery stories, and the father was actually snooping around on purpose.

Higher-Ranking Officer Is Sought to Lead the Abu Ghraib Inquiry

"Within the last several days, an important figure in the inquiry who had previously refused to cooperate with Army investigators suddenly reversed his position and agreed to work much more closely with investigators, a senior Senate aide and a senior Pentagon official said.

That important development prompted General Fay to send some of his 29-person team back into the field to conduct more interviews, the officials said. 'A key witness, a key person who'd pled the military equivalent of the Fifth has changed his attitude, and Fay is reopening the investigation,' the Senate official said.

The officials said they did not know the identity of the witness."


Fay has requested a more senior investigating officer replace him, as he can't interview those at the highest levels of leadership within Iraq...

Hmm. Wonder who the key witness is.

Enter the Cow-orker

Enter "cow-orker" in Google, and this site comes up first.

Pros: seems to have extensive archives, uses the word "cow-orker" correctly

Cons: Frames and animated gifs

It seems to be one of those "Start from the beginning" blogs.

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Airline bans woman for air rage over phone

It's Vietnam's flag carrier. Wish they'd do something about the people that forget to turn their cell phones off at the theater.

Strangely enough, I booked someone on that airline yesterday. Must tell him not to use his cell phone or throw water around indiscriminately.

New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV

Oh? Need tell house technogeek about this.

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Tommy Franks all set to pull an Alexander Haig if necessary

More background on "October Surprise:"

In Nov. 2003, you might recall, Gen. Tommy Franks told Cigar Aficionado magazine that a major terrorist attack (even one that occurred elsewhere in the Western world), would likely result in a suspension of the U.S. Constitution and the installation of a military form of government. "[A] terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world -- it may be in the United States of America -- [would cause] our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event," he said. [NewsMax.com]

Operation Summer Pulse '04

"It would prepare USS Harry S. Truman and USS John F. Kennedy for eventual deployment to support �real-world operations� by October. "


Wait a minute - what did I just say about "October Surprise?"

Operation Summer Pulse '04

"It would prepare USS Harry S. Truman and USS John F. Kennedy for eventual deployment to support �real-world operations� by October. "


Wait a minute - what did I just say about "October Surprise?"

Asscroft, Squirming

"Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, in a different heated exchange with Mr. Ashcroft, asked him if he believed torture was ever justified. When he first declined to answer, Mr. Biden accused him of being evasive and he replied: 'You know I condemn torture.'

One of the memorandums published in newspapers over the last two days, dated March 6, 2002, provides elaborate and tightly constructed definitions of torture. For example, If an interrogator 'knows that severe pain will result from his actions, if causing such harm is not his objective, he lacks the requisite specific intent even though the defendant did not act in good faith,' the report said. 'Instead, a defendant is guilty of torture only if he acts with the express purpose of inflicting severe pain or suffering on a person within his control.'"


Well, how about if we field-test forms of interrogation causing non-severe pain on YOU, Mr Attorney General? Then you can verify that it's not the form of torture that you condemn.

Seems fair to me.



Strange Bedfellows Falling Out

"'You would be hard-pressed to find anyone familiar with his position who would believe that President Reagan would be in Hatch's camp on this,' said Douglas Johnson, the committee's legislative director.

'It was widely reported during his presidency that Nancy Reagan did not agree with President Reagan on the abortion issue, so somebody who doesn't have a problem with abortion would not have a problem with destroying human embryos for research.' "


Douglas Johnson, spokesthing for the National Right to Life Committee, castigating Nancy Reagan for not being pro-life enough to reject stem-cell research that might have benefited her husband, the late President Whatsmyname.

Actually, it's a sad thing for her to have struggled and not succeeded in getting it through Congress, but Orrin Hatch is trying again. As predicted on Air America Radio the other night, a stem-cell research bill will probably pass if it's named something palatable like "the Reagan amendment."

Lucy in the Sky...

Oh. My... GOD this is brilliant: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds as you've never seen it before (but you may have heard it in a nightmare).

From Pale Blue Dot.

Monday, June 07, 2004

What the hell is up with stats???

The hell?

Unique visits by monthJan 2004 277 1181 2717 4332 28.84 MB
Feb 2004 578 1937 4268 12042 187.53 MB
Mar 2004 1126 3172 6275 18513 283.90 MB
Apr 2004 910 3592 6134 34509 429.78 MB
May 2004 1310 4138 7270 37626 531.46 MB
Jun 2004 715 1376 2467 15741 239.81 MB


Unique daily visits
01 Jun 2004 178 373 2037 35.62 MB
02 Jun 2004 130 295 2499 26.49 MB
03 Jun 2004 139 228 1007 18.04 MB
04 Jun 2004 194 358 3103 33.85 MB
05 Jun 2004 190 387 2920 48.17 MB
06 Jun 2004 160 278 1276 25.12 MB
07 Jun 2004 385 548 2899 52.51 MB

Last visit - someone every few minutes

Need to get some sort of "visitors online" script?

Firefly sticker... kind of plain.

It points to the foxhome page for firefly, but need to verify. See fireflymovie.com for more info

Designer's NY Store Selling Bush Deck of Cards

they also sell Bush toilet paper. Bush is also both jokers. Heh.

US 'not bound by torture laws'

The document also argued that torturers acting under presidential orders could not be prosecuted, the paper said.

The report was written by military and civilian lawyers for US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.


AKA: Rummy's "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.

Sunday, June 06, 2004

manga picturemaker

as seen at Learning Moveable Type

Iraqi/US Fed Currency Scandal

Need to read more later.

The Beeb Does Blogs

"A recent white paper by Perseus has suggested there are currently 4.12 million blogs which have been created on eight of the biggest blog publishing sites on the net"


Saturday, June 05, 2004

Where's Rance? Well, Where's Oceans 12?

Well, that Flash thing sucks. Sorry.

Rance makes it sound like he's in the South Pacific. The whaler is beached. He's at a beachfront bungalow, which is cheaper than a bungled blow.

There are lots of shrimp.

George is currently somewehre in Italy. Greece is just a short hop. There are beaches and shrimp and beachfront bungalows and such there.

Yeah, I know iot's a stretch. It'sthe Fuller's. ESB. Not "ESP."

My Guest Blog Post At Rance's Place


Rance
Friday, 4 June 2004
Guest Bloggist: ginny
Name: ginny
URL: http://www.blogula-rasa.com
E-Mail: ginny@midrange.com

Question: What would you do if given control of Fox Studios for one year?

Ginny's response:

I'm just an ordinary female member of the flyover-state
moviegoing public. I like movies where:

Stuff blows up.
Stuff blows up in space.
Smart people figure out how not to blow up (often in space).
Smart people say smart things so fast you need instant replay.
When the swords come out, the shirts come off (except in space).
The funny-looking girl gets the guy with the swords.
Bad guys come in shades of grey.
Good guys ultimately prevail, but get all dirty and sweaty.
Sometimes, the hero is a woman. She can still get all dirty and sweaty.


Here are some arbitrary and wholly draconian rules...

1. Under no circumstances is Mel Gibson allowed within 50 feet of an exploding blood pack. He also may no longer die heroically in the last reel.

2. Everyone working at Fox Studios must keep a classic book that could never be made into a movie on their bedside table, and be able to discuss it in the commissary.

3. Say yes, and mean it, to people who do good work. Say no, and explain why, to people who do crap work. Fire all posers.

4. At least one in every three movies must be made for smart people. Movies for dumb people at least have to be intelligently plotted and cast. Then smart people can enjoy movies with their dumb friends.

That's all.



ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES:

1. The recent delay in the posting of comments is due to the extremely high volume submitted and the new rules instituted as to which get posted.

2. Expect another postcard from Rance soon.

Have a nice weekend,

The Administrative Staff





Posted by captainhoof at 9:31 PM GMT


Oh, so that's what I wrote. All I could really remember was the stuff blowin' up and no bloodpacks for Mr. Gibson rule.

Yeesh. The guest blogger thing is seriously winding down. I fear that soon Rance will tire of the chore of keeping up and keeping people happy. He's handed off to an assistant while he's off either cleaning out his mom's basement, making an indie animated short, or filming in Europe.

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Grr. Free Speech Erosion

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Editorials

Dead Poets Society, New Mexico Style.

Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Only connect. Only connect. Only connect.

FromBy George! It's George Clooney! Novelty Shop:

Atom Films This is the place to get Waiting for Woody(one of several short films on "Definitely Not Hollywood: Dark Comedy Edition in which George does a wonderful and fairly lengthy cameo


From a UK awards website:

We have built a catalogue of over 1000 short films and animations, several hundred of which are shown on our site at any one time. The quality of films that AtomFilms has been able to attract to its site is unparalleled and ranges from Academy Award nominees Holiday Romance and Killing Joe through star-powered films starring Jennifer Anniston, George Clooney, Neve Campbell and Ewan McGreggor, to the latest offering from Oscar-winning production house, Aardman Animations Angry Kid, which has been released exclusively on the Internet.


Or, Mr Thomson could be a particularly weird kind of stalker, in a position to pick up a lot of weird insider gossip. Couldn't even access Atom Films from work, it gets caught in the company chastity filters. Which reminds me of the rococco tale of the S/M photos encountered by accident at an L-sleb party.

More thinking.

Rance's "friend with a clue" is The Captain. As in Hoof.

I thought I remembered this. So the cartoonist/self-promoter guy could be Captain Hoof, but not Rance. Phew.

"In the meantime, re: comments, as I think Cyn suggested, my Director of Information Technology (i.e., my friend with a clue about computers, The Captain) is now implementing a system where we decide which comments will be posted. The reason for this is principally that we've been getting more than there's space for, not content. We're just trying to weed out the repetitive (Are you...?). A couple of them would make the elevator woman blush (note: on second thought, must post the one where she offers the plane ticket to Vegas, etc.). Whoever wrote in and accused us of omitting his comment deriding Cameron Diaz's back, we did not do this. But we probably would have.

Later,

R

Posted by captainhoof at 5:20 PM GMT | post your comment (16) | link to this post
Updated: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 5:47 PM GMT "

Museum of Hoaxes... well, craperoo

Museum of Hoaxes is on to something. I wondered about the early-adopting commenters too, but didn't really think about how strange it was... I just assumed it was some internal system on Tripod that announces new blogs and the word spread like wildfire.


Well, more reading and thinking to do.

Submit moblog images for art project!

Oooh! Via xeni jardin on gizmodo ("What's in your gadget bag):SENT phonecam art project.

Artists will be doing Phone Cam Art. They're taking submissions from civilians that will be randomly displayed on the site and during the gallery show. Oooh. Must think which of my images might be considered "art."

SimpleComments :: Kalsey Consulting Group

And the next plugin I'll probably install:
SimpleComments :: Kalsey Consulting Group

Da Hub got tired of downloading and installing plugins for me - I couldn't figure out how he did it so fast. Turns out it's semi-automated from a specific login. I now have the ability to create new blogs - which under the new licensing agreement, if I upgrade to MT3.0m, means I can create 2 more independent ones and as many dependent ones as I need.

Fear me.

Judge Hardcastle?

The New York Times > National > American Dreamers: A Las Vegas Juvenile Judge Finds His Test Case at Home

Oh.

Gee, and I had such a crush in the 80's on the young guy in "Hardcastle and McCormick."