I’ve never been able to stomach Kissinger, and the fact that he’s still given comment space and treated seriously in this country is a testament to what jokes American democracy, media, and intelligentsia are. IOZ says it better.
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I know that on Friday I wrote ‘Spam Wave’, but it turns out that it didn’t stop Friday, and it didn’t stop at “several thousand”.
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I think I’ve blogged about this subject before, but with my real web server still down, I can’t check… but even if I have, and even though this was on BoingBoing and probably other major linkgrounds, and even though the primary speaker is a Law Professor at Regent University, it’s still important to watch these videos.
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[A]t one point, two of the top lawyers from the Justice Department developed this system of talking in codes to each other because they thought they might be being wiretapped. [...] By their own government. They felt like they might be kind of weirdly in physical danger. They were actually scared to stand up to Vice President Cheney.
—Jane Mayer talking to Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, 25 July 2008
I still haven’t moved my web and mail servers/services to their new home, and today I was punished for my fragile mail situation: spammers used my domain in their fake from addresses, resulting in several thousand emails of spam backwash (i.e. all the rejected/bounced back messages from the spam) arriving in my inbox.
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Well, it seems I was wrong about Federer recovering from his Wimbledon loss and tenaciously defending his #1 ranking—he lost in the first round of the Rogers Cup last night to Gilles Simon.
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I finished reading Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son Trilogy last night. I’m a big fan of her Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies, and so was happy to find that she had another out.
However, I have to say I’m quite disappointed in this one, and wouldn’t really recommend it.
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Four years later, an appeals court has thrown out the FCC’s ridiculous fine for Janet Jackson’s infamous Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction”.
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Via MetaFilter I came across the game Pandemic 2. I’m not sure I really recommend it per se, but the concept is rather interesting: you control a new disease and its evolution, and attempt to wipe out humanity.
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The trailer for the film adaptation of Watchmen is out. I’ve always been sceptical of what Hollywood would do to it, figuring they’d manage to mangle the masterpiece that is the graphic novel.
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