Archive for May, 2005

Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data

Proof yet again that Bush is not a Republican. LESS government, damn it. LESS, you idiot.
Are Libertarians still viable?
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This is the coolest map store on the planet

National Geographic, you rock. (And whoever is your graphic designer is undercompensated.)
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And the award for best rant of the week goes to…

… Orson Scott Card. Just to set this up properly, Card (if you don’t know), is an excellent, award-winning writer. He is also a devout Mormon and has never been ashamed of sticking up for what is usually the butt of jokes other Christian sects make amoungst themselves (*hand up* guilty).
That said–wow. This is [...]

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Tomorrow is Towel Day

In honor of the late, great Douglas Adams, tomorrow is Towel Day (as is every May 25th). Carry your towel with you tomorrow, wear a bathrobe (if you can get away with it), and generally spread the Good News that Adams gave to the world. Or, just carry a towel and tell lookers-on about his [...]

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Booking online has a darkside

Like we didn’t know that. But this guy had one hell of a good time getting back at Orbitz.
I’ve never had anything quite that bad, but I won’t use Priceline ever again. We booked a hotel in Grand Rapids a while back (little work/mini vacation). Yeah, note to Priceline, Walker Avenue is NOT downtown Grand [...]

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Free online graph paper

Following up on this post about free PDFs of graph paper, I emailed the site’s owner, Kevin MacLeod, asking after a generator for Cornell note paper. He responded with another excellent graph paper generator. Thanks Kevin! Be sure to donate to Kevin as he recently got Boing Boing’d and could probably use help with the [...]

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Christopher Hitchens - Why I’m Rooting Against the Religious Right

Thanks to (once again), David Galbraith for the tip to this article.
A large tranche of the once-secular liberal left has disqualified itself by making excuses for jihad and treating Osama bin Laden as if he were advocating liberation theology. The need of the hour is for some senior members of the party of Lincoln [...]

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