“Let us think the unthinkable
Let us do the undoable
Let us prepare to grapple with ineffable itself 
And see if we may not eff it after all”

Is it really that hard for US Rep John Conyers (D-MI) to produce a document to account for distributing turkeys? A letter stating “we’re giving you a boat-load of turkey. Happy Holidays!” or a news story puff-piece when his office…

I’ve added a new category, “Rants”, to which yesterday’s screed has been reassigned. Filing all of that stuff under Politics was becoming silly.

Looks like you can get a decent landscape renderer from Computer Arts for free; Bryce 4 (the previous version) is on the CD that comes with the magazine. I’ve purchased this from Barnes & Noble before (in-store). Computer Arts website…

I’m starting a new movement. Actually, it’s quite a big movement already, it just hasn’t caught the attention of the important people in the world; you know them, they go by “progressive”, “liberated”, or “Blue stater”. They’re a huge group…

I totally flubbed this one and now it’s all over the ‘net, but the Mars rover Spirit is one-year old today. Originally slated for a 2-month mission, it’s so exceeded it’s expected performance it’s actually starting to overcome some of…

Project Gutenberg, the site with thousands of free books available for download, has posted their top 100 of 2004. It’s amazing to look at the great stuff availble for free thanks to the contributions of thousands of people all over…

This is what you find when you type “I’m bored” into Google. I-am-bored.com.

Ok, someone is even more obsessed than I thought possible and has set down the entire script of the Flying Circus episodes from Monty Python. Check out the homepage for even more weird resources. Very cool. Link

So, I’m lazy (and busy) but mostly lazy, and haven’t posted my Christmas post. Not that I had some huge thing to post or deep insights into the Season, but it can hardly go without a mention. Obviously, my big…

This has to be the weirdest use for a game mod I’ve seen in a while. Garry’s Mod allows you to pose the characters and actually construct new machines in-game. A cool hack to be sure, but the screens used…