Brilliant political strategy or stupidest thing you’ve heard in a year?
Ray Nagin to CBS Reporter (on camera)
“That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”
*head to desk*
[via Ashley Morris]
Check it out.. Ed Vielmetti is the lead interest in a Detroit News article about local bloggers. Blogs really are mainstream if The News picked it up.
I would have killed to have The News out Ann Arbor is Overrated, though.
At some point, I believe I heard or read that the human mind has a certain capacity for retaining information, sort of like a hard drive. At some point, you have kick out data in order to accommodate new data.
Which makes reading articles like this so damn infuriating. BBC NEWS | UK | Cows also ‘have regional accents’
First, let me get this out of the way: Who effin’ cares? How, in any way, shape, or form, does this improve the life of anyone? A university in the UK paid someone to research this. The stunning conclusion was expressed by a local farmer:
I spend a lot of time with my ones and they definitely moo with a Somerset drawl
Lloyd Green
Farmer
Wow. Assuming it’s true (and, let’s just say it is), this idea wasn’t valid until some professor pronounced it so. Only then does it get a BBC story.
Second, I read this due to the car-accident effect; the article simply couldn’t be about actual cows with actual accents. But, oh yes, it was. And now some fact which will be important to me in the future has been kicked out of my head to make room for the fact that cows have accents.
And now you have experienced the same joy as I have.
As J– said, must be a slow news day.
ABC News has just learned that Republicans have sex. In fact, they have so much of it, they’re out-producing Democrats and creating a “Baby Gap”. Like that? Baby Gap.. get it? It’s like the store. Oh, and want a little trivia with your slow news day? Paul Pressler, President and CEO for Gap, Inc. since Sep 2002, joined the Gap, Inc. board after leaving.. anyone.. anyone? That’s right, The Walt Disney Company, which owns.. anyone? If you said ABC News, you’d be smarter than the average American.
But, back to the real news.. baby gaps *snicker* in political groups. If you can get through the blatant stereotyping (Democrats have cats not kids, Republicans are Puritan abstainers) and rhetoric (“‘They’re for abortion policy, they’re for same-sex marriage, they’re for many of the agenda items that eventually mean you probably don’t have children in the household,’ [conservative pollster Kellyanne] Conway said”).. hmm.. there’s actually only one meaningful fact in the entire story.
Studying numbers from the General Social Survey — a government survey of social trends — [Syracuse University professor Arthur] Brooks found that 100 unrelated liberal adults have 147 children, while 100 unrelated conservatives have 208 kids.
This, apparently, constitutes news.
Oh, by the way ABC News, there’s a couple countries threatening to toss nukes around, a major US city is still in ruin a year after a natural disaster, and the federal government is taking its first steps to a Gattaca-esque world.
Maybe you could send one of your “reporters” out to cover some of that.
Hmm..
Well, four of those things are special. Must be my birthday. No more blogging today.
Kick-ass tutorial for getting your WordPress blog up and running. You’ll have to resize the display window to get rid of the distortion in the Flash video, but it’s fairly comprehensive, if a bit quick.
WordPress Quickstart Screencast Tutorial (1)
As the anniversary of Katrina rolls over us, everyone is scrambling to do something “meaningful” to commemorate the event.
Like TalkLeft. Their brilliant idea?
Help water the bushes for the anniversary of Katrina.
Please send a bottle of water to:
President George Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500Put your return address as:
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
900 Convention Center Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70130
Har Har! Get it? Water the bushes? Yes, send your bottle of water to Washington, that’ll really help the hundreds of thousands of people still waiting for work to begin on their homes in New Orleans. Send your bottle of water and wallow in your sense of self satisfaction and wittiness. Send your bottle of water and then go back to concentrating on mid-term election analysis.
Someone else will pick up your slack. Do-nothing, feel-good, blogging; yeah!
I’m thoroughly disappointed. My Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard, for which, I might add, I paid over $50 for, just crapped out on me in under 8 months of use. I’ve had nothing but love for Microsoft keyboards in the past, pounding Ergonomic Pros into the ground for over 6 years.
But I’ve never had a keyboard flat out die on me after less than a year. At first I thought had some driver corruption or a, god forbid, a virus. Hitting “x” resulted in nothing, pressing “s” 3 times opened the help for the application I was working in, hitting “\” printed out some machine code. After installing the Intellitype software and the keyboard on J–‘s computer, however, and seeing the same thing, we knew the keyboard was toast.
I have a spare POS keyboard that came with J–‘s computer, but it’s straight and small, so I’ll be running to get a new keyboard when I get some time. But the frustration of having only a few hours of our own over the weekend was compounded by the frustration of not being able to even type. Thank god the weather was bookmarked.
Maybe it’s time to get a Logitech keyboard.
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