BlogBites

September 27th, 2004

Does Limbaugh feel that gay marriage makes a mockery of all three of his past marriages—and his pending fourth? Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

If blogs are going to mirror the “long, sad fall of rock ‘n’ roll” I want to be SubPop records or I don’t want to do it at all. TBogg  

Meet the Press had a political panel this weekend that looked like a poker game for mummies. James Wolcott  

If we want to save the Net by establishing it as a place, rather than as a plumbing system for industrially-produced “content”, we need to mean something that isn’t just national when we blog in the first person plural. The Doc Searls Weblog  

Animals, especially foreign animals, hate freedom. We need to get tough with them. Jesus’ General  

September 26th, 2004

Those guys in dresses were Sodomites??? I thought they were just cross-dressers! Or Scotsmen. World O’Crap  

I’m sure that somewhere in Verizon headquarters, there’s an overpaid young man with a Ph.D. in marketing holding up a graph showing that if you make it impossible to cancel service, 10% of customers will stick with it, and this will translate into increased overall sales Swerve Left  

Not only are you the idiot of the month, you’re the braindead cretin of the month and the muddleheaded halfwit of the month as well. Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

Hippies of course turned into computer geeks. Well, the ones that didn’t have green thumbs so they realised they would have to buy drugs rather than grow them so they had better find a way into the economy so they could also own the hillside over the ocean where once upon a time they would stop in stoned wonder and just stand there going “grok, grok!” BARISTA  

I think that my current interest in learning programming languages is just an extension of my flint-knapping attempts. but she’s a girl…  

This week, Studio360 features examples of Rumsfeld’s “poems” set to music by artist Phil Kline, surprisingly beautiful. “There’s a little bit of Gertrude Stein in him,” says Kline. birdhouse.org  

They’re kooky. They’re watermelons. They’re mad, dangerous, evil, bizarre and sinister. Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony  

His expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit has almost destroyed our nation’s Christian work ethic by providing low wage earning families a way to get by without taking third, fourth, and fifth jobs. Jesus’ General  

I was standing quite near to a wall. I turned my attention towards it for a few moments. Having done this for several seconds I turned away from it and carried on doing something else. The dullest blog in the world  

The folks at Poo Price have a neat little tool to calculate just how much bathroom trips are costing your company in productivity. what are words to “oh canada”?