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December 31st, 2005

At 12:30pm, an envelope from Redmond appeared at the Creative Commons office. Inside, a check for $25,000. From Microsoft. Lawrence Lessig  

What I saw was the demand side supplying itself. Doc Searls’ IT Garage  

Then I can start using my afternoons for more productive things like getting drunk and gambling. Russell Beattie Notebook  

Granted we have every reason to be pissed off at France, they didn’t want us to go into Iraq and we have renamed the “French Fry” in a stunning effort to punish them for possibly being right. morph  

I’m feeling a need for fried chicken. MeatHenge  

Anyone who thinks that government monitoring mosques for radiation levels and wire tapping international calls doesn’t affect them because they don’t go to mosques or make international calls doesn’t know nearly enough about history. 1115.org  

Like Atrios, I’m inclined to point out that reality has overcome the best efforts at satire yet again. Pandagon  

Most of the rest was the usual sex as power, either as conquest or as showing off, and about as erotic as an instructional film I once saw on how to artificially inseminate rats. The Wisdom of the Illiterati  

December 30th, 2005

As always, the press failed to ask the logical follow-up question. In this case it would have been, “whose job is it to convert a 512 page book by a real historian into a twenty minute Powerpoint presentation that won’t tax the attention span of the Commander-in-Chief?” archy  

If you suspect your mint is going bad, do not put it in your drink. Cocktails with Camper English  

A party that is described as fumbling, confused and scared is unlikely to win elections even if they endorse the wholesale round-up of hippies and the nuking of Mecca. Hullabaloo  

Did you know that in the pages of National Review Martin Luther King was a really lousy public speaker? Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal  

A plea to Google: play fair. Temporally Relevant  

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he tries to refer the bill to the ‘Titty Committee’, a play on the grammar school classic ‘Itty-bitty Titty Committee.’” Barbecue and Politics  

If anyone wants to leak me a copy, I promise full anonymity, and I’ll go to jail to protect my source. I need the publicity. Crack the Bell