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