BlogBites

April 29th, 2006

You have to love it: Whores buying whores for whores. Whiskey Bar: Sex Pistols  

But what if this case is, as many suspect, an example of a deep-pocketed plaintiff trying to shut someone up — someone who can’t afford a long legal defense? Maine Blogger Legal Trouble is Message | Center for Citizen Media: Blog  

April 28th, 2006

Amazonian algorythms guide users down the long tail from Britney Spears to Nobodys, made available without the constraints of shelf space. But the interesting question is will the tail wag? Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Power Law of Participation  

April 27th, 2006

Like Bob Marley said: simmer down. Justin Perkins | home  

Because seriously, who knows more about the prevalence (or apparently absence) of racism that Mr. Snow? What an idiot. Feministing  

If this continues, cholera is going to end up with a higher approval rating. It looks to me like the only “five point” plan that could possibly revive Shrub’s political fortunes is the star on the end of Tinkerbell’s little wand. Whiskey Bar: The Politics of Scarcity  

If you outsource complex Web design jobs to snooty-assed Noo Yawk boutique design firms, it is a mortal lock that the job will come back half-assed, poorly thought through, and (it goes without saying) over budget. By Neddie Jingo!: Hoary Plaintain  

I have long been a supporter of important social causes, such as mandating that girls who have gone wild be tagged and allowed to roam freely again throughout the plains. Witt and Wisdom: Save The Sexy  

To put that in capitalist overlord economic terms, the fourth yacht-hooker of the day doesn’t make you that much happier than the first three. The Dilbert Blog: Why Iraq  

Some of you may have seen this, but apparently Scarlett Johannson and Keira Knightley are not “naked” on this cover. They are nude. The Assimilated Negro: Never Naked, Always Nude  

Ok, I’ll put on my sports coat and tie, but they can’t make me wear clean underwear. Joho the Blog: [milken] Things I’m thinking of saying on an education panel  

April 26th, 2006

Which is how it came to be that I am intimately familiar with the feeling of eight hundred volts entering my left arm. Uncertain Principles: True Lab Stories: The Definition of Insanity  

…I look for propane tanks with brass fittings turned teal green — or any tank fitting gone to rust. I test the air for the smell of cat piss. I look for sunken cheeks and lesions on the faces and arms of my clients. I see tweakers everywhere… The Faces of Meth at PunkAssBlog.com  

I would have almost rather Morgan Freeman and Lee Chamberlain get it on atop the diner’s formica counter than smoke cigarettes, and given the general clothing vibe and those kissably close silhouettes pushing letter sounds out of their lips and urging them closer and closer until it was certain the letters knew each other in a Biblical sense and a new word was formed, I wouldn’t put some literary screwing past those two at all. One Good Thing  

April 23rd, 2006

The architecture (structure and design) of political processes, not their content, is determinative of what can be accomplished. Mitch Kapor’s Blog » Blog Archive » Politics is Architecture