May 31st, 2008

The only problem with living in a libertarian utopia is that you’d have to live with a bunch of libertarians. The Agitator » Blog Archive » “Balko is a collectivist, a statist, and a shmuck.”  

I’d just like to say that the next time the Stooges get booked for their festival, I’m going to turn up with some pickled eggs, a small blue vibrator with a jelly dolphin balanced on the shaft, a set of dog-eared encyclopedias with the volumes E-G missing, and a screwdriver that’s been accidentally dropped in a toilet. Iggy Pop  

May 30th, 2008

While I’ll avoid the obvious joke about anyone keeping it “turgid” for 2 hours and 22 minutes with someone whose face looks like it should have a bag of oats strapped to it, I appreciate the irony of these drag queen look-alikes and their legion of vapid fans being pimp-slapped by the paper of record for the city they canonize so unabashedly. Deus Ex Malcontent: Bad Sex  

May 29th, 2008

Let the shooting of the messenger begin. Shakesville: They shoot messengers, don’t they?  

May 28th, 2008

When your boss asks you to work a few extra hours, you don’t hem and haw because you’re dying to get home and hang out in your car. Drastic Measures to Reduce Debt - Violent Acres  

May 23rd, 2008

There’s simply isn’t enough right about that to even bother talking about what’s wrong with it. Dust in a Sunbeam: Dueling Mo-Mos and the United States of Huh?  

May 22nd, 2008

I do agree with President Bush: If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can’t Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Paul Verhaeghen: We Are Not Immune to History. History Is Not Immune to Us.  

Sexy french ice cream vendors flirt with your wife here. Twitter / cwgabriel  

May 21st, 2008

“Ping For the love of God, ping” he cried, and then, in an instant, the server was resurrected. He proclaimed, “let there be side boob…” Twitter / Mark Wilkie: “Ping For the love of God,…  

PHP isn’t so much a language as a random collection of arbitrary stuff, a virtual explosion at the keyword and function factory. Coding Horror: PHP Sucks, But It Doesn’t Matter  

May 19th, 2008

You have to like a language where you can just keep gluing words together. Germans must play Scrabble on a board the size of a parking lot. Uncertain Principles: Time Dilates When You’re Chasing Bunnies  

May 16th, 2008

You may be saying to yourself, “Self, this guy is over-reacting.” blog.eslacker.com » Why I Hate Recruiters  

What nonsense, we’ve been embargoing them for only around 50 years and just this year it’s finally bearing fruit in the form of age taking its toll on Fidel Castro. If we just keep on doing the same thing for another 100 or so years, surely it’ll work by then. Matthew Yglesias (May 16, 2008) - More Appeasement! (Foreign Policy)  

May 15th, 2008

Interoperability is to Microsoft what prostitution is to a pimp: a great source of control and income. The other 20% on Novell or, When interop isn’t | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs  

The word for “turkey” in Turkish is hindi. There’s no word in Hindi, but it’ll give you dysentery anyway. Naked Baby Asian Mice: A Handy Guide to Asian Fowl