I saw this the other day and was mildly amused. Then I see it getting more traction as the campaign moves forward and all I can do is envision Robert Duvall straffing Smurfs to Wagner’s Die Walküre (Ride of the Valkyries). But then my history with Smurfs has always leaned more to the “dark side” [...]
You know if ever there was an obvious reason for France to oppose the United States going into Iraq I would guess that the French UN ambassador being on the take is a top choice. Its good to see that opposition to the US lead Iraq war was really about money – and not getting [...]
A rather interesting article on Taking politics out of the gun. While the article deals mainly with proliferation of military weapons at large one specific sentence jumped out at me as something I don’t think I’d realized but is very true: The popular obsession with arms and arms trading festishises weapons, elevating The Gun to [...]
If you’re looking for something to do in the coming week the Covered Bridge Festival starts on Friday. Other related links Mansfield Covered Bridge and Park County Covered Bridges. And while on the subject of covered bridges don’t forget to see my gallery of Putnam County covered bridges.
While I still detest the new name I’m looking forward to trying Mandriva 2006 (formerly known as Mandrake Linux for those not paying attention) and finding out what their recent Connectiva and Lycos acquisitions benefit the distro. I’ll also be interested to see if the boxes are available with any speed as they’re usually not. [...]
Talk about a slightly frightening development… Oracle owning the InnoDB technology doesn’t hurt now but what about future development. When it comes to these large softare companies trying to play nice with open source… well forgive me if I’m none too trusting. That said commercial giants really have contributed a lot to open source projects; [...]
“It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” —Thomas Jefferson
Odd that the press has totally ignored the suicide bombing at Oklahoma University and especially that he went to the same mosque attended by Zacharias Moussaoui. You’d think an Islamic suicide bombing at an American University would be news. I guess not.
Don’t expect me to defend the banks and the way the put it to consumers but the article Rising bank fees hit consumers sure starts out on a bad foot: “I’m admittedly poor at managing my bank account, not knowing where my money is,” says Felipe, 36, who lives in Miami Lakes, Fla., with his [...]
Face it, American beer sucks. A lot of it isn’t really even beer but some mysterious brew that wandered to close to the wrong end of a Clydedale. does that mean American beer makers should give up, baybe fix their beer so they can, in fact, call it beer? Na… its easier to give it [...]
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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