glennuendo
noun
Trying to insert revisionist nuance into your thesis or the act of drawing a darkly ominous inference from an opponent’s failure to discuss a political issue.Continue reading
Caca over macaca
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
—Mahatma Gandhi in reply to a query by Missionary E. Stanley Jones who asked why Gandhi why he quoted Christ so often.
capelza brings up a great point on this thread on George Allen: “Oh and while we are on the macaca thingy…that was nasty, but does everyone forget what Allen then said to to him…‘Welcome to America?’”
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The most powerful weapon in the United States
“Our most formidable weapon is not our military strength, but rather our democratic ideals… It therefore seems oxymoronic that we would embrace a strategy that requires that we toss aside that strength in order to engage in a conflict on the terms we claim to abhor from our perceived enemies.”
—Byron Williams, “What is the Real Strength of the United States”
This argument centers around the basic question of whether our legacy is that of our democratic ideals and sense of justice, or if we will follow the trajectory of all empires. These arguments seem more powerful to me because they are couched in moral terms, not just practical ones.
Beanbags at Plaxo
Kawaii
Someone left an interesting one word comment on a photo I took:
First jeans
Valley Fair Shopping Center, Santa Clara, California
Valley Fair Shopping Center, Santa Clara, California
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1
1/8 sec @ f/2.8, iso 400, 6mm (28mm)
The word was “kawaii.” (可愛さ)Continue reading
Talk like a Pirate Day ecAAAAAARRRRRRRRd
Office Slang
Dave sent me this link to geeky office slang.
We’ve heard them before (some from the Wired), but it’s fun reading them again.
Political popcorn
There has been some funding movement among the Democratic part.
You can read about it on The Next Hurrah or on the Swing State Project. Please remember these are sites slightly biased toward the Democratic Party, so it sounds a lot better than it is.
Translation: The Republicans are on full retreat and are cutting their losses to consolidate their funds to do damage control. However, the movement that is occurring is in the Senate, not the House. This is relevant because the odds are very, very low that the Democratic party will regain the Senate (Democrats need to win almost all the contested races) but around 50-50 that they can regain the House at this point. They need to regain at least one to have any referendum on the Bush “America as an Empire/we create our own reality” doctrine.Continue reading
Web APIs with PHP
I recently received the following book from Wiley:
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet so this will be a placeholder for a future review.
Argh!
I lost all my photos today.
The net result is I lost about one and a half months of photos permanently (around 1000 images), about six months of originals that haven’t been burned yet to disk, lost days of work, and shot up my entire backup regiment.
I’m also one crash/corruption from losing everything.Continue reading