Archive for August, 2005
The Matrix in ASCII Art
For all you old school geeks who remember when ANSI art was soooo cool because it had color…
Check out this ASCII rendering of the roof bullet dodging scene from The Matrix.
Media Bias on A-Bomb Anniversary
Don Irvine at Accuracy In Media talks about media bias, the 60th anniversary, and his mother (a survivor of Nagasaki).
The media has searched far and wide for survivors who thought the U.S. could have found another way to end the war. I wish they had tried to contact my mother and ask her thoughts. She […]
#1 Sign We’re Posting Too Much in Spanish
Adsense starts serving ads in Spanish on the home page.
Yikes.
UPDATE: Looks like they only appear once every so often…
Ronald Reagan Quotes
A big collection of Reagan quotes.
My two favorites:
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
- Remarks in Arlington, Virginia (September 25, 1987)
and
My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that […]
Psychology and Stockmarkets
Metaphors can move markets, or so says some interesting research reported in The Economist last week.
The students were asked to predict the performance of the NASDAQ index after seeing a chart and a short description of the previous day’s movement. When the description contained agent metaphors, they predicted more of the same (up or down) […]
Judith Miller and the Clown Wilson Affair
Arianna Huffington and fellow liberals are starting to hang Judith Miller out to dry.
New York Civil Liberties Union Files Suit
Because getting blown up is less inconvenient than a random bag search.
The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed suit against the city to keep police from searching the bags of passengers entering the subway, organization lawyers said.
Being 13
I got my copy of Time magazine in the mail today. The cover story is all about “Being 13.”
What does it mean to be 13, backstage adults, watching on tiptoe, waiting to go onstage?
Some things about this age of change are unchanging. If childhood is about magic, 13 introduces mystery: Joan of Arc began […]
Jihad Jane
Ms. Fonda - We’re holding your regular seat in Tikrit.
Santa Lucia y La Locura de Fútbol
El último fin de semana pasó algo que jamás había visto en toda mi vida. Algunos jugadores de Santa Lucia (equipo de la “B” local en Tucumán) y su hinchada agredieron al árbitro porque sancionó un penal para Unión del Norte. Hay que ver para creer.
Santa Lucía y Unión del Norte son dos […]
Life Experience Degree
What exactly is it?
Good question. But apparently over 11,000 people search for the term “life experience degree” on Google every single day. I’m guessing that this is a popular interest. I was looking at some stats on verious keywords the other day and this one really stuck out.
Amazing the things that Google […]
