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Archive for August, 2005

Aug 8th 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.

Aug 6th 2005

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 […]

Aug 6th 2005

#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…

Aug 6th 2005

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 […]

Aug 5th 2005

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) […]

Aug 4th 2005

Judith Miller and the Clown Wilson Affair

Arianna Huffington and fellow liberals are starting to hang Judith Miller out to dry.

Aug 4th 2005

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.

Aug 3rd 2005

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 […]

Aug 2nd 2005

Jihad Jane

Ms. Fonda - We’re holding your regular seat in Tikrit.

Aug 2nd 2005

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 […]

Aug 1st 2005

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 […]

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