Archive for April, 2007
Nothing But a Dream
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007One of the things that goes along with advising Student Council at my school is orchestrating the annual Talent Show. For the past four years, that’s included performing as the first act — largely because I badger my fellow faculty into performing, and I feel I should ask them to do something I’m not [...]
More Meta: Fancy Pull Quotes and Javascript Pull Quotes
Monday, April 23rd, 2007In my never-ending quest to overload my WordPress installation with a billion gadgets, today I’m adding Fancy Pull Quote. Fancy pull quotes make any dumb monkey look like a Pulitzer Prize winner! But I’ve decided to run it head-to-head with JSPullQuotes, a javascript implementation, to see which I like more (= is more easily [...]
Testing subscriptions 2
Saturday, April 14th, 2007More testing, this time with the correct category.
more testing of subscribe2
Saturday, April 14th, 2007Let’s see what this does.
Testing subscriptions
Saturday, April 14th, 2007You can just ignore this post — I’m trying a new feature.
Where should I put the subscribe message?
Vanishing Ink?
Thursday, April 12th, 2007(written 2007 0412; extended 2007 0413)
I’ll admit that this post is basically ripped off from Glenn Greenwald, whom you should read for details. I just wanted to collect all the points in a clean, stripped version. The subject? The amazing and disturbing “incompetence” demonstrated by the Bush administration in producing records that [...]
Review: The Book of Lost Things
Saturday, April 7th, 2007The Book of Lost Things
a novel by John Connolly
InstaRating: 5 (out of 5)
This is simply a good book. I would not have thought anything would rank up next to a new book by Guy Gavriel Kay (Ysabel, which I’ll review some other time), but this one easily meets that standard. One of life’s [...]
More on Guiliani-as-Kaiser
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Glen Greenwald continues to shine a welcome spotlight on the outright authoritarian — dare we say, totalitarian? — impulses of the Right’s new darling, Rudy Guiliani. Twice in the past few days, he’s made statements that, only a handful of years ago, would have been credible only coming from the mouth of some cartoonish [...]
2 out of 3 Republican candidates prefer dictatorship
Sunday, April 1st, 2007OK, so that’s not entirely fair. But Glenn Greenwald has a terrific piece on why it’s not entirely unfair, either. The short version: When asked if the President of the United States should have the power to detain indefinitely American citizens without any sort of review, Mitt Rommey said he couldn’t form [...]