More on Bush & Space Revival:Dennis E. Powell on Space Exploration on National Review Online.

This is the most popular new personality quiz online - Spacefem.com: Your Color. I'm Yellow - ffff00.

I enjoy trying to keep up with the tinking of these guys - Edge: THE NEW HUMANISTS.

I can get annoyed with our government, but sometimes they get things right:
Bush Repeals Steel Tariffs and Return to Moon May Be on Agenda.

These are my people - Gravity and Chaos Club at Western Washington University.

An excellent Slate column about the THG obsession sweeping sports Needles and Pens - The sportswriter's obsession with steroid scandals.

The One - On ESPN2's chess championships, Garry Kasparov tries to stop the rise of the machines. - I saw some of this, it was fun. I must admit to pulling for 'man' in this one.

A column from August about Alabama's own Roy Moore by my favorite reformed English socialist - Moore's Law - The immorality of the Ten Commandments. By Christopher Hitchens.

The Onion is the funniest thing online - Mom Finds Out About Blog.

We may be CourtTV junkies, but I just can't see how this guy got off COURTTV.COM - TRIALS - Millionaire Durst acquitted of neighbor's murder.

At retroCRUSH it appears that the JLA & Avengers have actually faced off, after all these years.

From Ain't It Cool News a four-hour wrapup of Farscape is in the works. I really enjoyed the show, but its friday showtime clashed with football & I'd fall behind the complicated plots & then have to catch up. I'm fired up about the finale getting done.

(In a Dr. Phil accent) What you've got to do is get tough and stop expecting therapy to solve your problems - Telegraph | Arts | We need to pull ourselves together.

With the season slipping away for Alabama, it's time to be thinking about recruiting - TheInsidersRecruiting.com: Scout™ Database.

An informative column on why American's can't get good intelligence in Arabic countries by Spengler in the Asia Times.

More reality becoming cyberpunk - CDs 'could be history in five years' - storage media is the key people.

Along the lines of the copter game is:Albino Blacksheep - Flash / Defend Your Castle.

Since we've gooten Bellsouth Broadband recently I've been reacquainting my self with sites like - IFILM. There's a lot of entertainment value there.

Along those same lines, but more fun is this one - Which famous artist most reflects your personality? - Quizilla.

I took the Myers-Brigs personality test at SimilarMinds.com - Free Personality Tests and Community and came out a "Promoter". If: Bored, then: Give it a try.

Gadget may wreak traffic havoc it changes red lights to green. Gotta get one.

Machinima is a new art form combining video games, animation & filmmaking. It makes perfectly good sense. I've observed that video games are becoming more like movies, so why not just make them into movies. They had a film festival recently.

Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online on the ongoing victory in Iraq.

PowerPoint Is Evil.
A case in point: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation.

Gizmodo:USB air purifier and more OCD assistance with a hand-sterilizing mouse.

The Alabama Crimson Tide football team is having a tough year.
The 51-43 5OT loss to despicable Tennessee is the latest indignity.

Amazon.com: Search Inside the Book allows you to search the text of thousands of books. I'm in favor.

Carnivale - The Unofficial HBO Original Series Carnivàle Fan Website

One show that we do enjoy is on HBO: Carnivàle. It's odd, ominous and incredibly well-done. The best scripted show on television since the first season of the Sopranos.

NYT article about low TV ratings this fall. They can't understand why TV viewing is down. Maybe the shows are just awful.

We need a Space Elevator...now.

In addition to this, an excellent fan/link site: THE QUENTIN TARANTINO ARCHIVES.

I've been keeping an eye on the buildup for Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill". Here's somewhat negative review in the Guardian - So has Quentin just shot himself in the foot?

One of my favorite, Virginia Postrel (former editor of Reason) in the Atlantic.

Leni Riefenstahl is dead. She made Triumph of the Will and a documentary of the 1936 Olympics. She continued to claim she was never a Nazi. Saw an interesting film about her, The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, the other night.

A review of The Manchurian Candidate, movie & novel.

Our first game was vs. Hartselle, #5 in 5A. They have one of the state's top prospects, Nikita Stover, who has already committed to Alabama.
We were behind 14-0 with 4:00 left.
We won 20-14 in overtime.

School started today. I have 5 honors classes, so no real behavior headaches this year.

Austin Football began today. Two a days.
There will not be much free time from here on in.

Coaches retreat went well.
Played some EASports NCAA College Football 2004.
I need to regain my skills, didn't play up to RIG103 levels.

Will be gone to our preseason "coaches' retreat" until Thursday.
Stay out of trouble.

One of the best optical illusions I've seen: here.

A couple of tech sites I've found: Daily Rotation and Nanodot.

I've rounded up a few sites that are basically metablogs - summarizing the top links of other blogs: DayPop, Blogdex, Blogosphere.

I was motivated by this letter. It's from a U.S. Special Ops Colonel in Iraq and was posted on freerepublic.com - It Ain't Necessarily So.

Finally, some news from Iraq that cannot be spun by leftists - AP reports that "Saddam's Two Sons Were Killed in U.S. Raid" - FoxNews - Yahoo Full Coverage.

David Kelly was named by the BBC as the main source of a news report alleging the government exaggerated intelligence to strengthen the case for war in Iraq. He committed suicide.

Mike Price is back. He's suing Alabama for $20 million over his firing & Sports Illustrated for $20 million as well.

Whether he's guilty or not, Kobe Bryant has blown it.

The former roommate of missing Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy has been charged Monday with murder.

A lot of scandal while we were at the coaching clinic:

Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited fourth film, Kill Bill, could be released in two parts. Finally...maybe.

I will be in Montgomery, AL from today through Saturday for The State Coaches' Clinic/All-Star Sports Week. I will be w/o easy internet access, so I may not post 'til Saturday night.

I mentioned Daniel C. Dennett's idea of calling people like us, who don't believe in the supernatural, Brights. Now he's got a column in the NYT on The Bright Stuff.

You don't have to be a nutty SUV-hater to like the 2300-mile American Solar Challenge along route 66. I love solar power. It's free!!

I am entertained by Ann Coulter. She is a leftist's nightmare - something that should not exist - an attractive woman who is a true-believing conservative who will not shut up and has no fear - she'll say anything to win an argument. Her latest bestseller, Treason, accuses the Democratic Party of being treasonous - since World War II. She has actually led some conservative/libertarians to question her on this one - (Frontpage.com, Andrew Sullivan). She doesn't care.

Reason magazine is great. This article on the anti-pleasure principle of nuts like the CSPI is a perfect example.

An essay in the Financial Times by the author of a new book about Stalin's "court". A few weeks ago we re-watched Inner Circle, an excellent film about the people around Stalin that addressed similar ideas.

U.S. Grant won the American Civil War.
There's little doubt that Beyonce's Grant's Tomb Dance was a bad idea.
But if there was no fighting going on, I don't think Grant would have been sober enough to care.

My principal Ed Nichols is the new assistant superintendent for personnel for Decatur City. I'm not happy about this. It's good for him, but I like him & am apprehensive about a new boss. I've got two more years to get tenure...

We talked about lifters last year. These "anti-gravity devices" are in the news again.

A Wired News article on Machinima - animated movies made with videogame 3-D software.

(in desperate gasping tones) Phone...line...was...cut. Must...blog...from...school.

Liberia? Where was I? Gotta catch up...

A friend from college, J.R., who spent his time altered, computing & recording songs has made his entire library available online (through the auspices of Poobie) - here.

Ed Lu, a NASA man on the Space Station, is sort of keeping a blog. Notice the picture with the best caption ever - "Godzilla is shown for scale".

Some cool fish, rare & new species, found in the Tasman Sea.

Baseball: It seems to me that Dontrelle Willis should have been on the NL All-star Team: rookie, 8-1 with a 2.13 ERA in 11 Major League starts, high leg kick, great attitude. He has said all the right things about being left off by Dusty Baker.

But in truth I find that the older I get, the less & less I care about the All-Star game. ESPN has eliminated the fact that I never saw AL guys except for every other Saturday & All-Star games. Who really cares anymore?

A review of Robert Harvey's new book, Comrades: the Rise and Fall of World Communism, in The Telegraph.

When government people who don't really know what they're doing or don't really care about Americans' privacy (i.e.- Total Information Awareness) tick off smart people who do know what they're doing, you get things like this - Government Information Awareness. Oh my... (in Wired).

I remember him as the king of the diving catch for the Crimson Tide. Now Joey Jones is one of the top coaches in Alabama High School Football. His Mountainbrook team beat us (Austin) in the 1st round of last year's playoffs. I talked to him before the game & he was particularly nice, considering the circumstances. He'll be at Alabama eventually, mark it down.

We've been discussing President Bush's hispanic federal court nominees today. Here's a semi-leftist column in the HoustonChronicle.com that actually outlines the issues involved.

Virginia Postrel discusses the lighting in Victoria's Secret & how Texas is legislating
against it. - D Magazine (Dallas/Ft. Worth).

Great column by Victor David Hanson at NRO about the American soldiers in Iraq & the amazing work they are doing with so very little support.

Michael Kinsley finally has a good idea - Abolish Marriage - Let's really get the government out of our bedrooms.

The New Cartoons on TNN - Gary the Rat (Kelsey Grammer), Ren & Stimpy (yes, it is), Stripperella (Pamela Anderson).

The new TNN knows the way to a guy's heart - Kansas City Star.

Following Toshiba's lead, NEC has unveiled a laptop computer that is powered by a fuel cell that uses methanol. Now wood alcohol will be good for something besides going blind.

A couple of new places to learn about gadgets:
Gizmodo:The gadgets weblog and Kevin Kelly's 'Recomendo'.

CRL just subjected me to one of the worst horror movies of all time -
Faust: Love of the Damned.

A really unsettling article in The Guardian about teenagers kidnapped by their parents & sent to a 'behavior modification center'. Couldn't you just whip 'em & ground 'em for a month?

P.J. O'Rourke, one of our favorite authors, reviews the junior senator from New York's new book. It sounds like it took six ghost writers to produce one of he most inane biographies of all time.

Katherine Hepburn dead at age 96. We have a softspot for crabby, independent people who don't have kids and tell people what they can do with themselves.

Sabine Herold, 21, has been called France's answer to Margaret Thatcher. From this Telegraph article she sounds like a true French libertarian. Oh my...
A picture of her at her group's website (in French of course)..

It appears tha Baghdad Bob/Comical Ali has resurfaced. I miss that guy.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D.-R.I.) carries on a family tradition (scroll to bottom).

Okay, the 20th Century is now officially over.
Strom Thurmond died Thursday. He was 100 years old.

Stop telemarketers dead (or near enough) - National Do Not Call Registry.

Glad to see MM's friends have been legalized by the Supreme Court. There are so many more important things to worry about than other people's private lives.

Got this one from boingboing - wreckedexotics.com - over 2,000 photos of wrecked exotic cars.

The NBA Draft was yesterday - a lot of foreign players & high school kids. Given the opportunity I'd draft college seniors (like the beloved Dallas Mavericks & the hated LA Lakers (1, 2) did). They've already been coached and can help right away, unlike these projects who can ditch you in three years anyway.

I thought the economy was in bad shape (according to Democrats):
Markets on course for global five-year high - Financial Times.

Apparently Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO) does not understand the concept of separation of powers within the American government.

Anthony Daniels reviews A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson in The Telegraph.

Ben Franklin & his kite. Reconsidered in The New Yorker.

Can a 'Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator' make you smarter? A wacky Australian scientist at the University of Sydney is trying to figure this out. - NYT (caveat emptor).

Top Ten ways the world might come to an end - from Wired.

Camille Paglia interviews Matt Drudge with Radar Magazine. A match made in internet-political-geek heaven.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has proposed a new positive term for identifying people who are atheists, agnostics, humanists, free thinkers - those who have a world view that is free of supernaturalism and mysticism - Brights. A couple of websites that would be of interest to Brights - The Secular Web and the Celebrity Atheists List.

World Wide Words is the place for finding the origins of unusual phrases.