11.08.2005
Where are my flying cars?
An entertaining futurist article and some good related links - Wired News.
11.06.2005
Cyberpunk Becomes Reality, part...I forget.
The liner used a sonic blaster to foil the pirates. Developed by American forces to deter small boats from attacking warships, the non-lethal weapon sends out high-powered air vibrations that blow assailants off their feet. - Sunday Times Online
11.03.2005
If I were one, I'd be Catholic - they seem to know how to have a good time and
A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason.FOXNews.com.
10.27.2005
These are our kind of filmmakers
2005 Liberty Film Festival was held this October 21-23, 2005 in West Hollywood. Just reviewing the list of films will make you feel better. (expands on post from Tobermory).
10.26.2005
Not a particularly great list, but interesting...
Total Film (a British film site/mag) has put together a book of the 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time. (expands on a link from Tobermory).
10.23.2005
The best sports column I've read in years
CECIL HURT: Alabama, at this moment in history, is still Alabama (sorry (simple) registration required).
10.19.2005
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10.07.2005
Newt weighs in.
Newt Gingrich was a great backbencher in the 80's and helped change America (mostly for the better) with the "Contract with America" congressional victory in 1994. He picked the wrong fights when he got in charge & he should have held off on the book deal, but he knows what he's talking about. (Unfortunately he does still believe government can solve problems.) Nonetheless he seems quite reasonable these days and voices my thinking on Bush's nomination of Miers quite succinctly. There is no way Bush will nominate a "Souter" - Newt G.
Okay Firefly/Serenity Friends (& Freaks)
The first nine minutes, free & legal.Vividas Streaming Page
10.06.2005
My favorite poet
Recordings of Dylan Thomas reading his works and those of others (you have to sit through an ad at Salon.com but it is well worth it.
Update: An Salon-free link to my favorite poem: Do not go gentle into that good night.
10.03.2005
Our rights are deteriorating before our eyes.
The evil of government bureaucracy & secrecy knows no party lines - DenverPost.com.
10.02.2005
10.01.2005
We've all heard of being attracted to men in uniform...
Here is an obsessive post of women in uniform by someone at an odd place called - Iran Defence Forum. Tobermory with a shotgun. That is an impressive (and scary) sight.
found while visiting a site gone by memepool.
Somehow this sad excuse for a fanpage is still on the interwebs:
Farscape Links - I canceled my account & moved away over three years ago...
9.27.2005
9.25.2005
9.17.2005
I would expect no less
Senior officials in Louisiana's emergency planning agency already were awaiting trial over allegations stemming from a federal investigation into waste, mismanagement and missing funds when Hurricane Katrina struck - Los Angeles Times
Either you understand it or you don't.
Leptoprin Woman starin' at me.
Leptoprin Woman, what do you see?
Leptoprin Woman close your eyes.
Leptoprin Woman, she never cries.
Leptoprin Woman, "You must be obese."
Leptoprin Woman, she gives me no peace.
(warbled in a honky-tonk singsong).
9.15.2005
English Cricket hero understands life's rewards.
"That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. "What more could you want?" - link.
9.14.2005
"Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment"
Outstanding info on New Orleans disaster - Why New Orleans Flooded.
9.13.2005
9.12.2005
9.09.2005
The Song Remains the Same.
Comforting somehow. Malleteers get it and the University still doesn't - MontgomeryAdvertiser.com :: University destroys students' waterfall.
9.07.2005
Back with a vengeance.
After a (still unresolved) hard drive crash imposed exile the Chronicles of Tobermory are back!
9.05.2005
Our kind of General.
"He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving" - CNN.com - Lt. Gen. Honore
9.03.2005
One of the best stories of a bad week.
"Eighteen-year-old Jabbor Gibson jumped aboard the bus as it sat abandoned on a street in New Orleans and took control. "I just took the bus and drove all the way here...seven hours straight,' Gibson admitted. "I hadn't ever drove a bus." The teen packed it full of complete strangers and drove to Houston. He beat thousands of evacuees slated to arrive there - NEWSCHANNEL 5.
8.28.2005
Frustrated by Ignorance (what else is new?)
I hope all two of you have been entertained by my coverage of the Flying Spaghetti Monster movement - Pastafarianism. I've latched onto this because, well first because it's funny, but also because I see otherwise intelligent kids in my class every day who are being taught by their families/church that the earth is 6000 years old. I tell them that Asian hunters crossed into North America during the last Ice Age over 12,000 years ago and that the fossil rock on my desk is about 350 million years old and the kids with actual families, who feed them & take them to church, their little eyes boggle with cognitive dissonance. I explain (very briefly) the decay of Carbon 14 and how these things are determined, but I'm standing against the almighty. I wonder if the adoption of radical ideas by so many kids in college is aided by the fact that thier families fill them up with this ascientific claptrap before they get there. So useful ideas like reason, liberty, & patriotism, are tossed out when the kids reject the absurdities their parents foisted upon them. (Okay I'm definitely not getting a principal's job any time soon).
8.27.2005
8.24.2005
8.23.2005
Sheehan undone.
Interesting - Bush shown kissing Cindy Sheehan on cheek at first meeting - WorldNetDaily
8.20.2005
Summer Reading
I read these this summer, all 3000 pages & now I'm at a bit of a loss. Stuart history is one of my favorite periods & Stephenson is one of my favorite writers. It will take a little while for me to go back to fiction. For now I'm reading Gladwell's The Tipping Point.
8.19.2005
All Hail the Noodly Master
The Original Open Letter
Inevitable CafePress Merchandise
99,000+ links at Google Search
8.18.2005
Evironmentalists responsible for shuttle problems.
Gotta research this. I spoke to teacher whose husband works for NASA. She said the problem with the foam coming off the tank began when they stopped techs from cleaning the fuel tanks using foam made with freon! Interesting.
Update: Here's a NewsMax article with a similar, but slightly different, take.
And JunkScience two years ago.
8.12.2005
8.04.2005
This was a Canadian worth learning about
Immediately, 10 German Panzergrenadier troops jumped off and charged him. "I killed four of them with my tommy gun. That scared them off. They were up close -- about 10 feet or so."
Another tank opened fire. More enemy began closing on Smith's position. Smith grabbed more magazines and "steadfastly held his position,'' said the citation.
"It was just a bunch of rocks,'' Smith said. "You're not fighting on the prairies, you know. You try and keep out of sight. You find yourself a hunk of ground you can hang on to. That's the way you win wars, I think.'' He fired another round at an approaching tank. It turned away. As each German neared him, Smith fired at them. The rest eventually turned and withdrew "in disorder,'' the citation said. "Even Germans don't like to be shot,'' Smith said.
Dead Germans lay strewn all over the road. "I don't take prisoners. Period,'' Smith said 60 years later. "I'm not paid to take prisoners. I'm paid to kill them. That's all there is to it.''
8.02.2005
8.01.2005
Calling General Pershing.
I don't think we realize how serious the border problem is. Mexican mercenaries expand base into U.S.. Something is going to have to be done. Or the border just sort of disappears. I could see that.
Just speculating on a hypothesis
Just as we are getting more mobile access to information and communication as indivduals (with cellphones & wifi), the dueling banjos of Islamo-fascism and 'personal preference as public policy' self-righteous do-gooders seek to erode our way of life and our freedoms. Until the majority starts taking the war being waged against our system from the outside seriously and recognizes that our rights as individuals are being slowly eroded by the socialist 'love of banning things' at home, we're in trouble.
7.31.2005
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7.25.2005
The Fruits of Multiculturalism
From a column in the Australian "With hindsight, the defining encounter of the age was not between Mohammed Atta's jet and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, but that between Mohammed Atta and Johnelle Bryant a year earlier. Bryant is an official with the US Department of Agriculture in Florida... The meeting got off to a rocky start when Atta refused to deal with Bryant because she was but a woman...When it was explained to him that, alas, he wouldn't get the 650 grand in cash that day, Atta threatened to cut Bryant's throat. He then pointed to a picture behind her desk showing an aerial view of downtown Washington - the White House, the Pentagon et al - and asked: "How would America like it if another country destroyed that city and some of the monuments in it?" - (from Instapundit). Also - FrontPageMag, ABCNEWS.
7.23.2005
Chronicles of Tobermory: "Eco-swindlers" is a perfect label
A great short read on fighting against deliberate ignorance - "How the humanity is to defend itself against eco-swindlers and believers in supernatural phenomena".
7.22.2005
7.20.2005
Too Cool for Words
This the sort of thing the internet is made for:
a great hack for Moon Landing Day
Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites (zoom all the way in for secret moon info).
Scotty
Outstanding Scotty .wavs.
7.18.2005
When it happens you heard it here first:
Edith (Joy) Clement will be the President's nominee to replace Justice O'Connor on the Supreme Court - Hadley Arkes on the Supreme Court and Women on National Review Online. Update: I was ahead of the pundits, but we were both wrong - Bush Picks John G. Roberts for Supreme Court.
7.16.2005
Website/Blog for Freakanomics - I like these guys
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
7.15.2005
In Contrast: "The End of Europe"
Column explaining exactly why Europe is in decline - too many government benefits from high taxes that slow economic growth coupled with low birth rates that aren't offset by immigration, that they don't want anyway - washingtonpost.com .
7.14.2005
Camille's Smart Chicks
Camille Paglia's Top Ten Women Philosophers - Independent Online Edition
7.13.2005
7.10.2005
THE GREATEST THINKER IN THE WORLD EVER - DAVID HUME
Although he lacked the soundbites
of Marx and the attitude of Sartre,
David Hume should be recognised as
the finest philosopher of all time - Sunday Herald.
7.06.2005
Prophet of the Decline of Eurabia
"Oriana Fallaci, one of the most renowned journalists of the modern era, has been indicted by a judge in her native Italy under provisions of the Italian Penal Code which proscribe the "vilipendio," or "vilification," of "any religion admitted by the state." In her case, the religion deemed vilified is Islam, and the vilification was perpetrated, apparently, in a book she wrote last year--and which has sold many more than a million copies all over Europe--called "The Force of Reason." Its astringent thesis is that the Old Continent is on the verge of becoming a dominion of Islam, and that the people of the West have surrendered themselves fecklessly to the "sons of Allah." - OpinionJournal - Citizen of the World
7.04.2005
More Deep Impact
is useful (besides the military)
NASA - Deep Impact Images.
I want to be an astronaut when I grow up.
The 4th
The Grand Union Flag - America's first national flag.
