Worry?

The Nation’s take on the 2000 election.

Truth in Advertising: the Movie

[ via recommendation ] The Advertising Industry is a such an easy target. [ QuickTime ]

Fragging Battlefield Earth

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“Compared to Battlefield Earth, Gladiator is Citizen Kane.” — Uberpundit John Leonard
All the world loves to see mighty fall hard, and non have fallen harder than the Scientology equivalent of the 50’s Romans-and-Christians blockbuster: “Battlefield Earth.” So awful that instead of recruiting people to Scientology, it takes people on the [...]

Bad Science Web Log

Bob Park writes a weekly column for the American Physical Society’s site on matters relating to skepticism. His disclamier: “Opinions are the author’s and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.”

Bashing the Mouse at the Food Court

The Food Court makes the following assumption: Disney bad, anime good, and anime mixed with American culture better.

Leno in Newspeak

A whole year’s worth of Jay Leno monologues reduced to Newspeak.

NT Splash Screen

[ via http://pirates.piratehaven.org ] Oh, so that’s what NT stands for.

Joe, you’re never going to live that site down.

Maxis takes a potshot at exiled USWeb founder Joe Firmage in their promotional site for “The Sims.”

101 Ways to Save Wired Ventures

Now that Wired’s been carved up and sold to Newhouse and Lycos, it’s a little late, but worth the thought.
3. Have Nicholas Negroponte host a Wired Miracle Telethon. “I’m going to stand here and talk nonstop about the Digital Revolution until we raise US$500,000.”
I like this one:
30. Face reality: libertarians are a niche market.
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How to use Front Page

The Camworld Web Log found a use for those Front Page manuals.
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The Prediction’s Just a Little Off

NewtWatch closed two years ago, predicting the defeat of the Speaker. Now things have caught back up.
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Electronic Nastygrams

You could send Trent Lott one of these!
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Earth’s Bullsh*t Detector Threatened

“According to the report, the unregulated
release of Disney videos, the saturation of
airwaves with Family Channel broadcasts, and the
contamination of millions of homes with Princess
Di collector plates, Precious Moments figurines and other sentimental pollutants have created a crisis situation in the
Earth’s pathosphere.”
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The Onion Pokes Fun at the iMac

Think US Today
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The Brunchers decode Microsoft

My MS complaint for the day was learning that COM doesn’t support inheritence.
This means my first IIS project can be described paraphrasing Zork: “You are in a library of many tiny classes, all
alike.”
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