This is great: Christian Right Labors to Find Right ‘08 Candidate.
Many conservatives have already declared their hostility to Senator John McCain of Arizona, despite his efforts to make amends for having once denounced Christian conservative leaders as “agents of intolerance,” and to former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, because of his liberal [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Secondary virginity — not just for promiscuous teenagers anymore!
Posted in What the Fuck? on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
political writer gender gap
Posted in Gender, Media on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the disappointing but not surprising category: Women writers still lacking at “serious” magazines.
Last year, an American website, www.WomenTK.com, began tracking the ratio of male to female writers in Harper’s, The Atlantic, The NYT Magazine, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Arguably, the ratio should be more or less one to one because that’s what [...]
shorter silly conservative rhetoric: duh, we know what’s best for all people at all times in all situations
Posted in Nanny State on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was at an America’s Future Foundation roundtable on “religion and the left” last week, and this guy suggested a novel reason why cloning is wrong: it leads to the “exploitation of women” because “poor black women” will be too tempted by the get-rich-quick potential of embryo donation and therefore donate embryos against their [...]
links for 2007-02-28
Posted in Generation Gaps, Internet, Kids These Days, Libertarians, Privacy, Transit on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
highway interchanges as seen from sateillites make graceful tile designs. – designboom
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine
Fantastic article about the new internet-based generation gap. Antonella Barba is now a metaphor. Or is it an allegory?
11 Top Underground Transit Systems in the [...]
something about liberal bias in wikipedia. it is probably supposed to be ambiguous
Posted in Technology, What the Fuck? on February 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last week, Chris Clarke at Pandagon shared the funniest description of 1984*** I have ever read:
1984 was a book by George Orwell. 1984 describes an alternate history in which Oceania (Australia) is at war with Eurasia. It is a utopian book because it talks about a place where everyone is watched over by [...]
Starbucks gone sterile? When brands go bland.
Posted in Branding, Business on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In a leaked in-house memo that came from the chairman of Starbucks stated a slight turn for Starbucks.
Starbucks has a plan to expand its menu to include things like hot breakfast sandwiches
While that does in fact sound tasty, Starbucks is out for you. In the midst of competition, Starbucks is going back to you.
However, [...]
Swoosh and I’ll take a coke with that.
Posted in MoSoSo, Technology on February 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
America is so far behind in mobile technology. I just read this article over at Red Herring.
More and more Japanese are using mobile phones equipped with an electronic chip that lets them swipe their handsets over special readers to pay for train tickets and snacks at retailers.
One less thing to carry, one more opportunity [...]
Oh Georgie, it’s nothing.
Posted in Technology on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was a PC user at one time. In fact, almost two years (in August) when a cup of water killed Sherman, my computer. It was a sad fate. I didn’t know him well. Alas, my files, songs, and pictures were gone however, it allowed me to step up purchase a Mac. No this isn’t [...]
Oh no Doctor Claw, not the self destructing video e-mail!
Posted in Pop Culture, Technology on February 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This e-mail will self destruct.
It was a matter of time before marketers found another way to reach audiences. This time, it comes with a bang and a few scratches. US company, BigString is hawking a video e-mail self destructing software. Fortunately, or unfortunately, they weren’t the first.
BigString isn’t alone. In the United Kingdom a year [...]
take too much of this abortion drug — it’s the law!
Posted in Ohio on my Mind, Reproductive Rights on February 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After years of Gov. Taft and Ken Blackwell and all the other jackasses who were running the fine state of Ohio, it’s so nice to finally hear good news coming out of the state on a semi-regular basis. From NARAL Ohio:
On Tuesday the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Governor Strickland is dropping his predecessor’s fight [...]
68 cents for a pet penis and Drew’s still not happy with Second Life
Posted in Second Life, Sex on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Drew from Toothpaste for Dinner explores Second Life and is not amused:
I thought I’d poke around a little more, to see what was available. There was a place called Freebie Warehouse that I teleported to, which was full of…. cubes… with bad JPEGs on the side. You can click on the cubes and download scripts, [...]
Saving the world from World War II evil three movies at a time, and now a fourth?
Posted in 80s, Pop Culture on February 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I must confess, slightly geeked out, that I am excited about Indiana Jones four! I mean, I was a big fan as a kid. It could be the whole entry of Sean Connery in the third one (I had a massive crush on him.) But I just think they were good old fashion good versus [...]
how long did anyone who knows me think I’d actually go before posting something from natalie dee?
Posted in Art on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I adore Natalie Dee. She’s a Columbus-girl like me, you know. I used to hope I’d run into her places (not in a creepy stalker way but in a vague way, like, oh, that’d be cool), but seeing as I was basing my knowing-what-she-looked-like on her self-drawn cartoon-image, I don’t remember why it seemed possible [...]
Anna Nicole and the American Dream
Posted in Pop Culture on February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Project for Excellence in Journalism monitored coverage of war and politics vs. coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s death and wacko astronaut lady. The results won’t exactly shock you.
For the first time this year, “tabloid gold” fever seized at least some of the news media last week in a significant way, according to PEJ’s [...]
morning link farming…
Posted in Health Morality on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jesse Walker at Reason on the various sides of the HPV vaccine debate:
Which leads to the next question: Even if the vaccination isn’t compulsory now, should it be obligatory sometime down the road? The knee-jerk libertarian reaction is to say no, and at least one of my knees is a confirmed libertarian. But there are [...]
next time I’m wearing my hot-pink-and-black dress….
Posted in Tobacco on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Camel introduces girly cigarettes. Marty Kaplan at the Norman Lear Center blog thinks the marketing campaign is sort of silly:
What’s surprising, or at least worth a second look, is the degree to which the tobacco company believes that marketing and packaging — the dark arts of attention-getting — are smart investments. Again according to [...]
late to the game, but ….
Posted in Education on February 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Back in January, I printed out Charles Murray’s three-part-editorial on what’s wrong with education these days (because I still much prefer reading things on paper to on the computer screen), and there it sat until this morning, when I decided to finally go through the giant stack of printed-out things that has accumulated on my [...]
in which I continue to blog about random things of very little interest at all
Posted in Journalism, PR on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Times tech writer disses PR people (hmm, apparently spell check doesn’t do “disses.” Is it because I’ve spelled the word wrong, or just because it’s trying to save me from using a word no one should ever use outside of 1996?).
This leads to PR bashing in the comments section, followed by much PR [...]
down to one girl next door
Posted in Pop Culture on February 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t written anything in a few days, being busy with school and job stuff and all, but apparently the MAJOR NEWS that has spurred me out of blogging inaction and motivated me tow ant to post is this:
Hugh Hefner downsizes girlfriends.
Oh well, at least I didn’t blog about Britney’s shaved head.
But Mommy, what about the others?
Posted in Democrats, Libertarians, Stupid Media Frenzy... on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So yes, I’ll admit it. I am not an Obama flag waving 20 something. Nor am I a bra burning Hillary addict. They are both way to liberal for my small pocketbook and both like to infringe on my ever decreasing personal rights.
But yes, Mom, what about the others? Two major news makers and not [...]
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