“Here’s”:http://www.pepsi.co.jp/special/game.html a mildly entertaining flash game from Pepsi Japan that’ll take up a Friday afternoon. It’s actually quite a bit harder than it looks (I did beat it though–see the attached screenshot for confirmation 🙂 ).
Here’s the Zarqawi ‘outakes’ video: As you can see, certain folks wasted no time posting the video to YouTube, parodying it, and generally making a fool of Zarqawi. The original file can be found & downloaded “here”:http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom1/Video/DOD_N06050411.wmv. Thanks to CENTCOM for making it available.
Amazon.com decided to give me a 4-month free trial to their “‘Amazon Prime’”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/13819211/qid=1147053110/sr=1-1/002-7197462-6463219 service. Amazon Prime is a $79/yr subscription service in which members get free two-day shipping on all items with no order minimum (they discount overnight shipping pretty heavily too). By default Amazon already offers free ‘Super Saver’ economy shipping on qualifying orders… Read More Amazon Prime free trial
A company called “Blue Security”:http://www.bluesecurity.com/ has an intriguing new anti spam concept. It’s intended to provide active spam prevention rather than the passive blocking schemes I’ve usually seen. The idea is that they use their large (400k+) user base to identify spam and issue complaints to the originating sites, with their software automating the process.… Read More New anti-spam tool
If there’s one thing radical Muslim terrorists like Zarqawi seem to crave it’s to be taken seriously, so any time one of these guys is mentioned in the media as a dangerous terrorist it actually has the effect of increasing their status among their potential recruiting base and a certain segment of their Arab peers.… Read More Laughter is the best medicine, err, weapon
Still at the airport . . . but I came across another great article related to “my post”::http://themoodysideoflife.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,36/p,48/ from the other day. David Cloud, although just a high school economics teacher (in Pendleton, Indiana–only about 20 mi. from my hometown) writes as clearly and persuasively on the topic as anyone I’ve seen. Check it out… Read More More on the “gas crisis”
Right now I’m sitting in the Las Vegas airport waiting to board my flight back to SC. The trip to Utah was great and Elisabeth and I had a great time together and got quite a few of the wedding planning details figured out while I was there. I just came across “This”:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_us&refer=columnist_ferguson&sid=adB63M27SYz4 excellent article… Read More Vast theocon conspiracy?
I’ve not posted much the last couple of days since I spent most of yesterday travelling to Utah to visit Elisabeth. I left Easley at 3:30am to catch my flight and finally arrived in St. George at 4:15pm. It made for a long day, but it’s been really good to be here already, and now… Read More My Trip
Glenn Reynolds “argues”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12132529/#060410 (mostly tongue-in-cheek) that the quickest way to solve the illegal immigration problem is to just annex Mexico. His real point, though is that the long-term solution to the dilemma is to insist that our neighbor to the south adopt serious democratic and economic reforms; i.e. to become more American. He’s probably right.… Read More Annex Mexico?
Christopher Hitchens (one of the panel members in the Orwell post below) “debunks”:http://www.slate.com/id/2139609/ one of the most persistent myths remaining from the runup to war in Iraq. (via “Instapundit”:http://instapundit.com/archives/029633.php) The evidence *still* points to the fact that Saddam sought yellowcake from Niger. Of course, the world’s various intelligence services have been saying so all along,… Read More Sixteen words