Monthly Archives: August 2003

Ben McGrath writes in this week’s New Yorker: “So what was Fox thinking? Old Hollywood hands ought to know. They might recognize, in the extravagance and folly of a flimsy lawsuit, the telltale signs of an appeasement gift, a sop … Continue reading →

Gotta love Hitch: “Still, to have left rape and child abuse and genocide and slavery out of the account is to have been negligent to some degree, even by the lax standards of the time. I wonder what would happen … Continue reading →

No Hair Day, the online version of the book, is live on Elsa Dorfman’s site. The tag line for the video version summarizes it well: “Laughing (and crying) our way through cancer”. It’s scary and beautiful and, above all, human. … Continue reading →

I’ve noticed for some time that Instapundit’s feed and Radio don’t quite get along. You can read Instapundit just fine in Radio, but there are no permalinks to individual posts. A few minutes of experimentation reveals the problem. Here is … Continue reading →

Wired: “Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open source-style.”

<rant> Has anyone else noticed that cut and paste doesn’t work anymore? It fails at least 50% of the time in my fine Microsoft operating system. All of the extra bells and whistles—attempts to preserve formatting, multiple clipboards and God … Continue reading →

Got my first comment spam today. *sigh*