by Chris Barrus
Geeze, can’t Bush II even overthrow a country correctly? Any real President would have had the CIA down there with a dozen C-130s full of arms and a big bag of black budget cash.
Senior members of the Bush administration met several times in recent months with leaders of a coalition that ousted the Venezuelan president, Hugo Ch½vez, for two days last weekend, and agreed with them that he should be removed from office, administration officials said today
This is reflective of South American practicality: Argentina has far bigger problems than some pranksters hacking a web site (like who will be running the country THIS week?!!). A wonderful response to a non-crime.
The Covers Project is cataloguing cover versions of songs and discovering “chains” of covers a la the Kevin Bacon game.
From the aforementioned file of URLs I’d hadn’t got around to… The full text of George Patton’s speech to the Third Army that George C. Scott made famous at the beginning of Patton.
Dan Bricklin gets some face time with a Segway and makes quite a few perceptive observations about it that cut through the hype and anti-hype.
Imagine being so into typography that you get all hot and bothered when period movies use anachronistic typefaces. [via Viridian Notes]
Fundamentalist Christians have been gradually seceding from America over the last decade. This has signficantly dialed down the gain on efforts to Christianify the world through governmental intervention; it has also given rise to a shadow world of Christian culture: Christian themeparks, movies, and an entire genre of Christian Apocalyptic science fiction, a literature of the end-times
[via bOing bOing]
At my age (36) “Barthelemy Thimmonier developed the world’s first practical sewing machine.” In the words of Tom Lehrer, “It’s people like this that make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”