I came across Brad's Blog while looking through my referrer logs (we were next to each other on someone's Google search for "penny-arcade dune herbert"). It looks like we have some similar interests. I liked the links in his Go post. I've been trying to find time to learn Go on and off over the last two years. Hey Brad, how do you like Blosxom? I'm thinking about leaving Blogger.

Milk and Cookies has just posted a great mash up of the Carl's Jr. "Fist Girl" ad and Barry White. Just check it out.

While I was immersed in politics this week some cool links came to my attention. First, The Twilight Zone: The Planet of the Apes. Some fans converted the classic film to black and white, edited it down to 22 minutes and added appropriate Rod Serling commentary to create a very good Twilight Zone episode. Next, the latest Yeti Sports game, Big Wave is out. It's pretty different but still

This story, Classes still mourn loss of pen pal, is sad and moving.

This graphic from the New York Times. More here.

From Hidden Agenda by Garance Franke-Ruta of The American Prospect.The history of the Bush administration’s domestic efforts is a direct result of the low value placed on policy making. The past four years have been chock full of proposals announced with great fanfare that then went nowhere; initiatives that were framed as approaches to real problems but that only really benefited Bush’s

Last night and this morning two comments from interviews struck me. First, John McCain was interviewed on Late Night with David Letterman. The set up was that Letterman had just interviewed Michael Moore from the RNC and discussed McCain mentioning Fahrenheit 9/11 during McCain’s speech. Moore said he was disappointed to hear disparaging comments from someone who had not seen the movie. McCain

From Senator Zell Miller's website:My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend. He was once a lieutenant governor – but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States

As I expected on the first night it’s been all 9/11-Iraq all-the-time at the RNC with nary a mention in the main speeches about the economy and domestic policy. This is obviously a good strategy for the Republicans as there is not much good to talk about at home. Frankly there’s not much good to talk about abroad either but it’s easier to lie about the war on “terror” or “terrorism” or whatever

Over the weekend James Doohan was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sadly he was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Blogging.la was at the ceremony and posted photos including several cast members from the original series. Star Trek has had an undeniable impact on my life and Scotty was always my favorite character. Good Luck, James!

I heard his speech on the radio and it was good and sounded heartfelt. One of the central tenets of the speech was refuting the idea that we had any choice at all in the invasion of Iraq. He claimed that there was no status quo that we could leave. This is almost certainly true in the long term – but was the rush to war that we went through justified. Nick Confessore wrote about this after the

Why blog? I don’t want to gaze at my navel for to long here but some explanation is in order. The title of this post is a play on the title of a chapter from Stephen King’s non-fiction survey of the horror genre Danse Macabre, An Annoying Autobiographical Pause. In that chapter King felt it necessary to briefly discuss his childhood as it related to his future as a horror writer and fan. My

My pal Brian has just set up his blog, The Helper Monkey's Corner. He's off to a good start with some book reviews and other posts. Check it out.

The Volokh Conspiracy just posted about a new paper called A Comparison of the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver:Abstract:      We used a high-fidelity driving simulator to compare the performance of cell-phone drivers with drivers who were legally intoxicated from ethanol. When drivers were conversing on either a hand-held or hands-free cell-phone, their braking reactions were delayed and

That the title of a facinating article by Larry Diamond who served as a Senior Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad from January to April 2004:The first and foremost of these errors concerned security: the Bush administration was never willing to commit anything like the forces necessary to ensure order in postwar Iraq. From the beginning, military experts warned Washington