Archive for September, 2007

Yahoo: Saudi divorces wife for watching male TV host
RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.
Um, guys? You realize that the people in the magic box aren’t really in the room with [...]

Talking Points Memo: “McCain: Constitution establishes a ‘Christian nation’”
A recent poll found that 55 percent of Americans believe the U.S. Constitution establishes a Christian nation. What do you think?
I would probably have to say yes, that the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation. But I say that in the broadest [...]

ETA: I can’t believe I forgot — My birthday is also Google’s birthday.

I seem to be missing one.
And, as always, my blood donation experience was full of adventure and hilarity. I always feel faint after giving blood (and am usually feeling less than 100% for the rest of the day), so I was concerned to find out that my blood pressure was 104/60 — and, because of [...]

(Of course, doesn’t that kind of go without saying, since there are no girls on the interwebs?)
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I like kittehs a lot, but I really like it when they talk.

It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Arrrr! An’ I’ll keelhaul any one o’ ye scurvy seadogs who talks like a landlubber!

Avast, it be time for wenches an’ grog, mateys! Arrrr!

Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” is due out next month and I’ve been reading the release notes for the alpha versions (called “Tribes” for this release) of Xubuntu, which is the flavor I use. I haven’t tested Gutsy for myself yet, but some of this stuff looks really, really cool!

The LOLCat phenomenon made it into the Chicago Tribune today, and columnist Steve Johnson has got a problem. And that means I have got a problem with Steve Johnson!
There are things to praise about “lolcats,” the Internet phenomenon that sees people decorate pictures of cats with cutesy phrases and then post them to public Web [...]