June, 2011 archive
Look Away, Look Away Back
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Chancey DeVega considers Little Ricky Santorum’s nostalgia for the days before the Voting Rights Act 1965.*
Most important to the White Soul, there wasn’t all of this “political correctness” stuff. Good white people could say what they want and about whoever they wished without any consequences.
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*Sometimes the mask slips, does it not?
QOTD 0
Thomas Hardy, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
While much is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Opera Winfrey 0
Opera Software ASA, the Norwegian company responsible for the Opera browser, honors Oprah Winfrey by opening its archives of emails sent to them by Oprah fans who apparently believe that, in addition to being Queen of All Media, Oprah is also the world’s best web browser.
It’s a giggle.
Parallel Universes:
Opera provides their own news server with newsgroups about Opera products. Occasionally persons stumble into one of the newsgroups promoting the next performance of La Boheme. We usually suggest that they check out the Opera browser, then look two floors up and to the left for altos and tenors.
Via the Linux Outlaws.
Twits on Twitter 0
Tweet of the Day, courtesy of Mr. Feastingonroadkill.
Drinking Liberally Tomorrow in Norfolk 0
Drinking Liberally is a support group for liberals, where you can realize you are not alone.
When: 6 p., Wednesday, June 8.
Where:
Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub
241 Granby Street
Norfolk, Va. (map)
More about Drinking Liberally.
Street parking is tight at the tail end of rush hour, but the Freemason Street Parking Garage is two blocks away.
I have some copies of Linux Mint for anyone who’s interested, first come first serve, just because I can.
Twits on Twitter 0
Congressional Division:
At least frankenfurters have popular appeal.
Twitter, the home of twits from all over the world.
Facebook Frolics 0
Virtual subpoenas:
Courts in New Zealand, Canada and the U.K. have adopted the Australian example to avoid having cases stall when people can’t be located and served in person. Lawyers said the U.S. may not be far behind in using the world’s most popular social- networking service.
Bet they don’t let you respond with an avatar.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Lenscrafters Dept. 0
Doug J at Balloon Juice is on a roll.
Here’s a bit of his analysis of the punditocracy.
With the Village things are slightly different, but much the same. The Democrats caused a huge deficit that is killing us, even if Democrats didn’t cause the deficit, it is killing us, if the deficit isn’t killing us we should still pretend it is so that we can use it as a pretext to make “tough choices”, even if the deficit isn’t killing us and the “tough choices” are all nonsense, it’s what voters believe. Also too, remember Walter Mondale, you don’t want to end up like him, and Greg Mankiw has some wonky stuff that supports something I said about this economically, I think.
Twits on Twitter 0
Congressman Weiner has created a frankenfurter monster.
Facebook Frolics 0
Contagion:
Facebook data scientist Adam D.I. Kramer analyzed postings by about 1 million English speakers and their roughly 150 million friends in multiple countries on the social network to show that the words people use in their status updates drive the emotions of their online friends, even days later. Kramer found people who used emotionally loaded words like “happy,” “hug,” “sick,” and “vile” in their status updates sparked similar emotions in later Facebook postings by their friends.
“Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain” 0
Either they are ashamed or they have something to hide. Since their public conduct indicates that they are without shame, that leaves . . . .
Bloomberg:
Follow the link for more.
Mirror Image 0
I can’t remember where I found this.
“Yes, But” Always Means “No” 0
Basic rule of communication. For example.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Moving on from a relationship necessitates courtesy.