Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Ayatollah Robertson Declares Jihad on Supreme Court

Ayatollah Robertson has declared a Jihad on the Supreme Court. I like that squinty picture they always use of him -- he looks just like GWB or someone who just got kicked in the groin. Hmm, there's an idea. When one of his nutso followers clips a supreme, will the Ayatollah get the murder rap?

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Austin is a Genius.

Austin is a genius, but I knew that already. X-Plane is the bomb-diggity and Popular Science knows it now too. My favorite line: "But there are disadvantages to being a one-man show. It's hard to imagine Microsoft coming home drunk one night from a party and accidentally uploading its entire source code, as Meyer did a few years back."

Where is the Love?

"We still got terrorists here livin' in the USA. The big CIA, the bloods and the crips and the KKK." -- Black Eyed Peas, Where is the Love?

King Johnson coming to Warsaw

My uncle's blues band, King Johnson, will be playing in Warsaw on Friday night. Now I just need to figure out what Homer's Hideaway is.

Welcome to McDonald's

Is today International Fast Food Employee Incompetence Day? It shouldn't take 20 minutes to get a breakfast burrito at McDonald's and when you pay for fries at Arby's they should be in the bag. Is this complicated?

ESPN.com: NFL - Rush to judgment on Sunday NFL Countdown

Putting Rush Limbaugh on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown is one of the stupidest ideas I've heard in a while. I guess I'll watch the Fox pre-game. Oh, and also boycott all ESPN properties, including the magazine and the radio network, until they fire him.

Monday, July 14, 2003

Google Toolbar Beta 2.0

Pop-up blocking in the new Google Toolbar 2.0 Beta makes previously unusable web sites like the New York Times usable again in IE6.

The War on Google Continues

Yahoo and Overture have joined forces to combat the growing dominance of Google. I wonder how the FAST search engine (alltheweb.com) will be integrated in the finished product?