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Oh, really? No sir, O'Reilly!
Tom Tomorrow features an amazing transcript of the O'Reilly show in his blog today.
I don't watch O'Reilly's show myself; after seeing him a couple of times I became quite convinced that he is an overbearing blowhard with whom I did not need to waste any portion of my earthly existence. But this transcript is astonishing. O'Reilly has invited one Jeremy Glick onto his show: Glick, it seems, does not think invading Iraq is a good idea. Glick's father perished in the 9/11 attacks. O'Reilly is unable to hold these two thoughts in his head without having it explode. By the end of the transcript he is shouting "Shut up! Shut up!" at his own guest.
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A good day for slashdotting
Some days Slashdot is just an endless loop of Microsoft-bashing and obscure developer jokes. Other days, like today, it's a treasure trove.
First, they alerted me to this bit of browser-skulduggery: Did MSN deliberately set out to make Opera users get a "broken" version of its home page? I tend to be skeptical of such claims -- on the Web, things break easily enough by themselves, so my default assumption is glitch before malevolence -- but the Opera site's explanation sure is persuasive.
Then I clicked over to this unbelievably fascinating explanation of the continuing mystery of hiccups. It seems that the latest theory suggests they are related to that stage of our evolutionary development when we had gills; and fetuses hiccup as they're recapitulating that stage. But read the New Scientist piece for yourself.
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