Monday, August 26, 2002

Super Monkey Ball 2 Review [GameSpot] This is why I need a GameCube - they have a game called Super Monkey Ball 2 in which you move the world around a monkey in a hamster ball. Seriously.
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My roommate is wandering around the apartment chanting "pizza balls, pizza balls" in a vaguelly musical tune. I'm frightened.
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New Cheney warning on Iraq [BBC World] I wonder how insecure Cheney's feeling now...after all, he's like the only remaining member of the Bush The Elder crowd who still advocates going after Iraq despite everything...
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Subvert Press: The 'Thank You' Sticker. Thought-virus: Thank you for financing global terror (via Metafilter sideblog) [Radio Free Blogistan]
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I was just looking at my blog and thinking 'Maybe I should change the comments link...Say Something is ok, but it doesn't feel open enough...maybe Say Anything - no, wait a sec...' I'm leaving it on Say Something, but it is tempting to switch to Say Anything, with trailing (...). =)
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Qatar raises stakes over Iraq [BBC World] That rules out, well, everything. The only countries that could more thoroughly cripple any US attempt to go after Hussein would be the UK or Kuwait...Qatar is absolutely essential, since it hosts a huge US air base. Now they've said they won't play in the Bush Junta's little wargames...
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I'm tired of having to generate a new editing window every time I want to link to someone, write something, or edit something. I just made RadioExpress! pop up its editing window in a new window because I want to link to several URI's in one entry and otherwise RE! takes over the window I was just in. But I'd rather just have one import sitting somewhere on my desktop when I need it, and then if necessary I could add the metadata I want. So this time I'm actually writing this post in my LiveJournal client for OS X (iJournal). [snip] One last total non sequitur (more in the spirit of bodega): Did anyone get the setlist for Camper Van Beethoven Saturday at the Great American Music Hall or Sunday at Slim's? I'd like to write a little review of Saturday's show but it would be nice to have a setlist to check my memory. [Christian Crumlish (xian): x-pollen] Two questions: first, does anyone know of a client for Windows that works with Radio? I'd like to find a way to not have the browser window issue... second, when the hell did Camper get back together?!?

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Police Database Lists 'Future Criminals' [Slashdot] Seriously. Read this.
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I've changed the background to a smoother, less detailed version of the same image. It's about 36k now, while the original was around 93k. If there seems to be any improvement on the scrolling problems, please let me know - I WILL get this site to work the way I want. I swear. =)
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Is This One Nation, Under Blog?. Wired News discusses ambiguous or unavailable installed-base figures for blogs. Surprisingly, they spell blogosphere with a hyphen as well, following Newsweek style? Meanwhile, the VC-oriented world looks elsewhere: Industry research powerhouses are likely to stay away from the blog-osphere until it reaches profitability. Gartner, Neilsen//NetRatings, Forrester Research and International Data Corporation don't have a single analyst involved in gathering blogging data. [Radio Free Blogistan] Can you blame them? Except for hosting and software, what money is there to be made directly off of the blogosphere? And is there really enough potential profit in said hosting and software to be worth throwing money at them? As I've said before, I love blogs. I think blogs are something new, a combination artform/journalism/knowledge management tool that will go in directions none of us can think of right now. But other than as groupware, a hobby, or informal journalism, I can't think of a real impact blogging is going to have in the immediate future...not that I think this is a bad thing. If there is something big coming, it's so new that we can't see it - which is cool.

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Bush's Cyber-Security Plan Targets E-Mail [SecurityFocus] In general, I don't much like the government reading my email, but there's always encryption if I need it - it's completely within my power to make sure that Ashcroft can never, ever read anything I write. So my biggest problem with this whole issue isn't that - it's the compulsive overuse of the prefix 'cyber'. Read the article and count the occurences - I got to at least 7 or 8, including this great one, the name for the whole research project and presentation the Bush Junta has kicked out: The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Seriously. How very, very 1986.

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US prison population break all-time high. 6.6 million adults are in jails. Possible Farker party from within? [FARK] Hurrah! Three cheers for America! We're great! We can cage our population! According to the 9:12am population estimate on my blog (upper right corner), there are 287,880,596 people in the US. I don't know how that breaks down in regards to adults and kids, but just taken as a whole, that means that one out of every 43 people in the US is an adult in jail. Over 2% of the American population is in jail RIGHT NOW. Does anyone seriously want to tell me that that's a good thing? Next question - what percentage of those in jail aren't white?

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Indian bandit strikes again [BBC World] India fascinates me. On one level, it's a technologically advanced country, a free democracy - I have many friends from India, and they don't seem out of place in the US. But on the other level, there's the regular border fights with Pakistan, and...bandits. That man to the right is an honest-to-god bandit by the name of Veerappan. He's been on the run for over 30 years. He kidnapped a movie star for three months, and now has taken a politician prisoner. To me, India represents the intersection of the modern and the ancient, the normal and the weird, like no place else on Earth. My ideas of what India is like are informed by the tech industry in Bangalore and the riots in Gujarat, Salman Rushdie and Rudyard Kipling, elephants and the Ganges. China I can rationalize - they're ruled by a dictatorship, so of course the advantages of modern technological civilization don't permeate China as they do Europe, North America, Japan, Korea, etc... But India? How can an American who's never been there understand India? Is it possible?

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GOP May Feel Generation Gap in N.H. Primary [Washington Post: Front Page] New Hampshire seems incapable of having politicians whom normal people could possibly like. My roommate is a New Hampshire native, and you should just hear him tear into any and all of them - Shaheen, Smith, Sununu 1 or 2...they're all crazy, basically. Based on what I can tell from having grown up just over the border (my 5:30 Simpsons is on the station that carried the Republican debates), it's no wonder New Hampshire throws a monkey wrench into the presidential campaign every four years...they can't even make sane choices for themselves, let alone the rest of us. =)

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Bush Aides Say Iraq War Needs No Hill Vote [Washington Post: Front Page] Right, because it's not like this is a democracy or anything, right? Right?
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