Well, sort of.

Disney joins anti-Moore campaign [Salon War Room '04]

If you use the comment server at pycs, you do lose an important feature: email notification when a comment is posted. You gain better performance, the ability to delete comments (I only intend to delete spam), and the ability for you and your readers to subscribe to a RSS feed of the comments to any topic. The XML feed is an important gain, email notification is a terrible loss. (Perhaps there is a way to do this, but I haven't found it yet.)

Just wondering what people who are using the Python community server think of the system. (And of course anyone using the comments here.)

Update: the comment server also seems to be a bit saucy. It seems to label people who don't leave their email addies "anonymous cowards," even if you leave other information, such as your blog URL, as you can see here.

That makes me very angry.

My apologies all around.

Astoundingly funny (if unfair) Bush  photo via Robert's Virtual Soapbox:

Robert has also generated much controversy by posting stills of Nicholas Berg's horrific murder (uncensored versions of ones that have been shown on TV), as well as links to the actual video.

I could go no further than the stills. They left me with a low-level nausea that lasted several days.

Robert is arguing that, yes, we should get this upset and confront the horror of what's happening in the war. He's right, I think, but it's pretty damn hard. The stills alone took a toll on my that lasted several days.

I thought violent images couldn't phase me. I was wrong.

Via another boring academic (it's the name of the blog, not a judgment) I came across this bit in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the lack of tenure opportunity for junior professors at the Ivies.

Having been away for a few years now, I marvel at the amazing sense of gloom the grad students and junior faculty seemed to feel... It was so pervasive a component of everyday life that I only really noticed it when I stopped feeling it.

Morons.org notes that it's just a year and a few days ago that the Supreme Count made is shocking reasonable sodomy decision in Lawrence v. Texas. And, no, the world hasn't fallen apart in the way Pat Robertson predicted (well, it's fallen apart, but that has more to do with policies that he strongly endorses).

Given Ashcroft's shameless manipulation of terror alerts to suit his own political ends, I'm surprised that he didn't put the US on a high alert level to mark the anniversary of this decision...