| Friday, August 25, 2006 |
 | You know, I think I might just take the risk and run my laptop off its exploding battery. It seems like a convenient and simple way to dance with the devil.
Assuming I live, I might need to block some timewasting web sites. Although any solution based on user willpower is almost inevitably doomed to fail.
Tech links:
Continuing the Apple theme, The story of the first Apple Duo.
Hints for using the OSX firewall.
The 15 most important websites - a mildly contentious list primarily for its failure to include wesleywillis.com.
The Shiira browser promises a revolutionary approach to the browser that is essentially indistinguishable from Firefox. The sidebar is a nice tool, but it looks like all the really shiny stuff is coming out in version 2.1, as is traditional, and I don't really have time to wrestle the alpha. As I believe Satan once said.
From our hell in a handbasket department: Ruth Kelly doesn't feel that Muslims are doing enough to combat fanaticism. That a woman who as far as I know has ducked every vote on the homosexual age of consent put before Parliament, is Minister for Equality is already suggestive Blair is now playing it for laughs.
Disney stands by Mel Gibson. Can't wait to see the next Mickey Mouse cartoon. Given that they were standing by him to help him distribute an epic in Mayan (how many fundamentalists are going to be prepared to sit through that, eh?), they seem to have missed a golden opportunity to sidle off here.
Depeche Mode to provide the soundtrack to Mel Gibson's next film after that - a harrowing tale of genocide in suburbia, written and acted entirely in the original Simlish.
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| Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| Remember Bob Ney? Englanders in the audience may take a bit of reminding. Remember freedom fries? The moment where you realised that the most powerful military the world had ever seen was directed by people who felt that a nation that had failed to fall in line with them must be punished by having its name removed from the canteen blackboards of America. And maybe weed a tiny bit in your pants.
Well, Bob Ney was the mastermind of the plot to change the name of French fries to freedom fries, rather than the more accurate "shit chips". And now, Bob Ney is back in the news, having elected not to seek re-election in order to concentrate on allegations that he is just another nasty, sweaty, corrupt like porker.
When your part no longer feels that you are likely to defend your incumbency against a challenger called Zack Space (man of molybdenum!), you are truly banjaxed.
Goodbye, Mister Chips.
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| Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| Transgender Superheroine GO! That's, obviously, a MichFest special. Clumsy as some of the writing and much of the art is, there's a melancholy to this that I appreciate. Possibly one of the defining characteristics of polemic is that it isn't entirely, or even primarily, about how you feel about people, but rather about how people feel about you.
Identity is a complex question, of course. As we progress into the century, it seems that the means by which we construct our identity become increasingly sophisticated, or at least harder to use. Either it's getting more complex or we're getting more easily confused.
Thank heavens for biometric identity cards, then. With the simple collation of a bit of biology, these little wonders can tell not just you but pretty well anyone else who you are. Unless you're foreign. In which case, let's face it, your identity is the least of your problems.
Fortunately, even then help is at hand. Thank heavens for the foresight of our leaders, who have made it laughably easy to duplicate their first bit of biometric ID.
Ours is as an age of wonders.
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