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Michigan falls to Northwestern, school-record 8th loss

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:29:26 -0500

Michigan falls to Northwestern, school-record 8th loss

How to Fix a Flat

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:59:55 -0500

Last September, I was in a hotel room watching CNBC early one morning. They were interviewing Bob Nardelli, the C.E.O. of Chrysler, and he was explaining why the auto industry, at that time, needed $25 billion in loan guarantees. It wasn’t a bailout, he said. It was a way to enable the car companies to retool for innovation. I could not help but shout back at the TV screen: “We have to subsidize Detroit so that it will innovate? What business were you people in other than innovation?” If we give you another $25 billion, will you also do accounting?

Friedman hits this thing right on the head. I have no pity for Detroit. They’ve shoved their heads so far into the sand for so long that the hole’s turned into a grave.

Link via Daring Fireball.

Wow, I’m a nerd.

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:59:00 -0500

Wow, I’m a nerd.

"I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I..."

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:04:00 -0500

“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to become president.”

- John McCain, from his 2002 book Worth Fighting For, via The Writer’s Almanac.

"The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right."

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:23:19 -0500

“The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.”

- Founding father Alexander Hamilton

"There’s no such thing as a one-man project. Every project will always have at least two developers:..."

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:32:00 -0400

“There’s no such thing as a one-man project. Every project will always have at least two developers: you and past-you. The sucky thing about past-you is that he’s always a worse programmer than you.”

- From Trek.

This is why I left the Catholic Church

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:53:00 -0400

This is why I left the Catholic Church:

I’ve been trying to formulate my thoughts on religion of late, what with getting engaged to be married and all. Michigan has a ballot proposal to allow stem cell research—you know, what Scientists believe could have saved Ronald Reagan. The Archdiocese of Detroit is telling its members how they should vote.

To me that is the abomination.

A List Apart invokes my pet peeve

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:16:00 -0400

A List Apart invokes my pet peeve:

Somehow “From an _____ Perspective” has infected our vernacular. An ideology or group can’t have a perspective, an individual does. Aaron Gustafson’s subheads claim perspective but then describe a process.

I only feel justified in quibbling about word use here only because the article was—baring this exception—superbly written (and illustrated).

McCain giving up on Michigan

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:01:43 -0400

McCain giving up on Michigan:

AP:

The Arizona senator canceled a trip to the state next week, he won’t run ads on TV after this week and is dispatching staffers to states that show him in stronger position.

So it begins.

"We should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the..."

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:19:45 -0400

“We should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.”

- Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and president of technology, explaining Google’s official “no” position on California Proposition 8.

College Humor: After hearing Matt Damon’s brilliant...

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:14:39 -0400

College Humor:

After hearing Matt Damon’s brilliant comparison of a Sarah Palin presidency to a bad Disney movie, I called up Sam and said “Let’s make a trailer for what that movie would look like.” Within hours, Dan and Amir were writing it, Ben and the CHTV crew were casting and producing it, and two weeks later, here it is.

(link mine)

Test, test. Is this thing on? From John Gruber on twitter....

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:31:00 -0400

Test, test. Is this thing on?

From John Gruber on twitter. Summed up by a YouTube Commenter: “She is not a vp pick she is a feeking lifetime movie.”

"[Sarah Palin] asked the library how she could go about banning books,” [St. George, AK Mayor..."

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:08:00 -0400

““[Sarah Palin] asked the library how she could go about banning books,” [St. George, AK Mayor John Stein] says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them.”

- Nathan Thornburgh, from TIME Online’s, Mayor Palin: A Rough Record

"Sen. John McCain’s choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate is a cynical..."

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:54:48 -0400

“Sen. John McCain’s choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate is a cynical effort to appeal to disappointed Hillary Clinton voters and get them to vote, ultimately, against their own self-interest.”

- National Organization for Women PAC Chair Kim Gandy

The line starts to the left.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:02:00 -0400

The line starts to the left.

"Whatever you think about America in the 21st century, the NFL probably works better than anything..."

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:43:00 -0400

“Whatever you think about America in the 21st century, the NFL probably works better than anything else in the United States.”

- NPR commentator Frank Deford comparing American football to the chaos of other sports.

Make Gmail always secure by default

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:58:46 -0400

Make Gmail always secure by default: Featured on Slashdot today is an article about how to automate Gmail password theft. You should really never input a password into a Web Page, ever, without https:// in the URL, but I doubt that’s going to happen any time soon. Take this one little step or risk an “I-told-you-so.”

"A website was redesigned not too long ago, and from the ensuing discussion about a typeface, you..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:02:10 -0400

“A website was redesigned not too long ago, and from the ensuing discussion about a typeface, you would have thought small animals had been tortured during the making of that site.”

- from Carolyn Wood’s Putting Our Hot Heads Together on A List Apart.

Posted this morning on Garfield Minus Garfield. How...

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:12:00 -0400

Posted this morning on Garfield Minus Garfield.

How freakin’ apropos.

EFF's "Switzerland" ISP Tester

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:28:28 -0400

EFF's "Switzerland" ISP Tester:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Is your ISP interfering with your BitTorrent connections? Cutting off your VOIP calls? Undermining the principles of network neutrality? In order to answer those questions, concerned Internet users need tools to test their Internet connections and gather evidence about ISP interference practices.