People ask Doc how he finds time to blog. He replies: "I type fast. This post took less than three minutes. Making coffee takes more, and makes for lousy reading."
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have been nominated for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting terrorism and securing world peace, a Norwegian lawmaker announced Monday
As Sylvain Carle suggested, I've adopted Steve Pilgrim. I'm going to teach him Radio.
Cory Doctorow: "That guy has too much spare time" is one of the most odious, intellectually dishonest, dismissive things a person can say. It disguises a vicious ad-hominem attack as a lighthearted verbal shrug. The subtext of the remark is that the subject's passions -- this remark is almost always directed at someone engaged in some labor of love -- are so meritless that their specific shortcomings don't even warrant discussion. The subtext is that any sane person who considers these passions will immediately see their total worthlessness. To direct this remark at someone is to utterly dismiss their personal fire and so their ability to distinguish between the worthy and the unworthy. It's a substitute for thought.
Anyone know of the name for a phobia of public washing machines?
How Amazing?: If you combine the Guiness Book of World Records with AmIHotorNot you'd get this. Rate their freakiness.
BBC News on Weblogs: "A place to write about your efforts to learn Spanish, your love of Woody Allen movies, or your stamp collection."
Newsdrive, BBC Radio Scotland's afternoon news and current affairs program, wants to interview about googlewhacking.
A monastery in Russia had its website shut down for spamming: "Monks at the St Trinity and St Nicholas monastery in Shmakovka [Russia], allegedly 'spammed' thousands of inboxes asking for donations."
