"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
No, not here . . . I’m talking about Metafilter. Metafilter’s a community weblog, where members post comments on various topics, including obscure news items. Occasionally, a Metafilter entry will catch my interest and I’ll blog about it here. Like this one, which I saw this morning: NewsFilter: UFO (missle) exhaust seen by pilot Have […]
It seems I’m a centrist. Socially liberal, economically moderate. I “exhibit a very well-developed sense of right and wrong and believe in economic fairness.” And here I thought I was a big fat commie pinko. Or at least a socialist. Kinda fun: the OKCupid Politics Test. Credit where credit’s due: spotted at Sadly, No!
Another meme is going around the blogging community. From A Small Victory: a. Go to musicoutfitters.com. b. Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year. c. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline […]
Let me say this right up front: I despise Matt Drudge and the Drudge Report. But I freely admit that I check his newsletter daily and almost always find a link or two worth clicking. Up until yesterday, that is. Here’s the note I sent Matt: Dear Mr Drudge, I’ve been checking into the Drudge […]
THE TREE-CREEPS ARE GIVING ME NIGHTMARES! CALL KING WINKLES ON HIS SUBMARINE TELEPHONES! CLICK ON THE TREE-CREEP’S PHOTO! IT IS A LINK!!!!
. . . for ancient jokes. From Something Awful. I think they’re funnier than the originals: A man has been trapped on a desert island for eight years. One day, he sees a boat on the horizon and lights a fire to let it know he is there. The boat comes towards the shore. On […]
Come the revolution, every comrade will have a blog! All of a sudden, everyone is taking blogging – and bloggers – seriously. Especially the Medium Lobster. Well, there’s no danger of this blogger taking himself seriously. Happy New Year!
My friend Baldrick, an English expat working in Saudi Arabia, informs me that my other sites, the Half-Mind Weblog and Half-Mind Catalog, are officially blocked by the Ministry of Information. He and I wondered why. Then, tonight, he told me about another blocked link, this one to the CD cover you see above. Now that […]