Middle East Musings
Deprived of my normal Wednesday morning Preston & Steve “Lost” theories, I listened to BBC’s “The World” broadcast on NPR as I made my way in to work today. Today’s broadcast lead with coverage of the ongoing protests in Lebanon…
Category Observations
Art Criticism As Interpreted Through An Oft-Imitated Commercial Form
Designing and envisioning a piece of concept art requiring the use of Central Park: millions of dollars. Petitioning the city of New York for permission to install your artwork: millions more dollars (and 20 years of your time). Paying crews…
Update To The Y100 Situation
First, let me get a bit of disclaimer out, in the interest of full disclosure: I am biased in favor of Y100, at least as it used to be. They always treated me well musically, but they also treated me…
Eulogy For Y100
Others have already written on the passing (registration required; just hit BugMeNot for a username/password combo) of Y100 from the radio scene, but I felt it warranted further comment. I’d actually seen this one coming, as an email pointing me…
The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of
Actress Tori Spelling, presented without comment. Lileks was far less kind to the wisp of an actress: “Zombies continue to rise from the grave seeking brains, publicity”. Egah.
Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax?
Sure looks like it. Seems as if anyone that contributed to the LT “legal defense fund” got scammed, bigtime. *sigh* As one of the /. posters noted, “There’s no honor among thieves”.
Horse Hockey!
Hey Gigabyte! I’ve got a brilliant idea: why don’t you make it so the only way you can possibly upgrade your motherboards’ BIOSes be through a friggin’ Win32 only program? Why not fly in the face of years of precedent…
Ummm…
Who, precisely, needs a Banana Bunker? More importantly, who in their right mind thought of that “gadget”?
Off Again
Then, in the space of a single Bleat, Lileks leaped to a conclusion that I take a bit of issue with. Also from last Wednesday’s Bleat: Oh: I mentioned yesterday that I wrote a column on Intelligent Design. Basic point:…
Great Googly Moogly!
A Tetris board game? Oh. Man. This can’t be good. As if I didn’t waste enough time on the NES version back in the day…
