Presenting
William James Stewart 9 pounds 11 ounces, 22.5 inches, born at 08:03 pm EDT, October 17th in the Year of Our Lord 2005. Momma and baby (and poppa) are doing just fine, although papa may be suffering from an acute…
Single Best Harriet Miers Nomination Critique Headline
Protein Wisdom: Harriet. Har-ri-et. Hard-hearted harbinger of hagis… Heh. Oh, and Jeff’s commentary is insightful too.
Helpful Advice For Prospective Clone Owners
While I may have some slight misgivings about becoming a parent, I am very glad that my wife and I have opted not to pursue the cloning option. John Scalzi offers several little known facts about clones and in doing…
Penny Arcade: Things That Make You Go “Wha…?”
As my wife and I prepare for the imminent (Imminent, do you hear me, child?) arrival of our baby, Penny Arcade helpfully (and graphically) alerted me to a “benefit” of the whole birthing process that I was unaware of. You…
McSweeney’s – Asking The Important, Unasked Questions
John Moe askes Charlie Daniels Thirty-Nine Questions Upon Hearing “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” for the First Time in 25 Years, starting with: “1. The Devil won that fiddling contest, right? 2. Because isn’t that totally amazing fiddle feedback…
Site Comings And Goings
Good news, everyone! With the host switch complete, I decided that it might be a good time to start sharing the wealth, as it were. I went from a hard limit of 1GB of files and 70GB of transfer/month on…
First Quake 4 Reviews Hit The ‘Net
PC.IGN has posted their review of Quake 4, giving it an 8.2, which is actually a pretty decent score. It appears that, after the multiplayer-only diversion that was Quake 3, the team at Raven (id subcontracted Q4 out to them)…
“Camera Tossing” – A Flippin’ SWEET Flickr Meme
From the Kids, don’t try this at home with your father’s $1200 digital SLR dept. Some enterprising young shutterbugs over at Flickr have created a new meme for those of usyou out there with disposable income and/or digital cameras: camera…
There’s Regular Crazy And Then There’s Moralizing Crusader Bat Guano Crazy, Apparently
For those of you not in the know, Jack Thompson is a man-on-a-mission, a ragin’ crusader set to save us all from the Evils Of Video Game Violence and Ourselves, of course. Personally, I think he’s a flaming idiot, but…
Terror, Incorporated
Much has been made in the Right-leaning blogosphere about the recently-translated letter from Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s #2 man to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, head of al Qaeda in Iraq. The letter, while interesting, tells only half of…
