Monthly Archives: May 2002

oops

Aw, hell. I’ve just wasted the day polishing my response to a troll.

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Francis Fukuyama, stasist twit

Francis Fukuyama doesn’t think much of libertarians. The hostility of libertarians to big government extended to U.S. involvement in the world. The Cato Institute propounded isolationism in the ’90s, on the ground that global leadership was too expensive. At the … Continue reading

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webs on the web

It would be fair, I think, to say that James Lileks enjoyed Spider-Man, which apparently is a movie that opened this weekend. He also makes some interesting remarks about movies quâ cultural affirmation.

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stuff the vaunted Linux documentation won’t tell you, No.453

How to change the time zone? Since I reinstalled Red Hat yesterday, it somehow thinks we’re in +8 (Japan) rather than -8 (California). Apologies to anyone to whom my mail appears 16 hours delayed.

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hey nonny nonny

The Angry Clam posted some pix of the Berkeley Morris. My then wife used to dance with this team, from 1986 to (i guess) 1992; but I can’t recognize any faces in these shots. (Terry O’Neill, the Fool, was killed … Continue reading

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hammer & sickle & stripes

Today I started to read Neil Smith’s Forge of the Elders, and had to chuckle at the names of the spaceships of the American Soviet Socialist Republic: Dole, McCain, Hatch (“three misunderstood and martyred socialist statesmen who had made America … Continue reading

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it’s only a phase

Turns of Phrase: Dogme 95 (from the World Wide Words site). The one ‘Dogme’ film I’ve seen, Italian for Beginners, violates one of the terms as stated here – unless the IV hose really did contain morphine.

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