no honor among thieves

Posted on Thursday, 2003 June 19 by Anton

AlterNet: The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney. Greg Palast blames her dis-election on her being widely quoted for something she never said. But wasn’t she also slammed for race-baiting?

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. . and fish

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 June 17 by Anton

Practical ontology

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not enough gamekeepers.

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 June 17 by Anton

Amazon World is a blog made up of quotes from readers’ reviews.

Oh, yes, every day people wake up to find themselves turned into a cockroach and have to deal with living as one. I’m just real sure!

Cited (twice) by Doc Frank, whose Blogs of War recently moved.

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the copper peril

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 June 17 by Anton

Could a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building kill a pedestrian on the street below? The Experiment. (Thanks again to Joanne Schmitz)

2021: Closing comments on this one to cut down a little bit on spam.

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argh

Posted on Monday, 2003 June 16 by Anton

Another thing I’d like to know is why I was able to run cdrecord on Red Hat 6.2 but not on 7.1 or 9.

Later: The CDR had gone bad in the interim. I replaced it with a DVD/CD burner.)

Laterer: Which seems to have gone bad in turn, within eight months.

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bagboys get the chicks?

Posted on Monday, 2003 June 16 by Anton

Who knew?

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the promised what?

Posted on Sunday, 2003 June 15 by Anton

Why Jews Don’t Farm. Link from Matthew Yglesias, whose commentors don’t think much of the essay.

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