It’s Monday night, and time to wrap up the long weekend. Today was actually a work-day for me. Pretty productive, too. I’m glad. It means I won’t feel as though I’m behind all week long this week. I may start doing these in the evening, too. Dunno. We’ll see. But I figured it was time to blast out some links for you. If you’re not seeing this until Monday morning, you’ll maybe get a double-shot to make up for the long weekend. Then again, maybe this will be it.
- Tonight Jim & I went to the Blarney Pub for some happy-hour appetizers and beers. I ended up getting a real sandwich, since nothing on the appetizer menu appealed, but it was a pretty good deal. Food and beers came to $23 for me before tip. Fnord. Then it was over to Burrito Loco (and I finally found their website! Woo! Maybe this’ll help their google-juice a bit) for one last beer for the evening, and a little of the
can we make the bartender flinch while he’s pretending not to listen to our conversation?
game. We failed. Jim pulled out the mid-transition transsexual seminary student, and that didn’t even get a blink. I think we’re going to have to go back. - ZDNet Australia says OpenBSD is Maintaining the quality mindset, and the article describes what Theo and others do in the two months between API freeze and ship. It’s an interesting look inside the development process. [openbsd]
- The City of Minneapolis rejects Crosstown/I-35W plans, which throws a monkey-wrench into getting the worst intersection in the metro area rebuilt. But it looks as though that’s maybe the only choice they had, since MN-DOT didn’t plan in the transit lanes they wanted. Jim liked the idea, if only because it upset Gov. Pawlenty. [strib]
- St. Louis Park’s smoking policy one of a kind. The suburb just west of Minneapolis has adopted a policy that lets bars and restaurants deciede whether they want to go completely non-smoking or have the air in their non-smoking sections tested annually, and then post the results so customers can tell how smoky it really is. That sounds like a pretty darned good plan to me. I don’t think a $700 annual fee for the testing is quite high enough to work in Minneapolis as a “smoking license,” but that’s another approach we talked about last night. Make bars that want to allow smoking post information about the air-quality, and pay extra for a special license. In a more perfect world, the fees would actually go to something smoking related, but that’s probably too much to ask for. But if the fee is high enough, it would give people who didn’t want to be around smoke plenty of places to go to. And if it wasn’t too high, there would still be bars for other folks to smoke in. You could maybe even find the right fee using market forces. Oh wait. Now I’m talking crazy… [press-patch]
- You might have heard how a crowd at a Bush rally booed when President Bush wished Bill Clinton well. Well, The Associated Press Makes It Up. There was no booing, and there’s a recording of the event. Listen for yourself. There are no boos. I think the AP needs to address this right away, or they’ll lose even more credibility. In another catch, Hindrocket points out Another Whopper from the Associated Press, this time aimed at Arnold Schwartzenegger. It’s enough to prompt Tom Maguire to say
So often I find myself wondering–is this true, or was it just something reported by the Associated Press?
And then there’s a third one from this weekend: The AP is at it again, turning at least five-hundred Bush supporters who showed up at a Kerry rally intoseveral dozen
when mentioning it in an article on Bush’s Medicare premium hike. Yeah, it’s an aside to the main thrust of the article, but you’d think the AP could get the facts somewhat right when tossing in asides like that. After all, it’s been almost three years since Ken Layne pointed out (while fisking Fisk) that We Can Fact-Check Your Ass. [instapundit]