Not much ranty today. Work is going to keep me busy for the next month or two, but I might be back on a more regular updating schedule around here again too. Guess we’ll see.
- Turly’s been writing Epistles to the Corkonians since the middle of July. Cool! Plus he reminded me that today’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Guess that’s as good an excuse to update as any. [turly]
- At the end of Garrison Keillor’s Coffee, tea or TATP, he asks
where are the conservatives who used to object to this sort of thing?
We’re still here, still objecting, but keeping our heads down because this shit’s getting spooky. [claire] - Speaking of Security Theater, Wired looked at One Million Ways to Die and came up with their own terror-alert-like color-coded rankings.
In fact, your appendix is more likely to kill you than al-Qaida is.
They’ve also got a swell graphic. [boing boing] - And from Mark at Boing Boing, a story of how Bad info in background check database nixes apartment application. The fact that this shit is becoming so common, and so frequently is wrong is just one of the reasons I don’t assent to background checks except when absolutely necessary. [boing boing]