Category Archives: Weird

Got Milk?

Thinking back over the years, I can think of some, in fact many women of which this would be a suitable condition of co-working with them. But not all of them, no, not all.

Just in case you thought that some tenets of Islam weren’t wacky enough. I should note though, that the story indicates that it’s a controversial issue, even within Islam.

[Via tracker of all weird things Islamic]

[Update a minutes later]

Only semi-related, but LGF also has the story on the effects of Nancy’s excellent Damascus adventure on Syrian dissidents. Hint: it ain’t pretty:

Mr. al-Bunni is a slight, nervous-looking man, a tireless polymath who, aside from his work defending scores of political prisoners, has helped to found a center offering training in human rights, and has drafted a new constitution for Syria. Last year, he invited a handful of foreign reporters to his home to show them his proposed new constitution, and waved his hands excitedly as he outlined his ideas about what a democratic transition in Syria might look like, how potential power-sharing arguments among Syria

A Question For The Corner

Why do Corner permalinks have such loooooonnnngggg URLs? Here’s the one for Derb’s latest “Darwinism” post:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/
?q=OTNkZTFkMDdmZTE5ZTc4MDE5ZTVmNTNiZGUzNTBmMjY=

Do you want to ensure uniqueness of them to the end of history? If so, that’s real farsightedness. By my count, with that “q=whatever” parameter, you can provide 62^43rd unique post IDs (upper/lower case plus the ten digits, with 43 characters). We know you Corner guys (and gals) can be prolific, but consider that this may be overkill. Unless there’s something going on that requires a unique fixed field length up front, it is possible to do it by simply going sequential (I’m only up to 9000 or so on my blog). I haven’t done the math, but I suspect that with your scheme, you could assign an ID to every particle in the known universe, with more than a few left over. The sun would start to dim long before you got out to even the twentieth field for your post IDs.

Is There Anything They Can’t Do?

Hugh Grant is reported to have attacked a paparazzi with a tub of baked beans.

Let me be the second to declare this Bush’s fault.

(The first was over at Free Republic, which has an amusing thread on the topic.)

[Late afternoon update]

It occurs to me that they just have to crack down on baked bean sales, and close the ‘bean-show loophole.” And who would have thought that such an atrocious incident would have occurred in the peaceful United Kingdom?

Is There Anything They Can’t Do?

Hugh Grant is reported to have attacked a paparazzi with a tub of baked beans.

Let me be the second to declare this Bush’s fault.

(The first was over at Free Republic, which has an amusing thread on the topic.)

[Late afternoon update]

It occurs to me that they just have to crack down on baked bean sales, and close the ‘bean-show loophole.” And who would have thought that such an atrocious incident would have occurred in the peaceful United Kingdom?