I don’t know if this is really the commencement address that Gene Weingarten delivered to the U of Maryland Journalism School grads, but if not, someone should. I’ll have some advice for journalism grads, prospective journalism students, and journalism faculty, if I ever get around to finishing the essay (and related book) on which I’m working on that subject.

This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:

What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?

• Just hide and hope they go away.
• Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
• Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
• Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
• Try to convert them to Linux.
• Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
• Put them in the Trash.

This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:

What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?

• Just hide and hope they go away.
• Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
• Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
• Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
• Try to convert them to Linux.
• Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
• Put them in the Trash.

This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:

What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?

• Just hide and hope they go away.
• Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
• Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
• Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
• Try to convert them to Linux.
• Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
• Put them in the Trash.

With the upcoming onset of hurricane season in a few days, Dave Barry has some advice for residents (like him, and me) of the hurricane belt. I call this humor, because like most Dave Barry advice, it is, but it’s also a public service (albeit a futile one) for the irremediably clueless:

As you know, Florida Power & Light had some problems last hurricane season, when it was discovered that, because of an error in the engineering specifications, thousands of the company’s power poles were in fact really tall breadsticks. FPL has been working hard on this problem, and a company spokesperson states that this year, if we are struck by another Wilma-level hurricane, FPL personnel will immediately implement an action plan designed to provide all customers, as quickly and as safely as possible, with realistic-sounding excuses as to why their power will not be restored for an indeterminate period of time.

…about the Ten Commandments. [Keyboard warning, and you need bandwidth]

I’m taking Patricia out to dinner tonight, then putting her on a red eye back to Florida, and I’m going up to Mojave tomorrow, so probably light posting for the next day or so. To hold you over, though, read about the latest ground-breaking research in fish f@rts. Let the japery in the comments section commence!

From BBC World Service, “Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confessed to having had an affair with one of his secretaries. BBC British Affairs correspondent reports”
this story. A red letter day for affairs when they get their own correspondent.

…to destroy the earth. Just in case you want to…you know…destroy the earth.

For those who actually haven’t given it that much thought, it turns out that it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Don’t do these things in an interview.

[via Geek Press]