Category Archives: Weird

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?

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?

Father Of The Year Award?

Probably not:

A man accused of stabbing his 11-month-old son in the back, then throwing the wounded boy out the window of a parked car was still on the loose Thursday, a day after the stabbing, police said.

Hey, at least the car was parked. Give the guy a break!