You know, while Greg Gutfeld is pretty funny, the funniest thing about his pieces at the Huffpo are the outraged commenters. It’s like poking a stick into a nest of angry hornets. Errr…except they aren’t as smart.
And I have to admit that I do share their questions about why Arianna continues to allow him to post–he’s so out of place over there.
I woke up yesterday morning to over three hundred trackback spams. These are a real pain in the ass, because when they come in a flood like that from a single spammer (in this case it was pr0n), it’s hard to search through them to find the random ones from others, which needs to be done to clean them all out.
Joe Katzman has been having similar problems, on a much larger scale. I’ve been thinking about shutting down trackback as well, but before I do, I think I’ll try this idea, via Annoying Old Guy in Joe’s comments section.
It looks interesting, and if everyone did it, it would make life much more difficult for these supreme scum of the earth. As I type these words I just got two series of half a dozen or so from mortgage lenders. Who knows how many they would have hit me with if I hadn’t been at the computer and could cut them off at the pass? I just wish I could cut them off at the nuts.
The Bigelow test article has reportedly inflated and deployed its solar panels.
[Update before bed]
Here’s the story.
And Clark Lindsey has a brief roundup of the state of the alt-space industry.
Firefox 2.0 is ready for testing.
Leonard David says that the Bigelow mission is in orbit. I haven’t been paying enough attention to this to have any profound thoughts [When did that ever stop you before? — ed Quiet, you], but it’s clearly good news, and big news.
[Update in the afternoon]
I’m in the middle of meetings, but Clark Lindsey is continuing to follow this and provide links here and here.
Some commentator on Fox just noted that in Germany, and the UK, a higher percentage of people have a favorable opinion of China than of the US.
I suspect that this is primarily a result of ignorance, as promulgated by their media (about both us and China). The alternative, which is that they no longer share our western values, is even more frightening.
Our naive young blue-state blue blood Joel Stein makes an ass of himself in print again. Lileks comments (scroll down, if you want to get right to it).
I, too, look forward to the cross examination by Hugh Hewitt. But I suspect that even Joel isn’t that naive, after the last time.
Well, if this is true, it should speed AOL in their high-g swirl down the bowl:
The Time Warner-owned Internet company is in negotiations with representatives for veteran CBS anchor Dan Rather to play a role in original programming for its online video offerings, sources said.
Well, if this is true, it should speed AOL in their high-g swirl down the bowl:
The Time Warner-owned Internet company is in negotiations with representatives for veteran CBS anchor Dan Rather to play a role in original programming for its online video offerings, sources said.
Well, if this is true, it should speed AOL in their high-g swirl down the bowl:
The Time Warner-owned Internet company is in negotiations with representatives for veteran CBS anchor Dan Rather to play a role in original programming for its online video offerings, sources said.