A while back, I recall seeing a poll, or survey, indicating that the vast majority of Iraqis had an acquaintance or family member who had been tortured, imprisoned or killed by the Saddam regime. But I can’t find hide nor hair of it on Google. Am I going nuts (well, that’s probably a separate issue), or can someone point me to a cite?
Copycat?
Pat Oliphant has a cartoon that shows angry bloggers, with battle axes and other midieval weapons, storming the castle gates.
So, even the old war horse of a political cartoonist is becoming blog savvy, eh?
Well, not exactly. If he were really familiar with the blogosphere, he’d be aware of this Cox and Forkum cartoon from early last week (which is much better, and heavily linked by bloggers). And rather than being embarrassed by his slow response, hopefully he’d have come up with something more original.
Is There Anything They Can’t Do?*
The Simpsons, that is. Here’s an article about using the show for the instruction of higher math. And here’s the unofficial Simpsons episode index for math references.
[Via The Corner]
* Reference is to the episode in which Homer asks the same question about donuts.
Is There Anything They Can’t Do?*
The Simpsons, that is. Here’s an article about using the show for the instruction of higher math. And here’s the unofficial Simpsons episode index for math references.
[Via The Corner]
* Reference is to the episode in which Homer asks the same question about donuts.
Is There Anything They Can’t Do?*
The Simpsons, that is. Here’s an article about using the show for the instruction of higher math. And here’s the unofficial Simpsons episode index for math references.
[Via The Corner]
* Reference is to the episode in which Homer asks the same question about donuts.
Permission To Fly
If you haven’t been paying attention to the current state of play in the regulation of suborbital vehicles over the past few months, Jeff Foust has a good, up-to-date summary today.
And yes, I am very busy, with some consulting on the Vision for Space Exploration. And I don’t get President’s Day (which I think is an atrocity to the memory of Lincoln and Washington) off.
A Worthy Cause
Sam Dinkin is promoting better space journalism.
How Do They Do It?
I’m running a few private blogs, for business purposes, that are password protected via .htaccess on the main and archive directories. There are no external links to them from the open net, and they haven’t been archived by Google. Yet somehow the spammers have found them. A couple days ago, we had dozens of poker spams in the comments.
Anyone have any idea how they’re doing this?
Chowdah
One of the most useful “Carnivals” in the blogosphere, I think, is “Carnival of the Recipes.”
I used it as the basis for tonight’s dinner. I started with the leek and potato soup, and modified it to make a seafood chowder (post title refers to the Simpsons episode in which Freddy Quimby is falsely (though justly, considering what a twerp he is) accused of injuring a French waiter because he wouldn’t pronounce “Chowdah” correctly (using the Kennedyesque Boston accent), instead pronouncing it “Chowdair”).
Instead of using sausage, and chicken broth, I instead used fresh mahi-mahi, and a couple cans of chopped clams, with juice.
It was delish.
My Best Wishes
…and I hope those of my readers, to the Instawife. And Glenn, too.