Slate: For some reason, I keep thinking about an observation Eleanor Roosevelt made in an unpublished interview conducted in May of 1940, as the German Wehrmacht swept across France. She expressed dismay that a "great many Americans" would look with favor on a Hitler victory in Europe and be greatly attracted to fascism. Why? "Simply because we are a people who tend to admire things that work," she said. So, were the voters last month protesting Bush's policies—or were they complaining that he had not made those policies work?
...wisdom of the krauts.
leeds is better than manchester.
however, at least i got to appreciate hotel chocolat, adolphe valette, the new james bond (stepping into on her majesty's secret service's shoes) and the prestige movie (david bowie as nikolas tesla! and scarlett, generally! but most of all: the novel by christopher priest!) in the northern soul city.
and miss g. can model birds now. but that's a whole different story...
nelson minar: why soap sucks and parsing xml can open network sockets (via henso).
nea: »wir setzen auf helma object publisher.«
i don't want to set the world on fire. i just want to start a flame in your heart.
The Simpsons S18E04: the day the earth looked stupid.
hilarious: robot chicken. (get the whole episodes at youthingamabob.)
the top ten lies of web 2.0 (via scripting news).
If you liked Y2K, you'll LOVE IPv6.
Robert X. Cringely: "In the current addressing scheme, China received a very small number of IP addresses, and this was causing them a lot of difficulty. If they stayed with the existing system it would have resulted in a nasty network kludge. So they made a national decision to implement IPv6 and put in a good network design. [...] China has done something very impressive and now others are taking notice. We (the U.S.) think we control the Internet, but China is proving otherwise." (via shithappens.)
US policies pay off again, once more.
banned mythbusters episode: do girls pass gas?
in related news: men with cramps are real, too.