(The following is copied from my other blog.) It’s now a FEDERAL CRIME to annoy people. This is not a joke. I know I sometimes poke fun on this blog, but right now, I’m serious. CLICK HERE FOR STORY. Can our Congress seriously be considered in its “right mind?”
By Kamakshi TandonFri Jan 27, 2006 2:29 PM ET TORONTO (Reuters) – When it comes to romance, women prefer someone who tickles their funny bone while men opt for those who catch their eye, according to an international survey released on Wednesday. The survey, conducted in 16 countries by Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises, asked[...]
Commondreams.org and projectcensored.org teamed up recently to publish online a list of “news stories” that were supposedly censored (or left out of the mainstream media) during the 2005 calendar year. They have a “Top Ten” list and then some other stories that fill out a “Top 25.” (Click here for the list and brief descriptions[...]
‘Oklahoma Publisher’ Used my Photo Originally uploaded by saintseminole. Go to “My Flickr” (by clicking the photo) to read more.
Funny Windows messages. Click Here.
Charge?Originally uploaded by saintseminole. I have a few new shots from last night’s game at Seminole High School (Oklahoma). Here’s a small version of one of them. Click on the image to see the rest.
I have just added 163 new pictures to My Flickr. This is one of them. Come check it out. www.flickr.com/photos/saintseminole
“Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.” –Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Of course, it was Popular Mechanics and Popular Science who predicted in the 1960s that we’d all have flying cars by the 1980s. They were wrong about that, so they may be wrong about the following ideas, too. But it’s a little easier to predict one year in advance than 20 years… Here are some[...]
When I was a teenager, a self-styled “radical Christian”, waves of recorded Christian entertainment were pouring out of Tennessee — most of the recording companies — like Word Records, Sparrow, Reunion, and Myrrh — were based in Tennessee. That last one, Myrrh, was the one that launched the career of Christian comedian Mike Warnke.
Flickr’s marketing department is taking care of publicizing what’s been added to the site, and how the design has changed. They’re real proud of it. So far, I haven’t seen anyone documenting what’s been taken away from Flickr users. I’ve made a page just for that, here. I’ll be updating it as I learn more.
Title: The Raven, A Biography of Sam Houston Author: Marquis James Year: 1929 Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin ISBN 0-292-77040-5 View it on Amazon View it on Google Books Sam Houston on Wikipedia This book was awarded the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for “Biography or Autobiography” (James is one of the very few people who’ve[...]
Flickr holds a special place in my heart, at least compared to other internet sites. I’ve spent more time on Flickr than most people have spent on Facebook or Twitter — daily participation since I joined in Sept. 2005. Not only have I uploaded over 30,000 images to my photostream (most of them now non-public),[...]
“I thought the left loved freedom of the press and open government. I guess that’s only when ‘The Man’ is someone else.” That’s what one commenter said on a news story about the federal government hoping to charge a journalist for publishing news. It’s an astute observation about the way our two-party political system works:[...]
Commentary: A record Powerball jackpot isn’t a record to celebrate (Christian Science Monitor) The editorial board of CSM concluded their piece with this: Before the news media play up the next record-setting mega-lottery like Powerball, they may want to add these kinds of caveats in their reporting. It could deter people from rushing to the[...]
Following are some passages I underlined during a reading of To Sail Beyond The Sunset (1987) by Robert A. Heinlein, the last novel he published before dying in 1988: “I remember Earth. I knew her when she was clean and green, mankind’s beautiful bride, sweet and lush and lovable… It is futile to mourn over[...]
There is a school of thought, albeit a relatively unpopular one, that poor grammar or punctuation on printed signs should be corrected with a Sharpie or other tool, vigilante style. In the News: Vigilante Copy Editor (New York Times) And there are older instances, such as this one (The Virginian-Pilot).
Following are some passages I underlined during a reading of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners (1985) by Robert A. Heinlein: “It does not do to encourage bad banners; one should retaliate, urbanely but firmly.”
In The News: Adobe starts subscription for Photoshop and Dreamweaver (BBC News) This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone; many software companies are moving in this direction. Instead of having to ship millions of boxes and discs every year when they upgrade the software, they’re just going to add the updates to the online[...]
Not logged in