Entries from July 2005

Disturbing, but entrancing

Posted 07/29/05

Check out Eric Myer Photography’s “Sterotypes” page — stereotype having a nice double meaning in this case. Play around to [...]

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Energy!

Posted 07/28/05

Hopefully with the passage of the Energy Bill, the oil and gas companies will be able to use the $2.7 [...]

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TSA gives Americans the finger

Posted 07/26/05

Get this: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) not only violated the law (specifically the Privacy Act) by collecting personal information [...]

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Fly, baby, fly

Posted 07/26/05

Next up: “Land, baby, land.” PS: No comment, yet, at the mission to the International Space Money Pit. :)

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Reuters wrong

Posted 07/22/05

Goes the lede from a Reuters story: The House of Representatives, ignoring protests from civil liberties groups, renewed the USA [...]

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Taunting the gods of irony

Posted 07/22/05

From the LA Times (and others): Crash Victim’s Mourners Have Similar Accident From Times Wire Reports Two mourners who rode [...]

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Another vacation idea

Posted 07/21/05

Beautiful San Diego.

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Bang, Zoom

Posted 07/20/05

Has Google gone too far?

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Crush the little people

Posted 07/19/05

Wall Street to Costco: “You’re not screwing your employees enough.”

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Vacation

Posted 07/19/05

Looking to get away from it all for a few days — all, that is, except the low-level radiation? Consider [...]

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NOW do you believe me?

Posted 07/18/05

Sure, when I write about the downsides to ethanol, no one cares. But when the AP comes out with an [...]

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Smearing Rove?

Posted 07/17/05

Karl Rove was the guy behind campaigns that spread false information about a variety of opposition candidates — flyers claiming [...]

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Newsroom

Posted 07/17/05

Working in a newsroom has some distinct advantages, most obviously getting at least some of the local news earlier than [...]

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GTA, OMG!

Posted 07/16/05

Let me get this straight. No one says much of anything about any of the versions of the Grand Theft [...]

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Do as I say

Posted 07/16/05

I have to do a longer post on this when I can cite more examples, but here’s a good one [...]

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Harry Potter catch-up guides

Posted 07/15/05

So HP6 comes out tomorrow at midnight. Or tonight at midnight. Whatever you want to call it. Anyway, it’s been [...]

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Every now and then I remember these ads

Posted 07/13/05

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I love hearing about good journalistic moments

Posted 07/12/05

From yesterday’s afternoon White House press briefing, we have this exchange between WH press secretary Scott McClellan and a reporter [...]

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Keyboard quest

Posted 07/11/05

I need help finding the right keyboard. I know, it’s silly. But the keyboards that come with today’s computers are [...]

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Leaks

Posted 07/11/05

So Karl Rove leaked the name of a CIA operative. That’s a federal crime, and a serious one. The White [...]

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