Entries from August 2005

Western Union: Incredibly tacky, or just bad timing?

Posted 08/31/05

Looking through CNN’s coverage of Katrina’s aftermath, I came upon a map of the city with an ad from Western [...]

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Lede of the day

Posted 08/29/05

“NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — Louisiana evacuees should stay away for at least a week to avoid “a wilderness” without [...]

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Katrina blogs

Posted 08/29/05

Best sites for late-breaking on-site info: The best I’ve seen: The “Survival of New Orleans blog,” a blogger holed up [...]

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First levee breach

Posted 08/29/05

Levee breach near the Industrial Canal and Tennessee Street. Three to eight feet of water expected. Why mention this? Because [...]

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“A most powerful hurricane”

Posted 08/28/05

The following, from the National Weather Service, is to me the defintion of “We’re not fucking around here”: WWUS74 KLIX [...]

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“A catastrophic blow”

Posted 08/28/05

“[T]he area from New Orleans to the Mississippi-Louisiana border is going to get a catastrophic blow.” -and- “I put the [...]

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Waiting for the end

Posted 08/28/05

With all the digital cameras, Webcams, and phone cams out there, combined with sites like Flickr and smugmug, I wonder [...]

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The Gray Area

Posted 08/27/05

The unedited version of my column on riding the edge of the law (sort of)

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What, no librarian?

Posted 08/23/05

Circa 1966 (a very good year, if you ask me), comes this gem: The Exciting Game of Career Girls. Young [...]

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The Kutztown 13

Posted 08/19/05

The unedited — read: more cutting — version of the column that appeared.

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Blog problems fixed

Posted 08/17/05

I screwed up a bit of code in my Movable Type configuration, which caused the comments not to work properly [...]

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Doo wa Diddy

Posted 08/17/05

Diddy: dumb.

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Ah, Mac users

Posted 08/16/05

They call it a cult for a reason.

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The Kutztown 13

Posted 08/15/05

Note: This entry has been moved to the USA Today section.

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Women drivers

Posted 08/15/05

I think it’s common knowledge that men are better drivers than women. But we didn’t know quite how bad those [...]

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Happy birthday to me

Posted 08/8/05

It’s my blog, so I can post it.

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Hypocrisy watch

Posted 08/5/05

Says the AP: NCAA bans Indian mascots during postseason The NCAA banned the use of American Indian mascots by sports [...]

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Why video games in general, well, suck

Posted 08/2/05

It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote an entry here about why Doom 3 sucked. I was not alone, [...]

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Copyright and copyfight explained

Posted 08/2/05

Scott Kleper has posted a wonderfully clear and well-written explanation of the current fight against copyright, and why media companies [...]

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Banned? Why?

Posted 08/1/05

I have no idea why you don’t see this kind of stuff anymore. (Thanks to Banned Cartoons!)

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