a crank’s progress

Someone used Google.co.uk to search for images of people behaving drunk and found my rant about cyclists behaving badly.
Excellent. First result, too.
<update> Curiously, the same page shows up if you search for “pictures of people on crank” though not as prominently.

In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning - New York Times
hmm. Even a stopped clock is right once a day. Ben Stein remembers what old school conservatism really means.
(tags: money culture values society economics rebeccaspocket)

Blind Audits
speaking of China as a source of cheap labor, who knew they were absorbing the worst lessons of Western [...]

the FU or Friedman Unit refers to the length of time its namesake thinks will bring about results in Iraq. we’ve been through 4 or so of them, so far. no results, at least none anyone is happy with.
The Horse’s Mouth:
If six months is a Friedman, what is 150,000 troops? I propose that these [...]

jones kicks the h.f.c.s. habit, keeps the turkey & gravy:
By early next year, you’ll be able to get the most popular flavors of Jones Soda, they of customer-submitted label photos and sometimes inadvisably quirky flavor options, made with good old fashioned cane sugar.
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So I finally got through to TiVo world HQ and found out that the box — which I got for free, you may recall — has lifetime service. As in no fees. Ever.
Nonplussed is the word I think I want. Now to see if it works and what it can do.
<update to the update> It [...]

A dirty question
‘What this is, is a warning: “we have the capability to detonate a dirty bomb in central London any time we feel like it, so don’t f*ck with us”. (Just take Polonium and add a little TNT.)’
(tags: worstpresidentever terrorism)

Once Upon a Time…: The Abominables of The New Republic: Getting Away with Murder
is our [...]

Dear Novelist,

You did it.
Despite everything else going on in your busy life, you managed to pull off the creative coup of writing a 50,000-word novel in just one month.
When the going got tough, you got typing, and in four weeks, you built vast worlds and set them in motion. You created characters; quirky, interesting, passionate [...]

CBC prez: High-def TV has no business model:
Cory Doctorow:
CBC president Robert Rabinovich has decried high-def TV as having no business model. This wouldn’t be newsworthy except that the promise of HDTV is the excuse given for the Broadcast Flag, which says that paranoid studio executives should be in charge of what features TVs are allowed [...]

Or more to the point, ice day. Snow would have been one thing, but what we had was lots of ice and it made for treacherous conditions. So school was closed, in favor of sledding, reading, movie watching (My Neighbor Totoro), board games, and general marveling at the day. Beautiful blue skies, no wind, but [...]

Acephalous: Measuring The Speed of Meme: An Experiment in which You Will Participate, Or Else…:
What is the speed of meme? People write in general (typically truimphant) terms about how swiftly a single voice can travel from one side of the internet to the other and back again, but how often does that actually happen? [...]