My busy day did not do well for my blogging, nor for any photography. I took four pictures today, and this was the best that I got. It isn’t much, but it will have to do.
Flowers in light and shadow.
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June 30 2004, 23:09 | Filed under: Photography | 2 Comments |
Michelle Malkin:
The presumption that children — and particularly inner-city children — can only be stimulated by the contemporary and familiar smacks of lazy elitism and latent racism. These educators, and I use that term as loosely as gangster rappers wear their pants, are clearly more interested in appearing cool than in inculcating a refined literary sense in students. Their aim is not enlightenment but dumbed-down ghetto entertainment. So that teachers and pupils can “relate” and be “down with that.” So they can “keep it real.” You know what I’m sayin’?
The schoolhouse rap peddlers disingenuously argue that Shakur’s puerile scribblings serve as useful tools to engage children in reading. Reading? Deciphering is more like it. Shakur’s volume, ”The Rose That Grew From Concrete,” looks more like a collection of cell phone text messages, teenage hieroglyphics and Backstreet Boys album titles than a collection of poems.
[...] Proclaiming his love “4 Jada,” Shakur pays gallant literary tribute to the object of his desire: “u bring me 2 climax without sex.”
Lord Byron, he wasn’t.
Our tax dollars at work.
UPDATE: Baby say yeah… wait. Ja Rule sang that. Whatever. Miss Malkin is having fun.
I gotts your hearts and minds right heah:
“Just as we mourn for the victims of Saddam’s regime, we also grieve for the Americans and Iraqis who were killed or injured during the liberation or by terrorists determined to hold us back,” the letter reads. “We will honor those who have sacrificed for our freedom by building a new Iraq that lives in peace with the nations of the world, without fear of war, torture chambers or terrorism.”
— WorldNet Daily: Grateful Iraqis thank America for sacrifice
HT: Bert.
June 30 2004, 20:09 | Filed under: Politics | Comments Off |
Playgrounds without children can be the loneliest scenes to take in.
A playground with no children.
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June 29 2004, 23:21 | Filed under: Photography | 1 Comment |
Zombyboy examines Michael Moore (emphasis added):
What disturbs me isn’t that Moore exists, and It isn’t that Moore says what he says. What disturbs me most is that so many people take him seriously and that so many people will walk out of the theatre believing the spin and the half-truths.
[...] I don’t believe that Americans are stupid–but I do believe that they like answers presented to them in neat little packages. Moore does that with cinematic flair and passion that isn’t matched by anyone on the conservative side (not even Rush matches Moore’s over-the-top presentation). Moore presents enough facts to make his opinions credible, but mixed with enough speculation, misdirection, and outright fibs to make his conspiracy theory view of the world utterly false.
The alternative to not having a polemic with the kind of skill of Michael Moore is to have a polemic just like him. I don’t think I want a phenomenon like that working on “my side of the fence.” I think that integrity stands for something. Maybe if it costs this side to lose repeatedly, again and again, we’d be driven crazy enough to embrace someone like him working for “us.” But for now, not in my name. There have got to be better options than that.
June 29 2004, 22:57 | Filed under: Politics | 2 Comments |
Jeff Quinton has news about a highjacking attempt of a Munich to Istanbul flight. No doubt The President was the target of this. Well, who else would they target?
UPDATE: Bush was gone from Turkey at that point.
Imagine The Corrs boobless and without the Irish flair, and you get the only punk-revival band that gets the 12-hour-album-loop treatment on the OFJ Media Player: Yellowcard.
I suppose the “self-annointed music cognoscenti” (long story here) would scathe at my choice of listening material; at least I’m having fun, and I do some badass web design while working to their music. Ark II was done in a few hours while listening to their music nonstop. I should send these guys a note.
Now, I wonder what’s in Jacksonville that breeds good bands.
Matt Mullenweg has a few e-mail goodies that no one has… yet:
So the long and short of it is, I’m loading all the email I receive into a database using a fun combination of Procmail, Spam Assassin, and a sprinkling of command line PHP. I’m very excited about this, more excited than I’ve been about a new project in a while. For me, email has been steadily waning in utility for the past year, and I want to breathe new life into it. I’m tired of folders. I’m tired of slow searching. I don’t want to hand my email over to someone else, even if it’s Google. I don’t want to deal with mbox or IMAP or maildir or any of that junk. Those are implementation details of various servers and clients.
[...] I want to hear your wildest dreams. Besides the obvious search, backup, and statistics benefits, what can you imagine this system doing? What would you like email to address? (groan…) What email metadata is interesting? (I’m currently tracking subject, date sent, date received, from, the message itself, and spam status.) What statistics would be interesting to you? Is anyone even interested in this or am I just spinning my wheels?
I like. I want. But who, then, would build the application for it? Or better yet, what web-based mail apps that exist in my control panel would work with it?
June 29 2004, 16:42 | Filed under: General | Comments Off |
I’m spending the night at my friend’s house. There isn’t much scenery where he lives, however, his dog is one handsome beast.
My friend’s dog, looking all stately in the late afternoon sun.
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Woof.
June 28 2004, 17:53 | Filed under: Photography | 2 Comments |
Kathy Kinsley greets Iraq a happy birthday; it has been quite a long gestation and the work is far from over but in an excellent stroke of forced-timing against Murqawi and his band of bandits, we handed over sovereignty back to the Iraqis two days before the “deadline.” Well, there you go.
UPDATE: Jeff Quinton aggregates.
UPDATE: Here’s a quick thought for all of us. With Zarqawi and his dogs blasting Iraqis to bits, Allawi and friends can finally ask our Armed Forces who are there to help maintain security to finally, finally swoop down on the enemy in a way the likes of which we were too “sensitive” to do. Besides, such hunting down of elements detrimental to Iraq’s progress is in the interests of Iraq, and will be blessed by a legitimate government, not an occupying force.
June 28 2004, 11:47 | Filed under: Politics | 3 Comments |
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