Although the pundits have been taking little notice, Dubya’s already on the 2004 campaign trail.
Month: July 2002
Blame Business Casual.
Robin Givhan of the Post blames the recent corporate scandals on Dress-Down Fridays. Somehow, I don’t think most of these guys would be any more straight-laced in a power tie.
Mars or Bust.
Russia proposes to NASA and the European Space Agency that we send humans to Mars by 2015. Great idea…and let’s get the Chinese involved as well.
Shovels at the ready.
Booyah. After the long wait for 2.0, Day of Defeat 3.0 is just around the corner (next week), with all-new paratrooper classes.
Dig the Mobius Strip.
Oh, shut up already.
Normally, I just stay out of the computer wars, since (a) Mac people tend to be so vehemently evangelical and since (b) – even though I’ve been using ’em since my dad bought a TRS-80 back in the day (on which I used to play the hell out of a game called “Sword of Zedek,” which for some reason I can’t find anything on the web about )- I’ve never been much more than a moderately informed user (which, in blog circles, makes me ridiculously uninformed.) That being said, every time I catch one of these annoying new Apple ads, I become ever deeper entrenched in my fondness for PC’s. “Using my PC was like being stuck in a bad relationship?” Please. Like I want to wait an extra eighteen months for new games to get a Mac port.
While I did have an Apple IIc as a kid (Mmmm…”Old Ironsides,”) I didn’t really use Macs until I was forced to in high school and, to cut to the quick, I thought they were crappity crap. When a PC goes down, even a rudimentary user like myself can try to ascertain the problem in DOS. When a Mac went down…well, you were stuck looking at that stupid icon. It’s a glorified calculator. It’s no doubt true that the Windows OS is and has been a complete facsimile of the Macintosh, but I’m kinda hoping we move past GUI’s eventually. Ok, I’ve probably betrayed my ignorance a few times over in this post already, so I’ll close it up. Suffice to say, those Apple ads irk me to no end.
Hey Buffalo Bill.
Workers removing a crumbling wall in Jamestown, NY uncover a 124-year old billboard announcing an appearance by Buffalo Bill Cody.
Off with his head.
BBC kills the Giles Doctor Who rumors mentioned here on Tuesday.
The Ballad of Stonewall.
Dark Horizons, among other places, reports that Bob Dylan will be penning a new tune for the Gods and Generals film.
The Supreme Court’s War on Kids.
So much for Independence Day. “The majority opinion in Earls reflects some of the worst results-based decision-making we’ve seen since Bush v. Gore. And like Bush v. Gore, it is rooted in panic, expediency, and a twisting of prior precedent to fit the facts.” Dahlia Lithwick excoriates the Supreme Court for their recent decision to force urine tests on high school kids.