Year: 2005

Thanks to John Rogers and Ed Brayton for spreading the good word: Judge John E. Jones III of Pennsylvania has ruled that “intelligent design (ID)” may NOT be taught in Dover’s public schools. Rogers calls it “[a] breathtakingly thorough judicial…

Today’s error message: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. [sic] We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon…

So the guy who draws Dilbert has written a book called God’s Debris, which you can download as a PDF and read for free, and in doing so has crossed the border into the land of crazy old men– jumping…

So I’m reading The Onion today, and I click through to one of their stories and have to endure an interstitial ad that asks “Are you a loser?” I skip it, of course, but after I read the story, I…

Just in case you were wondering: yes, Donald Duck appears to be of Scottish descent. Though there is also some weird inter-species shit going on to the far right of that tree. Ewww. This guy has diagrammed family trees for…

You know, I’ve been using the del.icio.us online bookmarking service for a while. And while it’s been slow sometimes, it’s never spewed system errors like I started seeing this week: System errorerror: Can’t call method “prepare” on an undefined value…

I have to maintain documentation on wikis as part of my work, and I hate it. And earlier today, as I was spitting expletives at my computer screen, I realized why I hate editing wikis so much: for the same…

“The undead female is pretty hot[.]”— On The Feminine Form In Gaming

And Overstock.com wonders why they’re not selling more of these: “Sleek and compact design,” says the product description. Uh, yeah, I suppose you could call it that.

I’m done. After attempting nanowrimo twice before, I’ve finally won. I’ve written over 52,000 words and pounded out what can– generously, perhaps, but still– be called a novel. My first draft of my first novel. Oh, it’s still got a…