Category Archives: Scribbles

Why I No Longer Tweet

Posted on November 14, 2009 | 6 comments

I haven’t taken the logo off the sidebar, but I’ll get around to it. Sooner than I will waste time writing another 140-character Tweet. What a nothing. This sums it up as well as anything can:

"As a blogging, Facebooking, texting American who values the explosion of democratic user-generated Internet content and its contribution to intellectual debate, political activism, government transparency, entertainment, access to data and community, I can safely say I still see no reason to tweet."

No kiddin’. Twitter is, indeed, useless.

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Biggest cruise ship’s bow thrusters

Posted on November 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Biggest cruise ship’s bow thrusters

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Whoa. The Oasis of the Seas is a biggie. Got to be impressed with the engineering.

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World’s biggest cave

Posted on November 8, 2009 | Comments Off on World’s biggest cave

I’ve been in a few, from Shenandoah Caverns in Virginia to Inner Space under I-35 north of Austin. But this, apparently, is the largest found to date. It’s in Viet Nam, oddly enough. Another tourist attraction for a country that can always use another one.

Via Naturography.

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Realism at the daily

Posted on November 6, 2009 | Comments Off on Realism at the daily

So the Austin daily finally figured it out and put an advertisement on the front page of the paper version. Good for them, I say. That’s realism of the realistic kind, even if it is below the fold. Moving it up would be better, make it worth more if it could be seen in the rack.

Course the usual crew of journalism purists–most of them, ahem, former employees–are bellyaching about it. Oh the shame, the horror. Their "calling" has been sullied. As if. Makes me laugh.

UPDATE: Dramatic graphic telling of the history of major newspaper circulation since 1990.

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News from the Jihadist Safety Consultant

Posted on November 5, 2009 | Comments Off on News from the Jihadist Safety Consultant

Let’s face it, even for dedicated Jihadists, there’s a right way and a wrong way to martyrdom. Humor from The Whited Sepulchre.

Via Simply Jews.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, after today’s events at Fort Hood, this is no longer particularly funny. My bad.

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Magic moments in crime

Posted on November 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Magic moments in crime

Life in the shallow end of the gene pool gets more entertaining by the minute: from the burglar pair who drew their masks on their faces with black markers to the clown who was captured on burglar cam getting into the liquor store (with only a few broken bones) but then being unable to get out. Heh.

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The one and only American Indian faculty member Oklahoma State ever had…

Posted on November 3, 2009 | Comments Off on The one and only American Indian faculty member Oklahoma State ever had…

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Not the fellow on the sign, the "Fighting Sioux" of the University of North Dakota. This one. OKS fired him. But they haven’t been able to silence the Comanche conservative. He’s even going after the usual liberal suspects who are still battling the American Indian mascot tradition. Racist, you know. Uh huh. Bad Eagle’s great, great grandson begs to disagree. And not politely, either. Heh.

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