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The Dalai Lama tweets. Ahem, yer holiness.

Categories: People and Current Events

This morning RC2 shared my Tiger Woods story on her Google Reader (which gets pushed to her sidebar) and, seeing it pop up in my newsfeed, I thought I’d click through and check I spelt everything correctly. Then I got redirected to a scary referral spam page. So I called Peter in to look at [...]

Categories: Wildcard

“Meta:”

Categories: Entertainment

Bwah hah hah:

Mashable – Facebook Analyzes How Relationship Status Impacts Happiness [STATS]

Facebook already has a methodology for measuring the overall “happiness” of its users. It basically looks at how many positive words people use in their status updates (for English speaking users). This results in the USA Gross National Happiness Index. [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

(I have a sick sense of humour, using that title)

Okay, now that I’ve caught myself up to this story, do the following things:

First, go to http://www.facebook.com/ and take a good look. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have an account.

Second, scan this article (it’s not that interesting, so just get the gist of it): Facebook [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Google did. GOOGLE.

Categories: Business & Media

From Tony Blair:

This isn’t about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception,” Mr. Blair said. “It’s a decision. And the decision I had to take was, given Saddam’s history, given his use of chemical weapons, given the over one million people whose deaths he had caused, given 10 years [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Tim Blair:

Lonely glacier denialist and Danny boy Charles Johnson claims: One thing you’ll obviously never have to worry about: Tim Blair changing his mind on anything. This isn’t true. For example, I’ve changed my mind about Charles Johnson.

Wow.

/claps

Categories: People and Current Events

Google Blogs – A new approach to China

First:

Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Now, nobody get mad at me, but this is funny:

No, Moslems don’t believe that Jesus was the messiah. Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

That thing I just twittered, “#NoStateofUnionFeb2″ is all over Twitter right now. So here’s a good test of his crashing popularity. Will the president of the United States and Mr Popularity on nine continents reschedule his State of the Union Address because of a tv show?

giggle

WaPo – Rescheduled State of the Union would conflict [...]

Categories: Politics

Our Phib is joining a radio show:

CDR Salamander – Midrats: Navy Milblog Radio – Episode 1

Well, it is time for another chapter in the Navy MilBlog world – a radio show. OK, it is a blogtalkradio show – but a new format it is. Tomorrow will be Episode 1 of [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I enjoyed reading this. Bits of it reminded me of some of Vanderleun’s stories, but of course in a later, less-charmed decade.

But I don’t have time to quote any of that so I’m going to skip to the funny bit.

The Awl – The End of the 00s: The Stupid Kids of 1999, By Will [...]

Categories: Business & Media

From The Corner:

American government changed last night. “We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,” says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) in a conversation with NRO. “An ideological supermajority in Congress, along with a government run by community organizers, has taken over.” “They’ve taken over the student-loan program, [...]

Categories: Politics

As the internet ages and the blogosphere (GOD THAT WORD) matures, it’s become less and less acceptable to be anonymous. It’s as though it’s an immature holdover from, to borrow a line,

the old, dark days of the internet when men were men, women were men and children were FBI agents, no one cared [...]

Categories: People and Current Events