Archive for August 7th, 2006

Trainwreck

A few weeks ago I posted a link to a blog dustup between Jeff Goldstein, of Protein Wisdom and Deb Frisch, of South(West)paw.  You can review the origins here.
What has started out as a very strange ideological feud has morphed into something far beyond absolute lunacy.
Before I go into it though, a word about the [...]

Unluckiest Woman In Lebanon

HehTM

Lebanese Death Toll Reduced. Photoshop Blamed.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported.”The massacre in Houla, it turned out that there was one person killed,” Reuters quoted Siniora as saying. “They thought that the whole building smashed on the [...]

Fill Up!

If you haven’t filled your tank, you have about thirty seconds before the prices jump.  Get hopping.

links for 2006-08-07

YouTube – Bump keying
The end of mechanical locks?
(tags: security video)

Saint Cindy

Cindy Sheehan is back.
Under the blazing Texas sun, Sheehan and more than 50 demonstrators again marched a mile and a half toward Bush’s ranch, stopping at a roadblock. As Secret Service agents stood silently, Sheehan held up her California driver’s license and said she wanted to meet with the president.
“It doesn’t say my new address, [...]

Ancestor Of The Laptop

The family visited a Children’s Museum downtown this weekend, and I found an exhibit of really old typewriters.  This one in particular caught my eye (click to enlarge).

A 1910 Bennett ‘portable’.  More information here.
Cool stuff.

More Fake Photos? UPDATED

Rusty Shackleford at My Pet Jawa has yet another faked photo from Adnan Hajj. I get the impression this is the proverbial tip of the iceberg here. Reuters better get on the stick and hire someone from the outside to sift through these photos and make damn sure they come clean if any [...]