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Sympathizing With The Christmas Rebels

Posted Fri, 12/23/2005 - 15:24 by Ben Stanfield

I know the War On Christmas is a fabrication, and generally I ignore blowhards like O'Reilly and his Faux friends, unless I want to make fun of them.

Justin Speak

Posted Tue, 12/20/2005 - 23:32 by Ben Stanfield
You listen.... [How Atriotic of me, huh?] Also, I realise that Amazon only does statistically improbably phrases for books, but if they did it for blogs I'm quite sure "Feingoldian balls" would be one of the statistically improbably phrases from Stin's blog.

Dear NPR: Get Rid of Haggerty NOW

Posted Tue, 12/20/2005 - 17:45 by Ben Stanfield

Dear NPR,

Barbara Bradley Haggerty is not a science reporter. Please have her stop reporting on science. In fact, forget I said please. Just stop it. Now.

Behe and Friends Had the Smack Layeth Upon Them

Posted Tue, 12/20/2005 - 17:29 by Ben Stanfield

And, lo there was much rejoicing. Merry fucking Christmas, my poorly designed creationist pals. :)

From science's new best friend, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III:

Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge...

And now this, from those brain-dead retards at the discovery instsitute:

Snowman vs. Snow Pirates [Updated]

Posted Sat, 12/17/2005 - 00:17 by Ben Stanfield

So, the important message is: blogging while drunk is bad. The post and picture that were here last night were copied from my friend Kamal's blog. He had some issues with some real assholes hotlinking and stealing his pictures a few weeks ago, and has since moved them all behind a password screen, and has set up some apache hot-linking tricks to avoid other being jerks. Justin and I thought it would be fun to steal a post and picture just for fun, with the intention of taking it down once he saw it and laughed. In short, it wasn't funny at all.

AIM Bots Showing Up In Buddy List

Posted Wed, 11/16/2005 - 07:48 by Ben Stanfield

I logged into AIM this morning and was greeted by a new group: AIM Bots.

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Is everyone seeing this? Is it deletable? I suppose we'll find out soon. I don't mind seeing AIM bots on my list, particularly if I can delete them, since I use a client that doesn't display ads.

Update: As of 9:30 Eastern, AIM is now sending a system message to users upon login, with information about the new Bots group.

Geek Books

Posted Sun, 11/13/2005 - 16:13 by Ben Stanfield

Wonk is back! Wonk is back!

Posted Mon, 10/31/2005 - 22:16 by Ben Stanfield
Oh, happy days are here again. Go. Now. Celebrate. Big Ten Wonk is back, with a bunch of posts tonight, and promises for daily weekday posts from now until the NCAA tourney ends. Hot damn.

Episode IV: A New Hope

Posted Thu, 10/27/2005 - 20:55 by Ben Stanfield
With the awful reviews and pathetically small box office numbers the first three Harry Potter Films turned in, it looks like Warner Brothers has to make some drastic changes for the fourth movie. Last time they tried firing the actor who played Gandalf Professor Dumbledore to trying to "liven" up the performance a bit, but since that didn't seem to do the trick, this time Warner Brothers has made a deal with Fox.

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Comcast Sucks

Posted Wed, 10/12/2005 - 18:14 by Ben Stanfield
Dear Comcast, I value your feedback. I canceled my Comcast Cable service about 7 months ago, because it was overpriced and your daily postcards begging me to sign up for your high speed internet or phone service really really annoyed me. I told you never to send me mail again. You, of course, continue to send me mail, and I continue to throw it away. What I didn't expect was that you bastards would continue to send me email. Tonight, I got an email telling me all about your wonderful, new (read: shitty) web site. It's so state of the art and great, I can even pay my bill online.