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Reader input requested
Just looking for a little input from readers. Currently I have the topics “Internet,” “blogging,” and “WordPress” indexed under Media/Comm. Every time I write something to be filed under one of these, I hesitate and wonder if readers would more naturally look for them under Sci/Tech, where they used to be. What do you think? … Continue reading
Hey, how y’all are?
This cutie looks like a feathered Paula Deen, and there are 14 more baby owls where she came from. Check ‘em out.
Bat signal for the Internet
Remember the great SOPA/PIPA blackout on January 18? Remember how good it felt to join hundreds of thousands of other Internet users in protest and in defense of the Internet? Well, one of the original and biggest backers of that day of protest was Reddit, and they’ve come up with a great new idea — … Continue reading
Shootings spoil hometown Thunder celebration
For the record, I’d like to address briefly the shootings that followed Monday night’s NBA game in Oklahoma City. Eight people were shot on the street in a downtown area where I’ve been many times, although only reluctantly after dark. More to the point, two of my siblings and their families were at the game … Continue reading
73-year-old woman conquers Everest
Suddenly I don’t feel quite so old. After all, I’m a mere 69. Saturday morning a 73-year-old Japanese woman, Tamae Watanabe, reached the summit of Mount Everest. At 29,035 feet (still officially 29,029 ft), Everest is the highest point on earth. Men die there every year, four just last week. Watanabe is the oldest woman … Continue reading
Stay tuned for new TSA search techniques
CNN anchors are currently discussing the possibility that a woman arrested this morning on a flight diverted to Bangor, Maine, had an explosive device surgically implanted in her body. Reportedly an inspection by several doctors on board confirmed that she’d had no recent surgery (although not all surgical incisions are visible externally … ). Any … Continue reading
Pastor Worley has plan to get rid of ‘lesbians and queers’
First it was Pastor Sean Harris in Fayetteville, NC. Now, not to be outdone, it’s Pastor Charles Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, NC. At least Worley isn’t telling parishioners to beat the gay out of their kids. Nope, he wants to put all gays and lesbians in compounds behind electrified fences … Continue reading
Super rich, super PACs, super dirt
Less than a month ago I referred readers to a Frank Bruni op-ed piece over at The New York Times. Today I’m going to do it again. “Of Bile and Billionaires” assesses the strategies and proposed methods of big money in the 2012 presidential campaign. Starting with billionaire Joe Ricketts’ super PAC and its plan … Continue reading
What would be an appropriate punishment?
Colorado’s Hewlett Gulch Fire, subject of a previous PT post, has grown to 7,600 acres and is about 45% contained this evening. Several evacuation orders have been lifted and several other areas remain on evacuation standby, but so far there have been no injuries and no homes destroyed. What would be a fair penalty for … Continue reading
WordPress yields, restores previous comment settings
Thanks to timethief for notice of yet another WordPress change to their “comment follow-up” tinkering: “May 17, 2012, 9:57 PM Update (May 17): Since this feature went live we’ve had a bunch of feedback and it looks like following comments by default is not a good fit for a lot of bloggers (and their readers) … Continue reading
Mitt Romney, man of principle
The perfect summation of Mitt Romney’s principles and character, from his own lips: “I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” _________ (Video added May 20, 2012)
Skill + luck = great photograph
There’s something mesmerizing about this fire photo; it intrigues me in a way I can’t explain. It looks like a painting. The flames seem impossibly orange. The smoke roils with color — grays, blacks, and menacing, choking browns; it has depth and layering. The deep green trees either fade into blue haze or pop with … Continue reading
WordPress installs option for comment follow-ups
Despite the self-congratulatory tone in today’s announcement from WordPress.com News, I’m inclined to think WP caved to user outrage. They’ve installed an option for users to opt out of those spammy automatic comment follow-up emails, or rather, to set the default to what it was before (not receiving follow-ups). See their amended support page “Following … Continue reading
Facebook: Still not your friend
Facebook has been in the news a lot lately with its upcoming IPO and speculation about the company’s worth and future profitability. It reminds me all over again how much I dislike and distrust Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. FB may or may not be any worse than all those other entities … Continue reading
That beautiful blue marble called Home
More eye candy for those who can’t get enough space pictures. I can’t explain the technology on this one; there’s more about it over on the Huffington Post, and more images, too. (And their video is bigger.) Enjoy.
Seriously, Newsweek?
Must be the silly season for magazine covers. First Time magazine sports a bare-breasted mom nursing her three-year-old, and now Newsweek has declared Obama “The First Gay President.” The race to the bottom has really heated up, hasn’t it? Decades-old highly respected news magazines venturing into the realm of shock and misrepresentation, all to generate … Continue reading
London’s new tower not my cup of tea
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a roller coaster? No, it’s the “ArcelorMittal Orbit” observation tower in London, focal point of this year’s Olympic park. CNN has posted a photo gallery and story, if you want all the details. Now Europe’s tallest sculpture, the tower is 22m taller than the Statue of Liberty and … Continue reading
Flea circus
(Updated May 12, 2012 at 2 pm MDT) For the last week, my home has been a three-ring flea circus. And I mean that in the most negative way possible. A week ago, on May 3, I got it into my head to treat both my dog and cat for fleas. Not that I’d seen … Continue reading
What a shame
Readers may remember back in November I posted a video from the Jimmy Kimmel show. It was a particularly funny Kimmel Kartoon, where the voices from a heated GOP debate were dubbed in over a Charlie Brown thanksgiving cartoon. It was widely circulated and widely enjoyed. But apparently not by everyone. Now it seems wherever … Continue reading
Time cover sinks to new low
For decades Time magazine has been America’s go-to news magazine. But their May 21 issue, due on newsstands next week, features what may be their most blatantly sensationalistic cover ever: Talk about pandering to the lowest common denominator. Oh sure, there are millions of women out there who breastfeed their babies, and a lot of … Continue reading
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