Archive for "Jun 2005"

Iraq War Casualties Map

Iraq War Casualties Map Wherein you may see the geographical distribution of the hometowns of those who’ve given life and limb for their country. Such a sacrifice for the whim of a mad fool. [via lifehacker

Newsflash: You Are Reading This Right Now

USATODAY.com – ‘Narnia’ claims its place in kids’ book realm In other news, GW Bush has claimed his place as President of the United States, and Harvard University has claimed its place in the higher education realm. *twitch* (Via Bookslut

Lost Liberty Hotel

Eminent Domain usage I can support

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect [...]

Letter to the Editor

Submitted to the letter editor of The Day, New London, CT’s city paper: RE: KELO et al. v. CITY OF NEW LONDON et al. Dear Editor, A modest suggestion for the disposal of New London’s increase in tax revenues through the use of eminent domain: a memorial, displayed in a public square, proclaiming that here, [...]

People for the Efficient Termination of Animals

Better dead than fed, PETA says

The Level of Rhetoric

“Ask the men and women who stood on top of the [World] Trade Center,” said Rep. Randy [Duke] Cunningham, R-California. “Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment.” The Honorable Member from California is speaking about the flag burning amendment, of course. It could have been about the Iraq war, or the Patriot [...]

‘Scuse me while I frob some CSS

If the site looks a bit wonky (“G-hauled,” as my wife’s family would say), it’s because I’m fooling around with the CSS. I know something’s wrong somewhere, because the sidebars are pushing down the bottom of the top post.

Beatdown

Nothing makes one reconsider a life of crime like getting the piss beat out of you by a cadre of enraged trainee beautitians.

Highly random is the new funny

Alien Loves Predator is the story of two unlikely roommates in the Big Apple. I stifled many an office chuckle reading the archives. Practically begs for a Leisure Town crossover. Via rwx

Ye Olde Stuffe

Just for keeps, here are the old links from the old allwrong.com… the unrotted ones, that is. The Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics Stinkymeat. What’s that smell? Mechanized Propulsion Systems Mechs for the whole family. The old reading list. As in, I did it once, and never added a damn thing. Let’s try to [...]

Here I Go Again On My Own

Who needs more than one blog? Egotists? Blowhards? I mean, seriously. I guess I’m one. Allwrong.com was sort of a blog before, being a collection of things I took an interest in. I’ve got a livejournal account that I’ve had for a while. But for some reason combining the “general essay and/or links of interest” [...]