CNN ran a little item today asserting that “In just a brief one-twentieth of a second — less than half the time it takes to blink — people make aesthetic judgments that influence the rest of their experience with an Internet site.” Here’s a screen shot of the item as it appeared:
I can only assume […]
Don’t get me wrong — I heartily agree with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s assessment that in the Bush administration “we have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence.” But something about her speech at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem rings a little false. Maybe it’s her assertion that, “like […]
1:06 PM Team (Annalog, Annalog boyfriend, Annalog nonfunctional laptop) arrive at Fry’s Electronics. Human members of team are filled with naive hope that problem with laptop can be diagnosed.
1:12 Noticed by Technician at Service Desk. Problem explained. Technician commences studiously ignoring team.
1:22 Technician points at team suggestively. Technician 2 takes bait, questions […]
In a disturbing turn of events, a change in federal telecommunications law makes it illegal to post nasty anonymous comments on someone’s blog. The new law (HR 3402) essentially extends your personal protection against harassment. Pre-3402, it was illegal to place anonymous calls to someone for the purpose of annoying them. Now it is illegal […]
Why, it’s The Man again, this time in the guise of Jonah Goldberg. Goldberg’s review in The Washington Examiner includes such observations as the following:
[…] some brands of feminism aren’t really about women at all. They’re about using the “feminist perspective” to smash the “socially constructed reality” or the “patriarchy” or “bourgeois capitalism” in order […]
Yesterday I had a sad, broken-spirited a day trying to figure out how the United States could keep the judicial confirmation process from being a charade in which the nominee has to pander to both sides shamelessly before embarking upon a lifetime of impartial rulings. Finally, I realized that the confirmation process actually works fine; […]
A recent post on Broadsheet has generated the requisite flame war between male and female readers about which gender has it rougher. This debate is as old as Tiresias, but the Broadsheet version usually goes like this:
Woman: Men only care about youth and beauty, not intelligence or personality.
Man: Yeah, but women only care about status […]
Regular readers will recall that I received some mail from Charles Dickens a little while ago. Now other wordsmith has contacted me from beyond the grave:
Equity Preview Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It appears the famous transcendentalist has become a stockbroker in the underworld. How mysterious is death, that undiscovered country from which no traveler returns, except […]
Because dissidents in China are just too darned uppity and nobody has the courage to give them the smackdown they deserve, Microsoft is stepping in to help. According to AP, Microsoft shut down a blog on its China hosting service, because the blogger reported on such politically sensitive issues as a strike at the Beijing […]
Today’s important issue: our daughters’ virtue. And by “our daughters,” we mean Howard Stern’s daughter Emily. Not living in NYC, I don’t know about these things, but apparently she was to star in the play “Kabbalah,” in which one seen required her to strip. Her father warned her not to do it, or his enemies […]