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| And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones |
[ February 27th, 2008 | 11:10pm ] |
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ok there was no janto and the dialogue was lacking in parts (like when all Owen came up with for things worth living for was tea and mates) but finally an episode of torchwood that didn’t disappoint me and wow are the torchwood writers EMO love
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| Bang Bang, I Shot You Down |
[ January 7th, 2008 | 11:34pm ] |
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THERE WAS FINALLY A NEW DAILY SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been suffering Jon Stewart withdrawl for 2 fucking months now!
that was fabulous
I just don't have words
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| I've got a feeling, this year's for me and you |
[ December 29th, 2007 | 2:54am ] |
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Happy Holidays to all!
New mood for the new year!
(hopefully this time next year I'll be in London)
I really do feel accomplished (sort of like when I manage to use chopsticks properly) and thank you to miss_jaffacake for this lovely Never Mind the Buzzcocks mood
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| I been Norman Mailered |
[ November 12th, 2007 | 12:01pm ] |
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Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission) |
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RIP Norman Mailer 1923- 2007
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| Theres a concert hall in vienna, Where your mouth had a thousand reviews |
[ October 14th, 2007 | 3:14pm ] |
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I open to the Op-ed section of the Sunday Times and in the space usually reserved for Maureen Dowd's various scribblings, I see: I Am an Op-Ed Columnist (And So Can You!) By STEPHEN COLBERT
If you care to read this, I Am an Op-Ed Columnist (And So Can You!) here's a link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14dowd.html?ex=1350014400&en=d01aa9466034843f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Articles most frequently e-mailed by NYTimes.com readers.Really Stephen?
I didn't completely dig the piece. After all Maureen Dowd's intro was basically an employment of the paradigm used by many a public figure trying to appear hip or down with pop culture. She speaks of Stephen Colbert mentioning the NY Times as if the it’s some fringe paper and she is sitting there watching the Colbert Report and suddenly hearing Stephen Colbert mention her paper. Stephen's article is short, but he mentions Hilary, Obama, OJ, Thompson, Rudy and his book. He also mentions McCain's Straight Talk Express which is now actually the No Surrender. He also mentions the whole Colbert for President thing he's been joking about on every show he's been on. I realize that the huge ego is the shtick of Stephen's Stephen Colbert character but I still like Jon Stewart's response to people wanting him too be president earlier. However it was cute. Last week Dowd's column has hijacked by the sprit of Clarence Thomas though and I have to say I much prefer Colbert. Actually I prefer his article to any of Maureen Dowd's articles.  VS. 
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| In a world called catastrophe, my native tongue is blasphemy |
[ September 19th, 2007 | 12:01am ] |
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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann hospitalized following emergency appendectomy: "Mr. Olbermann’s appendix apparently ruptured Wednesday, but he wrote it off as a stomach ailment and soldiered on. Though still feeling ill, he nonetheless reported for work Thursday night, when he anchored MSNBC’s analysis of President Bush’s prime-time address on the war in Iraq. It wasn’t until Friday afternoon that he decided it was time to seek medical attention, according to an MSNBC spokeswoman."
get well soon keith
Update: Keith Olbermann is back home in New York after undergoing an emergency appendectomy on Friday.
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| Who killed Davey Moore? |
[ August 24th, 2007 | 8:18pm ] |
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of nyc for a bit, so no computer
and yet I still have papers to write
I have to finish on today or I'm seriously fucked
kay no more procrastination
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| Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople |
[ August 19th, 2007 | 9:33pm ] |
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CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits By Randall Mikkelsen Thu Aug 16, 6:44 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program. The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday. The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly overwhelmed with searches. The program allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the popular Internet encyclopedia where anyone can submit and edit entries. WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class. Another entry on former CIA chief William Colby was edited by CIA computers to expand his career history and discuss the merits of a Vietnam War rural pacification program that he headed. Aerial and satellite images of the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were removed using a computer traced to the FBI, WikiScanner showed. CIA spokesman George Little said he could not confirm whether CIA computers were used in the changes, adding that "the agency always expects its computer systems to be used responsibly." The FBI did not have an immediate response. Computers at numerous other organizations and companies were found to have been involved in editing articles related to them. Griffith said he developed WikiScanner "to create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike (and) to see what 'interesting organizations' (which I am neutral towards) are up to." It was not known whether changes were made by an official representative of an agency or company, Griffith said, but it was certain the change was made by someone with access to the organization's network. It violates Wikipedia's neutrality guidelines for a person with close ties to an issue to contribute to an entry about it, said spokeswoman Sandy Ordonez of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's parent organization. However, she said, "Wikipedia is self-correcting," meaning misleading entries can be quickly revised by another editor. She said Wikimedia welcomed the WikiScanner. WikiScanner can be found at wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070816/wr_nm/security_wikipedia_dc;_ylt=AuHgSKeSW5uz47FG3dM8wZcjtBAF
Well, well, well
this is the guy btw Virgil Griffith, a grad student at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico
and if you head over to WIRED you get a lovely list of edits that had been done by various governments and corporations
here's that link : http://wired.reddit.com/wikidgame/
that is definetly a must read
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| Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth |
[ August 15th, 2007 | 6:47pm ] |
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This was posted at the community thedailyshow by privateers
It shocked me so I thought I'd post it in my own journal w/ the comment I made
here's the bit: Gibson and radio producer mocked Jon Stewart's "sobbing" remarks after 9-11, called him a "phony"Summary: On his radio show, John Gibson and his executive producer mocked Jon Stewart for emotional remarks he made shortly after 9-11. While airing a clip of Stewart's remarks, Gibson mimicked Stewart and sarcastically interjected, "Oh, God, Jon. Just tell me it's not true," and, "Oh! That's great. I'm -- God, I'm touched."
On the August 10 broadcast of his Fox News Radio show, John Gibson and the program's executive producer, known on air as "Angry Rich," mocked Comedy Central host Jon Stewart for emotional remarks he made shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. While airing a clip of Stewart's remarks from the September 20, 2001, edition of The Daily Show, Gibson mimicked Stewart and sarcastically interjected, "Oh, God, Jon. Just tell me it's not true," and, "Oh! That's great. I'm -- God, I'm touched." Before playing the clip, Angry Rich asked, "Do you remember what the media was like shortly after 9-11?" Gibson answered, "Oh, Jon Stewart sobbing." After the clip concluded, Angry Rich called Stewart a "phony." The portion of Stewart's September 20, 2001, comments that Gibson aired: STEWART: The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center. And now it's gone. And they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that.
Gibson mocked Stewart during a discussion of Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky's August 9 column, headlined "To save America, we need another 9/11." He aired the clip immediately following a caller's comment that "the last time I ever remember in my entire life this entire country actually stood up and held hands and everybody cared about each other" was after 9-11. From the August 10 broadcast of Fox News Radio's The John Gibson Show: GIBSON: [Caller] in Madison, Wisconsin.
CALLER: Hi, John.
GIBSON: Are you angry at this columnist for saying -- well, let me quote him correctly -- "that another 9-11 would help America?"
CALLER: You know, John, I have -- I love your show. First, I want to say you're one of my great idols. I listen to you everyday.
GIBSON: You do?
CALLER: Yes. I absolutely love your show. John, I -- you know, I've said this for so long right now because I'm so frustrated with these -- with everybody, just -- all everybody cares about in this country is their own personal interests, and that's all they really want the government to go for. And everybody is -- they want the money and the time and energy spent on their own personal interests, and everybody's always thinking about me, me, me, me, me.
And the last time I ever remember in my entire life this entire country actually stood up and held hands and everybody cared about each other and said, "You know what? Forget my interests. I don't care what, you know, I have to do to help myself now. Go, government, and take care of this country as a whole," was September 12. You know, September 11. And ever since then, we've gotten so far away and after that, and we've forgotten that feeling of that day after. And it has -- you know, it's dwindled away from everybody, and we have gotten to the point we're back into only caring about putting that money and effort into what is going to help me personally and what's going to, you know --
GIBSON: [Caller], you live in Madison, Wisconsin?
CALLER: One of the most liberal towns in this country.
GIBSON: How -- I mean, do you, like, hide under a rock --
CALLER: My God.
GIBSON: -- and make sure your neighbors don't hear you speak?
CALLER: And trust me, honest to God, I'm in the closet right now.
ANGRY RICH: They throw bongs at him.
GIBSON: I bet they do. [Caller], thanks.
CALLER: I mean I'm --
GIBSON: Appreciate it. God, we found the one guy in Madison who's sensible.
ANGRY RICH: Do you remember what the media was like shortly after 9-11?
GIBSON: Oh, Jon Stewart sobbing.
STEWART: The view from my apartment --
GIBSON: Sobbing.
STEWART: -- was the World Trade Center.
GIBSON: Oh, God, Jon. Just tell me it's not true.
STEWART: And now it's gone.
GIBSON: It's gone.
STEWART: And they attacked it.
GIBSON: They attacked it.
STEWART: This symbol --
GIBSON: This symbol.
STEWART: -- of American ingenuity --
GIBSON: American ingenuity.
STEWART: -- and strength --
GIBSON: And strength.
STEWART: -- and --
GIBSON: Determination.
STEWART: -- and labor and imagination and commerce, and it is gone.
GIBSON: Gone.
STEWART: But you know what the view is now?
ANGRY RICH: What is it, Jon?
GIBSON: What is it, Jon?
STEWART: The Statue of Liberty.
GIBSON: Oh! That's great. I'm -- God, I'm touched.
STEWART: The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty.
GIBSON: I'm touched.
ANGRY RICH: Let me bash Bush for the next six years.
STEWART: You can't beat that.
GIBSON: You can't beat that. Well --
ANGRY RICH: Phony.
GIBSON: Actually, you could. If you wait a little while, you'll say, just as Steve Martin used to say, "Should I fight the terrorists? Should I listen to their phone calls? Should I follow them everywhere on the planet to keep America safe? Nah, let's kick the hell out of Bush."
Do we need another 9-11? Triple eight, seven, eight, eight, nine, nine, one, zero. Any of you -- anybody who would say we do need a 9-11, remember, there are bloggers on the left and bloggers on the right who would like to string you up.
—N.J.N.
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