Monthly Archives: January 2005

Explain one of these to a backpack screener…

What every well-dressed Musaceae is wearing this season.

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Does Tonka Make a Version Of This?

I just had an eight-year-old “Ohmygodlookatthecoolmachine” moment downtown.

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Nation-Building As Done By Actual Grownups

In a column headlined “Our Blindness,” Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist Mark Helprin grimly questions our preparedness for handling any of the major challenges facing the U.S. in the 21st century, which he identifies as the rise of China as … Continue reading

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LJ Outage

As compensation for the outage, LJ is extending paid subscriptions by two weeks but you have to claim it. Go here: http://www.livejournal.com/misc/claim-2005-01.bml.

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Protected: Now That I Am Dead

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Panix Panic

Panix, perhaps New York City’s oldest Internet service provider (meaning that I don’t think any other company was selling dialup Internet access in NYC in 1991) was largely knocked offline this weekend by a domain-name hijacking. The hijacking meant that … Continue reading

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Journal Live Again

LiveJournal’s outage yesterday seems to have been fixed, but not before prompting an avalanche of adolescent snottiness from the Slashdot crowd. Perhaps the funniest comment was one that could have applied to the gamers and geeks on Slashdot as well: … Continue reading

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Protected: Appearing Live

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Oh, all right, it’s OK to help tsunami victims, we guess…

While still decrying “the ugly hand of altruism,” the lunatics at the Ayn Rand Institute have grudgingly retracted the essay it released last week, “U.S. Should Not Help Tsunami Victims.” Now mind you, these purveyors of institutionalized selfishness do not … Continue reading

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Today’s LJ Finds

I am, apparently not as nerdy as silvertide: Thanks to markbourne, one of whose stories is among the top downloads at Electric Story, I found this wonderful journalism wish-fulfillment piece by Terry Bisson: Meat the Press. And finally, a post … Continue reading

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