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Kind of in the same vein as “The Sound of Music” in the train station:

Apparently my YouTube postings aren't coming through (thanks for letting me know, Brett!).  Ok.  Well, I'll see what I can do….

Somewhat unexpected but the right thing to do, Whelan apologizes for exposing the identity of Publius. Publius moves on. The debate, however, doesn't.  While most in the blogosphere, including many of Whelan's colleagues, understand why a person might have personal or career-related reasons for blogging under a pseudonym, there are still a few who don't: My view is that "publius." … Read More

One of my favorite bloggers is "Publius" — a really smart guy and excellent writer. Some wanker on the right outted him, for no other reason (apparently) than to be a douchebag.

…was, arguably, Doogie Howser, M.D. He was blogging before there was the word "blog". His "personal journal entries" from 1989-1993 are archived here.

The Virginia DMV now bans smiles on all driver's licenses.  Seriously.

… that there are real people behind these words you see on the computer screen.

I've been a fan of this dude since 1986, when I saw a documentary based on his book "The Cuckoo's Egg".  Would that all public speakers were this way.

It's not only strange that the White House has a blog, but now it is even liveblogging.

Queensland Island in the Great Barrier Reef is trying to up its tourism profile, and the way they intend to do it is to hire a blogger. Requirements?  Hang around the island (swim, snorkel, etc) and blog about it: The successful candidate will be asked to keep a blog and photo diary in exchange for six months rent-free on Hamilton … Read More

This is precisely why the blog "Jon Swift" deserves the 2008 Humor Weblog of the Year Award: As I recently predicted, in few months, with the benefit of hindsight, historians will look back on the Bush presidency as an unalloyed success and consider President Bush to be one of our greatest presidents. Although the White House has sent around its own talking … Read More

Fat chance of it happening. But just in case, I ran my website through a content-reading thingee, and now I've got my rating already here on the right sidebar.

Full list here. It's a good place to go if you want to be exposed to various well-written blogs that you didn't know existed. Yes, Virginia, there are well-written blogs out there.  The blogosphere is much much more than political rants and pictures of peoples' kittens doing the gosh-darn cutest things.

Fixed some of the annoying things, like things being centered all the time.  Learned a lot about CSS in the process. Comments are now in descending order (earliest comment first). Added a search engine somewhere in there. Took out Heather's Hangman (among other things), because Heather's gone AWOL with her new baby and shit so, you know, screw her. Obviously … Read More