| 15/12/99 - It turns out that Al 'I cleaned up Love Canal'
Gore was misquoted.
(via MediaGossip)
15/12/99 - The results of the NPR poll on America's Greatest 20th Century Music are now online. (via Arts Journal) 14/12/99 - I received this via Politech and again from a friend. The most interesting bit was probably: "Countries with those fabulously low crime rates and fabulously fascistic gun control laws -- such as Canada, the Netherlands, and Britain --- have more burglaries of occupied homes per capita than we do. Canada's burglary rate of occupied homes is more than three times that of the armed-to-the-teeth U.S. Although the murder rate is lower in Britain, rape, robbery, burglary, and assault are all substantially higher there than in the U.S."An old chestnut but I wondered if there were some figures on this topic, and lo, I found: "This report compares crime in the United States and England with respect to crime rates (as measured both by victimization surveys and police statistics), conviction rates, incarceration rates, and length of sentences."And this says: "According to the latest comparable figures on violent crime (1995), victim surveys indicated higher violent crime rates in England (including Wales) than in the United States, while police statistics indicated the opposite:"So I suppose we can 'prove' whatever we like. 14/12/99 - Recreate a great scene from 'A Christmas Story'. (via Looka!) 14/12/99 - I saw a bit of Nightline which had a piece on MovieLens. I was going great guns rating my movies but it seems too many people have had the same idea. 13/12/99 - Great article profiling Bill Bradley, which ends with the reporter ranting at a Bradley fundraiser: Somewhere in the distance, Bradley had begun speaking. I couldn't hear him. On my half of the stadium, the crowd had turned around to face me.13/12/99 - At last Britain enters the 20th century and proposes to abolish licensing laws. Quirky things to abolished include: "The current law allows children as young as five to have an alcoholic drink in pub gardens."13/12/99 - Behold the wisdom of bendypig. I especially like the stamps. 13/12/99 - From the Dead Sites graveyard, lets dress Natass! 13/12/99 - Much has been said about the addition of sponsors to the college bowls, e.g. FSU will play in the Nokia Sugar Bowl (requires Flash). One that you'd think wouldn't change is the Citrus Bowl, as that is already sponsored by the Citrus Growers of Florida. But no, it is now the Ourhouse.com Florida Citrus Bowl. The famous Taco Liberty Bell hoax is getting much closer to reality. 13/12/99 - This was reported in the local newspaper, the Sheriff of Lee County is not averse to proselytizing: "How much money was raised for the President from the Red Chinese Government and their business associates to help him win the last election. The Liberal media is largely responsible for not telling Americans the truth about these sinister plots being played out against the best interest of the United States. As long as the liberal politicians kiss up to the liberal press the honeymoon continues at our expense. WAKE UP AMERICA, before it’s too late!"10/12/99 - A great way to celebrate the new Millennium, courtesy of Yobs. I know about the date thing, Looka! sums it up just right, courtesy of Mulder and Scully: Scully: "2001 is actually the start of the new millennium."Would always referring to it as 'the Millennium' solve the problem? 10/12/99 - Two words: lame duck. (via email) 10/12/99 - NME has their picks of the year. Yeah for Smog! Boo for no Mountain Goats. Everything has been on V89's playlist apart from Beck (sorry Beck you're now far too commercial) and Death in Vegas. 10/12/99 - Another political matchmaker. (via email) 10/12/99 - Some little tosser has wandered off with our He-Ne laser. That will teach me for not blessing it: "...Blessed be this helium neon laser9/12/99 - Don Henley is in the news, so time to discover his arch-nemesis Mojo Nixon, writer of 'Don Henley Must Die'. But wait what is this: "That's the weird thing. Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. To quote my drummer, he must've had balls bigger than church bells to do that... Don Henley, I agree with a lot of his political things... but he was in The Eagles! The f*****g country Monkees of the '70s!"9/12/99 - The latest hot anthropological topic, infanticide in langur monkeys, an interview and profile of the author. (via RobotWisdom) 8/12/99 - A listing of all the live 'This is' co.uk domains. Places you might go, places you probably won't. Sorry Scunthorpe. It was either you or Grimsby. Scunthorpe is of course popular for testing the sensitivity of any parser. This is directly from Bifurcated Rivets: "Go the BBC home page. Scroll to the bottom and click on "E-mail a friend". Send yourself a message with the title "Saturday in Scunthorpe" or "Scraping scrapped skyscrapers"..."Another one that is rather sensitive is Cammunity, for finding webcams. Try searching for Tallahassee! 8/12/99 - Lori's Christmas newsletter. 8/12/99 - A page of kitchen equipment. Any kitchen that has a Buffalo Chopper is into some SERIOUS cooking. And a Robot Coupe sounds impressive as well. Each item has little video to go with it. 8/12/99 - Something as popular as football outlawed in Tampa. "The scene was part morality play and part political festival. Many held signs distributed by radio station 98 Rock proclaiming: "I want my lap dancing.""8/12/99 - Another old story but this is just too funny. (via ObscureStore)
The Florida fans were carrying so many Dillards bags at the UF-FSU games I'm sure that Dillards made up for the few hundred dollars of stolen merchandise. 8/12/99 - Handy little link, a clickable map of all the Universities and HE Colleges in the UK. 8/12/99 - One of those British articles that's slightly one-sided. Starting with the headline: That's American pupils of course. I wonder if any British pupils get taught anything about the Parliamentary process. Your starter for 10, the difference between a White paper and a Green paper? (via Badgovt) 8/12/99 - Ah those Germans. (via Looka) 8/12/99 - One of the bits of information that comes to the weblog too late for anyone to use. While looking up information on the group NRBQ I discovered that it was their 30th anniversary and that they were performing with The Shaggs! Unfortunately we've missed it. But there was a review in the Village Voice. The Shaggs fansite makes no mention of the concert but it has all the regular stuff. 8/12/99 - An ideal way to test which U.S. Presidential candidate matches your views most closely. Unsurprisingly it matches me with the Socialist. 8/12/99 - OK I'm back. I got into a nasty spiral of not weblogging and gradually feeling left behind (coupled with the knowledge that no one is checking for updates anymore). Weeks and weeks of links to log. |
