TBOTCOTWThe Blog of the Century of the WeekZero tolerance- April 25, 2008 A high school student in Portland just pulled an awesome prank, sending a letter to every parent on school letterhead encouraging them to allow parties with alcohol and sex after the prom. Of course the prank was obvious (at one point if referred to the school, Lincoln High, by its nickname Drinkin Lincoln, and the ...http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/zero-tolerance/ Yeeeeargh!- April 21, 2008 At least Im guessing thats how Howard Dean punctuated his call for superdelegates to tell him how they voted right now. Rather than wait for the convention. When they actually have to vote. According to Democratic Party rules. You know, the rules that Howard Dean is in charge of. Dude, you really should have seen this ...http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/yeeeeargh/ Paging Dr. House- April 10, 2008 Idolator noticed that Idol Gives Back gave a lot of screentime to other networks stars, but they didnt mention that Fox missed out on a chance to promote one of their biggest stars, who happens to be on a show that runs adjacent to American Idol. Thats right, Hugh Laurie is the usual keyboardist for ...http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/paging-dr-house/ American Idol: Inspiration Night- April 9, 2008 Otherwise known as David Archuleta has got this in the bag night. Michael Johns: Fine. I didnt know he had that falsetto in him. Syesha Mercado: Fantasia Really Yuck. Good technical performance, though. Jason Castro: Oddly compelling. I didnt want to like it (ukulele I mean, really) but it was good. Kristy Lee: Good lord, girl, buy a skirt. ...http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/american-idol-inspiration-night/ Is this the FDA, or is this the USA- April 9, 2008 The pre-emption doctrine, that the FDA approval process protects companies from liability for bad drugs, is incredibly brazen and dangerous. Johnson & Johnson lied to the FDA, and their customers, about the ingredients in a drug for years then when theyre found out they try to claim that theyre clean because the FDA should have ...http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/is-this-the-fda-or-is-this-the-usa/ Hey, my blogs eyes are up here, pal!- April 8, 2008 Yes, its CSS naked day! Actually, its CSS naked 48 hours so that it overlaps with every timezone. Anyway, its a little thing to promote web standards or some such hoo-ha, and it sounded like fun. So TBOTCOTW will look like 1996 for the next couple of days.http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/my-blogs-eyes-are-up-here/ Movable Type to WordPress without losing your permalinks- April 5, 2008 So youd like to upgrade to WordPress from Movable Type Its not very hard if youve always had the same permalink structure. But if youve gone through the MovableType versions from 1.5 to 2.x to 3.x and finally to 4.1 (like me) then youve probably been through a couple of URL scheme revisions. In my case, ...http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/movable-type-to-wordpress-without-losing-your-permalinks/ Subtracting one from infinity- April 5, 2008 One of the dumbest lack-of-context freak-outs ever. At least she took down the picture of Balko labeled pigAntichrist. Her friend FloraFauna in the comments doesnt seem to be much brighter best case is that shes being completely nonsensical. Because implying that the guy whos done so much on the Corey Maye case is lacking in humanity, ...http://tbotcotw.com/2008/04/subtracting-one-from-infinity/ |