Geekable.comJeff's journal of Macintosh minutiae, political pontification, and annoying alliterationLazyweb request- January 22, 2008 What's the fastest way to discover new bands that I will most probably like, given that I listen to They Might Be Giants, Rufus Wainwright, Rooney, and Jon Brion disproportionatelyhttp://geekable.com/blog/2008/01/21/lazyweb_request.html Myth, myth! (Yes)- January 21, 2008 File under "if you repeat it enough times, and have Oliver Stone film a fictional instance, people will start to believe it": ...The story quotes Ted Sampley, a Green Beret in Vietnam whose web site has led the charge for some veterans against Kerry. Sampley says, "I truly believe that John Kerry's testimony before Congress against the Vietnam War had a big role in people who were supposedly peaceniks spitting on vets and calling them baby killers when they got home." There are two problems...http://geekable.com/blog/2008/01/21/myth_myth_yes.html We're number one! We're number one! (At death)- January 13, 2008 Paul Krugman has an interesting look at the performance of U.S. health care here. But the most insightful part is down in the comments: so why do we feel that our health care in the U.S. is so much better than those other countries Because people in the USA have had it drilled into them, over and over again, that we are the best country in the world, at absolutely everything, and that we have nothing at all to learn from anyone, ever.http://geekable.com/blog/2008/01/12/were_number_one_were_number_one_at_death.html Calm them down- January 12, 2008 I used to think Whoopi Goldberg was my favorite View-member, but now it looks like Joy Behar wins: I think I'm going to get in trouble for this, but you know what I have a theory that you can't find any saints anymore because of psychotropic medication. I think that in the old days, the saints were hearing voices, and they didn't have any thorazine to calm them down. Now, that we have all of this medication available to us, you can't find a saint anymore!http://geekable.com/blog/2008/01/12/calm_them_down.html When we all know- January 12, 2008 You have to love these dumb-ass articles about "millennials" written by old fogeys: Young IT employees pose a challenge to many managers who say the Millennial generation holds employers up to unrealistic expectations and makes unreasonable demands for their services. Millennials -- employees between the ages of 18 and 31 -- represent the top challenge for IT managers, according to survey results released Thursday from Atlantic Associates, an IT staffing company. Atlantic Associates polled...http://geekable.com/blog/2008/01/12/when_we_all_know.html |