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Archive for February, 2004

The Mario Brothers Flash Tragedy

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

Linked everywhere, and with good reason: it’s quite tasty. “Mario Brothers,” a tragic story, in Flash: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Is there more coming? “I have to know if the princess is dead or simply in another castle!”

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Snrk.

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

Snrk. (Unfortunately, some are tasteless. That’s what happens when you get an entire Internet of people in a room to tell their favorite jokes.)

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SATC comments

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

“The mechanical delivery convinced me Big had finally solved his Carrie problems by sending to NYC and Paris a Big doppelganger, code name ‘John.’”

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Wait, before you open your mouth again

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Think you have a foolproof spam solution? Hold on a moment, while I fill out this handy form to give to you.

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“The citizenry makes them become great”

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

More from Slacktivist, this time about the Nader candidacy by way of an interview with Tony Kushner: “Listen, here’s the thing about politics: It’s not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.”

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Lincoln on the constitutionality of war at whim

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him so much as you propose. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,–I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it, if you don’t.”

—Rep. A. Lincoln, 1848.

Slacktivist has the full text of this letter as well as one just prior.

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Climate change.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004

So, the whole “abrupt halt of the Global Oceanic Conveyor leading to famine and war” stuff has turned into kind of a foofaraw on the Net. The Oakland Tribune seems to have a good summary of both the report and the subsequent overinflation that seems to be floating around now. (Read the full report (PDF) if you like.)

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