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“We have damaged the earth’s axis with BOOZE.”

The official site for ペーパーマリオＲＰＧ
(“Paper Mario RPG”) just went live (as reported by Joystiq).
Known as Paper
Mario 2 in the US, it definitely seems to be the future of the Mario
series. (Honestly, it looks pretty cool. Being 2-d has all sorts of
benefits, like the ability to fold into a glider and fly over the
level!)

Rod swoons for William J.: “Clinton gives the appearance of not only believing
every word he is saying, but that he wrote it himself.”

I watched Clinton’s speech with closed-captioning (Erin, who gets up
at 5 or 6 a.m. these days, was already asleep) and could tell it was a
great speech, through the C/C typos and delay. But I also discovered
that this must be how Darryl Hammond learns to imitate the man. With
the words silenced, every facial expression and gesticulation was
deafening. There they all were, the guffaw-inducing trademarks of
Hammond’s Clinton bit: The squint; the jocular detour (and abrupt
return to form); the bitten lower lip, and the wry little grin that
leaks out behind his teeth when he does it.

Rod, again: “I only hope that Kerry can deliver something half as
powerful on Thursday night.” Indeed. When Clinton approached the
stage, there was a part of my brain already expecting his
campaign theme song instead of Kerry’s (which is what, again?) They did
not disappoint, and I wondered how many delegates, attendees, and TV
watchers found themselves wishing themselves back to 1992.

“Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone…“

I just got the most unusual piece of spam from palmOne about my essay, “requiem for having been”, about the acquisition of Be, Inc. by Palm, Inc.

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This afternoon’s surviving tabs: April 21 Doonesbury in which B.D. is revealed to have lost both his leg and his signature helmet in Iraq … Salon on Alan Moore: The Man Who Invented The Future … The Atlantic: A Jewish Palestine (H. Sacher, 1919) … Building a bridge to the 19th century … A Softer World … Sulfnbk Syndrome … OSX networking in detail … The Parrot Developers Give Up.

“His online friendship with other Stargate fans across the globe was portrayed as an international conspiracy against the MPAA. And perhaps most disturbing of all, it was later revealed that the FBI invoked a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial records from his ISP.” Read about the brave new world of copyright law as applied to SG1Archive.com.