Coyote Tracks

NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block alt.* newsgroups

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:26:15 -0700

NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block alt.* newsgroups: What is with New York and grandstanding attorney generals? Even California doesn’t do this and we have frickin’ Jerry Brown as AG.

BBC: Teenager finds bat asleep in bra

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:13:18 -0700

BBC: Teenager finds bat asleep in bra: “Abbie Hawkins, 19, of Norwich, had been wearing the bra for five hours when she plucked up the courage to investigate.”

"The White House is scrambling to contain a diplomatic fiasco after an official briefing book..."

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:10:46 -0700

“The White House is scrambling to contain a diplomatic fiasco after an official briefing book distributed to reporters at this week’s G8 summit contained a not very flattering description of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. We may have taken a few shots at Berlusconi around here, but obviously this is no way for the White House to treat the U.S.’s staunchest European ally. And if they must, at least do it right and make fun of his tan.”

- Joshua Keating, FP Passport

"An Edison bulb, in a velvet-fronted panel set behind a hand-blown ruby glass dome mounted in a brass..."

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:45:48 -0700

“An Edison bulb, in a velvet-fronted panel set behind a hand-blown ruby glass dome mounted in a brass fitting with giant steel lugs, is lit. A hand-painted warning is now visible: The steampunk is nearing excruciating weariness and tedium; son, kindly seek an alternative aesthetic.”

- Andy Ihnatko (on Twitter)

Cabaret Brewed Chocolate

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:25 -0700

Cabaret Brewed Chocolate: “Can a new chocolate beverage replace your cup of coffee?” the website asks. “No. Don’t be an idiot,” I reply, but I’m interested in trying this anyway.

"You could blame consumerism as one thing that’s happening in this film, but there’s a..."

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:23:43 -0700

“You could blame consumerism as one thing that’s happening in this film, but there’s a million other things we do that distract us from connecting to the person next to us and from furthering relationships, which is truly the point of living. I loved the idea of WALL·E finding something real. He was fascinated with the idea of living. And what’s the point of living? Something real. He was a manmade object with something real inside him. And he found something real while surrounded by manmade objects. That just was poetic for me.”

- Andrew Stanton in Christianity Today

"Let’s ignore, for the moment, the absurdity of Florida’s paying a premium price to a..."

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:13:04 -0700

“Let’s ignore, for the moment, the absurdity of Florida’s paying a premium price to a company that has done hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in damage to the state’s most precious natural resource, draining swaths of the Everglades and polluting the rest with fertilizer runoff. Instead, let’s get in touch with our inner libertarians and fulminate about this deal’s biggest outrage: it rewards a company that has been gouging American taxpayers and consumers for the better part of a century.”

- The Atlantic, “A Not-So-Sweet Environmental Victory”

Rumplo

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:40:52 -0700

Rumplo: A meta-catalog of “artist T-shirts” submitted by users from stores around the web.

"The US does not know whether to tax energy or subsidise it, promote domestic oil production or..."

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:26:44 -0700

“The US does not know whether to tax energy or subsidise it, promote domestic oil production or forbid it, treat ExxonMobil and Chevron as champions or pariahs. So it does all of the above.”

- Clive Crook (FT.com)

Roth 2000XR Motorboard

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:27:49 -0700

Roth 2000XR Motorboard: An electric scooter positioning itself against the Segway: “personal transportation” for urban areas. (I kinda want one — but would like to test ride it first.)

Lackadaisy

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:57:31 -0700

Lackadaisy: Funny animal comic in Prohibition-era St. Louis, in glorious sepia.

"It’s somehow less amusing than it should be…might sum up “The Love Guru” in..."

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:03:24 -0700

“It’s somehow less amusing than it should be…might sum up “The Love Guru” in its entirety but only at the risk of grievously understating the movie’s awfulness. A whole new vocabulary seems to be required. To say that the movie is not funny is merely to affirm the obvious. The word “unfunny” surely applies to Mr. Myers’s obnoxious attempts to find mirth in physical and cultural differences but does not quite capture the strenuous unpleasantness of his performance. No, “The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.”

- A. O. Scott (The New York Times)

Testing

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:35:18 -0700

Hey, I have a Tumblr log, don’t I? Posting may resume again sometime soon.

"The net is phenomenological. If you do a letter-perfect imitation of a jerk, you are one."

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:35:00 -0700

“The net is phenomenological. If you do a letter-perfect imitation of a jerk, you are one.”

- Bruce Baugh (via Making Light)

"What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any..."

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:27:17 -0700

“What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves.”

- Colin Powell

The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:16:00 -0700

The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats: The “LOLcats” phenomena re-imagined as a turn of the century comic strip

Fuego: most unnecessarily cool-looking outdoor grill ever

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:06:46 -0700

Fuego: most unnecessarily cool-looking outdoor grill ever

"Cruft is the stuff that accumulates on code over time. Cruft has no odor, but it stinks. Cruft has..."

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:14:55 -0700

“Cruft is the stuff that accumulates on code over time. Cruft has no odor, but it stinks. Cruft has no mass, but it weighs the code down. Cruft can’t be seen, but it’s ugly. Cruft cannot be young, it’s always old. Cruft can’t be deliberately added, it only appears when you’re not looking. Cruft can’t be explained to managers, except through awkward car analogies. They still won’t get it because managers drive well-maintained elegant foreign cars like BMW’s, which gather no cruft. Programmers understand, because their Fords and Chevys are practically built of cruft. Harley motorcycles should have cruft, but noise dissipates cruft. Cruft is mysterious.”

- MarsDefenseMinister (on Slashdot)

"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:36:02 -0700

“We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.”

- Major Mike Shearer, UK military spokesman (via BBC)

A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:17:54 -0700

A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent