Sneaksnare The Thief
So you’re writing a novel, and your supervillian needs a name? Need to come up with a new spacecraft model? Got a new mixed drink and you don’t know what to call it? Visit The Page of Generators for all your creative needs.
Trogdor, The Burninator!
To play the Trogdor game, Use the arrow keys to control Trogdor. Stomp ten peasants to achieve burnination. Burn all cottages to progress to the next level. Brought to you by Strong Bad and Homestarrunner. For the origins of Trogdor, check out the Strong Bad e-mail about drawing a dragon. Heck while you’re at it, read all of Strong Bad’s e-mails.
Weekend Update 2003-03-17
I pruned and cut back all the dead flowers in the beds from last year, raked the back yard and neighbor’s yard, seeded the backyard, dug up the gravel in what will be the new flower bed on the northwest corner of the house, finished the laundry that will go to goodwill, bought 5 sheets of drywall with my brother Gary and brought them to my house.
Over on the north side of 22nd Street, they pulled a backhoe up and completely demolished a house on Sunday in less than six hours. It was pretty wild. I have photos.
On the less stressful, more pleasant side, Kathy and I took Spike for a walk along the canal Friday night. He loved it. I also have to take some photos of him with his brand new bed. Also, Kathy and I had a great dinner at Ruby Tuesdays Saturday night. And I saw Chicago with my friend Melissa at a Saturday Matinee, which was cool. I’ve been singing the soundtrack ever since.
I swear I would attach my head if it wasn’t lost
It’s Friday, and for some reason, I’m not running out the door of work to go home. I’m still stuck in a design for a site I’m doing at work, and going over the massive list of stuff I have to accomplish this weekend. I used to go home relieved to be done with work, and now I go to work relieved to be done with home. But I just remembered I get to take Spike for a walk this evening, so I better get the hell out of here.
Sorry, Lafayette, I’m Staying Home
A Florida congresswoman, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite is proposing legislation to enable families of war dead who are buried in France to exhume their bodies and bring them home to be buried in the United States. Her explanation: “I, along with many other Americans, do not feel that the French government appreciates the sacrifices men and women in uniform have made to defend the freedom that the French enjoy today.”
Never mind that the reason we enjoyed any of the freedom we used to have in this country is because the without the help of France, we would never have won the revolutionary war. That’s the reason Eisenhower sent a message to the French on the eve of the D-Day invasion: “Lafayette, I’m coming.” And General Lafayette, the Frenchman who came to our aid, loved America so much that he wanted to be buried on American soil.
Memory Hole and Unknown News
The Memory Hole: ” The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known. The emphasis is on material that exposes things that we’re not supposed to know (or that we’re supposed to forget).”
Unknown News: “The news you need, whether you know it or not. We try to spotlight news that hasn’t gotten enough (or appropriate) attention.”
Both these news sites monitor and record big news reports, and in the case of The Memory Hole, when a newspaper censors itself for some reason, they will take note of the original writing and how it’s been changed. For example, check out how the New York Times deleted mention of Police Snipers at a recent anti-war protest.
Tracking the Right-Wing Astroturf
Here’s what it is: leaders of the GOP will send out canned letters to select constituents in key media markets across the country, and these constituents will then turn around and e-mail them to the “letters to the editor” section of various local newspapers and magazines as well national publications. Many of these media outlets are pretty gullible and will print these astroturf letters routinely, and end up being nothing more than unpaid advertisers for the Republican party. The Indianapolis Star has one in it’s pages nearly every day, because, well, they aren’t the brightest bulbs in the socket.
But if you can find the letters ahead of time, like this blogger has, you can have fun with Google and spot the letters in papers all over the country.
Boycott Brand America
How do we – from Tokyo and Bombay to London and Los Angeles – take a stand against Rogue Nation USA? Here’s an idea: we hit the superpower with a boycott the whole world can see, and that American power can really feel. For most of us, the clear symbols of American culture gone wrong are the corporate logos that make up Brand America. So we empty the McDonald’s, the Niketowns and Hollywood cinemas. We clear out Disneyland. We turn off Fox, CNN and MTV. We shut down Esso and Texaco, Gap and Starbucks.
My Favorite Atari Game Ever – Adventure
Is now a flash video game by Scott Pehnke – Adventure. That’s so cool. Except that I can’t play it until tomorrow when I’m not at work. 🙁
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