Category: long story short

  • Why Stop There?

    What Emboldens the Enemy? Gates: “[The] proposed Senate resolution…would embolden the enemy” Gates: “Any indication of flagging will” would embolden the enemy. Then why stop there? Open debate emboldens the enemy. Free speech emboldens the enemy. Political opposition emboldens the enemy. And why stop even there? Elections? That’s just what they want us to do.…

  • Bush Keeps Hope Alive

    Washington Post: Bush said he recognizes that “there is skepticism and pessimism” in Congress, but he added that “some are condemning the plan before it’s even had a chance to work.” ———————————– All we are saying is give war a chance. [The WP article]

  • Another theory of the origin of the name Yahoo

    Rodney Koeneke hears it came from Junglee, a Bollywood film from 1961.

  • Thirteen years ago I couldn't even spell Yahoo…

    Back in 1994, Richard Frankel and I (along with Briggs Nisbet and Martha Conway), launched a hypertext webzine called Enterzone. At first it ran on a server under Rich’s desk at Berkeley and its address (now obsolete), was enterzone.berkeley.edu. Eventually we got the ezone.org domain and moved it there. One of the features of that…

  • It’s So Unfair!

    “‘If the Iraqis are unhappy with our presence and they are willing to attack us, my view would be that it’s because the overall situation in Iraq has become so unsatisfactory,’ [Defense Secretary] Gates said. ‘And probably the fact that many of those Iraqis blame the United States for the mistakes that were made after…

  • Farewell, Princess Winter Spring Summer Fall

    I didn’t know Leslie Harpold very well. We corresponded briefly in the early pre-blog days of the web when I was doing Enterzone and she was Smug (and later Hoopla). Smug was everything I wanted ezone to be: beautifully designed, cleverly written, artistic. Leslie was always involved in all the coolest leading-edge web creative projects…