Category: long story short

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

“‘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…

In the Reuters report on the ruling against warrantless wiretapping, warrants are not mentioned until the eighth paragraph. Court rules secret wiretaps violate rights, Reuters, 8/17/06 Absent the issue of warrants, what was the judge so mad about? She is quoted: The wiretaps “violated…civil rights,” “freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches, and a constitutional…

I don’t know why they say Seattle is rainy because, like, I was there today and it was sunny and hot – over 90 degrees, so I hear. Also, the space needle? Totally pointy.

Note: I did do some “cherry-picking” for the data I liked best! Also: PIPA (Program on International Policy Attitudes), the source of this report, is well regarded as credible. –David Reported by WorldPublicOpinion.org (Publication of the Program on International Policy Attitudes) Near East Consulting (NEC) poll of Palestinians, Jan. 27-29, Hamas position calling for the…

Cecil filled me in on something cool and old friend of ours, Brendan Fletcher, is doing. I remember him hiking the Sierra Nevada (or some similar west-coast trail) years ago. Apparently now he and his partner Emma Nicholas are “attempting to walk the length of the Great Wall of China.” They are blogging the experience…

I haven’t lifted a finger to post here in so long, and so much been’s going on lately. (And just now I *tried* to post and somehow lost my window.) Like, for instance, we just got back from a week in New York. (I posted some pictures from the trip at Flickr.) And before that…

I would suggest that the press should just swear off of the use of “Squabbling” and “Bickering,” especially in headlines. For a while, I thought they were routinely applied only to political differences among foreigners, especially third-world foreigners. But I see they also appear fairly often applied to political differences–even convictions–that arise within the US.…

My sister emailed me the other day to say she hadn’t heard from me for a while. She reads my bloggingses, so that’s a sure sign that I’ve been radio silent for a while. I’m fine. I’ve been traveling a lot and working hard and I’ve had some computer troubles with my Mac laptop at…

So I’m slogging through Enterzone fixing vandalized pages from the last few rounds of hackery and I come across the abortive stub of what looks like an attempt to start a blog back in 1998 called unvironmental news. I’ve added the entry into this my modren online journal, as its own entry dated April 8,…

It’s been years since I’ve ridden the N-Judah muni streetcar on a regular basis but for a while there back in the late ’80s and early ’90s I practically lived on it. I rode it to get downtown, to get to BART, to get to the east bay, to get to Dead shows. It was…

Finally signed up for an account at Boxes and Arrows (the premier journal of information architecture on the web), so this makes yet another place where a rapidly ossifying bio of mine is bound to fall off my radar. If I ever get my comprehensive personal site organized, I may need a big list of…

Christian and Jesse Garrett Originally uploaded by jonl. The party itself was kind of like a bad college mixer, with kegs of Miller Lite and a silly cover band in a large cement warehouse loading dock. I did have the chance to chat (or shout) with some interesting people there. This picture was taken by…

I’ve been jotting down a partial list of the people I’ve been meeting (some old friends, some for the first time) in the halls and at the parties here in Austin. I’m sure I’m forgetting various cool somebodies and I’ll update the list when my memory coughs up new names (and when I go through…

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This sentence structure may not really deserve to be criticized, but it is still always fun to misread: Philip Jackson, who studies brain systems responsible for empathy at the University of Laval in Quebec City in Canada, said he found the sex differences intriguing and worth following up on. Article

“In 2004, the USA executed more people than any country except China, Iran and Vietnam. But last year’s 59 executions were down 40% from a peak in 1999.” USA Today There is twice the chance of death in a bad year. This kind of giddy predilection used to be compared to hem-lines, Power Ties, and…

B landed safely in London and sent me email from her hosts there. I’ll call her mom and dad today to let them know she got there ok and has had a chance to rest and relax before her strenuous trip to Sicily. (Pout.) I’ve been watching a bunch of movies that I don’t think…