Category: Miscellany

  • The word of the day

    The word of the day is \’fesm\’. Hard to explain why. Trust me on this. fesm.

  • Guardian on bloggers and Rachel Corrie's reputation

    The Guardian looks closely at how bloggers covered the aftermath of the Rachel Corrie story, finding an unsavory pile-on in the echo chamber. Cointelpro Tool takes on this line of reasoning and finds that it echoes the Indymedia line.

  • Ich bin ein Oaklandischer

    I think I followed Scot’s link to Justin Hall’s environs and ended up at the Beast Blog (“Because East Bay is Pig Latin for Beast”), reading about this Oaklandish logo: A deco tree with big branches and big roots both – “Oaklandish.” I first saw it on a sticker in the window of Walden Pond…

  • Some people who should have blogs

    off the top of me head: Jeff Green Dan Brodnitz Nicholas Meriwether Robert Meriwether Jennifer Crumlish Arthur Crumlish (pear and fills) don’t get me started on Crumlishes! Jeff Tiedrich Justin D’arms Doris Lessing Louis Menand Christopher Hitchens

  • Rumsfeld denies reports he ignored advice

    According to this CNN story: Rumsfeld on Sunday dismissed “hyperventilating” critics of the war in Iraq and called reports that he vetoed plans by top officers for a larger invasion force “fiction.” Is anyone else finding themselves annoyed by the extreme spin being put out by both sides in the continuing Iraq war debate?

  • It's Dave Winer's world… we just live in it

    Gary Hart has a blog. Let’s see if he can keep it up through a grueling campaign. A presidential blog would be cool but somehow I don’t see it.