Category: Miscellany

  • U.S./coalition casualties

    CNN is maintaining a page listing all available information about U.S. casualties in the ongoing Iraq war. [via Virginia Postrel]

  • Standing on the verge of… ?

    Another e-mail tip leads to this graffito response to a “United We Stand” decal.

  • The other numbers

    Someone sent me a link to Iraq Body Count, which estimates only 16 civilian deaths so far.

  • I thought I knew Victoria's

    I thought I knew Victoria’s secret. I always figured Victoria’s secret was that she was a guy. According to What is Victoria’s Secret? the answer is bulimia.

  • Revolution is not an AOL keyword

    After Gil Scott-Heron. Or, as my friend Non likes to call him, Lung Scott-Egret (or the variant B and I like: Lung Pict-Egret). From the UC Berkeley J-School’s intellectual property weblog comes Revolution is not an AOL keyword.

  • Weblogs.com ping-response messages

    So, as I mentioned a while back, Textpattern reports on what happens when you ping Weblogs.com. Ordinarily, you see this message: Article posted Weblogs.com says: Thanks for the ping. We checked and found that the “x-ism” weblog has changed, so it will appear in changes.xml next time it is updated. (The link, though, is rendered…