Good God. Shut Charles Rangel up. Please.
Or beat him in the next election. Any takers?
WERE THE HUSSEIN BROTHERS’ DEATHS AN ILLEGAL ASSASSINATION? Rep. Charles Rangel suggests so, but this seems to me to be an example of (still more) hysterical overreaching by critics of the Administration, for reasons made clear in this post by Eugene Volokh…. [Instapundit.com]
Amr posted some comments earlier today here on bryanstrawser.com and pointed to some great ideas for using MT as a complete site CMS. Very impressive stuff.
Thanks for adding to the conversation Amr.
Reading up on the possibilities to extend MT. Great article on how to extend MT titled “Beyond the Blog” (with… [RANTISSIMO]
Mr. and Mrs. A.B. (“Butch”) Strawser, of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, are pleased to announce the arrival of Sadie and Katie. Sadie and Katie are recent additions to the Florida Strawsers. They join Bishop, a thirteen year old Beagle mix, who isn’t quite sure what to make of the new additions. Bishop is quite confident that if she ignores them, then they really don’t exist and will go away.
Dooce so totally makes me laugh until I can’t handle it anymore.
There was a relatively brilliant moment in ABC’s last installment of “The Bachelor” when the bachelor, Andrew Firestone, and a contestant named Amber were sitting at a romantically lit dinner table searching painfully for something to talk about. It seemed… [dooce]
I am glad that this fellow is in jail. Good case, great article.
The hunt for an eBay scammer. Jay Nelson ripped off buyers on eBay and Yahoo until the Feds put him behind bars. We catch up with him in prison, where he’ll be until 2007. [Fast Company]
I used to think it was wildly funny and somewhat entertaining when some enterprising company ran out, purchased a patent or a portfolio full of patents from some smaller firm (or an individual), and then proceeded to sue a bunch of people over using that patent.
As I remember from my classes on US History – the patent system was intended to protect the inventor of a unique product from having that product copied – thus infringing the patent. I’m fairly confident that it was never intended to be used to patent things like HTML Navigation, One-Click Shopping, the transmission of data over the internet, and so on, and so on.
A group of my friends, who operate a variety of websites and a part of a large online community, are being pressured by Acacia Media Technologies Corporation to hand over large portions of their earnings for having streaming audio and/or video content on their sites.
I’m certain that there is prior art that makes this patent invalid – but who has the time and the funding to challenge this. These folks are all running small businesses and don’t have the time, the expertise, or the money to fight this out in court. So they’ll do what almost every other business that Acacia is going after will do…
Pay.
My younger brother’s divorce is final today. After about six months of fucking hell, he’s finally made it through everything.
Child custody is a complete bitch. Either act like an adult or give up living. His now ex-wife is going to make this an interesting ride, it appears. Thank god for aggressive attorneys.
I didn’t care much for Steve’s attorney when I worked in law enforcement, he was too critical and overly aggressive as a defense attorney. So naturally, he’s the first guy that I thought about when he needed an attorney to help him through his divorce and subsequent child custody bullshit.
Here’s hoping that things go better moving forward. I can still have hope….
And I fucking hate that Tammy Wynette song.