Arbitrary Secondaries

“Over the past fortnight Israeli intelligence agents have noticed something distinctly odd happening on the internet. One by one, Al-Qaeda’s affiliated websites have vanished until only a handful remain”

Cool offices, lots of monitors, but no signs they’re planning the hazing of merged Macromedia employees ... yet.

A damn fine article. If you ever expect to serve on a jury, read it.

“Think of it as an open source ‘craiglist’ for bloggers.”

Including this 1909 shot of our honeymoon hotel.

“RC4 is a real release candidate — this means that nothing that would affect plugin authors should change until the final release — which is close.”

“As quarry for D.E.A. agents, doctors offered several advantages over crack dealers. They were not armed ... And unlike the typical crack dealer living with his mother, they had valuable assets that could be seized and shared by the federal, state and local agencies fighting the drug war.”

You see, that’s funny, because...

He’s talking about two human butchers, and they have no association with Al Qaeda. Please, read the whole thing.

“In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps” ... be sure to zoom all the way in on the map.

Move from the left to the center, and your former peers will trash you

Move from the right to the center, and your former peers will trash you

France’s antiterrorism coordinator is more interested in leaking erroneous info and playing political slappy face than in working with his peers to fight terrorism. Britain won’t share the time of day now, but no worries, Parisians!

“Take two bloggers from opposite ends of the overheated political debate, put them on a Washington tour bus together, then ponder the fate of an increasingly uncivil society”

This one reveals “2/3 of blog readers don’t realize they are reading a blog.” That’s right, this isn’t a blog, it’s a serial reality novel.

“Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surpisingly Reasonable.” I think I may be a frequent visitor at this site.

Your newspaper of the future?

You are as impaired as you would be swigging a fifth of Jack Daniels

“They obviously have a strategy to change the electorate, and they’re willing to give up independents and moderates.” Finally, a commonality between the parties!

“Who planted the London bombs? Experts believe a new generation of angry young British Muslims has spawned its own terrorists.”

“Brean is the youngest member of the 148th Support Battalion’s Alpha Company and is one of 17 women the Dublin unit sent to Iraq. In all, 9 percent of the U.S. force there is female ... More than 40 women have died.”

“The investigators document a pattern of incompetence, lying, absenteeism, lax security and failed leadership” ... The Fulton County Sheriff’s Department deserves nothing less than disbandment

“i’ve enjoyed and cringed at what you’ve done with my song. thank you (i think).” So Trent does it again, this time, in four formats.

“The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, ‘Imagine my surprise the other day when I received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday,’ nor did he characterize his recent call-up to active duty as the precursor to a ‘surprise tour of Iraq.’ That language was added by an editor”

“We the US audience are beyond disgusted with MTV/VH-1’s shameless self-promotion and profiteering off this historic event, and we want our 8 hours back”

The first sign you may be taking blogging too seriously: you completely lose your sense of humor, get mad over the Sunday Comics, and take it personally.

“I couldn’t help wondering what Saddam would think of the spectacle”

“Photographer Curtis Compton is embedded in Iraq with the 48th Brigade. For the Fourth of July, Compton photographed “the faces of patriotism.’”

“On his panhandler sign, [Jorn] Barger had written: Coined the term ‘weblog,’ never made a dime.”

“This is typical Democratic-Republican bullshittery, Tom. If I’m hearing you correctly, what you’re saying is simply because you believe it, it’s true. Okay, well, I’m saying you suck -- seems fairly ‘self-evident’ to me.”

Atlanta not only has a Runaway Bride, we’ve got a Running Bride (but she’ll leave the starting line pre-hitched)

I vote for creepy, but it’s the “music” in those ads that drives me insane