Being Inappropriately Right
Mark Pilgrim: “If this surprises or disturbs you, you’re in good company. Galileo, after pissing off the church and being sent into exile for being inappropriately right, accidentally discovered one day that there are as many perfect squares as there are integers. This surprised and disturbed him very much, and he quietly and probably wisely decided not to make a big deal of it.”
Spec
Hopefully those reading this site via the RSS 2.0 feed won't be in for too much of a shock when they learn that, later this month, I'll have switched it with a feed that does not contain the full entries. This is being done so as to conform to the spec and leave it alone for good.
Replete With Stressful Vicissitudes or Endless Mundanities
Rod Liddle: “a) there are indeed cultural pressures that contribute to keeping women in the home; and b) there are in some cases economic pressures also; but c) a lot of women don't work because they don't like working -- for many of the reasons why men don't like working, if we're honest. It's a drudge. It never stops. It is replete with stressful vicissitudes or endless mundanities.
Contains
Monday night, I sent a photo that my sister sent me by email to the author of a weblog, thinking that he'd post it on his site. I do this sometimes when there's stuff I'd rather not appear on my site, but also when I have no ethical dilemma having it posted somewhere else. Said weblog author he did indeed post the photo (contains nudity). I can now admit that it was a cynical attempt to get a spike in hits for this site. A successful attempt I might add.
Stealing Adam's Thunder
Looks like Adam has been using Movable Type for two years. Excellent. It also appears that we both started at the same version of MT. (Otherwise why would I write about importing lost entries and then upgrading to version 1.3?)
It also looks like I missed my chance to blog about my 2 years of using MT. And my chance to steal Adam's thunder. So that's what I'm attempting now. Nyah!
Minority Opinions
A reader wonders if I liked "The Path" by Craig Anthony. (Intentional or not, I liked how the reader asked me to "show your hand".) Before answering, my blogging style is an amalgam of many others.
Vanities Linkdump
The following links came from here (so did the links in the unbiased weather and spanking posts):
Unbiased Weather
Steve Gigl: “they're used to getting unbiased weather where they live, while the Cities stations believe that to get viewers for their news they need to scare the hell out of them. So we get "snowstorm" stories where once we would only get "snowfall" stories.
Loved And Supported, Cherished
Craig Anthony: “a woman who is truly dominated, truly owned by a man, is not weak. Indeed she knows her greatest strength. Loved and supported, cherished. She is in a position to realise all her dreams. To be all that she can be. Wholly secure in her femininity, in her self worth. For that is what nurturing masculine dominance desires above all else.”
As a warning (or perhaps encouragement), the quote is from an article about spanking.
Loved And Supported, Cherished
Craig Anthony: “a woman who is truly dominated, truly owned by a man, is not weak. Indeed she knows her greatest strength. Loved and supported, cherished. She is in a position to realise all her dreams. To be all that she can be. Wholly secure in her femininity, in her self worth. For that is what nurturing masculine dominance desires above all else.”
As a warning (or perhaps encouragement), the quote is from an article on spanking.
Friend of C
Michael Erard: Friendster “is built on the premise that friendship is transitive; that is, that if A is a friend of B, and B a friend of C, then A can be a friend of C, too. ¶ But friendship develops in social contexts, Ms. Boyd says; it doesn't just flow through the pipes of a network.
Oldies But Goodies
Just clearing out some old bookmarks. The ones that are crap were (and will be) deleted before being blogged here. The good ones are blogged here then deleted. Got it? Good.
Complaining Effectively
Bitch bitch bitch. All you do is bitch.
Reflexive Tolerance
Lorne Gunter: “Not a single news source I have found has sought to refute Spencer's claims about homosexuality -- not one. All have merely seen fit to denounce him for daring to express such beliefs, which have been variously described as "appalling," "outrageous," "antediluvian," "dangerous," "ignorant," "bigoted," un-Canadian and a host of other names.”
Postmodern Brand Purity Linkdump
- Jason Shellen: “My Mom is so mean. She won't let me wear makeup or anything.”
Auto-mutilation nippone
Olivier Théreaux: “Paradoxalement, en dépit de tous ses jardins et ses temples, Kyoto la raffinée, la subtile, est mon meilleur exemple d'auto-mutilation nippone. Epargnée par les bombardements, certes, mais pas par 50 ans de "betonisation forcée", il ne reste plus a l'élégante que quelques vestiges de sa beauté passée: outre les très nombreux temples, deux ou trois quartiers de vieilles maisons.”