Archive for December, 2005
There have been a bunch of comments on King Kong’s weak opening since Wednesday. While looking on Technorati, it seems bloggers love the movie. Reviews have been excellent. Yet, people didn’t show up in droves as many expected.
What did I do? I didn’t go yet. I am holding out until tomorrow maybe, or next week. [...]
Via Media Matters – O’Reilly: UConn students, certain websites are “far-left Nazis”
O’REILLY: Most people showed up, and I think there were, like, 1,300 of them, to hear what the woman had to say. These far-left Nazis — and that’s what they are, OK? — came in, not only insulted Ms. Coulter but violated the rights [...]
The Newshounds have a nice commentary on Ann Coulter’s appearance on Hannity and Colmes after the UConn accident. My write-up of the events is here. Amazing how “Kyle’s Mum is a Big Fat Bitch” can shake the mighty Ann Coulter.
News Hounds: Ann Coulter Spaced Out And Confused On Hannity & Colmes
After the break, Colmes asked [...]
The New York Time today picked up on the number of megachurches closing on Christmas because it falls on a Sunday. A weird story – why would a church close on Sunday? Any chruch? Also, the following is from the Times, can you spot the irony in telling people to have a “more intimate Christmas” [...]
Via Andrew Sullivan:
The war against Christmas continues … thanks to News Corporation, the owners of Fox News (and of the Sunday Times of London, where I’m a columnist). Here’s the invite to their “Holiday” party. Now, how long do you think it will take Bill O’Reilly to attack his own boss as a liberal heathen? [...]
I thought I would add a few thoughts about Ann Coulter’s “speech” at UConn yesterday, as CNN and the Drudge Report have picked it up. Most people commenting in the blogosphere were not there, so maybe I can add my own review of events here – in no particular order.
The even started about half an [...]
Via TechCrunch » Microsoft Live Local to Launch Thursday
Microsoft will relaunch Virtual Earth tomorrow under local.live.com, around 9 am PST. This is a continuation of Microsoft’s rebranding campaign to place online consumer services under the Live.com brand.
Apparently, this version will also feature close-up pictures of naked sheep.
technorati tags: live.com, live, live local, microsoft
The more I am thinking about the whole Curry Affair, the more I think it is really about Wikipedia more than about Curry himself. We have come to this point, where people look at Wikipedia as an authoritative source of information – which it is simply not. The Curry Affair has brought this into the [...]
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