Posted 5:58 PM by Marco (0) comments

Finally, Origami for dummies.

Posted 5:58 PM by Marco (0) comments

I, too, have been mystified by how many people think The Flash Mind Reader is some kind of magic, but I am ashamed that it took a lawyer (OK, a law professor who blogs, and blogs well) to show this geek (and former SciFi glutton) how to apply Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law to our teeming millions.

Posted 5:57 PM by Marco (0) comments

I made the Best of the Web Today (OK, actually yesterday) again, alerting them with the subject: "Two equal opportunities, c/o the NYT", and forwarding this summary from our newspaper of record: "Martha Burk said that it was not fair that women can die in combat, but cannot be invited to join the home of the Masters tournament." Still, I thought James Taranto's emphasis on her exploiting the war was less important than my point. What point? That she was equating two rights (the right to die for your country with the right to be admitted to a private club), the deadly serious alongside the frivolous.

Posted 5:56 PM by Marco (0) comments

It is time to focus exclusively on lacrosse, now that the second-seeded Jayhawks eliminated the No. 3-seeded Blue Devils, 69-65.

Posted 5:55 PM by Marco (0) comments

An old work friend has designed and developed the just-released The Good Thief site. It looks pretty awesome. The site, more than the movie.

Posted 5:53 PM by Marco (0) comments

The [Johns Hopkins University] Rathskellar (AKA the Rat) makes Opinion Journal in this baseball piece by Russ Smith '77.

Posted 12:43 PM by Marco (0) comments

SCO, losing money and firing engineers, hired David Boies. Can they win? Should the judge brush up on history? Shakedowns everywhere.

Posted 12:41 PM by Marco (0) comments

Monday makes The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business.

Posted 12:41 PM by Marco (0) comments

A young Marine, responding to an interview question about what the Marine Corps' mission was in Iraq said, "Beat the Army to Baghdad, sir."

Posted 12:40 PM by Marco (0) comments

Help from Suffolk County, New York.

Posted 3:22 PM by Marco (0) comments

Had lunch yesterday at Joe's Pizza, number nine on Philadelphia's top ten list. Good, but not to die for.

Posted 3:20 PM by Marco (0) comments

Let's see. The French were waiting for more "evidence". How about this piece of circumstantial evidence? Some surrendering Iraqi troops had old guns but new gas masks, chemical decontamination kits and atropine - an antidote for nerve gas. And a Detroit man says he hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago, and, to his knowledge, no one ever discovered or destroyed the uranium.

Posted 6:23 PM by Marco (0) comments

One could make the subtle point that pacifism might actually be a moral posture, or even an effective tactic. This protester in New York is neither subtle, nor pacifistic. At some point your child (to say nothing of your Creator) might ask, "In the great conflict, whose side were you on?" Are the peace protestors really pro-peace, or merely anti-American? BTW, the caption reads, "The demonstrations in cities such as New York and the strong support enjoyed Bush in the interior reflect the public opinion divide in the USA."

Posted 6:19 PM by Marco (0) comments

Now I can read Jonah Goldberg on dead trees again, thanks to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Posted 3:25 PM by Marco (0) comments

Lenin said, "The Capitalist will sell you the very rope you intend to hang him with." I guess the Russians have really become capitalists now that they are selling Iraq jamming gear, missiles, and night-vision goggles. Wonder if some of that gear might find their way back to the Chechens, Muslim brothers of the Iraqis. Time will judge the accuracy of the Russian denial. Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters yesterday that so far the GPS-jamming devices were not affecting operations, but they have been destroyed anyway, reminding us of this old joke. In 1967, Nasser writes to Brezhnev, "Stop giving us surface-to-air missiles; give us surface-to-aircraft missiles."

Posted 10:13 AM by Marco (0) comments

The fourth-ranked Blue Jays beat top-ranked Virginia 8-7. For the second straight week, the Jays jumped out to an early lead, but this time they hung on. This victory put Johns Hopkins atop the STX/USILA and [Baltimore] Sun polls.