Watts Up With That?: 1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA
The heat is on?
More scientists speaking truth to power.
Orson Scott Card, an excellent sci-fi author, joins in with Michael Crichton here to shake the tree of the Church of Global Warming.
Heroism and the language of fascism – Los Angeles Times
Interesting take on the overuse of superlatives.
Internal Code Reuse Considered Dangerous
Danger! Danger Will Robinson!
In Iraq, liberals flip on genocide – Los Angeles Times
Some folks could do with a few consistent hobgoblins…
Religion beat became a test of faith – Los Angeles Times
I guess if you’re going to believe in a God, you’ve got to realize that any infinite being is capricious, arbitrary and unfair. To imagine any all-powerful being in existence who would allow the kinds of evil in this world that we witness time and time again is a direct indictment of that being’s morality.
An Iraqi’s progress report – Los Angeles Times
Forget why we ever got involved there – we owe the Iraqi people to win this one. We put Saddam in power, and it was our responsibility to take him down.
Anyone eager for a pullout is prepared to condemn millions of Iraqis to death. The true irony of all of this is that the reason for staying is a humanitarian one, and legions of supposed humanitarian Democrats don’t seem to realize their own philosophy demands of them a commitment to the people of Iraq.
Remember, it was Bush who toed the Republican line during his first election, promising not to get us involved in foreign wars. Pity that now Bush is on the Democrat side, they’ve given up their principles.
Nice piece on telegraph.co.uk:
The truth is, we can’t ignore the sun
I got my very first mac nearly a year ago, but not quite…which is good, since it’s still covered by warranty until July 21st, and I’ve got an appointment for today with the guys at the Pasadena Apple Store to get my macbook serviced.
I have a case of bad fan, which grinds like a dying giraffe. I’ve got a short clip of it here. It starts grinding once the thing is warmed up, and the fan speed pegs out at about 4000-5000rpm. If given a peculiar tap, sometimes the grinding stops, and the fan pops up to 6100rpm.
UPDATE 2007-07-18: Dropped it off on monday, got a call on tuesday night it was finished, picked it up today. So far so good, no nasty fan noise. Thanks Apple!
Okay, here’s the step-by-step for getting Galactic Bloodshed compiled and running on OSX.
NOTE: the latest code from CVS seems to not require some of these workarounds – http://www.galactic-bloodshed.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gbp/
With the creative use of some epoxy, I once put two of these together and played Rambo-ninja with my high school buddies. Ah, memories!
NPR Plugs N.Y. Times Reporter Who Compares U.S. Interventions to Child Abuse | NewsBusters.org
Interesting take on Kinzer, who apparently didn’t read the Morgan Report before making claims about the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893 in his book “Overthrow”.
You too can manipulate the political process!