Ramblings of a Hopeless KhowagaRamblings of a Hopeless KhowagaRandom thoughts and round up of the latest international stupidity. Plus descriptions of my travels to exotic and not so exotic places. Brought to you from Austin, Texas. Articles
Links for 2007-12-12 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-13 07:00:00 Why Pregnant Women Don't Tip Over seriously, i'm posting this one just for the title. Author Terry Pratchett Has Alzheimer's Awww. Satire: Blog entries by One Laptop Per Child kids Google and the OLPC project have teamed up to show stories of children who received the little green laptops. Since these stories come from the developing world, they've turned out a bit different than Gawker or your cousin's LiveJournal. More About: Links
A wish for peace that works
2007-12-12 18:46:00 Well, it’s December. It’s that time of year when we all get together and make nice-nice and celebrate the [symbolic] birth of our Lord and Savior (if you’re Christian), the prophet ‘Issa bin Maryam (if you’re Muslim), that dude everyone uses to justify being nasty to people (if you’re just about anyone else) and wish people peace and love by shooting them in malls in Nebraska, blowing up car bombs in Algiers and Beirut, and talking about maybe eventually thinking about the possibility of beginning negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. And it seems that His Imperial Eminence the Pope has announced that gay marriage is an obstacle to world peace. According to the Vatican, and I quote: “Presenting the nuclear family as the ‘first and indispensable teacher of peace’ and the ‘primary agency of peace,’ the 15-page document links sexual and medical ethics to international relations. ‘Everything that serves ... More About: Peace , Works
Links for 2007-12-11 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-12 07:00:00 Particletree » PowerPoint and Presentation Tips If I was a betting man, I’d bet PowerPoint is going to turn mankind into zombies. Why are we so addicted to using PowerPoint (or anything showing slide after slide of bulleted information) when our initial gut reactions to viewing one is dread? Maybe it More About: Links
Links for 2007-12-10 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-11 07:00:00 16 Great Media Managers To Organize Your Photo Albums & Carry Out Basic Editing Abba Museum Planned A museum dedicated to the Swedish disco group Abba is to open in Stockholm in June 2009. Oh, why not? Basic Instructions: How to Entertain Out-of-Town Guests More About: Links
Just another Manic Monday
2007-12-10 23:31:00 It is the Monday after classes have ended, and all should be quiet but isn’t. Seriously. I had two meetings today–one of which I was nominally in charge of, but lost control quickly (more on that in a second)–and when I got back from meeting #2, there were more people in the reading room outside ... More About: Manic Monday , Manic
Links for 2007-12-08 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-09 07:00:00 Photoshop Phriday: Pop-Up Books This week the Something Awful Forum Goons decided to make some fancy new pop-up books based on a variety of topics, from video games and movies to art and being a jerk. Please, by all means, enjoy yourself. More About: Links
Links for 2007-12-07 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-08 07:00:00 Gift Guide: Must haves for the new cook - Slashfood Oh Raaay? Still wondering what to get me for Christmas?? More About: Links
How come we never thought of this?
2007-12-07 19:15:00 A judge in India has ordered the Hindu deities Ram and Hanuman to personally appear in court in Patna, Jharkhand, on Tuesday or face the possibility of losing property that was given to them and now the subject of an ownership dispute. If this works, I wonder how soon it will take for subpoenas to be ... More About: Weird , Asides , Just , Plain , Thought
Today?s pointless holiday question
2007-12-07 17:31:00 Why do they call them “snickerdoodles” if they don’t contain Snickers? I don’t get it. Share This More About: Holiday , Question , Today , Pointless
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Overheard in Passing
2007-12-06 15:50:00 Bev and I were walking past the Texas Union on our way in from the garage. Neither one of us talks much in the morning — this is why we carpool well together — until we get out of the car and start the three block stroll to our building. As we’re passing through the ... More About: Weird , Just , Plain , Passing
Links for 2007-12-05 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-06 07:00:00 An Egyptian Cleric Adored by Muslims and Americans, Unheard of in Egypt al-Masri al-Youm profiles an up-and-coming Egyptian imam in America Nightmare Christmas Movies You'll Never See It's the Christmas season, and you know what that means: terrible, awful movies! Nothing encapsulates the spirit of the season like some piece of cinematic crap with a bunch of elves in it. 214 - The Blonde Map of Europe Is it true that blondes have more fun? More About: Links
You want me to do what *where*??
2007-12-05 16:11:00 I was commenting to someone yesterday that my blog hasn’t been that gay of late. I’m growing to have the sneaking suspicion that he’s actually straight and just afraid to tell me. It’s OK, little blog. You can’t help it. That’s just who you are. However, in an attempt to ram some ... More About: Television , Weird , Just , Plain
Links for 2007-12-04 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-05 07:00:00 Younger Muslims Tune In to Upbeat Religious Message New Egyptian televangelist is former playboy, ?better than Brad Pitt? Monday Happy Hour: The Red Hot Santa Tini There are many cocktails that can warm you up on a cold winter evening (I know, it's only December 3, but when it's Christmas time and much of the nation has been hit by a snowstorm, it's winter), but there aren't many that can honestly be called "hot." T Potluck Possibility: Baked Pesto Penne More About: Links
Friends with Benefits?
2007-12-04 15:04:00 Chris 2 sent the following message out yesterday to the staff: I forgot to send out a note asking for agenda items for tomorrow’s meeting - sorry about that. Anywhoo, I’ll be accepting them until noon tomorrow. That’s right, a mere *TWO* hours before the meeting begins. If nothing else, we’ll have officials intros to our two ... More About: Weird , Friends , Just , Plain , Benefits
Links for 2007-12-03 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-04 07:00:00 'Burned foods' linked to cancers so ... if you cook your food ... and then eat it ... it gives you cancer. We really ARE f---ed. Style spectrum The 3rd Islamic Fashion Festival explored new possibilities for Muslim women to dress in style without compromising modesty. Afghan boy dancers sexually abused by former warlords In Macho Argentina, a New Beacon for Gay Tourists wanna be a part of BA? More About: Links
4:28 and counting.
2007-12-03 23:59:00 I’m ready to go home now. I came in to work late today, since I got home around 9:30 last night and went straight to bed. This traveling thing is exhausting! I’m really happy that I’m home for a while. I do enjoy getting out there and going places, but air ... More About: Travel , Counting
Links for 2007-12-01 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-02 07:00:00 The 10 Best Books of 2007 yeah, no. I ain't read none of these. More About: Links
San Diego at Sunset
2007-12-02 03:28:00 It was less rainy today in San Diego , although even when it’s not wet, it turns out that the hotel is not a five minute walk away from the convention center unless you’re Spiderman and can jump between buildings. Our session at the conference went well–in fact, I just got a compliment in the elevator on ... More About: Photos , Sunset
Links for 2007-11-30 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-01 07:00:00 Cool Hunting: Earthdesk Whether the standard wallpaper options (picture of your pet, swirly thing) bore you or you just like having a global perspective, Earthdesk takes your desktop to the next level by making it into a constantly updated view of the earth. The app uses geograp More About: Links
Never rains, but it pours
2007-12-01 01:46:00 Quick post from the exhibit hall in the San Diego Convention Center. I’m here in rainy San Diego, California. If you stand in the parking lot next to the Omni hotel and squint … which I did at one point … it kind of looks like Seattle or Vancouver, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Natalie ...
Break from the Norm
2007-11-30 02:37:00 I’m off to San Diego in a few hours, and I haven’t pulled out the suitcase and started packing yet. I’ll get there … somehow. I started writing a post about various things, and realized I was being nasty and so deleted it. I mean, really, it wasn’t my usual brand of snarkiness — ... More About: Home , Break
Links for 2007-11-28 [del.icio.us]
2007-11-29 07:00:00 Santa Speedo Run Balances Naughty with Nice — Just Pray You Don't Lose a Nipple Drat. I shall be out of town. Who wants to go and take photos?? Cracking the Code of the Zombie A tiki bar detective?s mission: to elevate the lowly reputation of umbrella drinks to their rightful standing. Plus, recipes! www.freeipodsoftware.com I must remember to download this when I'm at home on my PC. Converts multiple mp3s to bookmarkable m4bs. The Best of Bad Sex Norman Mailer won The Literary Review?s Bad Sex in Fiction Award, becoming the first posthumously honored author. Happy National French Toast Day! ... I think they mean "Freedom Toast." Clearly a typo. {yes, I'm kidding} The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses If the Bible had been written by King Leonidas and the rest of the Spartans from 300, it would probably read pretty much the same as it does now. It turns out, the Bible is already chock full of ass kicking. Here are the verses that make us want to take t 5 Upcoming Co... More About: Links
Links for 2007-11-27 [del.icio.us]
2007-11-28 07:00:00 Bizarre items from Sky Mall - Boing Boing There must be something about being pressurized in a tube six miles up that makes you think you need stuff... Welcome to the Webby Awards 'Futurama' — The Geekiest Show on TV Vintage Recipe: Shrimp Curry Improv Cinematical Seven: Films for Foodies i like to eat. I like to watch movies. I'm a dork. More About: Links
CGI Skin Flix
2007-11-28 04:11:00 I’ve had a drink or two and have started recovering from the horrors of my day, and realize that I actually did have stuff I was planning to talk about in a blog post. On Friday night, Natalie and her sister joined Ray and I for Beowulf, the CGI-animated epic based on the Old English epic. ... More About: Skin , Home , Flix
Is it over yet?
2007-11-28 02:04:00 Good grief, it’s only Tuesday. To say that today was a bear would be a dramatic understatement. There was office drama of the sort that was manufactured by someone {else} and involved needless amounts of time wasting. It had me to the point where I wanted to crawl under my desk and hide for ...
Links for 2007-11-26 [del.icio.us]
2007-11-27 07:00:00 LAist Interview: Rami Kashou of Project Runway Rami's so dreamy ... I can't believe he's friends with Santino! More About: Links
Today?s sign that we?re living in a parallel universe
2007-11-27 02:40:00 Trent Lott has announced his retirement. There are rumblings this evening that he is announcing his retirement to pre-empt a scandal involving his liaisons with a rent boy. Which leads me to the following: are there ANY members of the Moral Majority who AREN’T out there having illicit gay relationships? I mean, come ON. ... More About: Living , Universe , Asides , Today , Sign
On the 1st day of Christmas, my publicity company gave to me: a shameless a
2007-11-26 22:11:00 The gifts described in the fabled Christmas carol The 12 Days of Christmas would cost $78,100 if one followed the song and purchased the various gifts multiple times, according to the annual Christmas index published by PNC Wealth Management.. If you’re a cheapskate and decide to just give the new gift each day, it ... More About: Weird , Company , Asides , Publicity
Links for 2007-11-25 [del.icio.us]
More articles from this author:2007-11-26 07:00:00 Where Boys Grow Up to Be Jihadis It's not over 'til the fat lady sings. Or until the hot, chiseled, and nicely hung male lead loses his pants. Definitely NSFW A Time to Rethink AIDS's Grip Amazon Kindle Real-Life Review (Verdict: Lightweight, Long Lasting and Easy to Grip... In Bed) I dunno: am I sold on this? More About: Links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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