If you enjoy pointing your mouse at things and killing them, this might be the coolest demo video that I have ever seen (click on “Portal trailer 1”). Hours and hours of physics fun. Eh, what else? I dunno. Chat about stuff.
Archives for July 2006
The Latest From Israel
Putting recent events in the frame that I described below: * Kevin Drum notes that Israel may not want to destroy Hezbollah but merely degrade it. This agrees with my understanding of the situation – the political pressure within Israel does not mandate that Olmert make Hezbollah go away entirely, merely that they stop firing …
Flashback
WTF. And yes, via Atrios, Tom Tomorrow has magical powers of predicting the obvious. ***Update*** Another literary reference. If the end comes as a surprise twist then you slept through more high school English classes than I did.
Flinstones, Meet the Flintstones
Meet the modern stone agers: President Bush vetoed a bill for the first time today, using his constitutional power to reject legislation passed by Congress that would expand federal research on embryonic stem cells, a step he said would be “crossing a moral line.” “This bill would support the taking of innocent human life,” Mr. …
Wingers Rise Up
True Fact: whenever I pick up a pizza at Mineo’s I spend the 20 or 30 minutes listening to Michael Savage. Oppo research? A weird infatuation with clinical insanity? Whatever, it just puts me in the right mood for a pizza. Anyhow his outraged reasonable-guy act is a lot more listenable than smirking bombasts like …
Open Thread
By popular demand, let’s scroll that last thread a bit down the page. Mister Floofersons probably doesn’t mind uninvited backrubs. That, my friends, is the difference between Mister Floofersons and the German Chancellor.
Inexplicable
This simply makes me cringe (photo via Josh Marshall): Yes that is Angela Merkel, conservative Chancellor of Germany. Yet another reason why we should take Barry White off the Marine Band’s regular rotation. ***Update*** John Amato has the video (WMP). So far the rightwing responses: * Maybe the photos are out of context? No, see …