I saw this Hockenberry piece about Dean Kamen’s IBOT tonight on NBC (I remember it being on MSNBC a while back), and it is just as amazing the second time around.
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I saw this Hockenberry piece about Dean Kamen’s IBOT tonight on NBC (I remember it being on MSNBC a while back), and it is just as amazing the second time around.
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Just a reminder, have your Blog Awards submissions in by 18 August. The original post is here with rules and categories, and I have also included it below for your ease.
It is August, and other than some flatulence from Al Gore and some chaos in California, news is slow. Thus we are going to have some Blogger Awards. You, my friends, get to participate. All you have to do is cut and paste the awards into an email to me, [email protected], send it to me by Monday, 18 August, and I will tally them and put them up. Please include the url of the bloggers you are voting for in your email with “BLOG AWARDS” in the subject line, as well as your blog name (if you have one). Winners will be rewarded with permalinks for a month. If I don’t get 50 submissions, I am not going to bother tallying them. Here are the categories:
BLOG Categories
1.) Most Underrated Blog
2.) Snarkiest Blog
3.) Most Consistently Pessimistic Blog
4.) Most Consistently Optimistic Blog
5.) Best Original Source Blog (posts are predominantly his/her own material)
6.) Best Researching Blogger (posts are always thoroughly linked, explained, and well-reasoned)
7.) Best Essayist
8.) Angriest Blog (The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler is not allowed as a choice. He has perfected the form. All other entries will be tallied)
9.) Most Creative Link Whore
10.) The Atrios Memorial Award for Left-Winger Who Thinks Raving Bush Hate Is Justified (Eschaton votes will not be tallied)
11.) The Damn the Clenis
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Everyone head over to Kesher Talk and say congratulations on their Blogiversary. Kesher Talk, IMHO, is one of the more under-rated websites in the blogosphere, and I really need to start linking to them more often. They do great work, so make sure you go and tell them.
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It is August, and other than some flatulence from Al Gore and some chaos in California, news is slow. Thus we are going to have some Blogger Awards. You, my friends, get to participate. All you have to do is cut and paste the awards into an email to me, [email protected], send it to me by Monday, 18 August, and I will tally them and put them up. Please include the url of the bloggers you are voting for in your email with “BLOG AWARDS” in the subject line, as well as your blog name (if you have one). Winners will be rewarded with permalinks for a month. If I don’t get 50 submissions, I am not going to bother tallying them. Here are the categories:
BLOG Categories
1.) Most Underrated Blog
2.) Snarkiest Blog
3.) Most Consistently Pessimistic Blog
4.) Most Consistently Optimistic Blog
5.) Best Original Source Blog (posts are predominantly his/her own material)
6.) Best Researching Blogger (posts are always thoroughly linked, explained, and well-reasoned)
7.) Best Essayist
8.) Angriest Blog (The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler is not allowed as a choice. He has perfected the form. All other entries will be tallied)
9.) Most Creative Link Whore
10.) The Atrios Memorial Award for Left-Winger Who Thinks Raving Bush Hate Is Justified (Eschaton votes will not be tallied)
11.) The Damn the Clenis
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Bill Maher has a weblog (he is learning how to hyperlink- it is funny watching his posts change), and one of the first things he wrote about was a bitch-slap aimed at Sheila Jackson Lee:
You know what? Some things AREN
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The other day I posted a remark that I thought it was amazing that Ricky Henderson hit a home run at the age of 42. Today, someone placed this comment underneath that post:
it was an amazing today….u walked into our store!!! sweet car! and cute little girl that was with u. i hope u enjoy the produce! i’mma start watching baseball now! go ricky!
I am so confused.
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How much do the morons on the left hate Bush? This much:
So let’s all hope the President has a great August. After all, not everyone is as lucky as he is. Some of us have to work.
These twerps are actually trying to score political points because soldiers are still in Iraq and Bush is going on vacation. These guys are f—ing hysterical, and not in a funny way. I will say it again- if you had told me ten years ago that there would be a Republican president that the left would hate more and villify more than Reagan, I would have told you that you were insane. You just do not understand the seething rage these fruity nitwits have for Bush.
BTW- That was Steve GIlliard writing that at the Daily Kos, and he is one of the more strident leftist pinheads to ever grace the earth. Here is what the owner of the site wrote last year about Bush’s vacation:
I don’t begrudge the president for taking a one-month vacation. I would take one if I could. Yet why would Rove give the president’s critics an opening in the runup to the Fall elections? Politically, it’s not the wisest decision.