Two News Stories in Hypertext and A Few Bonus Links
Watching the economic situation is stressful, but actually being the ones who destroy the economy is way stressing. Which is why executives at AIG spent hundreds of thousands on a spa vacation. The resulting outrage caused them to cancel their second vacation (a weekend at the Ritz), but not the third (golf retreat) or fourth (hunting trip in England).
In other news, McCain's recent attempt to reboot his campaign sounds suspiciously familiar. His campaign is imploding. McCain points out that he's not Bush, but he's Bush's best buddy, and when he's not like Bush he's like Herbert Hoover (not good news). In lieu of actual concrete policy suggestions, McCain is dredging up levels of fear and hatred that shock even him. On an added note, any morons who think McCain is still pro-choice should look at this: Evidently, all this stuff about women's health is just a liberal lie (Obama's expression from the clip reads, "I am ashamed to be on stage with this man," and for good reason).
Bonus links:
In other news, McCain's recent attempt to reboot his campaign sounds suspiciously familiar. His campaign is imploding. McCain points out that he's not Bush, but he's Bush's best buddy, and when he's not like Bush he's like Herbert Hoover (not good news). In lieu of actual concrete policy suggestions, McCain is dredging up levels of fear and hatred that shock even him. On an added note, any morons who think McCain is still pro-choice should look at this: Evidently, all this stuff about women's health is just a liberal lie (Obama's expression from the clip reads, "I am ashamed to be on stage with this man," and for good reason).
Bonus links:
- xkcd has strange effects on reality (link goes to authors@Google talk), with the latest example being this.
- Here's a bit about C.S. Lewis's thoughts on how to undermine democracy, as voiced by the demon mentor of The Screwtape Letters.
- Here's one on the contraceptive pill being advertised as anything but birth control.
- Finally, two exceedingly geeky links: One on old-school programming before memory management and a game of Tron made surprisingly real, and one on doing set operations from the Unix shell.