and without too many complications.

In case you want to save down any streaming audio, music or news or whatever, and you don't have any way already of doing it, you can download the free Audacity sound recording/editing program and start it recording (hit the big red dot), then start your RealPlayer or Windows Media or other streaming audio ( Read more... )

Somebody out there's got an icon about how people like us will rule the world -- just as soon as we finish the background reading. (This, btw, is humor, for the irony-challenged conservatives out there, a.k.a. a "joke." We don't really believe, nor intend, that we librarians, history nerds, and other book people shall go forth conquering and to ( Read more... )

...longer than that of the proverbial goldfish, is that you tend to remember things like this, when similar incidents happen - yes, once before, Boston was made chaotic because the PTB overreacted and went bonkers and put the city on alert (no matter what after the fact they were saying in the news, it was majorly played up, to the point where ( Read more... )

There's been quite a fire-sale of self-styled liberal pundits the past year or so coming out and saying "Whoah, the War is going really badly, and I was wrong to support the invasion of Iraq, but I was TOTALLY justified because it was a good idea in principle and I had no idea (because nobody could POSSIBLY have guessed it) it was going to be so ( Read more... )

First, open up the new, keyed jpegs - Male and Female Evolver poses, so you can refer back and forth to the illustrations and the text. ( Ready? )

Coturnix, filling in for Echidne, makes a classic mistake.

In any case, as a whole, as much as Hooters brand is about selling sex, from what I could see first-hand, neither managers, nor waitresses, nor most of the customers really bought into it - they treated is as any other family restaurant. A place in a good spot where there is no other food ( Read more... )

and a year after the Battle of Yorktown--

Looking for a reference for something else, I dowsed this up recently, and post it without comment other than to point out that her immediate older brother Frank Austen (to whom her writings were often dedicated) would join the Royal Navy in four years at the age of twelve, and immediate younger brother ( Read more... )

(IOW, we're counting on you, the American Public, to have the memories of goldfish)Watching the news has always had surreal aspects to it: the long lag-time it takes the mainstream media to catch up to the trends they so breathlessly - and univocally - describe has long amazed me, making me wonder what planet the writers and editors lived on, how ( Read more... )

Yesterday a government report came out that was reported on in the Washington Post that caused a lot of consternation in Left Blogistan, until cooler heads prevailed to read the report, and not just the report of the report ( Read more... )

I have to say that I wasn't really expecting the Domenech Affair to wind up in such a spectacular implosion of serial plagiarism. That was a surprise plot twist. (I have to admit, I wasn't really wrapped up in it at the beginning, because I figured it would unfold slowly; I was more occupied trying to work out if I was closer than 2 removes from ( Read more... )