Chris’ Occasional Rants

A test of Radio’s new trackback feature (beta). Does auto-discovery work? Yes. On MT-powered sites at least. Source: Jake’s Radio ‘Blog, Radio Userland, Moveable Type

Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell, of Sacramento, California, have set out to coin a new word, a new “gay”. Like gay, it should be a noun hijacked from an adjective, with its original meaning changed but not too much. Like gay, it should be catchy: a potentially prolific meme. Like gay, it should be positive, [...]

Tell Congress to do its job President Bush justified invading Iraq by claiming that their “weapons of mass destruction” posed an imminent threat. The evidence presented to back up this claim is looking increasingly dubious, and Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has introduced legislation to create an independent commission to investigate the matter. I’ve joined over [...]