Tuesday, November 30, 2004
I would agree with these sentiments.
10:54:00 AM
Week 12 NFL Pick Results.
Week 1: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 2: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 3: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 4: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 5: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 6: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 7: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 8: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 9: 7-7; 50%
Week 10: 6-8; 42.86% (My first losing week.)
Week 11: 11-5; 68.75% (My second best week.)
Week 12: 12-4; 75% (My best week.)
Overall: 106-70; 60.23%
10:29:00 AM
Monday, November 29, 2004
Monday Night Football Spam.
brave new world:
no script neeeeded, born to dialate;
Duffy wastage love bread,
oral Reinaldo wells knows they are good.
claim your lazergun today, the special pen
could be softer. Serenity will improve your moods
like a baby on a memory foam mattress.
Wh-what's this, may I ... be with you, make your
lover happy: call me, please.
10:17:00 PM
Saturday, November 27, 2004
I'm re-reading Watchmen and this site is a great tool as I follow along.
2:27:00 PM
Take a look at Peter Bagge's Buddy Does Seattle over at Graphic Novel Review.
10:07:00 AM
Darren Aronofsky drops himself from Watchmen movie? What rock have I been living under?
(Thanks Near Mint Heroes.)
9:23:00 AM
Friday, November 26, 2004
Scott McCloud is right, again. This site rocks. This is particularly great.
3:08:00 PM
I didn't even know there was a Vietnam Magazine, but I'm wrong again. Regardless, that article is a good account of Dien Bien Phu.
1:36:00 PM
Bookslut has a link to an interesting read on yaoi comics, a gay manga niche.
9:43:00 AM
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
"The Urbz," the new "Sims" spinoff game from EA, offers comics, too. Check out those from James Kochalka, Dave Crosland, Peter Bagge and Jay Stephens.
10:56:00 PM
Raised by Squirrels is good. Matt Brady of Newsarama profiles the piece and others in a post-SPX review.
9:42:00 PM
The Packers signed RB James Jackson, who was recently cut from the Cleveland Browns, Tuesday afternoon.
Woot.
8:09:00 PM
Week 12 NFL Picks.
Indianapolis at Detroit
Chicago at Dallas
Cleveland at Cincinnati
Jacksonville at Minnesota
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants
San Diego at Kansas City
Tampa Bay at Carolina
Tennessee at Houston
Washington at Pittsburgh
New Orleans at Atlanta
Baltimore at New England
Buffalo at Seattle
Miami at San Francisco
N.Y. Jets at Arizona
Oakland at Denver
St. Louis at Green Bay
6:39:00 PM
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Statisticians will study anything, I guess.
(Link via TMQ.)
1:04:00 PM
The Arizona Republic reports that the Arizona State University journalism faculty have passed a resolution in support of the State Press, the student newspaper that was under fire from the ASU president for publishing a picture of a woman's breast being pierced for a body piercing article. The photo ran on the paper's front page. I had an earlier post on the situation here.
University officials, starting with President Michael Crow, were incensed when the Oct. 7 issue of the State Press Magazine published a cover photograph of a breast pierced with a tiny barbell, illustrating an article about body piercing.
The unanimous faculty resolution, passed by 17 members in attendance (out of 21 on the faculty), resolved:
"That the faculty of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication unanimously supports the efforts of the State Press, ASU's independent student newspaper, in exercising its First Amendment rights. The faculty commends the leadership of State Press editors and the guidance of faculty and staff who work with students in their efforts against censorship."
ASU President Michael Crow responds near the end of the article:
"I don't think we want them off campus," Crow said. "I think as an investor in the business, we want some say in how it's run."
12:37:00 PM
Poor Clock Management.
What was up with Dick Vermeil on Monday Night Football last night? He used poor clock management at the end of the game, which in part lead to the New England Patriots defeating the Kansas City Chiefs.
Let's take a closer look:
The Patriots had the ball with about five minutes to go leading 24-19. Facing 2-and-5 from their own 41, the Pats handed off to Corey Dillon, who ran for nine yards and the first down. Vermeil should have used his first timeout here; it would have stopped the clock with about 5:30 left and given the KC defense a couple minutes of rest, as by the fourth quarter, they were looking tired. The Pats would have scored earlier in the fourth had Dillon not fumbled at the KC 5-yard line. Had they taken a timeout there, then one after the next running play and kept the last timeout for offense, assuming KC would have stopped the Pats on that series of downs, they would have gotten the ball back deep in their own territory with about 3:10 left on the clock, give or take a bit. Of course, that's assuming the Pats did not throw an incompletion or otherwise stop the clock in that span.
11:17:00 AM
Leftover Spam.
feeling well, trading out of control
get back to me please;
It's Not Too Late
Turn your ground floor opportunity
into a good idea in their hand.
Discover the answer one more time:
pain is killing me; Spectacular achievement is
always preceded by national perturbation.
Your ghosts will love you, i have tried to make contact;
lets meet soon; A beautiful body awaits.
be found out at halloween, This dispatch is just around
the corner.
10:39:00 AM
Week 11 NFL Pick Results.
Week 1: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 2: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 3: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 4: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 5: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 6: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 7: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 8: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 9: 7-7; 50%
Week 10: 6-8; 42.86% (My first losing week.)
Week 11: 11-5; 68.75% (My best week.)
Overall: 94-66; 58.75%
10:24:00 AM
Sunday, November 21, 2004
I have approximately no patience left.
I'm about to pull out some whoop-ass.
Brevity is necessity.
6:11:00 PM
I'm digging drew's Beard of the Month paintings.
1:26:00 PM
Adam L. Penenberg at Wired News speculates that the next round of media buyouts may include blogs.
According to Sam Whitmore, editor of Sam Whitmore's Media Survey, over the next 12 to 24 months you will probably see big media companies scarf up these cult destinations, where a growing number of people are going for opinions, analysis and community. "Look at what happened politically," Whitmore said, when blogs hit the big time during the presidential campaign. "The same thing will happen in business, because people know they don't need to head to branded sites for good information. Bloggers can be trusted to be independent and people will turn to self-published experts for information."
1:23:00 PM
The Phoenix New Times ran an article a couple of days ago about Arizona State University president allegedly putting pressure on administrators to coerce and intimidate the the State Press, the independently run campus newspaper. The president allegedly was pressuring the editor and others because of a story the paper ran about body piercings, including a photo of a woman with a nipple pierced. ASU top donor and alum Ira Fulton saw the photo and was allegedly irate. He called the president, Michael Crow, who then began to pressure the paper.
Apparently, the magazine cover caught the eye of Ira Fulton, ASU's most generous donor. The founder of Tempe-based Fulton Homes has given $58 million to the university in the past year and a half, including a $3 million gift announced earlier this month. His first gift of $50 million in June 2003 spurred the renaming of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
The photo of a bare breast, erect nipple and all, on the cover of the student newspaper's weekly magazine, prompted Fulton to contact Crow's office directly to voice his displeasure, according to internal e-mails obtained by New Times. But rather than informing Fulton that the State Press, an ASU institution since 1890, was editorially independent of the university and that the administration had no right to dictate the paper's content, Crow reacted by ordering a subordinate to intimidate the State Press and its student editors -- threatening to sever all financial support for the newspaper, according to e-mails and State Press editor in chief Cameron Eickmeyer.
Later:
According to more than a dozen interviews with faculty, students and university administrators, along with hundreds of pages of e-mails and correspondence New Times has obtained, Crow is compromising academic freedom and First Amendment rights in order to curry favor and entice wealthy donors into giving millions of dollars to the state's largest public university.
Whether it's keeping the Commission on Presidential Debates at bay, cowering to Fulton -- who also happens to be a George W. Bush elector in the Electoral College -- or coddling Fulton's fellow members of the Mormon church, Crow is obviously so determined to maintain such a controlled environment that he's trying to scare the campus of 55,000 into submission.
And that includes the university's free press.
The report is rather lengthy, but it is an interesting read nonetheless.
1:19:00 PM
Another GTA: SA glitch.
While running away from the police, I was in Fort Carson by the save point, and a police truck drove past me (I was on the pier out back) into the water. The truck eventually sunk and I shot it with a rocket. For whatever reason, this caused a group of yellow fish (about five or six total) to swim ... out of the water. They were swimming overhead and I was sniping them, but they wouldn't die.
11:42:00 AM
Friday, November 19, 2004
Week 11 NFL Picks.
Arizona at Carolina
Dallas at Baltimore
Denver at New Orleans
Detroit at Minnesota
Indianapolis at Chicago
N.Y. Jets at Cleveland
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
San Francisco at Tampa Bay
St. Louis at Buffalo
Tennessee at Jacksonville
Miami at Seattle
San Diego at Oakland
Atlanta at N.Y. Giants
Washington at Philadelphia
Green Bay at Houston
New England at Kansas City
9:24:00 PM
Thursday, November 18, 2004
I posted yesterday about a glitch I found in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Well, the glitch centered around the fact that I had stuffed a garage too full. Last night, when I was playing, I somehow managed to squeeze my way in between the two cars and eventually pushed one Remington out of the garage. So now that garage can be used again. Yay!
9:17:00 AM
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
To Read List, Second Update.
"The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life," Ralph Keyes (Still on my list, however, I was able to obtain a copy of the book, so now I do not have to forage through my local library.)
"All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime," William Rehnquist
"Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand
"The Politics Presidents Make," Stephen Skowronek
"Presidential War Power," Louis Fisher
"No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days," Chris Baty
"Who Let the Blogs Out? : A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs," Biz Stone
"Choice: The Best of Reason," ed. Nick Gillespie
"Mimesis and the Human Animal," Robert Storey
"Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature," Joseph Carroll
11:21:00 PM
GTA: San Andreas Glitch.
I was playing last night, just fooling around, trying to extract a car from a garage in the Dillimore property. I had inadvertantly put two Remingtons in there and couldn't get one out. As CJ ran into the garage, he got stuck between the two vehicles. I kept having him jump up so he could get to the back of one vehicle and slowly push it out of the garage. As I jumped, CJ went straight up ... into the attic. Except that he wasn't supposed to be there, so the game showed CJ, half his body in the attic of the garage, the other half sticking out of the roof. I couldn't get him to jump back down, but I could take a rocket and shoot it at his feet. That certainly got him out in a hurry.
6:24:00 PM
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Wired magazine showcases the potential future of HR2391, the Intellectual Property Protection Act, as it may "undo centuries of 'fair use.'"
The bill lumps together several pending copyright bills including HR4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, which would criminally punish a person who "infringes a copyright by ... offering for distribution to the public by electronic means, with reckless disregard of the risk of further infringement." Critics charge the vague language could apply to a person who uses the popular Apple iTunes music-sharing application. The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited. The proposed law also includes language from the Pirate Act (S2237), which would permit the Justice Department to file civil lawsuits against alleged copyright infringers. Also under the proposed law, people who bring a video camera into a movie theater to make a copy of the film for distribution would be imprisoned for three years, fined or both.
Now that is harsh.
9:22:00 AM
Week 10 NFL Pick Results.
Week 1: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 2: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 3: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 4: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 5: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 6: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 7: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 8: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 9: 7-7; 50%
Week 10: 6-8; 42.86% (My first losing week.)
Overall: 83-61; 57.64%
9:12:00 AM
Sunday, November 14, 2004
The Washington Post tackles National Novel Writing Month.
NaNoWriMo started with 21 people and each year it grows bigger. This year there are about 40,000 people across the country and around the world attempting it, Baty says. Participation is free, though people are encouraged to make donations if they can. They register on the Web site, http://www.nanowrimo.org/, and share thoughts and ask questions on the message boards. WriMos, as they're known, share excerpts of their work, which reveal the NaNo approach to writing: enthusiastic and over-caffeinated, and minus the benefit of revising, because the experiment's time constraints don't allow it. They are, at the very least, imaginative:
"Vaamanan would have thought after the twelve years Teira was with him, she would have learned that she couldn't escape or defy him. Yet she continued to dredge up those incessant displays of sporadic backbone."
"With glee he shook, as his tongue lolled out the ending sound of his words in a disgustingly slimy way that made you feel like a old, wet, flea-ridden dog with worms just hearing it."
(Link via ArtsJournal.)
1:43:00 PM
Saturday, November 13, 2004
NFL Week 10 Picks.
Baltimore at N.Y. Jets
Chicago at Tennessee
Detroit at Jacksonville
Houston at Indianapolis
Kansas City at New Orleans
Pittsburgh at Cleveland
Seattle at St. Louis
Tampa Bay at Atlanta
Cincinnati at Washington
Carolina at San Francisco
Minnesota at Green Bay
N.Y. Giants at Arizona
Buffalo at New England
Philadelphia at Dallas
3:39:00 PM
Friday, November 12, 2004
I've been behind on comics since I started attending college classes again.
Just today, I bought
Demo #10
Demo #11
Jack Staff: Soldiers
3:47:00 PM
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Week 9 NFL Pick Results.
Week 1: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 2: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 3: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 4: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 5: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 6: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 7: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 8: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 9: 7-7; 50%
Overall: 77-53; 59.23%
8:57:00 AM
Monday, November 08, 2004
Reason has a detailed round-up of alleged voter fraud.
Also, those handy folks at Bookslut pointed out the new blog Regret the Error.
9:47:00 AM
Sunday, November 07, 2004
'He Must Be Tired' Play of the Day.
Just on NFL.com in the New England-St. Louis game:
Leonard Little, 0 Yd fumble return (Jeff Wilkins kick is good), 14:46.
3:59:00 PM
Friday, November 05, 2004
Week 9 NFL Picks.
Arizona at Miami
Dallas at Cincinnati
Kansas City at Tampa Bay
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo
Oakland at Carolina
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh
Washington at Detroit
Chicago at N.Y. Giants
New Orleans at San Diego
Seattle at San Francisco
Houston at Denver
New England at St. Louis
Cleveland at Baltimore
Minnesota at Indianapolis
10:13:00 AM
Thursday, November 04, 2004
This from a previous post:
Just as a quirky experiment, I'm trying to locate as many American newspaper-associated blogs as possible. This is, by no means, limited to one post; it will take several to fully track all blogs. Due to the volatile nature of this project, I'm going to limit those to current and on-going blogs. Certainly, if I wanted, I could try to include all blogs -- and I just may at some future date -- but for now, those papers with blogs left by the wayside will simply have a "*" next to the paper's name. (A hat tip to the Newseum, which I am using to track down as many American papers as possible.)
Arizona
Arizona Republic (Phoenix)*: Plugged In (Editorial Page)
California
Fresno Bee*: Elections 2004
Los Angeles Times: Video Game Blog
Orange County Register (Santa Ana): Election Blog (reg. req.)
Sacramento Bee: California Insider, Convention Weblog
San Diego Union-Tribune: Political Lunacy, Remote Control, Weather Watch; Other San Diego weblogs
San Jose Mercury News: Backstage with Marian, Dan Gillmor's eJournal, Silicon Beat
Colorado
Denver Post: Bloghouse
(Completed through Delaware.)
5:29:00 PM
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
NFL Week 8 Pick Results.
Week 1: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 2: 9-7; 56.25%
Week 3: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 4: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 5: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 6: 8-6; 57.14%
Week 7: 10-4; 71.43%
Week 8: 8-6; 57.14%
Overall: 70-46; 60.34%
10:33:00 AM
Indy Magazine has a couple of interesting reads up in its newest issue: the first about Peter Bagge and his work at Reason magazine and the second about editorial page cartoons.
10:22:00 AM
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