New on Anvil and Sprocket: “_Shivers_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=172. Also, our “third podcast”:http://www.thudfactor.com/ANSL-03.mp3 is available.
OK, here’s a question: how many people who read movie reviews — that is, seek them out on the Internet — are concerned about having the experience of watching the film ruined for them by premature exposure to plot elements?
After reading “this review by [...]

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OK, I probably shouldn’t do this, but I can’t help it. It’s just too funny. Over in the comments thread for the “John Roberts post”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1184/john-roberts, Karen says the following:
bq. All I can say is thank God Kerry never got into office… Bush may be a little dumb but he definitely isn’t as deceiving as [...]

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I’ve heard a number of liberals insist that the Valerie Plame issue is not particularly important and we should be focusing on the “real issues.” I resent this for a number of reasons, chief among them being that I have a number of friends with security clearances who would have faced significant jail time for [...]

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I haven’t said much about the John Roberts nomination because, you know, what am I going to say? Bush picked someone with practically no experience and no background. At least he doesn’t have the creepy John Bolton moustache.
Of course I oppose John Roberts, but at this point I oppose anything Bush does on general [...]

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I have plenty of stuff to write about, including another entry pending in draft mode, but for now here are some links to some enteresting blog entries.
At Art Machine, Glen “rips John C. Dvorak a new one”:http://www.art-machine.org/blog/about/734/creative-commons-smackdown over pontificating on a topic he knows nothing about:
bq. As for Dvorak’s other statements, he says, “I have [...]

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