Entries from February 2006

Quote of the Day

Date February 28, 2006

“There are some things in this world you just can’t teach, and writing incoherent, semi-literate wingnuttery is one of them.” [ "Sadly, No!":http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002397.html ]

Fontist II

Date February 27, 2006

And another thing: there is no excuse for setting your weblog _entirely in italics_.
Italics and bold are used for emphasis. If you emphasize everything, you emphasize nothing.

Assault on Sex

Date February 24, 2006

Gary “points out a story”::http://matchingtracksuits.com/2006/02/24/the-alternative about the new South Dakota anti-choice law. The full-on assault on sex has begun.
I’ve written before about how we can “reduce abortions _now_”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/335/5-ways-we-can-help-the-unborn — but Conservatives “don’t want to come to the table”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/520/5-ways-redux. And, after much other thinking, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that most anti-choice advocates have _zero_ [...]

Guess Ten, Stormreach Edition

Date February 24, 2006

We preordered DDO(Dungeons and Dragons Online), so we get to start playing today. I wonder, what will I name my first character? Machiavelli, after my college-days Bard? Augustine, after my “to-old-to-game” Ranger? Or will I be Pope Rollo the Munificent, my “Discordian”:http://www.knauer.org/mike/discordia/discordian.php “craft name”:http://accessnewage.com/articles/humor/CRAFTNAM.HTM? Decisions, decisions.
Well, while I work on that, why don’t you guess [...]

Fontist

Date February 23, 2006

It’s probably wrong of me, but I have loads of trouble taking any weblog seriously when the body text is set in Comic Sans.