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Via “Scott”:http://www.youareatree.com/?p=3394 I learned that the First Lady said when President Falls-Off-Segway gave the “Mission Accompished” speech, he meant that the mission of the _USS Abraham Lincoln_ was accomplished. Clearly, we have all only heard the abridged version of Bush’s speech that day; JR Hand imagines what the full thing was like “over at the [...]
“Some time ago”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/index.php?id=1096 I whined about iTunes and “Kim”:http://www.thymewise.net/blog/ pointed me to the “Live Music Archive”:http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php. The LMA distributes recordings of live concerts — all made and distributed with the permission of the bad. Kim and her husband “Scott”:http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/ dig the LMA because of all the “Grateful Dead”:http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Grateful%20Dead concerts (2,775 currently) and, I’m guessing here, “Railroad Earth”:http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Railroad%20Earth [...]
Scott points me to Food Network chef Alton Brown’s take on Mad Cow disease. (It’s the entry of
December 26th. Just as I have not discovered the joy of steamed mussels, Mr. Brown has not discovered the effective content management system. So no permalink for you.)
Alton says:
That’s right, Mad Cow disease isn’t the beef industry’s fault, it’s [...]
Why is it called “thudfactor” anyway? Well, the “thud factor” of something is how loud a noise your thesis/assignment/book makes when you drop it from, oh, five feet above the floor.
I chose the name because of the amount of content I had or expected to have. Besides this blog — which is fairly content heavy itself — there’s [...]
Occasionally I wonder why I continue to pay attention. Politics will happen with or without me. And to be honest, I don’t know if I am changing minds or in any significant way educating people otherwise. I don’t have the following of a South Knox Bubba, TPRS, or Atrios — in fact, I rely a lot on [...]