Nate Knows Nada

FactCheck analyzes the political stump speeches for accuracy.

Unsurprisingly, neither guy demonstrates a tendency to keep his exaggeration in check.

From Snarky Malarkey:

If you’re trying to read this, you should know that the damn Harvard
Weblogs server was out again for about 12 hours today.  It affected all of us.

Here’s what I wrote earlier today on our e-mail group:

Here’s what I know, from people at Berkman itself.

There are
simply not enough tech resources to maintain adequately theHarvard
Weblogs server. The tech people (one on-site, one remote[Kentucky, I
think]) there have so much to do maintaining the computer stuff for
staff that they can only just keep the blog server running.

Judge
for yourself what you think of the explanation. I am simply the
messenger. But you should hope that what happened at www.weblogs.com
does not happen to us. (Read this for more detail on what happened
there: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002739.html)

Watch out America!  They have a new weapon!

AL
QAEDA PLANS TO DROP GAY BOMBS {pictureRef (, align:”right”)}
Men within 30 miles of the blast will instantly turn
queer!

By Nick
Jefferies
EXTREMIST Muslim
scientists are developing
a bomb that turns
anyone within a 30-mile
radius of its blast into a
homosexual, say U.S.
Intelligence insiders.

It’s all a part of the Al Qaeda
master plan to pull our country
apart and kill the patriotism that
makes us strong.

“They believe that making more
Americans gay will start civil war
between gays and ultraconservatives,”
says one highly placed intelligence
officer. “They also figure it
will lead to a
decrease in the U.S.
population.”

And it goes on from there….

Google‘s always fun for big events, as they change the title
graphic.  Since the Olympics start today, we get

There are a couple of others that I’ve enjoyed:

Piet Mondrian — 7 March 2002


Monet — 14 November 2001

James Joyce and 100th Bloomsday (16 June 2004)

And just because cycling is cool and the Olympics start today, here’s the 2000 Olympics cycling logo:

They’ve archived all of this stuff.  Here’s an alien tale.  Here are the holiday logos from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. And they have archived a bunch of different stories in pictures.

Kurt Vonnegut’s article here includes a small paean to librarians.

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate
librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful
political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this
country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried
to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal
to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those
titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or
the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the
media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public
libraries.

From the librarian.

Stumbled across this photo of Lance Armstrong winning the TdF.  Look at his legs, and you’ll see how he won the race six times….

This is fantastically interesting.  It’s an interface that puts the current Google News headlines in a visual format, based on how many related stories it has.

Sorry, straight guys, but if this is true, I gotta feel sorry for you.  You have to scare off the other
straight guys?  We use our radar to have a little fun, but it
sounds like straight guys operate pretty fearfully.

Still, a funny piece.

The Times sounds threatened by us. Or jaded by their own profession.

We do wonder whether a blogger’s buccaneer self-image will suffer from
having to wear a garish credential necklace just to watch
conventioneers as they mainly say, “Nice to see you!” to each other.
Will bloggers be tamed into centrism? Or, like Mencken, will they
gleefully report that the convention’s main speechmakers are “plainly
on furlough from some home for extinct volcanoes”? Log on to find out.