Interesting Times
Officially, the U.S. national debt is 15.9 trillion dollars. Well, a bit more than that; according to past U.S. Comptroller David Walker, it’s at US$70 trillion and increasing at about US$10 million a minute. The…
“Eight years of tension”
Earlier yesterday, 1: 1:32am EDT . . . this landed on Mars . . . 2: 1:34am EDT . . . making these folks happy 3: 1:47am EDT It sent back pictures of its shadow…
Sheepdip &c.
In Wales, there are many, many sheep. Any time you have an abundance of animals, you also have an abundance of their . . . poop. Typically, herbivore poop makes for fertile farmland, but a…
News Bits
If You Go Out in the Woods Today Department: 248 Human Fetuses Found in Russian Forest To Serve and Protect: Earlier this month, 18 police officers in Shandong province, China spent over 40 minutes rescuing…
An’ Anuddah T’ing
If you’re coming to this message from a Google search, you’re probably investigating comment spam on your blog. Read on, MacDuff. This is an addendum to yesterday’s post, wherein I bemoaned spam commenting on blogs…
A 2012 Post
These days, spam comments aren’t provided by blog readers, they’re mostly supplied by botnets of infected computers looping through lists of blogs, much like a telemarketer’s computer loops through a list of phone numbers. It’s nothing personal.
Peekaboo
Removing him from the user database was sufficient to delouse W&F, but I somehow managed to blank the site’s home page.
Some Decent Twits About Town
I can’t help but mention here a few artists whose work I’ve been viewing while coughing like crazy on the couch. Fellow Canuck and National Film Board booster (he works there — I just admire…
When the Past Bites Your Present’s Buttocks
I don’t actually know how many cartoons I had in Sex to Sexty, Good Humor and several similarly-slanted magazines, but from 1976 or so through the start of the 80s, there may have been a few, here and there.
Cleanup at Checkout
It’s been a few months (about half a year or so) since I last posted here. In that timeframe, some decent people passed away, greedy American mortgage lenders managed to collapse the world’s economies, I…