I’ve come late to the party, but finally started reading Adam Curry‘s weblog via Bloglines. Today, he announces a new community watch program, after noting that the Dutch government (he lives in Holland) still does not have a terror alert system complete with colors. Our own government provides this useful service; I’m thinking about installing the Muppets one so as to feel simultaneously paranoid and soothed. Anyway, Adam Curry’s idea was hatched on his morning radio show. And thus the Terror Information Tracking Service was born. You send an SMS (text message from GSM ) from your cellphone to our…
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Rance is thinking of hanging up his mouse and pulling the “Dread Pirate Roberts” maneuver. A world without the one true Rance is like a world without… little tiny green letters and amusing barbed wit. Um. I’ve been having even more fun reading the whacked out “Gus Overshaw” that he recommended, but Rance’s blog would be sorely missed. Several of us suggested solutions to make it easier for him to continue in some way; I hope he’s just messing with us and making “biddity-biddity” noises with our heads. I’ve been trying to make sense of some of the issues that…
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Map & Graph: Countries by Mortality: Contact with powered lawnmower (per capita) …and yes, Moldova is #1! Clever Rance! And now, a song: I’m looking over my dead dog Rover That I overran with the mower One leg is missing, the other is gone The third leg is scattered all over the lawn There’s no use explaining, the one remaining It flew through the old screen door Oh, I’m looking over my dead dog Rover That I overlooked before!
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Rance checks in with a postcard from the Hamptons, where he may or not may be or have been: I was on the fence about going until he mentioned “We’d be having three-and-a-half pound lobsters at his dinner party Saturday night. I’d always thought that smaller lobsters tasted better, but Bill assured me, “That is a myth invented by poor people.” Bill fits in very well in the Hamptons, by the way. In any case, as you may have surmised from previous entries, quality has always taken a back seat to quantity for me when it comes to crustaceans. So…
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Over at Rance’s place, a recent essay assignment that didn’t make the cut: I read recently that one of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s sons wrote a series of murder mystery novels in which Eleanor was the protagonist and solved crimes. Pitch me a summer blockbuster movie in which Eleanor is the main character. Alternate topic: A drama in which Angelia Jolie plays the President. Contest Rules: As usual winners get 10 DVPs. You may submit only one essay (Exception: you may submit two if you are a Siamese twin). Essays must have a movie title and be no longer than…