2.7.2003 – God of the Machine

Google’s Greatest Hits

Navel-Gazing 2 Responses »

Feb 072003

if god had an answer machine — Then you could leave a message, cupcake. But He’s in conference right now.

thomas kinkade lawsuit — Can you really sue for that?

top-down and bottom-up terror theory of Richard Rubenstein — You might want to ask Richard Rubenstein.

how much is an ounce of weed — It’s pricy. But it’s really good shit.

CRACK MACHINE — Look buddy, weed is one thing. What kind of blog do you think this is?

you have nothing to lose but your chains — You using those chains?

And not just f–k machine, oh no, but

how does a f–k machine work — You really need to come here to figure that out?

(Update: They improve! Today alone brings provocative ill-timed and internationally illegal actions and new economic policy lenin lesson plans, to which no comment of mine could do justice.)

Digeste Lives!

Blogs 2 Responses »

Feb 072003

D-Squared has taken it upon himself to summarize Steven Den Beste’s often-enormous posts. Where have we seen that before? Bonus: Mine were fair.

A Philosophical Question

Blogs, Navel-Gazing 1 Response »

Feb 072003

Suppose that you’ve set your comments up to email you each time one is posted, and you post a comment yourself. Suppose further that an email shows up in your box two minutes later, marked “New Comment,” and you open it excitedly, only to realize that it is, in fact, the comment that you yourself posted two minutes ago. Are you entitled to laugh at your cat when he chases his tail?

I don’t think so.

Wiggle Room

Blogs, Culture, Literature No Responses »

Feb 072003

Ray Sawhill, who writes on culture for Newsweek, Salon, and other hifalutin venues, has a snazzy new site. Start with his interview with Roger Scruton and move on to his appreciation of mad Hungarian Stephen Vizinczey, whose Truth and Lies in Literature can almost convince you that literary criticism is a matter of life and death.