Until this year I have identified my political affiliation with the Greens as being a “California Green”; that is, registered with the Green Party of California. The national coordinating body was previously called the Association of State Green Parties, and in 2001 it voted to become a formal and unified national party organization, maintaining the [...] Read more »
Spoil Her Spa Package
Exhibit A, from an ad at Yahoo!, highlighting the importance of quotation marks to disambiguate passages: Get Well – Spoil Her Spa Package [...] Read more »
Songs edited for broadcast
I am intrigued by the phenomenon of songs edited for broadcast, especially by the inconsistent application of rules. My examples might best be addressed in a bulleted form: Everlast‘s What It’s Like discusses at one point the abuse leveled by protesters at a young woman seeking an abortion. In the line “They call her a [...] Read more »
Nokia scam?
I think I’ve been scammed. In July I purchased a new Nokia PCS phone at Best Buy primarily due to their rebate offers. I forget the exact details, but it was something like $75 from Nokia, $25 from AT&T, and a $50 gift certificate from Best Buy. The rebate submission rules were complex. Many different [...] Read more »
Islamic owls
Modern Humorist, a very funny site, ran a feature called Holy Tango of Poetry subtitled “If Poets Wrote Poems Whose Titles Were Anagrams of Their Names”. One of the poets featured is William Carlos Williams, a founder of the Imagist movement, who is best known (by far) for his poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”. If you [...] Read more »
Virus alert
New Virus: Badtrans.B This warning applies if you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. There is a new Windows virus, called Badtrans.B, spreading rapidly through email (I have been hit three times in the past 24 hours.) The email subject of the infected message will be simply “Re:”. The email body will be blank but [...] Read more »
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