(and us by association)?

I linked to this article (in a previous discussion ) about W’s surprise in realizing that he’s hated and not trusted by the majority of the Muslim world (which is backed up by this interesting poll done in Saudi Arabia.) While jank is sleeping, I thought it’d be a good time to throw some wood on the presidential fire with some excerpting from this (obviously biased, but might make a good point) Muslim news article that simply starts with…

I can’t believe that John didn’t think of it first. Stellar graphics, compelling performances and intricate plots. This site has it all.

Including a catchy theme song.

This Californian (I still need a derogatory term for ‘em) with a funny accent tells a story about the possible end of the world in this simple but funny Flash movie.

NSFW if you don’t want your neighbors to hear the “f” word coming from your speakers.

But here goes:

Bush’s visit to the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN just won’t freaking die, and it is a blatant example of media bias, plain and simple.

The current kerfuffle is about the “Mission Accomplished” banner that was flying from the bridge (The flag bridge, BTW, where there’s a couple of exercise bikes for the brass) when the Commander in Chief of the United States of America’s Armed Forces paid a morale visit to a carrier that had just completed the LONGEST DEPLOYMENT since Vietnam. Even though in his speech, GWB referred to “…difficult work to do in Iraq. We’re bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous” and “The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time,” he is still being lambasted for declaring the war over (Which, BTW, he did not – “…major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country
…” )

I thought these were real ‘fair & blanced’ headlines?

That is about the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while… :-)

Formerly of The Brunching Shuttlecocks (a funny collective that has “moved on”), Lore Sjöberg has moved on to do his own strip which he supposedly updates every Thursday. Check out his classic Flash movies Kevin Smith and His Magic Feather and The Adventures of Evil Overmom, then be sure to dig through his archives for gems like this:

I hope we all were dismayed over the last few years to notice the censorship of our favorite childhood cartoons. My warm familial memories of laying on the couch with my Dad while he chuckled away at Roadrunner shorts — I think he identified with having chosen a career that involved so much futility…or maybe he just thought they were funny — were laid waste by a Coyote whose antics climaxed off-camera in more recent edited versions. Thankfully Warner Bros. heard the anguished cries of us Gen X’ers and released Looney Tunes – The Golden Collection, an unexpurgated collection of 56 restored and re-mastered shorts.

Not meaning to only grab low-hanging fruit, but this article has Tim O’Reilly saying a lot of things that I’d noticed a while ago, namely “O’Reilly said the old idea of stand-alone software — the unconnected word processor or spreadsheet — is becoming passé. Even the idea of making a distinction between software platforms — Mac, Windows and Linux — is starting to no longer make sense. “

Wired is carrying a story on rulings by the US Copyright Office exempting at least four classes of material from copyright protection:

On Tuesday, the U.S. Copyright Office released the four “classes of works” exempted from the anti-circumvention rule. People may bypass a digital lock to access lists of websites blocked by commercial filtering companies, circumvent obsolete dongles to access computer programs, access computer programs and video games in obsolete formats, and access e-books where the text-to-speech function has been disabled.

Best part of the article? A reference to the Librarian of Congress