Everything imaginary chess is supposed to be:

The Johnston Atoll

In the 1980s William F. Buckley and his son, Christopher were attempting to make a yacht voyage across the Pacific and made their first landfall at Johnston Atoll; however, they were asked to leave immediately. When Buckley tried to argue that he was a good friend of President Ronald Reagan, and that his […]

Here’s your guide for sizing up the liquor situation. Meanwhile, I’ll be sitting pretty in the park cookin’ up some ribs.

This is a fantastic column. I highly recommend it.
Friday morning, less than 24 hours after she died in a Florida hotel room, the Drudge Report — our media culture’s digital arbiter of all things tacky and prurient — had 12 items posted on the onetime topless dancer. That would account for some of the media […]

Google announces office on the web.

ugh, just disgusting

This is just a great article from The Register (one of my favorite IT news sites) that covers the demise of Palm and the invement capital market that seems hell bent of platforming and marginalizing any new concept out there. Was it smart for Palm to start licensing itself? Probably not the register suggests.
Remember that […]

It’s amazing really. Thousands of packets of data streamed over a highly complex network of routers and infrastructure to deliver the sound of Jenna bleching and Dolen yelling about “diamond hard viagra”
Yes, it’s the Kong Show. Also available on iTunes.

Listen and Enjoy.

Blogging is still going on from New Orleans, one of the few people still updating is an employee from a web hosting company based in the city. I shutter to actually send a link to live journal (I got the link from wikipedia) but here it is:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/39438.html
It looks like Something Awful is housed at this […]

I hate stuff like this.
“Moore rehearsed, hour after hour, the cop-killing scenarios in that hyper-violent video game,” Thompson said. “The makers, distributors, and retailers of that murder simulator equipped Moore to kill as surely as if they had handed him the gun to do it.
Does anyone sense that the “Reefer Madness” of our time […]