The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Jeff:

Republicans have failed miserably this decade to keep up with critical technological advances

They have kept up with voting technology. They can use it to twist votes like no-one else.

The xkcd comic has derived more comments than any other, including one mocking the Drake Equations, and Someone on the Internet is WRONG!.

Honors to him for including tomatoes.

The European Union entry for the Flag campaign is dumb. Countries (and groups of countries) import stuff they don't produce. Gasp! The others make a point (although some of the data seems dubious without research), but "Europeans use more petroleum than they produce! Oh Noes!!!eleven!!" really doesn't work.

Also, as much as I like both of them, neither of them exactly has a long track record of turning ideas into results.

I thought that this had been well refuted for Obama. From the LA Times:

The conservative Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama in his 2004 Senate run, praising his "significant accomplishments" and "shrewd negotiation." The Tribune credited Obama with "legislative feats," including laws requiring that police videotape interrogations in murder cases, laws creating tax credits for the working poor and "laws to track racial profiling by law enforcement, prohibit public officials from accepting lobbyists' gifts [and] expand health insurance coverage for children of the working poor and their families."

Not exactly "no record".

My mother's brain almost melted when confronted with Apples to Apples; I'm not sure what she'd do with this.

I've only played Apples to Apples once, but loved it! (Hint: If you play "X-Rays" against "Chemical Pesticides" for "Artificial" when the judge is an organic farmer, you are going to LOSE! [grin]) Big Idea sounds like great fun. I'll have to get it and try it out.

Sounds like The Kingdom fails The Rule of Cool, as do Daredevil, Electra and (needless to say) the Hailey Berry Catwoman. I just saw Mission Impossible 3 and would say that, by and large, it fits the rule.

When you start with Take your best route to I-93 north into New Hampshire., all the loops are virtually equal, at least from California. I would imagine they're even more equal (heh) from Europe, Africa or Asia.

Just sayin'.

I'm sure I'm not alone in skipping the comments section of Atrios and Firedoglake. The signal-to-noise ratio is pretty low. So I might read Firedoglake every so often, but it's nowhere near as much of a must-read as Hullabaloo. (Slacktivist is my blog-of-choice.)

#10: Serge, I would like an English translation.

Thanks

If you’re having trouble following the action in the latter part of the video, here's some French.

Not helpful to some of us cretins [grin]. English translation, por favor?

Julie L. @ #39:

Oh, and then there's The Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddly Toys. (Don't overuse the electroshock.)

I love that. I think the snake was my favorite, the poor beastie.

Bruce @ #93:
Apropos of another discussion on another thread, I wouldn't be surprised if, in an alternate universe, COBOL is quite well respected because it was created by Adm. Ray Hopper.

I'm not sure that's the case. COBOL was quite well-respected for many years, and it's been te influx of "cool" languages like C, C-Sharp, Java, etc that make it not-so-well respected. I doubt if one programmer in a hundred* could tell you what COBOL stood for, much less who created it.

* The number will be higher here than in the general population, though.

It would be fun to toss the TV show Lost into the Torchwood, Life on Mars, etc mix, but the different meanings would boost it more than Heroes artificial (but deserved) placement.

I think that ocecats had a big showing in 2006, boosting ocelots.

If I walk at 3 mph on a slidewalk moving at 2 mph (most I've seen go slower than I can walk), am I moving at 5 mph? I often do this on the slidewalks at airports, since I like to get from here to there as rapidly as possible and relax.

lazylaces doesn't have the depth of commentary that "Jay Is Games" has and tends to focus on "point-and-click", but I find it very fun.

I rather liked it.

To paraphrase "Thou Shalt Always Kill", "Thou shalt not put [poets] on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were." The squirrel was a bit much and the breakdancing was WAAAAAAY!!! over the top, but just close your eyes and listen to it.

As one commenter said, "At least it's not about gats, bling and hos."

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