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Posts from August 2009

Posted
22 August 2009 @ 10am

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Gods

The Gospel of Ralph: An Exegesis in Three Parts

I: The First Gospel

It is a little-known fact that Ralph Iscariot, brother of Judas, has three books of the Bible devoted to his extraordinary life: collectively, they are known as The Gospel of Ralph. Recently unearthed in a tiny cave near the sea of Galilee, these books document, in almost no useful detail at all, [...]


Right Conclusion, Wrong Reason

Dave Winer:

There’s still a ton of Woz in the Mac, I am typing this on a gorgeous unibody MacBook Pro, which is probably the most lovely computer I’ve ever used. The software I’m using has never been approved by Apple, and can be downloaded from the Internet. Next to it is an iPhone, [...]


Snowdrifts of Money

Via Kevin Drum:

Exxon Mobil, based in Irving, Texas, spent $14.9 million lobbying in the six months, 23 percent more than the $12.1 million laid out by companies that make solar panels or wind turbines to generate electricity, London-based New Energy Finance said today in a note to clients.

Enough money, I’m sure, to bury [...]


Fast & Furious, Slow & Turgid

This evening, my continuing obsession with Vin Diesel led me to watch Fast & Furious, the fourth installment in the Fast/Furious franchise, a series that takes our culture’s odd tendency to conflate loud gas-guzzling cars and barely clothed females as far it can possibly go. And then it takes it further. And then, somehow, it [...]