05.01.07

Cut Bush Some Slack!

Posted in news, politics, tv at 11:19 pm by danvk

The crap he’s taking for this kind of bothers me:

Cut the guy some slack, already! He’s just doing the white guy dance. I’m sure all of us have done this many times. I know I have. I’d like to see Jon Stewart, Wolf Blitzer, or Jack Cafferty do any better.

15-9, 15-7

Posted in personal, sports at 9:44 pm by danvk

The final score of my win in the Supreme Court Low-C’s racquetball championship. I even get a trophy! Next up: high C’s.

You can always tell how good a racquetball player is by how they respond to “what level are you?” If they say “medium” or “intermediate” or “pretty good”, it means they’re not that great. Good players will answer with A, B, C or D, with A being the best. Tennis has Comments off

04.30.07

Bill Moyers Journal

Posted in news, politics, tv at 12:34 am by danvk

I’ve enjoyed the few episodes of the Bill Moyers Journal that I’ve watch so far. There’s:

  • Buying the War, a look at press coverage in the runup to the Iraq War. This is pretty terrifying stuff, but what’s most interesting is that there were journalists who uncovered the truth about Iraq and WMD before the war. They were just relegated to the back pages.
  • Interview with Jon Stewart, in which they dissect Jon’s recent interview with John McCain. I remember seeing the interview, so it was interesting to hear Jon’s take on it.
  • Josh Marshall, of Talking Points Memo fame. A succinct summary of the U.S. Attorney’s scandal and the role that blogs played in it.

I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for new episodes in the future. Fortunately, he’s got an RSS feed to make the job easy!

04.29.07

Wikipedia edit #2000

Posted in wikipedia at 10:40 pm by danvk

Kind of scary, huh? Here it is. I’m afraid #2000 was a bad one. That bracket is definitely upside-down.

Edit #2000 feels a bit cheap, since it was actually made by a bot. On the other hand, I personally scraped the data it’s using, wrote the program to generate the bracket from that data, and wrote the MediaWiki uploader program. Still, with this bot and the Grand Slam Project (I’ll write more on that later), I’m probably going to hit 3,000 all-too-soon.

04.21.07

Some Wikipedia categories…

Posted in wikipedia at 8:26 pm by danvk

… make you look twice.

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