Here's a heads-up for regular readers: On Wednesday, from 9:00-11:00 AM GMT (2-4 AM MST), Blog-City will be shut down for the upgrade to version 6.0. They're describing this as "a MAJOR upgrade," so don't be surprised if the outage lasts longer ...
Bert Wiener is a very smart and funny man who never blogged enough, but did it well when he did. He just posted again after a five-month hiatus. I'm really, really sorry he did — well, what I mean is I'm sorry that this was the reason: What I ...
Egyptian student and blogger Abdelkareem Suleiman was sentenced to four years in prison. For writing things on his blog that were critical of the Egyptian government and fundamentalist Islam. Outrageous. When ...
Here is the press release from Fre
Outdoor Life's hunting editor, Jim Zumbo, had a blog at the Outdoor Life site. Apparently, Zumbo thinks only "sporting firearms" in the hands of "gentleman hunters" should be legal. I suppose he means bolt-action rifles and over/under shotguns...
I'm sorry to say I missed Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash #6 Friday night. No real reason — I just spaced it out. For some reason, I thought it was next week. Oh, well — RMBB #7 will come around soon enough, I'm sure. As for #6, Jed has more pix than ...
Congratulations to Bookworm Room, the Watcher's choice to fill the vacancy on the Watcher's Council. Looks like a worthy choice, too -- check out this post, for instance. Or this short one. Bookworm's post in this week's council voting is also ...
Oops, I meant to post a heads-up a couple of days ago and forgot: Andrew Olmstead opted to return to active duty and to Iraq (best wishes, Andrew!), and therefore has given up his seat on the Watcher's Council. The Watcher wants to choose a ...
The Watcher of Weasels has announced another vacancy on the Watcher's Council: Due to a decline in posting frequency, Dymphna of Gates of Vienna has chosen to vacate her seat on the Watcher's Council. It's been great having Dymphna on board for ...
Jeffrey Haemer gave me a Christmas present. You shouldn't have, Jeff. No, really, you shouldn't have. It's one of those weird presents that I'm not at all sure I want: the tag meme indicated by the title. OK, I'll play. If you've known me quite a ...
The last time that there was a vacancy on the Watcher's Council (just a couple of weeks ago), the Watcher of Weasels had already chosen a replacement before I got around to noticing. He did a fine job, too, by choosing Andrew Olmsted.
But now, th
Harvey at Bad Example apparently was cruising the hip, trendy, pop-culture blogs, catching up on the latest fashions, gadgets, and celebrity news, when he came across an interesting little widget that can either stroke or crush a blogger's ego: ...
In Egypt, they imprison people for blogging about women's rights, freedom of expression, and "secular thoughts": Egyptian security forces have arrested a student blogger whose writing was critical of Islam and the government, security sources and ...
Kentucky Dan has posted Carnival of Liberty #34 over at Committees of Correspondence. Looks like lots of interesting posts. If you have plenty of time on your hands, go read them all. Then tell me which ones you recommend for the person who needs ...
OK, so I see this post on Eric's Grumbles about a "Commonly Confused Words" test he took (he scored "English Genius"). Well, heck, I figure, I are a tech rider and he am an injun ear, so I shud beet him. So I tuck the test. And I did beet him. Bearly
A loyal reader in the City of Brotherly Love clued me in on an interesting story from neighboring Delaware. A Dover Post reporter was fired because of what he wrote on his blog: Matt Donegan, a copy editor and reporter for the newspaper, was fired by
Doug Mataconis at Below the Beltway is hosting Carnival of Liberty #28, and it looks like he did a great job and got some really interesting submissions. So go check it out. I'll be hosting next week's Carnival of Liberty, so don't forget to ...
Each week, Time viewers vote for the Picture of the Week, and at the end of the year, Time puts the top ten vote-getters up for Picture of the Year. One of the ten, and the only one not by a professional photographer, is Michael Yon's moving image...
No, I'm not dead. And I haven't been in jail. Just a combination of too much work, a persistent virus, and other things on my mind. I promise to get back in the swing of things, reading and writing, Real Soon Now.
Eric Cowperthwaite said that bloggers are today's pamphleteers, and I agree with his analogy to a point. But bloggers (in the aggregate) can do so much more than pamphleteers because of today's information and communication technology.
