Author: Glenn Hauman

Yahoo! News – Escaped Killer Hid as Poet in Chicago

“CHICAGO — As J.J. Jameson, he was a popular poet. As Norman A. Porter Jr., he was a convicted murderer who had escaped 20 years ago from a Massachusetts prison.”

J. Jonah Jameson, perhaps?

The guy who hacked an MP3 player into a PEZ dispenser now has a license to make an actual commercial product based on the design:

# The first version will be 512mb.
# Their will be six buttons along one of the skinny sides.
# Their will be an LCD screen.
# The head will be removeable and compatible with existing PEZ heads.
# The first production run will be small and made in the USA.
# The first production run will be early summer.
# Supports MP3, WMA, OGG, USB 2.0, mounts as flash drive.

Link

(via Make Blog)

(Via Boing Boing.)

Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com – Studio Briefing: “The recipient of a First Amendment Leadership Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association has acknowledged that he was compelled to order several stations not to air Saving Private Ryan last November. As reported by New York’s Village Voice, Liberty Corporation President Jim Killer told the RTNDA: ‘It’s somewhat ironic that about the time I found out about this award, I was in the process of making a decision which ignored the First Amendment.’ Killer said that he had ordered the ABC stations, all of them located in the South and Midwest, not to air the film ‘because the FCC refused to issue a definitive statement that the rebroadcast was content-acceptable.’ The agency had earlier overruled a conclusion by its staff that the use of a variation of the F-word by Bono during a live broadcast of the Golden Globes Awards was not indecent, saying the earlier decision ‘is no longer good law. By our action today, broadcasters are on clear notice that, in the future, they will be subject to potential enforcement action for any broadcast of the ‘F-word or a variation thereof in situations such as that here.’ (There are 21 uses of the expletive in Ryan; last month, the FCC ruled that the film was not indecent.) Killer, a former broadcast journalist whose stations have been recognized for their news coverage, also said that as a result of the FCC decision, ‘We changed the way we do live shots’ in newscasts. Commenting on his remarks, the Village Voice asked, ‘Anyone feel a chill?'”

Bibliotypes at Bookseller World
Bibliobibuli — those who read too much
Bibliocharylodis — a dangerous whirlpool of books likely to drown unwary readers
Bibliodast — one who tears pages from books
Bibliodemon — a book-fiend or demon
Bibliognoste — one knowing in title pages, colophons, editions, dates and place printed, printers and all the minutiae of books
Bibliographe — a describer of books and other literary arrangements
Bibliolater — a worshipper of books
Biblioklept — one who occasionally steals a book
Bibliokteptomaniac — an inveterate book thief
Bibliolestes — a book-robber or plunderer
Bibliolotgos — a book pest or plague
Bibliomane — an indiscriminate accumulator of books
Bibliomaniac — a book lover gone mad
Bibliophage — one who eats or devours books
Bibliophile — a lover of books
Bibliophobe — one who fears books
Bibliophtbor — a book-destroyer, ravager or waster
Bibliotapbe — one who buries books or hides them
Biblioriptos — one who throws books around
Bibliosopher — one who gains wisdom from books

“This is a complex case with serious issues. But extraordinary circumstances like this, it is wise to always err on the side of life.” Those were the words of George W. Bush regarding Terri Schiavo (and Rush wouldn’t lie to us about it).

Just to remind you, W. is the man who rushed through 152 executions as governor of Texas. Because there couldn’t possibly be any errors there, right? I mean, just because three of those men had lawyers who slept through their trials, no reason to err on the side of life, right?

I’m so glad he deigned to end his vacation early to deal with this great ethical dilemma (something that he didn’t do for the tsunami last Christmas that killed 100,000 or so, including 1200 Americans) just as he spent so much time thinking about the ethics of stem cell research in the summer of 2001 that he ignored a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In The United States”.

Good grief.

Posted on March 21, 2005Author Glenn HaumanCategories Uncategorized

I’m now contributing over at TVSquad.com, as a sort of geek without portfolio. Come on by and take a look.

New York Post Online Edition: news: “3G BUY OF SCOUT’S FORTUNE COOKIES

By KIERAN CROWLEY

March 14, 2005 — A ‘cookie angel’ has bought 1,000 boxes of a Long Island Girl Scout’s goodies in hopes of sweetening her recent unpleasant encounter with the NYPD.

‘Gracemarie Louis seems like a really nice girl who got caught in a situation,’ said Manhattan investment banker Ernie Dahlman, 35, of Dahlman Rose & Co.

He’s donating the $3,500 worth of cookies to the Island Harvest food program %u2014 on behalf of New York’s Finest.

The police officer who ticketed Gracemarie’s dad, Hoi Louis, for helping sell cookies on a Brooklyn street without a license was just doing his job, Dahlman reasoned.

‘There is no cop out there who says, ‘I’m going to bust this guy for selling Girl Scout cookies,’ ‘ he said. ‘If I can show support of the cops and of a nice girl, that’s great.’

‘That’s amazing!’ said a stunned Gracemarie when given the good news yesterday while delivering yet more cookies in her Bethpage neighborhood.

‘That beats all my rec-ords.’

She had already sold 600 boxes by the time of the March 5 incident in her old neighborhood of Williamsburg.

Post readers bought another 200 from her last week.

Dahlman’s generosity brought her total to 1,800.

He’s making a lot of kids happy, Gracemarie said, noting that her troop hopes to sell enough for a group trip to Disney World.

The lesson, she added, ‘is that there are still a lot of people who care %u2014 and this guy really cares.’

Her grandma agreed.

‘He’s not a cookie monster,’ Grace Taras said. ‘He’s a cookie angel.'”

Oh, we are going to give him such a hard time over that nickname…

History for Dummies – The troubling popularity of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. By David Greenberg: “Several weeks ago, a history book called The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas E. Woods Jr., a hitherto unknown assistant professor at Suffolk County Community College in New York, appeared on the New York Times paperback best-seller chart. User-friendly in its layout, the book is chock-full of pull-quotes, subheads, bulleted lists, short sentences, and two- and three-sentence paragraphs. It presents a brisk tour of U.S. history from Colonial to Clintonian times, filtered through a lens of far-right dogma, circa 1939. It’s History for Dummies meets John T. Flynn. It’s published, naturally, by Regnery.

Lots of other folks have bashed on this book. However, I’m not going to bash on the book, but on Woods. And Suffolk County Community College– or as we called it when I lived out there, the 13th grade.

There are those who said that Suffolk was actually hard to get into. Well, that might have been true once– but not since they put the traffic light on Nicholls in, now you can make that left turn with no problems. As an institute of higher learning, it appeals to those without much cash or ambition, and it leaves quite a bit to be desired.

Woods has his own problems. I refer you all to the works of Professor Eric Muller (particularly on Woods and the League of the South) and Ed Cone. And I’ll bet cash that sooner or later, Bill Maher will have a trademark infringement suit pending.

If you don’t know what you want, it’s probably sleep.

I’ll probably get around to posting on the phun Philly trip tomorrow.