New item for my Christmas List
An automated defender that shoots foam disks. I can put it right next to my shrieking animated chimp head. No, seriously, I really do have the shrieking animated chimp head. Hat tip to Gizmodo. ..bruce..
Author Archive: bfwebster
Webster is Principal and Founder at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at bwebster@bfwa.com, or you can follow him on Twitter as @bfwebster.
Honest! It wasn’t me!
I haven’t done anything like this since I was was 8 years old and living in Astoria, Oregon. ..bruce..
Over the rainbow
Here’s a photograph — taken in Kansas no less, two years ago — of a tornado and a rainbow together. I keep looking for Dorothy’s house. Hat tip to Fortean Times. ..bruce..
Link o’ the day
A complete list of aphorisms from the 44(!) “Charlie Chan” movies. Note that those 44 movies were made in a period of less than 20 years, averaging slightly more than 2 movies per year. And you thought Star Trek was bad…. Hat tip to Language Log (one of my favorite blogs, by the way). ..bruce..
How we won the Cold War
By spreading truly subversive and crippling concepts — via Finland. Hat tip to Sharpeworld via The Consumerist. Â ..bruce..
“Born American, but in the wrong place.”
Peter Schramm, Professor of Politicial Science at Ashland University, tells of his long journey from being born in Communist-occupied Hungary to ultimately “teaching…native-born Americans…how to think about their own country.” He ends as follows: But what I do with these American natives is I teach them about American politics and American history. I start with […]
The Big Dig Starts to Crumble
Gerry Weinberg, who has been a leading light in software engineering for nearly 40 years, once famously remarked, “If builders build buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” Up in Boston, it appears that the woodpeckers have struck, with tragic results. The Big Dig, as it […]
Adventures in Fund Raising: Democratic Party Conflict
Jay Cost over at Real Clear Politics does the best job I’ve seen anywhere of explaining the current dispute between Howard Dean (chairman of the Democratic National Committee) and Rahm Emanuel (chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee). The short version is obvious: Dean is trying to build up the Democratic Party on a local […]
Links o’ the day
Sandra and I are thinking about getting a new house. The folks at Chocolate Cake City (who did the Brokeback to the Future trailer) have a new one: X-Men: The Last Standing Ovation. Ah, the wonders of Photoshop (though having a twisted mind helps).
Press bias and multiple sources
FURTHER UPDATE (7/14/06): This could explain a lot. UPDATE (7/13/06): Having written this post yesterday, I ran across these three pieces today: Who’s determing editorial policy at the New York Times (Jed Babbin at Real Clear Politics) Why the New York Times should not have printed its article about SWIFT (Jacob Weisberg — certainly no […]
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