Dead Cant Rant

I’ve written a new post for Lone Star Times, about Mansour O. El-Kikhia, our very own resident anti-Semitic terrorist apologist.

Each Friday in San Antonio we are treated by the Express-News to the rantings of our own resident terrorist apologist, Mansour O. El-Kikhia. On December 17th he compared President Bush to King Louie from Disney’s The [...]

This is hilarious: lip-synching Dragostea Din Tei, a song by Romanian techno band O-Zone.
The guy has a Drew Carey personality, and the song absolutely rocks.

Find out.

Damn, it’s a good thing I happened to be looking at my referrer logs for the past hour. I’m afraid I have to remove the tsunami videos due to bandwidth concerns. Our bandwidth usage soared from a few hundred meg yesterday, to 1.5 gig today, to almost 14 gigabytes (!!!) today — and that’s only [...]

Wow.

Sodium lights in downtown Billings glow orange in contrast to a frost-covered ponderosa pine tree on the Rimrocks overlooking the city early Monday. Icy fog and a cold wind combined to cover the north side of the trees with frost that contrasts brightly when illuminated with a strobe light.
Billings Gazette

Cox and Forkum prove they’ve got some good, old-fashioned ooh-rah!

Source: Cox and Forkum, New Year 2005

Where can we get a poster??

Man dressed as a Viking stands in front of a 40 foot-long (12 metres) Viking longship as it is burned on Calton Hill in Edinburgh as the launch pad for the city’s Hogmanay (New Year) celebrations December 29, 2004. The festival was attended by thousands of spectators and people [...]

Did you know that Netflix has RSS feeds?
Here’s a bit of Python code I whipped up for a friend to fetch one of their feeds and print out the titles. All you need is this script and Mark Pilgrim’s ultra-liberal feed parser and away you go.

import feedparser
url = ‘http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=296′

def main():
feed = feedparser.parse(url)
[...]

We’ve mirrored two of the tsunami videos from Cheese and Crackers:
Update 30 Dec 8:20PM: I had to remove the videos. I think our server almost melted. See here for details.

Yes!! It’s about time that somebody took this step!
New York Gang Member Faces Trial as Terrorist:

Morales faces the most serious charge of second-degree murder as a terrorist act. A New York grand jury returned the charges against him in connection with the shooting death of 10-year-old Melanie Mendez, who died from gunshot wounds two years [...]