Dead Cant Rant

Just installed the del.icio.us direc.tor GreaseMonkey user script that completely alters the del.icio.us editor interface. Based on Johnvey’s original del.icio.us direc.tor bookmarklet. Johnvey described it as Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker. I call it beautifully elegant.

And if you haven’t installed GreaseMonkey, go get it.
What’s that you say? You don’t have Firefox? Shame on [...]

True to my earlier prediction, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is beating the pants off King Kong.
Narnia sales so far are about to surpass the $100 million mark, while Kong has barely recouped 10% of its $300 million cost. To be fair, a more accurate comparison would be between [...]

Almost forty years after it happened, the United States has returned to one of the most important locations of the Vietnam War: Lima Site 85, a Top Secret radar guidance installation located on Phou Pha Thi mountain. Built in 1966 and overrun in 1968, Lima Site 85 was manned by CIA personnel and Air Force [...]

I normally try not to get too worked up by the Express-News, but today I’ll make an exception. Here’s a few choice pieces from today’s edition.
Lead story, page one:
Air marshals kill traveler
Notice the headline doesn’t say “Air marshals defend 200+ innocent people” or “Air marshals kill crazed madman”.
The inside headline for this story, page 9A:
Marshals [...]

In [1990 and 1991] women in [seven Washington, DC-area jurisdictions] filed 1,842 rape reports, and police concluded that 439 were unfounded.
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[One] woman said she lied because she needed an excuse for having been late to work.
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[Lt. Dan Davis, Howard County (Maryland) Police Department, said] Our philosophy is that a woman who would file a false [...]