Dead Cant Rant

I meant to comment on this yesterday, but didn’t have time. In the Express-News, editor Robert Rivard raves like a lunatic (soul-sucking registration required) about a pro-life rally held at UTSA. He had a problem with the large signs depicting aborted babies alongside pictures of lynchings and Holocaust victims:

Students and faculty returning from Spring Break, [...]

Reneé is, without a doubt, hands down the wittiest, pithiest person I’ve ever known in my entire life. Sample these quotable quips produced over dinner tonight:

Moderation is way overrated.
I’m not your Jiminy Cricket.
What’s all this about prison overpopulation? They can’t be overpopulated — it’s two guys doing it!
If men wanted smart women they’d have been [...]

…investigating comment spam, only to find the website is already shut down for spamming.
The next step is to prevent it in the first place.
Last October, over the course of two days, we received more than 1,500 comment spams for an online poker service. Thankfully, the idiot spammer was kind enough to use the same e-mail [...]

See us shamelessly shill for seats to a show!

Any blogger who signs up for the free tickets and then posts this offer and a link to the IN GOOD COMPANY trailer on their site will be automatically entered in a contest to win their very own private screening of IN GOOD COMPANY in their town. [...]

By the way, I just realized we haven’t directly said anything about our latest gig: writing for the group blog Lone Star Times, the blog as big as Texas. This is the companion weblog to Houston-based AM 700 KSEV talk radio.
Reneé and I were invited to participate based on our work comparing the pre-election bin [...]

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

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 [...]

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.