“Senator Robert Byrd gave a floor speech yesterday that’s one for the history books.” That’s what Rafe had to say about Senator Robert Byrd’s floor speech. Read it. You will agree. The Senate seems asleep at the wheel.
Well at least Congress caught the Administration’s screw-up forgetting to give Afghanistan Aid. via Oliver Willis. Just a little oversight right? Pftt.
“Each one of us for one reason or another dreams of America, and America is everywhere.” That’s Italian commentator Alain Elkann in this NYTimes piece on how some European commentators see the growing rift between us. via dangerousmeta.com
Disable your cookies. Get a personal proxy (well I gotta do that one!). Google may win the Big Brother of the year award. A must read. via Scripting News. Gotta point you to Phoenix, the browser I use when I’m off the clock. Simple to use cookie management.
If you’re poor, the GOP wants to tell you it loves you with it’s compassionate conservative embrace.
Local and certainly not connected – viruses run rampant at schools. A stomach virus is shutting schools down.
What will happen at the UN today?
Finally some good news, from ABC: Terror Alert Partly Based on Fabricated Information.
Comic books. Store houses of wisdom they are. I’ll be seeing Daredevil over the weekend. A quote to heart right now:
“The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up.”
I threw out my Google cookie in Mozilla, and it wasn’t that difficult. I’ll look into how Phoenix handles things, but as I understand it I’d have to go looking for a new e-mail client if I switched, as Phoenix only includes the browser.
It would be nice to see Google respond to Google Watch’s allegations, but I’m not holding my breath — that site takes such a paranoid tone that they should be worried about legitimizing someone who comes off as a crank. Not unlike NASA’s flip-flopping over responding to moon-landing-conspiracy nuts.
But if enough of calm and otherwise rational developers and other web thought-leaders start taking this seriously, then maybe Google would respond to them, seeing as how they’ve been the search engine’s more enthusiastic champions in the past. If that happens, Google Watch’s reaction will be very informative as to whether or not one should take them seriously.
Oh, and that stomach virus hit my son David last weekend. He went back to school on Monday through Thursday but was fatigued the whole time. I brought him home yesterday morning and have him out until Tuesday. (Monday is a holiday.) Hopefully he’ll be fully recovered by then.
My brother’s son, Matt, has it too. Sounds nasty. I hope your son feels better.