Pertinacious Metanoia

Google offers a new Desktop Search tool, which now includes a rather cool-looking sidebar. But … *sigh* … not for Macs.

“We, the undersigned, wish to demonstrate the pointless nature of forced web site registration schemes and the dubious demographic data they collect.”

“Hear the unusual noise that has people in a small town north of Middletown on edge, worried and asking questions.”

“$204.6 billion in direct military spending. $4.8 billion in foreign aid directly related to the war … and another.$19.5 billion in loan guarantees to Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Plus sunk costs that are offloaded to individual states, especially relati

“And then I thought about permissions and public space and … I went back and took his picture. Say cheese.”

I might actually give the movie depicted by THAT trailer a try. The one cut up by the studios to remove Jen was awful.

Creepy as friggin’ hell. Yipe.

“The second thing that surprises you about riding in an M1 is the butter smooth suspension. When our HMMWVs drive down the roads the journey is usually a jarring, kidney rattling affair. But in the Abrams all you feel is the steady throb of the engine c

“The story was too juvenile, the higher-ups said, and the characters had to be edgier. Afraid to trust themselves, Lasseter and his crew tried to follow all the directions.It was, nearly everyone agrees, a train wreck. Disney hated the movie and the idea

I’m not sure if I agree with their closing definitions … but an interesting test, nevertheless.

“Initially, Pixar was a high-end hardware company whose core product was the Pixar Image Computer, which primarily sold to government agencies and the medical community. While the machine never sold well, John Lasseter began creating short animations, suc

“How much power can a few words in a EULA give a software publisher to deny us our rights? If it’s as much as a company called Livingsoft assumed in its recent treatment of a reader, a right we’ve had for more than a hundred years is about to disappear.”

Gives you an idea of what an arbitrary figure a ‘day’ or a ‘year’ is — and thus how arbitrary our ‘age’ is. Interesting.

And the BBC pointed this out, let’s not neglect to report that. I wonder when it’ll become something where a national reversal trend happens? Or will we just all turn into huge blobs?

“He’s already at home, surfing the Internet with his one-handed, 19-key keyboard, looking for dirt on Rita to get her out of the picture. Maybe if there were a little more action going on, he wouldn’t need a one-handed keyboard, if you know what I’

“The Ministry of Fools, and the Pity With Which Mr. T Regards Them.”

“This scene is not a joke about HIV but rather Peter’s ignorance and inability to convey bad news. Given the nature of this series as well as the well-established cluelessness of this particular character, the scene–while certainly abrasive–is not bey

“I just invented the best CAPTCHA format evar.”

“The season ranks 10th warmest of the 135 on record here since 1871.”

“I hope that the world turns and that things get better, and that one day people have roses again.”

“A recently hatched midland painted turtle ( Chrysemys picta marginata) found in an Ann Arbor Park.”