April 30, 2006
When 'Psychos' Recycle
Go green with urine, says leading Tory The Conservative Party chairman is urging the nation to pee on its compost heaps to help the environment.Francis Maude, who admitted he and his family were slightly 'psycho' about recycling, delivered the unorthodox...Comedy Central Needs To Hire The President
President Bush mowed 'em down at the White House Correspondance Dinner. He had a Bush-impersonator up with him at the podium and together they did translations of the many Bushisms the press always harps on. Apparently the President even garnered...April 28, 2006
"Oh, The Things I Do For England..."
Gentlemen (and ladies), it's time. The British Secret Service is hiring. For the first time in its history, Britain's secret service is advertising in the newspapers. The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as MI6, placed adverts in a number...April 27, 2006
The World Of Tomorrow
At the end of April 1939, the New York World's Fair opened to the theme of "The World of Tomorrow." The organizers, businesses and countries, sought to cast off the Great Depression and wow the world with miracles of technology..."You Maniacs!"
Spain ponders an ape rights bill.Charlton Heston last seen screaming on his knees on the beach....April 26, 2006
They Need To Mount An Expedition
They need to prove this theory out, to see if we can harness this energy. Somebody has to go out there and conduct experiments. And we nominate Al Gore for the job. He would be the perfect Captain Ahab ship...When The Media Becomes The Story
The continued revelations about exactly what kind of leaking to the press Mary McCarthy may or may not have done provides a lesson in Journalism 101.Don't become the story.It seems a simple enough rule not to break, yet apparently the...Congrats Tony!
Tony Snow is the new White House Press Secretary. President Bush on Wednesday named conservative commentator Tony Snow as White House press secretary, putting a new face on a troubled administration. Snow, a Fox news pundit and former speechwriter in...April 25, 2006
Perhaps The Merovingian Knows Something
Apparently the Matrix is having connectivity issues....Of Course Iraq Would Never Have Done This...
You have to admit one thing about the Iranians: they don't have a problem with honesty. In fact, they seem quite proud to tell the world that they have the West outsmarted, outclassed, out-devouted (is that a word?), out-oiled (I...April 24, 2006
Productivity? What Productivity?
Employers are sure to cringe at this... ...but admit it, a lot of you are breathing a sigh of relief right now....April 22, 2006
Plugging The Pulitzer Leaks
Reporters often cite "the public's right to know" as the catch all auspice under which they publish classified information from government officials. There are others: "whistleblowing," "voicing concerns," "holding government accountable," and having "legal reservations."And in the instance of CIA...April 21, 2006
Islamic Extremists Target Sienna Miller
Considering the recent thrashing the Washington Post gave celebrities for not chaining themselves to the immigration issue, or to any cause, for that matter, we're curious why this story has not received more attention on their pages.Sienna Miller has been...I, Blog
Surf the web, for only a short time, and one can quickly come to the conclusion that not all is right in the world, or that a lot of people, for that matter, are not right in the head. Oddities...April 20, 2006
No Crime
For nearly three years now we have heard countless authoritative revelations from the national media organizations about who outed CIA "agent" Valerie Plame. It's like the final moments in the game CLUE; it was Libby, in the Starbucks, on background...Because I Know You've Been Wondering...
He's up to free rent for a year......from one red paper clip....Perhaps They Do Have Brains
With all the political jockeying going on in the immigration debate, it's easy for some voices to get lost in the shuffle. But celebrity voices? Could it be? They're like the first responders of pop culture. They'll provide CPR on...April 19, 2006
9-11, The Comic Book
The publisher wanted to show the events leading up to 9-11 "in a more gripping way"......though we're not sure how you can get more gripping than this....Google Decides To Hire Women
They're worried that this is not appealing to women users.No, really. ...Google Australia can't find any female engineers who want to work for it. Internationally, the search engine behemoth strives to employ workers from many backgrounds, a recognition that its...April 18, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI
Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI.One year ago when Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy, both friend and foe expected different things from the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine...The Nuclear Winner
As the recent Pulitzer prizes awarded demonstrate, finding any degree of sanity in print media these days is pretty much nil. So imagine our surprise this morning at finding this, while sifting through the Washington Post: In 1979, Jane Fonda...April 17, 2006
24 Tonight
24 blogging is going to be short and sweet tonight. But really, it's also because we've hit a bit of a lull in the plot.Homeland security continues to swallow CTU whole. Chloe is operating on one satellite. And Audrey is...I...Less Like Bugs, More Like Bugsy
The Easter Bunny, that is.Yes, Easter celebration is over, work is back in full swing, and you're quite possibly regretting that mound of candy and Peep flock purchase (despite the fact that they will last forever). But for the children...Better Than Monster.com
Remember all that talk about undocumented-illegal-migrant workers doing the jobs Americans won't do? As it turns out, Americans might not have had the oppotunity to apply for the job in the first place - seeing as how a good number...April 16, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI's Urbi et Orbi Message
(Easter Sunday, 16 April 2006)Dear Brothers and Sisters!Christus resurrexit! - Christ is risen! During last night’s great Vigil we relived the decisive and ever-present event of the Resurrection, the central mystery of the Christian faith. Innumerable Paschal candles were lit...Christ Is Risen
The Resurrection Of JesusNow on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and she saw the stone taken away from the tomb. She ran therefore and came to Simon...April 14, 2006
Co-Opting The Crucifixion
I don't really have much to say about PETA. The "animal rights" group has essentially adopted a position of militant idolatry towards animals. And they use shock value, naked actors, and vast media campaigns to great effect in attempting to...A Stunning "Exercise Of" Hatred
Michelle Malkin is all over this new report by The Northerner, a student publication at Northern Kentucky University, where a British Literature professor encouraged her students to "exercise their freedom of speech"...and tear down a pro-life display. This was the...James Cameron Needs To Hire This Guy
Titanic 2 - the trailer. And yes, it is a spoof....April 13, 2006
Al Gore Thinks He's Dennis Quaid
I finally figured it out, and only because I just watched The Day After Tomorrow two days ago. Watch the trailers. Tell me it isn't so.The Day After TomorrowAn Inconvenient Truth Seriously, it's like Gore is going all Single White...This Marshmallow Peep Phenomenon Is Out Of Control
No really, it is. Peeps, by nature, are gentle, nonviolent creatures. Which is why it’s unsettling on such a primal level to learn of something called “Peep jousting,” in which the birds are affixed with toothpick lances, then thrown into...You Are A Bad Carbon Lifeform
Apparently V'ger and Ilia are back from merging with the Decker unit and sailing the Universe and are ready, once again, to destroy all the carbon units infesting the earth, because that's who it looks like wrote the official web...April 12, 2006
GoogleNet
So after you've climbed to the top of the search engine pile, created crawlers and bots that can slip past security systems and inadvertantly destroy entire websites (and sometimes not so inadvertantly), saved the known Universe in your cache system...Scientists Dissenting From Global Warming Alarmism Are Censored?!
M.Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, writing an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal is claiming -Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry...China Creates The Communist BlackBerry
Beset on all sides it seems, RIM's CrackBerry BlackBerry now has some serious name competition from China.Behold, the RedBerry. No joke.BEIJING and TORONTO — On the eve of its long-delayed China launch, BlackBerry is facing a sudden challenge from a...April 11, 2006
Hang On To Your Laptop
Laptop thieves descend upon wireless cafes... A San Francisco finance manager stopped in at a Mission District cafe and was tapping on his laptop as he enjoyed his coffee just before noon on a Thursday. Suddenly, he was under...Michael Schiavo, The Movie
As opposed to Terri Schiavo, because honestly the way this man acted he was all about himself. And seeing as he "kept his promise" by engraving that and the date of Terri's death as the day she slipped into her...The Crashed Ferrari Enzo Story...The Continuing Saga
It just keeps getting odder by the day. Now authorities have arrested Stefan Eriksson.The Swedish video game entrepreneur involved in the 162-mph crash of a rare Ferrari has been arrested on suspicion of grand theft, officials said. Detectives concluded that...April 10, 2006
Tonight On 24
President Weasel is EVIL!! Bwahahahahahaha!!!The plot thickens, as last week it was revealed that President Logan is in cahoots with the terrorists. That's right - no wonder he didn't care that the First Lady was in the Russian limo...France Surrenders
Dominique de Villepin, his poll numbers down as a result of the student protest and subsequent "victory" over his youth employment law, now finds his own job security in question: Opposition politicians and many protesters have called for Villepin to...Jack's Back
Look's like Kiefer Sutherland is going to be back as Jack Bauer for another three seasons of perimeter-setting, thigh-shooting, terror-thwarting action. "24" star Kiefer Sutherland has inked a multifaceted deal with 20th Century Fox Television. The rich pact, which is...Recruiting A Little Early Now, Aren't They?
Apparently Democrats - or groups who wish Democrats were in power - feel it's never too early to start recruiting voters, even the ones who at present are illegally in the United States. A number of photos were taken at...April 09, 2006
John Kerry "Refuses" To Get A Clue
Possibly on the assumption that his recent New York Times op-ed was an excuse for sound international U.S. policy, Senator John Kerry fleshed out his agenda with a huge display of arrogance, opportunism and outright defeatism on "Meet the Press"...Palm Sunday
Reuters reports on Pope Benedict's sermon.Speaking on a brilliantly sunny day to tens of thousands of people, the Pope weaved his sermon around the contrast between material and spiritual riches and the relationship between personal freedom and responsibility.After blessing palm...April 08, 2006
I'm Not An Actor, But I Play One On...Wait...
Oh thank God...the actors are here.Apparently Ben Affleck needs to revitalize his film career, seeing as how he's essentially destroyed his and nearly everyone else's he's been associated with (Matt Damon has sort of escaped with Bourne, but other than...Gotcha! Gotcha! Read All About It!
In reading the continuous - and deplorable, I might add - coverage of the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial procedings, I came across the little fracus going on between the guys at Powerline and the New York Daily News' Kenneth...A Disclosure, Not A Leak
It's sad really. This story has gone round and round and round so many times, recycled by the press with so many mischaracterizations and inaccuracies, that it's become nearly impossible for anyone to get back to the heart of the...April 07, 2006
People Kick And Rant When The M&M's Don't Drop
Just imagine what they'll do to the vending machine when their iPod doesn't drop out of the chute. Vending machines that sell iPod digital music players are heading to public places in the United States, including airports, grocery stores and...More Features
Still working on page setup, but most of everything is working. Right now I have the comment section and trackbacks opening in a new window. Whereas if you click on a permalink it uses the same browser. Also, you'll notice...April 05, 2006
The Fact Filter
Thomas Sowell has a new column out where he speaks to the issue of demagoguery by politicians and the media. He makes some extremely good points and reveals quite a few facts that I had not read before. But then...You Know You're Having An Effect
...when they criticize you for working too efficiently. Yes apparently Michelle Malkin posts so frequently that lefty sites are having trouble keeping up. Of course my response to their whining is "Ha hah!". But Michelle manages to respond a bit...Apple To Run Windows
So what are we up to now? Three? Four signs of the apocalypse? Apple Rises on News That Intel Macs Will Run WindowsApple Computer Inc. on Wednesday unveiled new software that allows Intel-based Macs to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP...And Everybody Wondered Why I Had A Paris Hilton Category...
Isn't it obvious? Indian director hopes to cast Paris Hilton as Mother TeresaAn Indian movie director said he hopes to persuade Paris Hilton to play the role of Nobel laureate and prospective Catholic Saint, Mother Teresa, in an upcoming film....April 04, 2006
Comments, Comment Pane, Trackback Pane, Categories
For Movable Type, every feature of the web page has it's only template. A LOT different than the one Blogger template. The comments should be working now, haven't tried the trackbacks yet. Categories should direct you to a page not...GM's Best (And Maybe Last) Car
The new Corvette Z06. Pretty darn cool. "You have the car everyone wants right now." Souls are ice-skating in Hell. Pigs are airborne. The guy handing the Corvette Z06 the ultimate accolade wasn't a sixty-year-old Midwestern mid-life muscle car maniac....The "Threatened" Society
The courage of celebrities knows no bounds. Susan Sarandon wants the U.S. presidential elections to be monitored by outside interests. The "Bull Durham" star says that the 2004 vote was so fraudulent that we need international oversight — like troubled...April 03, 2006
DeLay Calls It Quits
Tom DeLay Says He Will Give Up His Seat Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress...24 Tonight
Okay, so where are we this season? (By the way, I apologize if I don't get to do any linking tonight, as I've been swamped recently with a new webpage design [Which, you're looking at right now. - ZP]....Animated Favicon
Yes, behold the animated .gif file with each page load.Hmm...okay, that one is on a trial basis. I may change the rotation speed or the image.Ha. That took about five minutes...the animated icon has been removed until further notice, or...Still Testing...
New additions are the favicon (should see a ZP icon in the Firefox tab), got rid of the news links and extra blogrolls. Basically anything and everything to make the site load as fast as possible.The CSS background colors have...April 02, 2006
Checking Image Upload And Hosting
Behold...M104 - The Sombrero Galaxy....Checking Blockquotes
So the thing about blockquotes is...You have to use html.For some odd reason they don't seem to be working.So we're going to do a test....More testing...
Gotta check fonts. Gotta check italics. Gotta check links. ...April 01, 2006
Just testing...
It works!...