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links for 2008-06-22

• Op-Ed Contributor - Anheuser-Busch and the Election - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
  We are nearing the end of the era of cheap beer.

Musique or Music or Musik? It has started.

Today, all over over france and certainly all over Paris, fete de la musique is taking place. I know it has begun because across the street from my apartment is a teenage DJ pumping bad euro dance so loudly that my windows are shaking.

He is doing techno-dance remixes of "My Name Is Al" by Paul Simon. It's not really working.

links for 2008-06-20

• Cheney hits Democrats on taxes, trade, energy | Reuters.com
  Note the one brown person in this photo. He doesn't look so happy to see Lord Cheney.
• Kansas City is in Missouri - Home
  H/T to trevor for pointing out this one.
  (tags: missouri kansas geography funny)
• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  So, so true.
  (tags: math science humor cartoon)
• A Luxury Travel Blog » Suite of the week: Presidential Suite at Hotel Principe di Savoia, Milan
  It's a nice plaza, I've stayed there.

links for 2008-06-19

• Kirk Peddles Debunked China Drilling Claim, Mixes Up "Osama" And "Obama" | Progress Illinois
  It really does boggle the mind.
• Torture began at the top - Los Angeles Times
  Despicable. If you break the laws of the united states (and they did) and you violate the cultural norms of the vast majority of the american people (and they did) you deserve to be indicted. This is what worries me about Obama's current "post partisan"
• Broken Laws, Broken Lives » Read the Report
  Torture is beneath the dignity of the united states.
  (tags: bush torture GOP iraq)
• Travel Advisory
  I certainly am forced to ask: If americans can grab people off the streets of Rome, should D. Addinton be watching his back on the streets of Omaha?

links for 2008-06-18

• Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Challenged on Torture - WSJ.com
  It's a good start, but probably shouldn't have taken 6 years to start looking into this.

links for 2008-06-17

• Latest Cheney Tape May Contain Evidence Of His Whereabouts | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  Its possible to push sarcasm so far that it wraps around and comes back into the area of the real.
• ABC News: Java for Longevity? Filtering Coffee Studies
  Wheeew.
• Mark Nickolas' Blog: The Media's Shameless Bias To Try To Create Competitive Race
  Independents put Obama ahead by a bunch...but that's bad for ratings!

links for 2008-06-15

• Yahoo Loses Two More: Fayyad and Zawodny
  In fairness, this isn't half as bad as if MS had actually succeeded in buying yahoo! That would have been carnage on even grander scale.
• Amazon.com: A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light: Bryce Corbett: Books
  One of the Jooce founders has a hobby that keeps him busy.
• Cover vs. Original - The big song contest
  Clever concept, well executed.
  (tags: music covers)
• YouTube - Nouvelle Vague - Love will tear us apart (LIVE)
  I am amazed by the *reverence* that any number of people have shown to this song.
  (tags: music youtube)

2nd Ave, Seattle

Just for posterity, I thought I'd post these photos of our place in Seattle.

Flickr Set Of Photos Of Apt In Seattle

Big thanks to Val for getting these clean shots.

links for 2008-06-14

• mikeandrion.com > michael cosentino & rion nakaya
  good blog
  (tags: blog paris)

War, Inc?

Strangely, this doesn't seem to have appeared in the US media anywhere....

BBC discovers billions stolen in Iraq, US gag order prevents discussion