A Very Hilarious Ann Coulter Column


Ann Coulter's latest column is jam-packed with unintentional hilarity. Let's check it out:

[ It's almost too easy to rip Ann Coulter's logic apart. I predict that in 10 years, when she's been mostly forgotten and is living in a nice retirement home in some california beach world she's gonna be like "Haha, my entire life has been satire! My entire purpose was to demonstrate the absurdity of ultraconservatism by being it's most rapid proponent."

Only, really, I think she's going to be a sad, hateful, lying, frothingly insane imbecile, exactly like she is right now. -k]

Sadly, No!: A Very Hilarious Ann Coulter Column

Uhm, what?

Does it come with a free pass to all online porn or something?

PlayStation VP sez PS3 will cost between 499 and 599 euro - Engadget

"Outsourcing" – which has become synonymous with sending American jobs to India or China – could soon mean foreign workers sleeping in ships just a few miles off America's coasts.
In an outrageous affront to U.S. labor laws, a California company plans to anchor a 600-cabin cruise ship just beyond the three-mile limit off the coast of El Segundo, near Los Angeles, and stock it with foreign software programmers.

Hah! I don't expact that loophole to stay open for long.

Foreign Workers Coming to a Cruise Ship Near You

There really is no excuse for writing poorly in one's blog. At least with IMs and e-mail your terrifying disembowelment of the language is limited to one observer. But in your blog, you'll look stupid for the whole world to see, and it will be archived for as long as humanity remembers how to produce electricity. Maybe you don't think anyone who reads your blog will care. But I read your blog -- yes indeed I do -- and I care. Madly. Truly. Deeply.

John Scalzi is fast becoming one of my favorite writers (see Old Man's War). Here he presents some useful tips for aspiring writers.

-k

Whatever: Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing

Dvorak on the lamentable round 3 of Apple Computer vs. Apple Corps (Apple Records)

His solution :

In an effort to save the money, though, I would suggest that the company change its name for good. Offer a million dollars to the public-at-large in a competition to rename the company. That would do the job and get the publicity needed for it to be promotional. Why not?

Is he fucking kidding? Why not? Maybe because Apple has become one of the most recognizable and desireable lifestyle brands in the world. Yes, let's toss that out the window.

It's bad enough that Apple Corps is nothing more than a holding company designed to rake in cash from the ongoing legacy of the Beatles. No disrespect, because the Beatles were unquestionably a hugely important cultural phenomenon, but it's gone on too long. This whole situation makes me hate the Beatles, which is just sad. I'm not naive, and I understand that making money for shareholders is what corporations are for, but as a rule, I favor corporations that produce innovative and progressive goods or services. Likewise, a company designed purely to extract money on the basis of a product that ceased advancing *thirty* years ago (even one as remarkable as Beatles records) is a pure leech, and earns absolutely no respect.

As a child, listening to Beatles records with my dad was a frequent and joyful event. I'd love to buy some CD's to regain access to those songs but I no longer want my money to support people I've lost all respect for. In fact, I pledge that I will not purchase any Beatles merchandise until I can do it through iTunes. A minimal loss, certainly, for them, but it's what I can do.

In the meantime, I do agree with one thing Dvorak said, and that is that this shit should've been ended long ago. This time, it better be final. Any way that can happen without ruining Apple Computer is fine, preferably in a way that does not include Sir Fucking Paul McCartney as a major shareholder or boardmember. Fuck that guy and his overpriced tickets to shows that, despite the hype, aren't Beatles shows.

JOHN DVORAK'S SECOND OPINION : Apple vs. Apple is an old song

Have you seen this guy's 3D sidewalk art? Well, it's 2D... but done in such a way that if viewed from a certain angle, the image will trick your eye into thinking that the object depicted is "on" the sidewalk.

Make sure you scroll down far enough to see what his artwork looks like if photographed from the "wrong" angle!

[I've seen it before but it deserves another shout... extremely cool. -k]

Impact Lab - Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art Photos

Hijexx wrote:
Basing sentencing on motive alone seems like a slippery slope to thought crime.

I've been thinking about this. I agree that sentence modifiers aren't a deterrent with respect to crimes of passion rather then profit. However, FineThen did a good job of convincing me that a hate crime, such as a cross burning in someone's yard, is a substantially different thing from an act of vandalism. It has a greater emotional impact on the victims and a greater impact on the community at large. Can these things be reconciled?

Tom makes quite a cogent argument... well said.

RE: Suit: W.Va. Police Chief Denied Gay Man CPR - Yahoo! News

"Students who self-test frequently while studying on their own may be able to learn more, in much less time, than they might by simply studying the material over and over again," he adds. "Incorporating more frequent classroom testing into a course may improve students' learning and promote retention of material long after a course has ended."

Perhaps equally important, this study demonstrates that students who rely on repeated study alone often come away with a false sense of confidence about their mastery of the material.

Doesn't seem so surprising. Active recall is supposed to work better than passive recall for enshrining memory. It's why flashcards work better than lists. There's theory for this all over and if you google, you'll find tools to help you learn using graduated interval recall as well. These work on the theory that each time you recall something, you keep it for a little longer before needing a reminder. They vary in sophistication, but the concept seems useful to me, and fits my experiences as well, which never hurts.

Repeated test-taking better for retention than repeated studying, research shows

Newsvine combines the best features of a number of companies and products like Digg and Google News with great features like chat and blogging-style comments. The result is a perfect news site (note that new competitors, like spotback (mentioned here) are aiming to overthrow Newsvine already, however).

The result is a really wonderful social news experience.

Memestreams sinks lower...

[ Hm. One thing it doesn't seem to do is care about reputation, which is the theoretical basis that separates memestreams from all the other similiar sites that seem to be cropping up.

If anything, memestreams should care more about reputation, i think. It should be obvious at a glace who can be considered an authority here. It's something that differentiates this community from others technologically, but it's actual application is unclear. I think that's the major sticking point, honesty.

That, and the lack of a few hundred k of VC, perhaps. -k]

TechCrunch � Newsvine is Perfect

Natalie Portman chanelling Easy-E... awesome!

YouTube - Natalie Portman SNL Digital Short