Unqualified Offerings

Looking Sideways at Your World Since October 2001

Archive for May 5th, 2002

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

Jim’s Assignment Desk

Sooner or Later, one of these is going to hit, if only by random chance. Peter Parker: First Jewish Superhero – assigned to Gary Farber.

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

We Can Fact-Check Your URL

Electrolite has moved. Update your links, gentle readers, to this. In the spirit of family togetherness, Making Light has moved too.

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

Our Good Friends, the Turks

This item does have something to do with Istanblog. In response to UO’s noting the anonymity of the Istanblogger, he writes:
I haven’t put my name on here mainly because I like to critique (constructively, I hope) the government here, which can be a bit dodgy. I doubt I really have much to worry about on [...]

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

Istanblog, Not Constantinoblog

Unqualified Offerings finds that this weekend its thoughts run to Elvis Costello, Spiderman and Istanblog – this last, first.
There is the famous song, “Istanbul,” that readers of the age of Unqualified Offerings probably know as a They Might Be Giants cover, with the catchy chorus
Istanbul, not Constantinople
It’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
and the only other part of [...]

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

We Can Factcheck Everyone’s Ass

On the relaunched, redesigned and revivified Inappropriate Response, Moira Breen cites an item on Regurgablog. The item links to a map on the Palestinian National Authority website that suggests that the Pals might have problems sharing. Yikes! Regurgablog’s proprietor, Scutum Sobieski, even wrote to the PA about it and posted their reply, which he [...]