Unqualified Offerings

A question I don’t know the answer to but would like to:
Say we had hydrogen-powered cars. Spewing steam out of their tailpipes. In a major metro area. At rush hour. In high summer.
What would this mean for local humidity? An insignificant effect? Significant? Sounds like a job for a physics blogger. Or a meteorology blogger? [...]

Rock Scissors Blog, the group blog featuring Bruce Baugh and other gaming pros, has some interesting stuff on it already, like “Moulin Rouge, Anti-Naturalism, Puppetland and Victoriana.” I wish they hadn’t picked one of the ugliest available blogger.com templates (an undeservedly popular one at that). And I wish they edited their template so that author [...]

Hopefully DNS has finally propagated to the lands of all loyal readers. I was still getting the old UO at work as recently as lunchtime yesterday and I got e-mails from a couple of people having similar problems.
One downside of the move is that the stat reports are not so useful. Particularly I haven’t found [...]

More action in Afghanistan, per the Independent:

American officials told reporters that the fighting in hills near the Pakistan border was their biggest engagement with armed opponents since “Operation Anaconda”, when 1,500 American troops spent eight days trying to winkle out hundreds of Taliban and al-Qa’ida fighters from mountain caves in eastern Afghanistan.
The battle yesterday saw [...]

This one you can play alone. After your spouse leaves you, you’ll have no choice. Rules are simple:
1. Every time a hawkish blogger uses a variant on the word “appeasement,” drink.
2. There is no rule number two.
If you don’t drink, try
Warblogger Mad Libs – In every article referring to “appeasement,” the allies, and Hitler, substitute [...]

I’ve had a nice, questioning e-mail from Godless Capitalist of Gene Expression in my in-box since November. It seemed like a good excuse for reviewing my reasons for opposing the military conquest of Iraq. So I wrote a long “back to first principles” piece and posted it to Stand Down, where I invite you to [...]

Gene Healy has a suggestion for the hawks:

I understand people who argue for war with Iraq because they want to (1) liberate Iraqis; and/or (2) help Israel; and/or (3) spread democracy. I think those are illegitimate reasons in a constitutional republic whose governing document speaks of the “common defence” of the United States, and not [...]

Right-Wing Voter Effect wins again:

The projections gave Sharon a much greater victory than had been predicted in recent opinion polls, which had foreseen a Likud showing of some 31 seats. With 56 percent of the vote counted, the Likud was on 38 seats, Labor on 20, Shinui on 15, and Shas had 10 seats. Final [...]

Ha’aretz has a somewhat confusing report about possible Jordanian rule of Iraq on a “temporary” basis. The article reads a little like it went through the Babelfish Hebrew-to-English module – in particular, I’m having trouble quite following this sequence:

According to the estimates of sources in Davos involved in preparations for the war in Iraq, the [...]

Okay, cheap pun. But an old pal of mine, Gregor “Pedro” Gross, has started a blog called “So It Goes.” It’s in German, and if you’d ever read Pedro’s english you’d know why. The blog is largely about . . . stuff in German. German makes me nervous, ever since I searched far and wide [...]