Unqualified Offerings

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Archive for March 6th, 2005

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Open Thread

If this doesn’t constitute going over to the dark side, I don’t know what does. Off to swim and maybe get my eyes examined.

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Priceless, Wot?

“TV football ‘corrupts children’ ,” according to ” Martin Ward, deputy leader of the Secondary Heads Association,” a British organization for those who have been grafted onto the shoulders of living host bodies. Actually, he’s some kind of schoolmarm. And of course “football” is really “soccer,” but they don’t call it that in the land [...]

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

WP Blegging

Issue One is, of course, fixing the wrinkles in comment functionality. I think this means biting the bullet and getting COMPREVAL to work with the actual Bricks comment.php, not the Neptune comment.php I dropped in because COMPREVAL worked with it. Any guidance appreciated.
Second, I need a good trackback spam solution. I’m taking a calculated risk [...]

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

A Martyrdom Operation of the Future

Terrorists Begin Internet Recruiting Effort. Future stories in series: Terrorists Complain Nobody Links to Them; Why No Female Internet Terrorist Recruiters?; Terrorsphere Brings Down Dumbass Journalist; and Terrorist Internet Recruiters: Future of Terrorism or Bunch of Schmucks Sitting at Computer in Pajamas?

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

The Ethics of Blogging

Some people wonder, if I run a weblog, am I a “real” journalist, a pundit, or something else, and most importantly, do I owe it to my readers to direct them to the esthetic wonder that is the newly-redesigned Unqualified Offerings. The answer to this last dilemma is simple: of course you do.
UPDATE: Comments. Obviously [...]