Ranting and Roaring

On the other side of the pond it is.

Rick writes:

Just a few days ago Moore made his first appearance since being injured and he said he had not seen or spoken to Bertuzzi since the event. It seems to me when you injure someone and you know you were wrong, you act like a man, swallow your pride, and apologise to their face. You don’t put on a media circus and make a great big show of apologizing to the cameras. Apologizing at a press conference makes it clear to me Bertuzzi was apologizing simply because it was the expedient thing for his career. It was a show.

If the apology had any substance whatsoever, he would’ve made it to Moore first and he would’ve said so during the public apology. If he did apologise to Moore, I take it all back, but I can’t believe he would’ve kept it a secret if he did the right thing.

- Arrange Windows now not-greyed out when “Open in the same IE Window” is selected as the Open Links preference

Now available here, and is well worth the trouble….

A good point to mention the Tool extensions, since I don’t think too many people are using them yet: Actions > Tools > Technorati Cosmos will get you which of those two million blogs are linking to what you’re reading.

At 4:35AM PST today, Technorati broke the 2 Million weblogs tracked milestone. The blogosphere continues to expand at an amazing pace, with about 12,000 new weblogs being created every day. We’re tracking over 150,000 weblog updates every day, and growing.

I was going to say F1 in Bahrain looked pretty interesting. Until I read this:

There’s no risk that Jenson Button might choke on a high-powered stream of expensive champagne after this Sunday’s inaugural Formula One podium in Bahrain. Race-organisers have requested that, in respect of Islamic law, alcohol and scantily-clad grid-girls should play no part in the running of the Grand Prix.

Now available here, and is well worth the trouble.

Some things to look forward to in the next release (coming probably tonight):

• Selecting the Category in the Subscribe to Weblogs wizard now works all the time.
• Improved support for subscribing to OPML files. In particular, we recognize a series of namespaced extensions which allow something similar to the initial selection of weblogs. This will allow “booster packs” of weblogs to be added for particular vertical markets.
• Tool Extensions are working again! There were a number missing file.
• Cleaner refresh of the main list (less blinking)
• There’s the start of a Tool extension to download Google News Alerts and convert them to syndication feeds for you.

You finished on the podium in a race. Don’t let it go to your head, dude.

Jenson Button isn’t really sure where in pitlane his Formula One future lies. The Briton is contracted to Honda-powered BAR and the Brackley-based team’s 006 was good-enough to help him end a four-year void of podium places in Sepang.

‘I’m contracted … for the next two years,’ he told The Guardian. ‘So that’s where I’m going to be – for the moment.’

Assh*le.

TMLutas writes:

It’s articles like this that chronicle the death of mainstream media. Every time the media, left, right, or center, embarrass their readers by demonstrably leading them astray on the facts of a current events controversy, the credibility of their media outlet suffers and they lose consumers.

The article in question (doing the chronicling) is this:

We now know how Campaign 2004 will unfold: A Democrat will accuse President Bush of having started the Chicago fire, or poisoning Halloween candy or whatever. The news media will trumpet the charges, no matter how preposterous. When Bush aides deny the charges, and provide evidence refuting them, journalists will accuse Bush of making “personal attacks.”

CotC #15 is up. Go check it out!

Funny, I was warned about this the other day:

West Midlands police have issued a stark warning to iPod users: ditch the white headphones or pay the price.

Fashion-conscious music lovers are apparently being targeted by muggers. The Times tells the sorry tale of 22-year-old language student Roland Baskerville, who lost his 20GB model on the mean streets of Birmingham: “I was walking down the road near to my home when a man who was walking the other way pointed at my headphones.”

The thief then asked Baskerville if he was listening to an iPod and, receiving an affirmative answer, he “pulled a knife out and started waving it at me, saying: ‘Well hand it over, then.’

The Toronto Star reports Swastikas at blast site: Mystery fire shocks Muslim business-owner

A business in a Woodbridge industrial mall was damaged by an explosion Sunday night. A swastika can be seen on an office wall. (Photo: Dave Thomas, SUN) Swastikas were found spray-painted in the fire-gutted office of a company owned by a Muslim businessman in a Woodbridge industrial strip mall. Police suspect an arsonist was responsible for an explosion at 11 p.m. on Sunday inside one of 19 units at 910 Rowntree Dairy Rd. — southeast of Hwy. 7 and Pine Valley Dr. — that blew out windows and doors at the front and rear of Central Pallet.

Carnival of the Canucks #15 is tomorrow, details here.

Also: don’t forget that #16 has been rescheduled to The Geek Blog!

For the love of G*d, please do not tell Andrew Coyne about the <blink> tag or we’re going to start having epileptic fits when viewing his site. And at the current rate of sidebar additions, there’s going to be no room for the blog entries any more.

Let it Bleed reads this weekend’s Toronto Star so you don’t have to. Because people look at you strange when you start yelling at a newspaper.

Mike’s off the DL.

I finally got David Janes’ new feedreader working under Windows XP (the previous 0.4.something release just seemed to hang, but 0.5.01 works fine). It’s a pretty slick tool, although there are a few minor quibbles I’d make: It doesn&#…

Jäger 0.5.01 is available with a number of substantial improvements….

Jäger 0.5.01 is available with a number of substantial improvements.

Steyn on Clarke. I’m posting this mainly to support my assertions below:

In the 1990s when al-Qa’eda blew up American targets abroad, the FBI would fly in and work it as a “crime scene” – like a liquor-store hold-up in Cleveland. It doesn’t address the problem. Sure, there are millions of disaffected young Muslim men, but, if they get the urge to blow up infidels, they need training and organisation. Somehow all those British Taliban knew that if you wanted a quick course in jihad studies Afghanistan was the place to go. Bush got it right: go to where the terrorists are, overthrow their sponsoring regimes, destroy their camps, kill their leaders.

Instead, all the Islamists who went to Afghanistan in the 1990s graduated from Camp Osama and were dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, where they lurk to this day. That’s the Clarke-Clinton legacy. And, if it were mine, I wouldn’t be going around boasting about it.

Dr. Weevil is running daily entries from Ambrose Bierce’ Write It Right. For example, today’s entry is:

As—as for So—as. “He is not as good as she.” Say, not so good. In affirmative sentences the rule is different: He is as good as she.

Or to put it another way, this a catalogue of losing and lost battles against “meaning slippage” in the English language. Still, fun daily reading.

There certainly are! Try Actions > Tools > Directories. If you know of any blog directories that I’m missing, don’t hesitate to contact me!

Here’s a link to one of Vicki’s posts. Theoretically, it should show up on her watch list in a few minutes.