Insert a Trite Metaphor about a Corral #48

Posted on February 8, 2007 in Roundup

I realized something: Valentine’s Day comes just after the Ides of February. Though it’s not yet time, you might enjoy looking at some of the materials from the University of Iowa collections and the morbid love cards on the Comic Valentine’s page.

• Maybe They’re Getting the Jitters: A mistrial was declared in the case of Lt. [[Ehren Watada]].
• Helping the Terrorists: Check out this article in Vanity Fair which calls the proposed bombing of Iraq Dubya’s biggest blunder yet. More and more, I think we’re resembling Argentina in that our solutions are what are creating our problems. And no one in power wants to undo them because they all have empire on their minds. Stay tuned. (Thanks to Bill Lang.)
• The endurance of love: Check out this post by Gareth who reemerged after several months drowning in meatspace.
• Temporary Stupidity: Did you know that the Common Cold can lower your intelligence?
• Looking for Love in the Wrong Places: Check out Bill the Lawyer’s tale of a man who loved mannekins.
• One Less for the Tabloids: [[Anna Nicole Smith]] was found dead in a Miami hotel room. No cause of death as yet.
• Internet Storm Center: The Miami Dolphins weren’t the only website hit by the Chinese crackers. Here’s a list of other sites including pathnet.com and the City of Boston that were afflicted with the trojan. Poor Trojans: it wasn’t they who were the tricksters. Why don’t we call these sites Greeks? (Well, perhaps because the people of [[Troy]] are dead?) Here are three IPs to block from accessing your sites: 61.153.58.189, 220.162.244.78, and 205.209.132.142.

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