Is A Part Of
Okay, drop everything again. Another security upgrade for WordPress. Apparently version 2.0.7 will prevent evildoers from smuggling gels and liquids onto my blogs. Or something. Fortunately, it only involves replacing a few files, which I can do without the help of DreamHost Goodies Install and only a small likelihood of accidentally crashing the entire Internet. (Hey, it’s possible. Not saying I’ve actually done it… more than once or twice…) The bad news is that it takes time away from all the cool new things I want to do with this site. The good news is that all the cool new things I want to do have a much higher likelihood of accidentally crashing the entire Internet. So, once again, if you can read this blog, then you’re not reading this message. But if this blog looks like h-e-double-hockey-sticks for a while, blame 2.0.7, not me.
January 16, 2007
Game Over
With the obvious disclaimer that my writings have occasionally been weblished at MSNBC.com, and I do consider NewsCorp, parent company of Fox Everything, to be the single most evil media megacorporation currently in existance.
What’s wrong with this picture? (An unaltered – except for size reduction to fit here – screenshot of the MSNBC.com front page today, January 16, 2007)
Yep, it’s the ad. First, I am pleasantly shocked that Rupert Murdoch or Roger Ailes would allow anything with the FOX name to advertise there, but the real issue is that it’s for the Fox Sports College Bowl Pick-Em Contest. Uh, didn’t the College bowl games finish a couple weeks ago? Or could this be for next football season? I had to know, so I clicked the ad:
Game Info
· FOX College Bowl Pick’em has ended. Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s game.
All things considered, that’s a relief.
Economic States
Is California = France? (economically, that is)
Norwegian bløgger Carl Størmer (via THE BIG PICTURE) made a U.S. map substituting the state names for other countries of equivalent GDP. Some of the substitutions are funny: Illinois = Mexico? Texas = Canada? New Jersey = Russia? Hawaii = Nigeria?
But your economic mileage will vary: apparently California no longer has the “sixth-largest economy in the world”, no matter what The Governator says. Wikipedia chimes in, while some Californians don’t want to be bothered with facts.
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