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Faced with the growing strength of the Empire and the possible dissolution of the Rebel Alliance, Luke, Leia, and Han set off on their own. After a series of dangerous adventures, they join up with the other Rebel characters we met in the previous movies for a battle royale with the evil Empire. At the [...]

February 1997: Lewis Tells UC Loker Will Remain Alcohol-Free:
Lewis cited student wishes for an alcohol-free undergraduate social space, the College's concern over alcohol abuse and proximity to first-year dorms as problems with the proposal.
April 2007: Beer and Undergrads Flow at Pub:
Corker said that while the pub ran out of 1636, Harvard’s own brand of beer, [...]

On the Notebooks page of the website of Taiwanese electronics company ASUS, I found several items under the heading "ASUS Exclusive Innovations for Mobile Computing." While several of the items (i.e. power management) are definitely not exclusive to ASUS, the last two items (which you can see to your right) are just not innovative.

Walking home from work, I was standing at the intersection waiting for the light to change when the car swerved out of its lane and faced directly toward me, only a few feet away. For a second, I was sure that it was The Car, the one that would jump onto the sidewalk and mow [...]

I know that Symantec does not sell a spell checker in addition to their security products, but this advertisement I found on the Cult of Mac blog is still unprofessional. Then again, perhaps it is not surprising, since Norton Antivirus 2006 is not even available for Mac OS X. For protection against Mac viruses, you [...]

Canada may be a different country, but conservatives are angry everywhere.

ReverseIndexLookup.com is a website that purports to let you track people by just a phone number, email address, or drivers' license. Despite the URL and title both referring to ReverseIndexLookup, all of the text and images on the page (as you can see on the left) refer to either ReverseRecords or "Reverse Records Finder." This [...]

The image to the left comes from my notes for a Bits problem set. This is my partner's handwriting, although I agree with his sentiment.
I had to brighten the picture using GIMP, so you may want to look at the image's ALT data if you cannot read it. He added "(potentially)" to the end of [...]

Before Bits last Wednesday, a friends showed me the Crimson. "Look at this ridiculous article," he said, "it's about the weather. Apparently people change their clothes when it gets cold."
Faced with slushy, icy terrain on the Monday morning commute, students broke out bulky jackets and the occasional pair of moon boots. Shorts and flip-flops, which [...]

Do not get me wrong - ForecastFox is a wonderful Firefox extension, and I fully realize that the text from their forecasts comes from AccuWeather. Regardless, seeing "Thundery rains in the p.m." all day for today's forecast has had me shaking my head in amusement all day. It conveys to me nothing that is not [...]

If only cheerleaders were more like the musk ox.
Source: An Animal Planet show explaining how in recent years, NFL football players have had less broken bones than NFL cheerleaders. The football players have helmets which "reduce the force of tackles" in a fashion analogous to the thick skulls of musk oxen.

When I installed the latest version of 7-Zip (an open-source program for dealing with compressed file formats like ZIP and RAR), I was surprised to find that the default locale was set to Danish! Luckily, fixing it was relatively simple:

Open the Værktøjer (Tools) menu and select Indstillinger (Options).
Select the last tab, entitled Sprog (Language). Change [...]

To celebrate the 36th anniversary of Apollo 11, Google Maps has introduced "Google Moon," which displays the location of the Apollo landings on the moon, thanks to NASA giving them lunar satellite imagery. The funniest part is hinted at in the FAQ:
3. What happens if I try to zoom too close?
Well, you'll have to go [...]

Subject: hello
From: Catalina Crain <richtrent@walla.com>
Even before I opened it, I could tell that this message was going to be spam. However, I expected the message it contained to be a generic spam message pimping out email addresses, prescription drugs, or OEM software like the vast majority of spam I receive. I have seen spam that [...]

From a New York Times article on Christian video games:
"When I became a Christian in 1992, I still wanted to play, but it was hard when the best-quality games out there were Doom, Quake — Satanic stuff, you know? Stuff that if I went to church on Sunday and came home and wanted to play [...]

"Bunny Easter" from the Perry Bible Fellowship, a collection of some of the most hilarious and disturbing comics I have ever seen.

From the Boston Globe comes an entertaining article about those whose houses are bisected by the municipal border between Cambridge and Somerville. While taxes seem to be determined by what percentage of their land and homes reside in each municipality, voting and public school eligibility seem to be determined by the town in which one [...]

Joey deVilla has scanned the entire 17-page comic "I am Curious (BLACK)!," which I previously wrote about back in February. This comic is bizarre enough that it is impossible to talk about all of the strange things that happen. Just go read it.

I have been waiting for my absentee ballot to come, so I was excited to find it in my mailbox today. I was less excited to find letters from the local party organizations congratulating me on my request for an absentee ballot. The Democratic literature was relatively normal, so I will not spend any time [...]

Greetings [First_Name],
Thanks for being one of over 5000 youth and students to have signed the Declaration of Independence form Dirty Energy in just 15 days. In less than a month the signatures will be presented to our countries' leaders to tell them that our generation demands a shift to clean, renewable energy. To [...]

Spent entirely too much time this weekend dealing with Linux multimedia troubles. Eventually, after reinstalling xine and installing totem and mplayer, I decided on a whim to install RealPlayer 10. Not surprisingly, it refused to load. I uninstalled it and despondingly clicked on a Quicktime file. To my amazement, it worked. Since RealPlayer is unable [...]

The story: Boy sees movie. Boy falls in love with character from movie. Boy buys DVD of Japanese movie that inspired character boy loves. Boy realizes that DVD is Region 3, since there is no Region 1 DVD. Boy gets angry. Boy gets even, by constructing an extremely funny dialog between "DVD Jon" (famous for [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, Amazon follows Anarchy, State, & Utopia with three more government books, followed by a lot of random music interspersed with some science fiction and a number of works of French existentialism.

New York Senator Chuck Schumer on blogging:
ES: What do you think of blogging, and the fact that the Convention offered approximately 35 bloggers credentials?
CS: I think blogging is great. It supports a dialogue that reaches out to everyone, and in our new interconnected, more democratic world, blogging fits the bill. It has its tentacles that [...]

Pandagon reports on Nader's attempts to get press credentials for the ongoing Democratic Convention:
It's quintessential Nader, though - a totally unreasonable demand premised on a horrible argument which, when gone unmet, will totally confirm every unreasonable thing he already thinks. He knew when the convention was. He knew the process to apply for credentials. He's [...]

Holden on Eschaton posts about an AP article with an obvious grammatical error in its title. I assume that newspapers are not allowed to change the content of the AP articles that they syndicate; the error appears at both the New York Times and the Guardian.
The overflight by Israeli fighter jets is apparently retaliation for [...]

I was browsing a post on Political Animal which directed me to a fake Bush-Cheney website, which in turn led to the real site. A quick look at the right hand sidebar of thehome page shows the "Bush-Cheney Quick Vote," which at first glance seems like a standard web poll. Select an option besides "All [...]

The Crimson reports on a mysterious package at the Holyoke Center yesterday. Normally, I would find this a serious event, but the package was opened before the police arrived.
An unidentified male opened the box and removed an object that ?looked like something electrical, like a cell phone or a beeper,? O'Connor said.
O'Connor added she was [...]

This is the funniest letter to the New York Times that I have read in a while. Throughout the article "Tyson Looks in the Mirror and Sees a Troubled Man," the boxer repeatedly makes reference to the adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Jay Wolpert wrote in to clarify that one of Tyson's quotes [...]

I think this post by Tom Burka adequately conveys the media's current fascination with Ronald Reagan (You would think that celebrities had stopped dying, or something). Hopefully, by the time next week rolls around, the entire country will be so tired of Reaganmania (a meme in the making) that our current President will be unable [...]

?Work is aggravating me,? she wrote in an April 28 entry on the publicly accessible journal, the contents of which have since been taken offline. ?I am one shade lighter than homicidal today. I am two snotty e-mails from professors away from bombing the entire Harvard campus.?
It's probably not a good idea to make threats [...]

I feel obligated to blog about the debate about whether to raise the Activities Fee and make it mandatory. I am personally going to vote 'no' to both questions (although I doubt that my endorsement means anything to those Harvard students reading). The burden of proof is on those who seek to increase [...]

Earlier this morning, I was ruminating on the effectiveness of coffee as a stimulant. When I was falling asleep as I was studying for a midterm exam on J. S. Mill's On Liberty (I love the book, but I have read it three times, for three different government classes), a cup of joe perked [...]

In general, I do not read blogs without RSS (it's annoying to have to keep coming back to the site to see if the blog has been updated). Similarly, I prefer to comment on blogs with Trackback. But Margaret Cho is so funny, I just had to post this quote:
Why is there [...]

This potentially blasphemous entry from the Commissar was too funny not to link to. Ann Coulter pictures, Messiah-Dean (not Mujahid-Dean!), and gratituous Jackson Family references - what's not to love?

This Register article talks about the Apple vs Apple case. I personally love this quote:
And the judge, Mr Justice Edward Mann, surprised the assembly by admitting he is an iPod user. He wondered if this disqualified him from judging the case. Lord Grabiner QC, representing Apple Comp., told him he was not. "I'm delighted [...]

I am not sure whether I would buy this eBay item; the seller just joined eBay yesterday.
Seriously though, I am hoping that the high bids are because the money is going to charity, and not because someone hopes to make a profit when (well, technically if) he becomes president.

This post is for Greg, who noted I post a lot of New York Times articles. There is, of course, nothing inherently wrong with the Times, but I want to avoid getting in a situation like that in Sartre's play Dirty Hands, which takes place in World War II Yugoslavia.

Both Le Monde (for the Francophones) and Pravda are reported that tATu (wtf is up with that capitalization? Who do they think they are, KaZaA?), the world's favorite lesbian pop group, wants to run for president of Russia. I am not sure whether the idea that they can avoid the age limitation (35 [...]