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As I sit in my office, I can hear most of what people chatter about outside my door, but I try not to get involved. People are stupid, generally speaking, and I tend to not suffer fools gladly.

This morning I was treated to someone (it’s almost always the same someone) describing something he heard on the Pompous Windbag show (aka “O’Reilly”) about how people in such-and-such (he can’t remember the location) aren’t allowed to actually include descriptions in their descriptions. When police in this unnamed locale release a description of a crime suspect, they’re not allowed to include any mention of race, he says. That’s just like — he adds — some European country or another, probably Sweden (the bugaboo of Republicans), where someone described a crime suspect as “fat” and was excorciated for it.

Sigh. I shake my head and try to ignore it, but it continues, veering off into utter racist tripe.
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The folks at Sepia Mutiny have brilliantly replaced their entire site with something, well, wierd - a day early, more the merrier.

The weblog link itself takes one to first a Wordpress site, and then a blogger blog purporting to be the real Sepia Mutiny, a victim of cyber squatting.

The main page itself has tons of inside jokes that are pretty neat.

Discovery of the week:

Argentine ants in Southern California need wet soil to
live and breed.

I could’ve told them that.

Fortune interviews the dude with the ‘Developer’ yell, and he doesn’t disappoint in acerbic responses.

AOL is not making any investment in the future of the media and advertising business.

Do you have an iPod?

No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children–in many dimensions
they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this
dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you
don’t use an iPod.

They cannot keep their kids in a cage.