December 2003 Forty-six posts

• 31-Dec-2003
  Happy New Year Yes indeed!. Coming real soon now. Less than 7 hours.

  headersholidayvia-blogger
• 31-Dec-2003
  Mad Cow Disease New Year: Animals you eat must be vegetarian I’ve avoided talking about hot and breaking news for a while. I did not post about the recent quakes in California and Iran; and I’ve somehow managed not to post anything about Paris Hilton. But Mad Cow Disease is a horse of a different color. Go read Alton Brown – It’s a Mad Mad Mad...

  Alton Brownfoodvia-blogger
• 30-Dec-2003
  ipodsdirtysecret.com : triumph of the will From ipodbatteryfaq.com: Q: Apple only released their battery replacement service because of all the bad publicity from iPod’s Dirty Secret. A: While often claimed, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Apple released the battery replacement program November 14. ipodsdirtysecret.com was only registered on November 20, and started being heavily publicized on November 21. Additionally,...

  appleipodvia-blogger
• 30-Dec-2003
  FedEx buys Kinko’s FedEx to buy Kinko’s for $2.4 Billion … I’ve been a Kinko’s fan for a long time – before the net broke big I liked renting computer time there to practice on Illustrator or Photoshop. Kinko’s is somehow associated, for me, with democracy. Perhaps it’s a result of remembering how “Xerox machines” were tightly controlled...

  fedexkinkosvia-blogger
• 29-Dec-2003
  Some jokes write themselves. Hootie and the Blowfish has officially endorsed John Edwards in his campaign for the Presidency of the United States of America.

  john-edwardsmusicpoliticsvia-blogger
• 29-Dec-2003
  Translations of “Joseph” Arabic: Yousef, Yousuf, Yusef, Yusuf Croatian: Josip Czech: Jozef Josef Danish: Josef Dutch: Joop French: Jose German: Josef Iosef Hungarian: József Italian: Giuseppe, Giussepe Kiswahili: Yusuf Norwegian: Josef Polish: Józef Portuguese: Jose Romanian: Iosif Russian: Ioseph Osip Serbian: Josif Spanish: José Swedish: Josef Tamil: Susai (via oxygen.com babynamer)

  josephnamesvia-blogger
• 27-Dec-2003
  Excellent Civic Metaphor about Money and the Occupation of Iraq The Oreo Metaphor Animated Movie from truemajority.org is well worth a look.

  iraqpoliticsvia-bloggerwar
• 27-Dec-2003
  10 Year Anniversary of Philip Greenspun’s Dynamic Site At Philip Greenspun’s Weblog he notes the 10th anniversary of his personal site, which mutated into photo.net, and which caused him to learn a great deal about building web community with database-backed websites, and so in turn he wrote books and put up sites and inspired people like me. Kudos on that anniversary!

  Philip Greenspunvia-bloggerwebdev
• 26-Dec-2003
  Lines of the Day We don’t do that after nine o’clock. The grill is closed, dude. Cats love printers.

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• 26-Dec-2003
  Fascinating Bible and Christianity Interview; Religious Update The Fresh Air from December 17, 2003 is with the author of the book Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. The interview is both interesting and moving, as the author says he came from a very literal, Evangelical faith of “The Book” — and had his faith shaken when...

  philosophyreligionvia-blogger