Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:45:03 am
There’s been talk lately in Texas about seceding from the US. Even Republican Governor Rick Perry has broadly hinted that Texas should exercise its “tenth amendment” rights. Well, here’s a website that makes me think it might be a good idea to let them do it: Repent Amarillo. This is the Texas ...

Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:55:01 pm
Today’s work of genius is a masterful performance of “Я очень рад, ведь я, након
077;ц, возвр
072;щаюсь ; домой.&# 8221; (“I am very glad, because I’m finally back home,” according to Google’s language tools.) A poignant evocation of simple proletarian joy at returning to a familiar homeland, with orange walls and strange metalwork. [Video]

Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:56:50 pm
Reports of the death of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (aka Satan’s Browser) may have been greatly exaggerated. Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser—a decade-old dinosaur engineered to navigate the Web ...

Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:30:44 pm
Currently one of the top stories at Drudge Report: an anti-John McCain, anti-FDA article at the John Birch Society website. Here’s Google’s cache of the JBS article.

Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:47:24 pm
The neo-Nazi sites are all lathered up about Ron Paul winning the CPAC straw poll. And they’re not happy about LGF’s take on it. Not at all. Posted by one of the troglodytes at Stormfront today: Polymath Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3,966 Re: Ron Paul Wins CPAC Poll There is a Jewish Supremacist ...

Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:32:33 pm
Renegade soldiers are staging a military coup in the west African nation of Niger, one of the world’s main sources of uranium.

Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:56:19 pm
So far this week, we’ve filed 31 emails in the “Abuse” folder, and here are a few of the most vitriolic and/or inadvertently funny ones. Profanities and pathetic grammar left intact for full effect. First up, we have a reader in New York City who followed a link from a Google ...

Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:40:02 pm
Following up on yesterday’s post about our shocking (albeit unintentional) abuse of the bit.ly API, I emailed my contact at bit.ly and let him know about the changes in the LGF Blog code, and got this reply: Thanks! The number of /shorten requests from your account has fallen dramatically. You’re ...

Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:25:34 pm
Here’s an email I recently received from the URL-shortening service bit.ly, a popular Twitter-related service that I use to automatically shorten URLs for LGF-related tweets. The nice thing about bit.ly (and j.mp, it’s the same service) is that it doesn’t just shorten URLs; if you register an account, it also ...

Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:10:19 am
Pamela Geller’s appearance last night on the Joy Behar show with Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller perfectly demonstrates why Geller has become known on the Internet as the “shrieking harpy.” Geller actually seems to think she came off well on this show, in which she tells Ron Reagan what his own ...

Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:51:43 pm
The Andrew Breitbart-Max Blumenthal slugfest continues, as Blumenthal posts a short interview with “Isis,” the woman who took the photograph of Breitbart employee James O’Keefe at the “Race and Conservatism” event in 2006: Isis: O’Keefe “Was There,” Involved In “Execution”. I followed up with Isis. She told me in no ...

Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:41:22 pm
Since I began to break ranks with the right wing noisemakers, I’ve been receiving an average of five hate mails every single day, often more. Sometimes it’s the same person over and over. Once someone sent me more than three dozen emails in about 10 minutes before I blocked his IP ...

Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:25:15 pm
Google announced yesterday that beginning with Google Docs and Google Sites, they’ll be phasing out support for older web browsers — specifically the demon-haunted Internet Explorer 666.

Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:13:01 am
Security guy Bruce Schneier has a cautionary piece at CNN on the rush by many democratic governments around the world to grant new surveillance powers to police forces, often requiring large web services such as Gmail to have “back door” access systems — back doors that are being exploited by ...

Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:30:05 am
While traveling I received several emails about the latest cause celebre of climate change “skeptics,” a badly sourced prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by the year 2035, attributed to the World Wildlife Fund in an IPCC report. The London TimesOnline story about this was headlined, “World misled over Himalayan ...

Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:56:04 pm
Shrieking harpy said what? “He’s a traitor, a turncoat, a plant. We may not know for years what actually happened.” Insert sigh. I have a few significant disagreements with the angle taken by Jonathan Dee in his profile for the New York Times, most of all his willingness to accept unverifiable anecdotal ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:10:24 pm
A stunning image of the sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera: Phil Plait explains what you’re seeing: But what are those weird tendril thingies? In the Martian winter, carbon dioxide freezes out of the air (and you thought it was cold where you ...

Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:57:49 am
At True/Slant, Barrett Brown has been getting into it with wingnut blogger Donald Douglas, and the story of Douglas’s latest attempt to defend the white supremacist connections of Robert Stacy McCain has some amusing turns. Brown has put up two posts that should be read in order for the full effect: Seven ...

Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:02:37 pm
A few days ago a writer for the Danish weekly Weekendavisen, Jesper Vind Jensen, emailed and asked for my opinion on a Danish critic of Islam named Lars Hedegaard who’s apparently now in the midst of a controversy, over statements he made calling for a sort of paramilitary strategy of ...

Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:00:00 pm
So I have this Mac Pro desktop machine, that I got in April 2008: the 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Xeon model. When Amazon delivered it into my eager hands and I first powered it up, it was almost totally silent. It was excellent for recording, video-making, anything that required a quiet ...

Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:57:21 pm
A clip from my Bloggingheads discussion with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation has been posted at the New York Times video page today: Bloggingheads: Conservative Fascism? - Video Library - The New York Times. Notice how Carroll tosses in a blatant straw man argument at the conclusion of this clip, ...

Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:40:02 pm
Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft) is giddy with praise for the “Bulgarian media,” because they picked up on his disgusting homophobic smears of Obama’s education minister Kevin Jennings: The State-Run Media Won’t Touch It… But Bulgarians Not Afraid to Report on Jennings Fistgate Scandal. Hoft thinks the American media are deliberately ignoring ...

Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:23:58 am
Here we go again. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog has a story on the release of another batch of White House visitor records, and they’ve found sinister evidence that Barack Obama is in cahoots with the dreaded demons of ACORN: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence ...