Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Lying in Ponds is a North Carolina weblog focused on “quantifying and analyzing partisanship” among the punditocracy. Interesting stuff, although even without the complex methodology I had figured out that “Ms. Ivins shows all the signs of being a very partisan columnist” and placed Ann Coulter at the top of the partisan charts. The name comes from Monty Python, by the way -- usually a good sign. 5:59:14 PM    comment []

Baghdad Bulletin: “Baghdad Bulletin notes and mourns the death of Rich Wild, 24, in a fatal shooting in Baghdad on Saturday 5th July. He came to Baghdad with the intention of contributing to, among others, Baghdad Bulletin. It is a great loss to the journalist community here and to Iraq. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.” (I found the paper via Monkeytime.) 5:50:12 PM    comment []

Mark Pilgrim: Things I did today instead of drinking. Glad you found the strength to find other things to do, Mark – no need to relive the bad old days. 5:44:04 PM    comment []

Did anyone else find the Stephen King story “Harvey’s Dream” in the June 30 New Yorker to be quite similar, yet much inferior, to his story “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French,” which first appeared in the June 22, 1998 New Yorker? 10:57:16 AM    comment []

Slate: Is Howard Dean like Napster? 10:45:48 AM    comment []