Wednesday, December 15, 2004

If you're headed to the Green Bean for tonight's blogger Meetup, stick around and show some love for Gerry Canavan, author of the excellent Backwards City blog, who will be giving an 8 o'clock reading along with some other literary luminaries. 4:16:48 PM    comment []

ACC Hoops on the right way to sing the national anthem at a college basketball game. 4:09:45 PM    comment []

A huge merger shakes up the wireless world...but what's the effect on NASCAR? 3:34:27 PM    comment []

Dave Eggers writes about Spamalot and talks about Monty Python. 11:16:01 AM    comment []

Chuck Klosterman's list of the Ten Most Accurately-Rated Artists in Rock History. On number one, Van Halen: "This band should have been the biggest arena act of the early 1980s, and they were. They had the greatest guitar player of the 1980s, and everyone (except possibly Yngwie Malmsteen) seems to agree. They switched singers and became semi-crappy, and nobody aggressively disputes that fact." (via Backwards City) 11:10:33 AM    comment []

"The air of corruption that clouds the United Nations these days cannot simply be fanned away by forcing the resignation of Kofi Annan as Secretary-General." Glenn Reynolds? Nope. Philip Gourevitch. Yes, The New Yorker. 11:02:52 AM    comment []

Scott Rosenberg on Google's role as global librarian: "The public has a big interest in making sure that no one business has a chokehold on the flow of human knowledge." More from Dave Winer. 9:33:36 AM    comment []

If the decency police are going to crack down on Howard Stern and other smutty stuff, shouldn't they go after Rush Limbaugh, too? 8:32:36 AM    comment []

I have no problem with Tommy Franks getting the Medal of Freedom. Dude did his job. But awarding it to Tenet and Bremer is a damned insult to the country. 8:28:41 AM    comment []

I'm bummed that I can't make the GSO blog meetup tonight, 7 o'clock at the Green Bean on South Elm. It's a short walk from my office, but a long walk from New York, for which I must depart ere long. Y'all have fun. 8:12:58 AM    comment []