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The iPod Shuffle (and silly marketing)
3 years, 3 months ago
I’m sitting here trying to question why I used my PayPal balance to buy an iPod Shuffle 512MB from eBay. I’m not so much questioning my decision to purchase a flash-based MP3 player - I really wanted one for working out at the CCRB - but moreso why I bought a device that has been […]
The dangers of political journalism III: Robert Novak
3 years, 4 months ago
Robert Novak, the Chicago Sun-Times’ “conservative columnist�?, appears to be at the center of this CIA leak. On 14 July 2003, in a column titled Mission to Niger, Novak releases the name of Valerie Plame along with her position as “CIA operative�? as he attacked Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s “mission�? to Niger to collect data on […]
The dangers of political journalism II: Karl Rove
3 years, 4 months ago
On 13 July 2005, the Associated Press quickly released this article on the White House’s official statement on Rove’s involvement with the leak investigation, which summarized simply to “no comment�?, with President Bush stating that he “will be more than happy to comment on this matter once this investigation is complete�? .
This is, quite […]
A gift from… Japan?
3 years, 4 months ago
It was my birthday yesterday and I really had nothing to do, but my mom and sister, believing that I should at least have company, came by early yesterday morning to show me this wonderful “gift”.
It was… a surprise, at the least. He was rescued from the shelter and would have been killed yesterday otherwise. […]
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