Archive for February, 2007

Submargarine

February 28, 2007 • Posted in: Food

Beethoven and Haydn

Hoshino . . . returned to his biography. Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art itself, and the proper expression of emotions, was the most sublime thing in the world, he thought political power and wealth served only [...]

February 27, 2007 • Posted in: Music, Texts

Bush Would Defy Withdrawal Legislation

"Rice Says Bush Will Not Abide by Legislation to Limit Iraq War" -- International Herald Tribune, February 25, 2007:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress not to interfere in the conduct of the Iraq war and suggested President George W. Bush would defy troop withdrawal legislation.
But Sen. Carl Levin, Democratic chairman of [...]

February 27, 2007 • Posted in: GW Bush Admin, Iraq, War

The Surge

Peter Galbraith on "The Surge" in The New York Review of Books, March 15, 2007:
At best, Bush's new strategy will be a costly postponement of the day of reckoning with failure. But it is also a reckless escalation of the military mission in Iraq that could leave US forces fighting a powerful new enemy [...]

February 25, 2007 • Posted in: GW Bush Admin, Iraq

But I Have Been Politically Dead

-- Heftig og Begeistret (2001)

Skymall Liberation

From Ni9e Blog

February 23, 2007 • Posted in: Miscellaneous

Weather Forecasts

Bayfield, Wisconsin | Deer River, Minnesota | Du Bois, Pennsylvania | Durres, Albania | Laytonville, CA | Los Angeles, California | Menomonie, Wisconsin | Oakland, California | New York, New York | Palermo, Italy | Seattle, Washington

WordPress as a Content Management System

WordPress CMS discussion and tools at the WordPress Codex site
Bloghelper's Using WordPress as a CMS articles
A response on BloggingPro.com with lots of comments
"Beyond Blogging: WordPress as CMS" at CMSWire.com
"Five WordPress Plugins that Turn WordPress into a CMS" at Ann Arbor Web Design
Joe Brockmeier's "Must-Have WordPress Plugins"
Gobala Krishnan on WordPress CMS applications like training courses and [...]

February 18, 2007 • Posted in: WordPress

Turbanhead

February 15, 2007 • Posted in: Weblogs

Weblogs in Translation

The Navigator Fresh Record: "President M. was short-leg friendly and called him prezikom."
Thunder Will Not Burst Out, Peasant Will Not Cross: But now -- the session of auto-ashes-head-sprinkling.
It Was Here 4: "When I brought cap home, dog greatly was revived. It for some reason immediately solved, that this this thing is special for it, like [...]

February 13, 2007 • Posted in: Weblogs

The Reign of Charles the Beloved of Zembla

That King's reign (1936-1958) will be remembered by at least a few discerning historians as a peaceful and elegant one. Owing to a fluid system of judicious alliances, Mars in his time never marred the record. Internally, until corruption, betrayal, and Extremism penetrated it, the People's Place (parliament) worked in perfect harmony with the Royal [...]

February 12, 2007 • Posted in: Politics, Texts

Things to Come

February 4, 2007 • Posted in: Motion Pictures