To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Another author finds himself mentioned on MfBJN. This time, it’s Michael Craig, author of The 50 Best (and Worst) Business Deals, which I reviewed in December. Michael writes: I noticed that you read, reviewed, and enjoyed my book, The 50 Best (and Worst) Business Deals of All Time. Let’s not get into WHY I’m doing […]
Kim du Toit’s upset that his endorsement’s not on Wonkette’s site. To help soothe du Toit’s wounded pride, I’ve added his endorsement of me and the Noggle Library to the sidebar to your left.
Blogger’s got some RSS/Atom thing. You can find an XML summary of what I have been doing lately here. I am expecting a lot of linking now, dammit, formerly-blue-haired guy.
I saw this story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and was smitten with the title. New Urbanism! In St. Louis! Except it’s in St. Louis County, which doesn’t have much of the old urbanism really. And then I realized the location in mind: Hanley Industrial Court. I work on the edges of Hanley Industrial Court. […]
As someone from CDC.gov searched this blog yesterday for site:blogspot.com “colleen shannon” (and hit the cache, too), I can only assume that Colleen Shannon, the fiftieth anniversary Playboy playmate, is at the heart of a national health epidemic. As a public service, I shall issue the first warning: Caution:Colleen Shannon is suspected of causing blindness […]
I realize I am but a knuckle-dragging software tester, so take pity on me, oh soon-to-be-IPOed development staff at Pyra Labs Google, but I think I know what’s wrong with your permalinking here on my site. The server-side variable is not currently including the name of my archive directory, strangely enough entitled /archives/, into the […]
As you might know, I spent a lot of time on the road this weekend, and I like to take a couple of audiobooks on the road with me. This time, I chose a piece of nonfiction and a piece of fiction. This audiobook was the nonfiction. The title and premise seems to lend itself […]
Although this column by Leonard “The” Pitts, Jr., deserves a full fusking, I’ll only fusk the chewy bits: Now, this is “Must-See TV.” I mean, I had no intention of watching CBS’ Ronald Reagan miniseries. But given the furor raised by the Republican party and assorted conservative pundits over what they perceive as a hatchet […]
My site, in French. Who would do such a thing?
The TSA strikes again, as in “swing and a miss!” You think they’ll go after the harmless woman who brought a knife onto the plane to cut her apple snack? Perhaps it’s also against the law to eat an apple that’s not provided by flight staff on a plane, too. If not, maybe it should […]
Virginia Postrel points to the Gender Genie, which parses a long text string of your writing to guess your gender. My piece: Buzzword of the Day: Sanity Check The Judgment:(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.) Female Score: 574 Male Score: 1068 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this […]
Mrs. du Toit has put up a picture of she and Mr. du Toit’s “children.” Sweet. Perhaps I’ll have to interrupt my too-frequent, too-boring book reviewing schedule to put up a couple of photos of my double-stacked bookshelves for you all to ooh and ah over. Three things the next house must have: A library […]
Suburban Blight has led me to some introspection, where I learn that not only am I beautiful in my strength, I am also: Hecate ?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ?? brought to you by Quizilla I notice a trend developing here.
Everyone’s always talking about Truth Laid Bear’s blog ecosystem which ranks blogs by their popularities. Where am I, you ask? #1581 currently, thanks. Lower than Instapundit. Lower than Musings from Domenico Bettinelli. Lower than both BRIAN’s Culture Blog and BRIAN’s Education Blog. Lower even than RatBastard.org. Only people I am not lower than are people […]
Headline makes it sound like I’ve lost my job. Not yet. Kelly has, however, included me in the latest Cul-De-Sac blog round-up at Suburban Blight. She’s got me listed for my review of The McBain Brief. Maybe it’s good that I’m not mentioning that some of the books I review are twenty or more years […]
I am the number three hit on AOL’s search engine for step by step how your belly is peirce. Well, however kids these days get exposed to Pragmatism, at least they’re getting exposed.
But how am I supposed to test without any requirements? Use the ad hoc, Luke.
MSN’s running a list of five tips for an effective first date. It looks like a pretty good list, undoubtedly compiled by a trained therapist or whatnot (all right, I did not Google “Jim Sulski” to find out, dear reader; I leave the in-depth show prep to Rush Limbaugh). Instead, dear reader, I offer my […]
It has been postulated, or it will be in the next clause of this sentence, that geeks who gather (GwG) to celebrate arcane electronic amusement systems also share certain aesthetic preferences and interests. As most (but not all) of the GwG share the male gender, it has been postulated that certain seemingly-stereotypical male-centric P&I might […]
In Waukesha, Wisconsin, they’re throwing the new book at a guy who surreptitiously videotaped girlfriends nude. Well, not nude, since that’s art. They were naked. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: Avello was charged with two felonies in February for possessing the tapes without the women’s consent and producing them while each was “nude in a circumstance […]