clusterflock http://www.clusterflock.org/ en Copyright 2008 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:14:20 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.01a http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This just in A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/this_just_in_2.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/this_just_in_2.html Deron Bauman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:14:20 -0600 M&M Duels Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.
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taking the Browns to the Super Bowl
dropping the kids off at the pool
stocking the lake with brown trout
releasing the chocolate hostage
growing a tail
blowing a deuce

Anybody got any others?

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/thingaday.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/thingaday.html Sean Salmon Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:07:49 -0600 "The Story of Bo Diddley" Once I'd gone public with my admiration for The Duchess, I knew it was just a matter of time before Cooper would submit a comment citing "The Story of Bo Diddley" by The Animals, wherein Eric Burdon does indeed recount the story of Bo Diddley, born Ellis McDaniel. And then:

"Well, we been doin' this number 'Bo Diddley' for quite some time now
Bo Diddley visited this country last year
And we were playin' the Club A-Go-Go in Newcastle, our home town
And the doors opened one night
And to our surprise in walked the man himself, Bo Diddley

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/the_story_of_bo_diddley.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/the_story_of_bo_diddley.html Cooper Renner Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:06:31 -0600 I miss Helen Crump For my money, Helen Crump was Sheriff Andy Taylor's best girlfriend (and of course Opie's best teacher.) Aneta Corsaut, who also played a judge on several episodes of Andy Griffith's later series Matlock, died in 1995. RIP, Aneta.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/i_miss_helen_crump.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/i_miss_helen_crump.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:27:50 -0600 Photographs not Taken I often wonder about the many, many images I will never make of John. What they may have looked like individually and how over the years of our marriage and our life the absence of these images will effect they way that we remember how we were.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/rock_of_love.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/rock_of_love.html Deron Bauman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:37:35 -0600 Why I Love Tyler Cowen On the specifics: relative to most libertarian economists, I am more likely to think -- or should I say admit -- that human beings are irrational, even when the stakes are high (see the self-deception chapter in Discover Your Inner Economist). But, relative to social democrats, I tend to think that politicians are irrational actors trying to pander to irrational voters and that it can't be any other way. I am much less optimistic about democracy as an instrument for fine-tuning good policy or for that matter as a medium for enforcing progressive sentiments. On health care I don't think the solution is to strip away insurance, a'la HSAs, so I agree with Ezra's paragraph more than not. On The Wire, the defect is fully mine. I've watched seven or eight episodes, from seasons one and three, and I thought: this is fantastic. But I never really looked forward to the next episode and eventually I stopped watching. I have an inability to appreciate all things gritty, regardless of medium. I don't enjoy Grapes of Wrath either, or for that matter Goodfellas. I wonder if needing a tinge of romanticism isn't some kind of character weakness of mine.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/why_i_love_tyler_cowen.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/why_i_love_tyler_cowen.html Deron Bauman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:42:09 -0600 Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World Most horrifying of all to Americans, the Indian banana is used as a substitute for tomatoes in ketchup.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/banana_the_fate_of_the_fruit_t.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/banana_the_fate_of_the_fruit_t.html Deron Bauman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:38:32 -0600 Number of People Killed Per Minute
  • Rambo: First Blood (1982): 0.01
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985): 0.72
  • Rambo III (1988): 1.30
  • Rambo IV (2008): 2.59
    • link ]]>     http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/number_of_people_killed_per_mi.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/number_of_people_killed_per_mi.html Deron Bauman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:35:23 -0600     Tree shadows, South Negley Avenue Pittsburghdrawing61.jpg

    A rare sunny winter afternoon, and street tree shadows crossed the sidewalk all the way up the avenue from the bus stop on the corner.

    ]]>     http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/tree_shadows_south_negley_aven.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/tree_shadows_south_negley_aven.html art Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:59:53 -0600     Kermit, Please
    Turns out the song has made its rounds (and I suspect the wiki does not tells us everything). I heard it for the first time at the end of This is England.

    ]]>     http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/kermit_please.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/kermit_please.html Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:48:57 -0600     I Stand Accused . . . of an addled memory Kathy-Hilen Smith explained it all for us, then sought to know "who’s who in the clusterflock band". I declined all potential offers to act as rhythm guitarist, then put in a bid for bass, citing my admiration for The Duchess (of Bo Diddley fame). Then I got to thinking, hauled out a videotape of The TAMI Show, and took a look at Bo and The Duchess.

    The Duchess did not play bass. But didn't she look fine?

    250 Duchess.jpg]]>     http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/i_stand_accused_of_an_addled_m.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/01/i_stand_accused_of_an_addled_m.html Sheila Ryan Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:48:31 -0600     The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone In 2004, Jeff Buckley's mom, Mary Guibert, listened to the original three-quarter-inch tape of her son's recordings as she was preparing the tenth-anniversary reissue of Grace. "We were hearing instruments you've never heard on that album, like finger cymbals and the sound of viola strings being plucked," she remembers. "It blew me away because it was exactly what he heard in the studio."

    To Guibert's disappointment, the remastered 2004 version failed to capture these details. So last year, when Guibert assembled the best-of collection So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley, she insisted on an independent A&R consultant to oversee the reissue process and a mastering engineer who would reproduce the sound Buckley made in the studio. "You can hear the distinct instruments and the sound of the room," she says of the new release. "Compression smudges things together."

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