Daily Archives: February 18, 2004

People’s Choice

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bush got at least one thing right today when he discussed the currently hot marriage issues:

“People need to be involved in this decision,” Bush said. “Marriage ought to be defined by the people not by the courts. And I’m watching it carefully.”

Tim Dunlop provides an appropriate response:

Three thousand marriages by Friday? Sounds to me like the people are already “involved in this decision.” Oh, right. Wrong people.

Issues such as marriage when these issues involve consenting adults do not belong in the realm of congress, the judiciary (except as required to adjudicate contract disputes), state legislatures, county or city governments. And to the extent any of these governmental entities establish programs that use marrieage status as a discriminating factor those programs should be expunged or restructured.

May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar,

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my fuel cell is almost out of fuel. Well, these folks are using glucose not table sugar but this looks pretty interesting anyway:

First, the microbial fuel-cell oxidizes glucose to completion, liberating all 24 electrons stored in each molecule of glucose, compared with fuels that are being used or targeted for use in conventional fuel cells � hydrogen (2 electrons) or methanol (6 electrons).

Via The Knowledge Problem.

Spider-Man Fans Alert

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Have you been wondering what you might have missed over the years? Well check out the Spider-Man Cover Archive:

I’m a Spider-Man completist and in order to help out other fans, I’ve created this site. Pretty much all the images shown here are from my personal collection. And yes, scanning all those covers drove me mad. Some say, I had to be mad to start such a task in the first place. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which one is the case here.
Does this site really contain a complete list of Spider-Man comic publications? Well, I hope so but I’m pretty sure it’s not the case. There will always be new giveaways, cover variants or appearances that I do not know of.

There are about 5000 cover scans here, WOW.
Via Boing Boing.

bushspeek

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Thudfactor has written a short dictionary of bushspeek and is looking for more listing. Go help him out.
An example:

Activist Judge
English: A judge who misuses his office by rulling in ways contrary to the common sense of the law.
Bushspeek: A judge that rules in a manner which you find disagreeable because it forwards the political agenda of the opposition.

Though this is oft used by the bushies it also seems to be increasingly used by many other persuasions as well.