Daily Archives: August 6, 2004

Zen Gardens

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Some beautiful garden pictures and it is double bonus time if you are interested in Zen gardens:

The web site is dedicated to the gardens of Japan, and more specifically to the historic gardens of Kyoto and its environs. Although many of these gardens are located within Zen monasteries, this site does not explore the influence of Zen Buddhism on Japanese garden design, an influence that is often conjectural at best. Instead, the site is designed to provide the visitor with an opportunity to visit each garden, to move through or around it, to experience it through the medium of high-quality color images, and to learn something of its history.
Enjoy!
Via The Internet Scout Report.

Carpet-Bagger

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Talkleft suggests that Alan Keyes apparent decision to challenge Obama in the Illinoise senate race will be good news for Obama but, I suspect, probably not as good of news as running unchallenged.
Ron Paul notes in the comments that Keyes will be following in the footsteps of another recent carpet-bagger that Keyes condemned 4 years ago:

“I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton’s willingness to go into a state she doesn’t even live in and pretend to represent people there, so I certainly wouldn’t imitate it”
Alan Keyes – Fox News in 20001
Both election challenges show how far removed the Senate, our entire representative government, has been distanced from the people who ostensibly provide its authority.
The republicrats are primarily concerned with having enough control of the legislative and executive branches of state and federal government to be able to transfer the billions of revenue and borrowing to their preferred charities.
The sad thing is that in this respect it really won’t make any difference whether Obama or Keyes wins. Your money, the fruit of your labor, is still going to get siphoned to big pharma, tobacco growers, big bureaucracy, etc., without you having a real choice in the matter.
1This quote is said to be from a Fox News interview by Pat Buchanan in 2000. I have not found a verified original source for it yet but it is showing up far and wide around the blogosphere today.

Referrer Stuff

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Or how Modulator finds itself ranked #92 in Yahoo search results for triple x.
I was browsing through the referrer log last night and was puzzled as to exactly how Modulator managed to show up in a search for “triple x sxx sites” (slightly modified).
It seems that someone used overture.com to do a search for the above words. Overture uses Yahoo as their search engine and apparently this post from a couple days ago was enough to set the trigger. The culprit letters are indeed right there toward the end of the post.
I am in good company though. Kevin Aylward’s Wizbang is right there at #91 and the fine folks at AMCGLTD.COM are 4 spots ahead at #88.