Yearly Archives: 2006


abramoff on rove

No respect amongst thieves :

“Like I said, everything that comes out of the White House is logged in,” explained Abramoff. “The phone calls he makes. The phone calls he receives. So this is just easier. It keeps things a lot cleaner. And he’s a fat fuck, and he can use the exercise.”

There is plenty more on rove in this upcoming book: The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power .

Via Jessa Crispin.


Finding Old News

How many times have you tried to research a post and not been able to find that 6 month old article that you kind of remember….? It has happened to me more than once!
Now, google, has taken a big step toward solving that and related research problems with the introduction of Google News Archive Search. Yep, you are no longer stoppered by Google’s old 30 day limit.
I ran several tests and a search for (clinton opium) brought up a result from the Clinton, Iowa Mirror dated March 14, 1896. This result came from newspaperarchive.com, a pay service, so Google must have some kind of arrangement with them.

Via John Battele.


Construction Zone

23:35 CDT The admin crew will be working on an upgrade to Movable Type 3.31 and there may be some breaks in service and messy templates for a while.

01:07 CDT Well, the upgrade is done and I see that there is already a Version 3.32 but that will have to wait. Let me know if you notice any strange behavior.