Noah Brimhall's Weblog
One Hell of a Cruise Ship
In an early blog posting I mentioned a missle silo house for sale in up-state New York. That would have been a nice house. But it would be nothing compared to this
former British Aircraft Carrier for sale. At $4.5 million U.S. it is a great deal. After I make my first billion, I am definately getting one of these.
Compassionate Conservatism my @$$!
I was already against the tax cut that Congress passed and the pResident signed last week, but now I am just pissed off. The one redeeming element of this tax cut was an increase in the child tax credit that was to give about $400 back to families with children. Well, during committee negotiations in the congress, a provision to give this tax break to minimum-wage earning families ($10,500 to $26,625 per year) was dropped. So now the families who need the money the most aren't going to receive it. You can read the details in
this NY Times article or
without registration via Yahoo.
Hosting Query
So all of the blogspot slowdowns have got me thinking again about registering a couple of domains and finding a decent hosting company to carry my domains. There are a couple I have looked at (including
DreamHost and
MediaTemple). I am interested to hear what other people use. Feel free to
e-mail me with your suggestions.
New Buttons
If you look to the bottom right of my page you will see I have changed all of the buttons. I really like this style of buttons and it gives my page a somewhat cleaner look. I got the Blogger, BookCrossing, GeoURL, and Amazon Buttons from
Steal These Buttons (hat tip to
MetaFilter). I made the ORBLOGS button using
Button Maker, I submitted it to Steal These Buttons, and it was approved!
Last American Night
So last night Megan took me to go see
"This American Life" live at the Keller Auditorium. Just in case you don't know what "This American Life" is, it is a radio show that plays on
OPB, but originates out of
WBEZ Chicago. It basically tells a few stories on a theme. It is a really great show, and was a really fun program to see live. The show we watched will be broadcast on OPB on Sunday June, 8th at 10 a.m. and Wednesday, June 11th at 8:00 p.m., so tune in and see if you can hear my bellowing laugh during the show.
Oh, and I think that Megan might be falling in love with
Ira Glass, and that is starting to worry me. I mean, how can I compete with
the best radio host in America?
Then again, Megan did buy me a flaiming squirrel patch for my messanger bag. For those who don't know the connection between squirrels on fire and This American Life,
listen to Act 2 of this episode, possibly the funniest thing you will ever hear.
I didn't get fooled!
Phew, it turns out that the iLoo story was not a hoax. Aparently, it was a real idea thought up by MSN Britian. When the Corporate MSN folks heard about this, they decided to squash it. They felt it "wasn't the best extension of our brand." I'll say . . .
Anyway, read the whole sordid
story at Wired.com.
Won't get fooled again!
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Someone once told me that you can't believe anything you read on the internet. They were right. I read a story at News.com that
detailed MSN Britian's plan to put internet terminals inside porta-pottys at concerts in England. I thought the idea inprobable, but given the source, the
official press release (cached), and the number of
news outlets that picked up the story, I decided to believe. Well,
Microsoft admitted that the story was a fake.
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the time-traveling stock trader hoax, and now this. Are internet hoaxes getting more elaborate, or are we becoming more guilable?
Also, it looks like MSNBC has erased the original story from their website. I know it is embaressing to be duped by this kind of story, but does the press have a responsibility to not delete these stories?
Book 'em Dano
So I read on
Alan's Blog about the new version of Blogger, but I also read about his troubles. So rather than converting one of my existing blogs to the beta version, I created a new blog. It's called
Noah's Dano Test. Dano is the codename for the beta version of the new Blogger.
