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This may be old news (it was published on May 20th, 2002) but, David R. Henderson’s essay on how the drug war effects the war against terrorism is a must read for everybody. Conservatives tell truth about drug war.

Why do I say the Hoover Institution is a pack of conservatives? Because Eric Alterman says so.

A feature story by Jesse Walker in Reason Magazine’s July 2002 issue confirms something I’ve been worried about for a while: Doonesbury isn’t what it used to be.

Walker gives us examples detailing Trudeau’s mild conservitive shift, and his more unfortunate shift toward irrelevence. I’m too young to know the strip from its beginnings in the early 70s (or earlier), but we can all compare old and new cartoons online in the Doonsebury retrospective.

Walker hasn’t entirely given up on Trudeau, though. And I still get a chuckle now and then. In the meantime, Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks has displaced old Doonesbury on the political left of syndicated comic strips.

Who wouldn’t enjoy a frozen mud slide on a hot summer day? Typical recipes call for crushed ice and cream or ice cream. For some reason, we decided to try making them from ice cream, from scratch.

The MaisonBisson Frozen Mud Slide

This recipe requires an ice cream maker, we used the Deni Scoop Factory.

• 1.5 cups heavy cream
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup sugar
• .5 cups Bailey’s
• dash vanilla

Mix ingredients in bowl, then pour into ice cream maker’s freezer container.

Follow your ice cream maker’s directions about time to freeze. Our Deni Scoop Factory was done in about 30 minutes.

Spoon frozen ingredients into glass, add appropriate amounts of vodka and Kahlua and stir. Top with whipped cream and a cherry. Enjoy.

Please drink responsibly, thank you.

What we need is a van. A black van with red alloy wheels and a diamond bubble window.

Yeah. Get on the jazz, sucka.

One: I discovered Fictionwise.com, a source all types of fiction in eBook formats.

Two: Here’s the assignment that lead me to look for Fictionwise in the first place. Click for PDF.

[UPDATE] It’s funny how things circulate on the web. I’ve Googled myself enough to know how I show up in odd places, so I can understand how Derryl Murphy might have wondered how a review of one of his many stories appeared here. Any way, I got an email from him and he seems like an okay guy. At least we appear to have similar opinions/fears about copyright law (though I feel a little cheesy about using that story for trackback). Nonetheless, I guess I should should say that the review above was written for a class assignment for this guy.

My overwhelming interest in earth-tones and browns leads me to look for them and define them numerically. A lousy overview of color models, especially the HSV model. Originally written for one of my classes. Click here for PDF.

[UPDATE]: I’d like to point out a later story about color blindness and streetlights.

Hammernode dynamic DNS services couldn’t be better. Well, what could be better than a free, high quality service?

Officially I’m here to attend the Innovative Users’ Group conference, but there’s a lot more to do in Texas and I took a few extra days to do it.

• My brother lives just north of Austin, and just north of that is Waco. Being so close, I had to go visit.
• …and while there, I couldn’t help but look for the Branch Davidian compound.
• Houston is an interesting city, but two landmarks particularly interested me.
• Galveston isn’t far from Houston, and I had a heck of a time visiting Seawolf Park.