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If I were to make a regular habit of this, I might call it link head cheese (Wasn’t he the captain on “Pigs In Space”?), in tribute to almeda.

Best correction ever: Via Atrios’s blog (but Atrios’s archives aren’t working correctly, so here’s a link to a Daypop search), I find that The New York Times screwed up last Thursday. Friday’s correction is either a case of them realizing that nothing they can do will fix it, or a middle finger extended at the Bush administration. Probably the former.

Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about diplomatic developments in the Iraq crisis misidentified the Bush administration official who said about the weapons inspectors in Iraq, "At some point it will become obvious that it's time for them to go." It was an administration official speaking on condition of anonymity, not Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser.

Jurgen online: Via Long walk, short pier, I find that the full text (and cover scans) of James Branch Cabell’s best and most famous book, Jurgen, is online:

"None the less," observes Jurgen, "it does not behoove God-fearing persons to speak with disrespect of the divinely appointed Prince of Darkness. To your further confusion, consider this monarch's industry! day and night you may detect him toiling at the task Heaven set him. That is a thing can be said of few communicants and of no monks. Think, too, of his fine artistry, as evidenced in all the perilous and lovely snares of this world, which it is your business to combat, and mine to lend money upon. Why, but for him we would both be vocationless! [...]

Disk drive cases made of legos: Brad DeLong attended a talk given by Google founder Larry Paige, and took notes:

Google has been profitable since the first quarter of 2001. Why did we make becoming profitable such a priority? It's good that we did, because we might well be gone if we hadn't. The real reason is that we became profitable in the first quarter of 2001 because Sergey Brin made it a priority. You see, Sergey would try to go out on dates. He would call up women. And to impress them he would say, 'I'm the president of a money-losing dot-com.' But in Palo Alto in 2000, a huge number of people were presidents of money-losing dot-coms. And so they would not call him back. And he thought, 'If only I were president of a money-making dot-com, things would be very different...'"

Mac Hall: I keep forgetting to add Mac Hall to my list of regularly-checked web comics. (Thanks to kuronekogirl for recommending it to me, all those months ago.) It’s intermittantly funny, above average for a web comic. I like the art a whole lot. Matt Boyd is making really good use of Photoshop to push it in directions that printed art just doesn’t go. Sometmes needlessly — I don’t think the blurred backgrounds always improve the strip — but check out these gorgeous nighttime trafic scenes.

Heat! We have heat again! The apartment’s still damn frigid, but it’ll warm up eventually.

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Did you get this week when you clicked on last week's archive link? Me too. It's just a mistyped URL; if you substitute the previous week's date into the URL for the listed week's, you'll get the right week's archive. I should tell Atrios about this, but if you go do as I said, then you can tell him! I'm so efficient at delegating responsibility! :)

Send her URLS, not jpegs.

So you did take pictures of the blizzard, right? Huh? Huh? Huh?

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Chris had problems w/ Atrios too.

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