when an update is not an update Oh, hey! It's my blog.

I'm taking the TExES (a.k.a. the ExCET) tomorrow. Excelsior, y'all. I'm up to my butt in educator CamelCase. Plus the usual chemistry CamelCase.

Via the excellent moon_radio, "Guilty Pleasure" by Cobra Starship. (limited time)

it's funny because it's true
political_macro.

right on, my brother ABC News reports on "the human spell-checker".

You might have to watch an ad, but the ad might have a cute puppy, so you get that too, potentially.

And remember: "It's just really about going after the errors themselves."

hooray for government accountability! The State Department renewed Blackwater USA's contract in Iraq.

Man, it sure does suck to be Iraqi:

"Dude, you shot 17 people!"

"We agree that 17 people were shot by our private security contractors, who cannot be prosecuted in your courts."

"We investigated it. It was unprovoked!"

"The FBI is going to investigate it because they're awesomer than you. And while they're investigating, we see no reason not to renew their contract, even though we don't have to and could in fact cancel at any time."

And what the hell is this sentence: "It is unclear whether [Blackwater] could be prosecuted under U.S. law."? Unclear?