MPH, in his continuing descent into madness, has replaced his blog with a static page. That’s only a little old school. What’s really old school is that the static page is generated via a PHP script from his dot-plan file, which is conveniently written in Markdown.

And you can actually get the markdown version (if you’re on a unix box or the equivalent) by issuing the ‘finger’ command on his username mph at puddingbowl dot org. Truth.

c:/ $ finger mph@puddingbowl.org
[puddingbowl.org]
Login: mph            			Name: Michael Hall
Directory: /home/mph                	Shell: /bin/bash
On since Mon Jul 24 08:58 (PDT) on pts/4 from dsl001-133-198.pdx1.dsl.speakeasy.net
4 minutes 34 seconds idle
New mail received Tue Jul 18 05:30 2006 (PDT)
Unread since Mon Aug 29 13:25 2005 (PDT)
Plan:
### since you're just joining:

why have a blog when you can have a PAGE!? As it changes, new stuff'll be colored or something.  Old stuff will slide away, unarchived anywhere but the Overmind.

I think there should be a list made of bleeding heart hippies who don’t support our President and therefore hate America.

Here’s a start:

• William F. Buckley
• Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan

The Verdict: Oink – Los Angeles Times
As we consider the worst fast-food offering ever, let us begin with the artifact itself: KFC’s new Famous Bowls product consists of a plastic tub of mashed potatoes or rice, topped with yellow corn, fried chicken nuggets,

gravy and three varieties of grated cheese. All in one container, all to be consumed as a single homogenous mass, spork after spork of undifferentiated food matter.

CJR Daily: About Those Photos of Little Girls and Artillery Shells …

There have been a lot of people blogging about photographs of some little Israeli girls writing on artillery shells.  The real story (so this source says) has little to do with any of the conclusions people have drawn from the pictures, one way or the other.  Just wanted to link it in case anyone has seen it and not seen the real scoop.

I probably won’t be commenting too much on politics and news, because new bad news these days, on many fronts, is appearing numbingly fast. It seems every day the world falls apart a little more.

(I’m thinking of Israel vs Lebanon, Iraq, a rogue Executive Branch, that kinda stuff)