Via BoingBoing, apparently female heads of state are now targets for the grabby hands of an inappropriately familiar American president.  You’d think that if Clinton managed to avoid inappropriate contact with female heads of state, Bush could.  You’d be wrong.

She looks like she didn’t appreciate his spontaneous gesture of affection!  Maybe she was afraid he was going to repeat his dad’s vomitory performance in Japan?

German story on it with video here.

I should probably say, for the record, that if the worst, stupidest thing Bush had done in his term-and-a-half so far was grabbing a German prime minister’s shoulders, it would be wonderful.

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I can do that on Apple bulletin boards, I suppose, but yelling on an Apple bulletin board is about like yelling at a wall of shiny white plastic. It does not respond. No one cares. Apple’s been busy blowing off people who have memorized pieces of its own human interface guidelines for half a decade now. It doesn’t care what someone who usually buys refurbed Macs thinks.Sometimes I think the only way Apple will lose the customers it does care about is if it starts packing bits of limburger and putrid hamburger into the fan vents of every machine it ships. And be ready for Gruber to defend that, too.

Mph flirts with a return to the Free side from the “Free enough” side on two levels: He’s talking about what he likes about Ubuntu — and he does it in a new blog running the Free WordPress instead of the nonfree Movable Type.

Times change.

We watch us a lot of Cartoon Network in these parts, and that means I occasionally watch Yu-Gi-Oh.

I can’t believe people wrote these shows.  I can’t believe they made these shows.  I can’t believe people (who don’t have kids who will watch anything whatsoever as long as it’s animated) watch them.

Listening to heroes talk about their wonderful decks of cards, and reading the rules at each other off the cards, and all the plot points turning on the invocation of obscure rules — could anything be more lame?  Seriously?

I mean, Pokemon’s similar in some ways but the protagonists aren’t whipping out decks of cards, they’re loosing monsters from a magic croquet ball.  And they never read rules at each other which say how many points this or that monster is worth.

Worst Anime EVER.

Link

During a joint news conference Saturday in St. Petersburg, Bush said he raised concerns about democracy in Russia during a frank discussion with the Russian leader.”I talked about my desire to promote institutional change in parts of the world, like Iraq where there’s a free press and free religion, and I told him that a lot of people in our country would hope that Russia would do the same,” Bush said.

To that, Putin replied, “We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly.”

Ian’s Shoelace Site

The world is so full of a number of things, and one of those things, too often taken for granted, is shoelaces.  Luckily there are some who are able to reach beyond shoelace mediocrity and superficiality and cover the subject in depth.  It sounds like I’m being sarcastic here but I’m not.