I looked back and discovered I’ve used the headline “No Foolin’” on April first three times before, so I didn’t want to use it again today. And what should pop into my brain but a Def Leppard song? Sheesh. Sometimes my brain disturbs me.
No real news out of yesterday’s day off. There are just times when one’s body says Enough!
and yesterday was one of those days for me. The timing wasn’t great, as I was trying to put in extra hours working this week. Nor did I head out last night to determine the impact of the smoking ban in Minneapolis. So really, I’m just typing along here saying that I don’t really have any news for you today.
- City Pages this week has The Smokers’s Guide to the Twin Cities. Turns out the American isn’t on the list [I’m told they got their exemption late on Wednesday, after the City Pages went to press], but the Half Time Rec and The Dubliner are. Meanwhile, our own guide to Smoker-Friendly Restaurants in the Twin Cities has languished and I haven’t finished rewriting the code to make it work. But I expect that even if I had the code done today, it would take a few weeks to get all the data updated. Yet another project to work on in my copious free time. [jim]
- Huh. I didn’t know there even was a Twin Cities Pinball Database. At first glance it looks fairly up to date too. [jim]
- It’s a new month, so you can see Tricks of the Trade for a while before they go over their bandwidth limits again. Handy stuff, perhaps. [metafilter]
- Here’s An interview with Bill James. Warren says, and I agree, that Bill James is rare in that he’s one of the few people in the 20th century to completely rethink an industry. Plus it’s a good interview, even if you don’t like baseball. [coyote blog]
- To those who thought that
Bush Lied
on WMD in Iraq, a study finds that the intelligence acencies’ Iraqi-arms link ‘dead wrong’. That pretty well matches what I thought at the time. The President was given bad information. But then again, if you’re convinced he lied, you’re probably convinced this panel was part of a cover-up, right? Warren has more in Meyer’s Law and WMD. Meyer’s law says:
That’s about what I figured. [coyote blog and strib]When the same set of facts can be explained equally well by
1. A massive conspiracy coordinated without a single leak between hundreds or even thousands of people
–OR–
2. Sustained stupidity and/or incompetence,
assume stupidity and incompetence. - Like buying gadgets? Woot! sells one toy every day. Their customer service sounds like it’s basically non-existant, but the things they sell are pretty cheap, so maybe it’s worth it. But today’s speakers are already sold out, which means nothing to see until Monday morning. [WVSR]
- What did you do for Easter? I bet it wasn’t Making Easter egg rockets and then launching them. [colby cosh]