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Israeli Troops Search House-To-House in
Gaza Camp (Reuters)

Israeli Troops Search House-To-House in
Gaza Camp (Reuters) 05/19/2004 02:43 AM
Reuters - Israeli troops carried out house-to-house searches for militants and weapons smuggling tunnels in the Rafah refugee camp on Wednesday as Israel's heaviest raid into the Gaza Strip in years entered a second day.

"Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the
uproar over allegations that White House
officials purposely identified a covert
CIA agent appears largely political and
doesn't yet merit an investigation by
the House Select Committee on
Intelligence, which he..."

"Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the
uproar over allegations that White House
officials purposely identified a covert
CIA agent appears largely political and
doesn't yet merit an investigation by
the House Select Committee on
Intelligence, which he..." 08/12/2004 02:13 AM

To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press

To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press 03/14/2005 04:35 PM
Dan Weintraub, who covers politics at the Sacramento Bee, wants "an aggressive, curious and analytical press corps, based anywhere (including cyberspace), fact-checking the snot out of the White House and writing critically about the president's statements, proposals and actions."

How to Buy a House

How to Buy a House 04/13/2005 09:20 AM
Don't make common, but costly, mistakes.

I got the house!

I got the house! 01/28/2004 11:20 AM
[This is part of a series of posts on the home buying process I'm going thru. To see the full set, visit the house category archives.] I haven't posted on this topic for a few days, 'cause I've been very busy. So here's the slightly shorter version... Sunday This past Sunday, my realtor and I met to go look at places. The first place we saw was in Campbell. The townhouse was listed at about $465k which I quickly realized...

How Much House Can You Buy?

How Much House Can You Buy? 07/02/2004 07:59 AM
Try to buy less house than you can afford.

HOUSE OF WAX

HOUSE OF WAX 04/08/2005 05:05 AM
leapfrogs ahead of the curve .. The Paris Hilton Podcast .. House of Wax

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Len Is In The House

Len Is In The House 08/03/2004 12:59 PM
Drop whatever you’re doing and go check out Life Among The Mammals by the one and only Len Bullard, who has been quoted in this space a few times. The amount of material is still small enough that you can read the whole thing to get caught up, and you’ll probably enjoy doing that. (As I write the top two posts are political, if that’s not your flavor skip ’em to get to the other good stuff.)

I can see my house from here!

I can see my house from here! 12/04/2003 12:12 AM
The Brick Apple - New York City in LEGO®

House, MD

House, MD 04/14/2005 06:15 AM

The Idea: Go watch House MD now. Way too good to last. The last time I recommended a television series (Karen Sisco, and the recommendation was due to early-episode writing by creator Elmore Leonard), it was the kiss of death. I seem to have had this effect on the handful of good television series over the past decade: The Big Easy, Dave's World, Reasonable Doubts, Max Bickford and the best of them all, Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night. What distinguished all of these series was excellent writing: You didn't even have to watch -- you could enjoy just listening to the smart, quirky dialogue, and the rich, carefully woven story-lines. So I'm almost afraid to go to bat for the latest well-written drama (on the Faux network yet -- sheesh), House MD. The show features British theatrical actor (accent undetectable) Hugh Laurie as the eponymous Dr. Gregory House MD, brilliant but bitter medical specialist, whose team must solve the medical mysteries lesser minds have given up on. Some of the medical cases are intriguing, usually with wry twists, but the real magic in the program is the dialogue, which sparkles and hasn't an ounce of fat on it. The writing is mostly done (I think -- writing credits are hard to catch in Hollywood productions) by Sara Cooper and Lawrence Kaplow, who were last seen as the writers of Hack, the short-lived and claustrophobic (but also cleverly-scripted) drama that featured David Caruso as a disgraced cop working as a cabbie. I've seen quite a few well-written shows destroyed by studio and network hacks insisting on more 'human interest' (i.e. improbable 'cute' romances that are dragged out like soap opera story lines), more 'action' (i.e. simpler shorter dialogue and more implausible disasters with ample shouting and shooting), or more 'conflict' (i.e. black-hat stereotypes that conspire and do inconceivably mean things to impossibly good guys, also a soap opera staple). The Pretender actually took a soap opera actor and, thanks to good writing, made him engaging and heroic -- but the hacks dumbed down the show and refocused it on the conspiracy of 'the center' and the absurd Snidely Whiplash-level nastiness of the antagonists. The (anti-)hero was reduced to a comic book caricature and the program became unwatchable. Same thing happened to Max Bickford, which started brilliantly but was soon forced by the studio to introduce more romance and bigger roles for the young actors on the show (i.e. shed the older-demographic skew because advertisers know older viewers buy less, and less impulsively). Richard Dreyfuss could have been excused if he had murdered the producers, who reduced a show of great promise to pathetic drivel and may have wrecked Dreyfuss' career in the process. Maybe it's a good thing that some of the best shows never lasted long enough to be polluted and dragged down by the pathetic media-oligopoly moneygrubbers who run the studios and networks and care only for ratings points among their most unsophisticated viewers. The consequence is the flood of cheap 'reality' dreck that has filled the schedules and made shows like House stand out so remarkably. The attempt by the hacks to damage House is clearly evident (the hospital administrators are predictably corrupt and ludicrously manipulative and out to 'get' our hero -- they force him in the latest episode to choose between firing one of his brilliant interns or shilling for a new overpriced drug; and the way-too-pretty young people on the staff are being given more close-ups and featured in vapid, simple subplots) but what is remarkable is that the show seems to have found a way to accommodate this interference without losing its edge. A particularly fine episode, Fidelity, has a convoluted, stunning plot and a merciless, horrifyingly human ending. It would make a wonderful stage play. And House's spare and savage come-backs and asides are still original, lovingly crafted and totally believable. House is tailor-made to be the stereotypical rude and short-tempered medical specialist, yet Laurie and the writers refuse to allow him to be caricaturized -- with each episode he grows deeper and more engaging and complex. Catch it while you can. House is way too smart for its own good, especially on that network. As a real-life doctor said in his review of the show on imdb: "Somewhere there is a team of writers who actually know their craft, and an acting ensemble that knows how to pull it off. Now I can watch my TV one hour a week." I'm with you, doctor.

The Meaning of a House

The Meaning of a House 09/10/2004 12:18 AM
This has a value in our profession, and it doesn't have to do with scale at all. It has to do with the actual meaning of a house.

New-House Pitfalls

New-House Pitfalls 05/27/2004 12:23 PM
Don't assume that your newly constructed home will be hassle-free.

Cleaning House

Cleaning House 01/06/2005 05:35 PM
In a secret ballot Wednesday afternoon, the House Republican leadership ousted Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Christopher Smith, R-N.J., and replaced him with Rep. Steve Buyer of Indiana. At first glance, dumping Smith in favor of one of his colleagues might seem out of keeping for the Republicans, who normally avoid infighting. But Wednesday's vote wasn't so much a fight as a takedown.

The Wege House

The Wege House 02/01/2005 09:08 PM

For the Yo-Yo Ma types who find the insatiable and immediate urge to play a stringed instrument at the drop of a wig, all you must do at The Wege House is don rosin-powdered gloves and have at it on any of the house's integrated instruments. The House architecture becomes the resonating chamber of the instruments, with strings precisely lined, allowing you to be completely surrounded by the music.

We have chosen to explore in our time on Earth an idea: Could we increase the size of the instrument and walk inside? To walk inside the instrument and play the instrument is to feel the sound in your body, within your bones and within your mind.

You certainly couldn't increase the New Age Zen-meets-Honey I Shrunk The Kids philosophy. Pictures and videos give you some idea, but I can't imagine it adequately capturing the experience.

Symphonic House [Ektopa via NearNe arFuture]

Allah Is In The House:

Allah Is In The House: 12/14/2003 05:14 PM
Okay, deep breaths. Perhaps, perhaps he has become a shahid in a glorious martyrdom operation, yes? Let us go to the Jew Fox News site--OH NO. NO .. Allah's reaction .. Sorry, man .. Allah

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A pox on your house, Spammer

A pox on your house, Spammer 11/11/2003 10:18 PM
Spammers strike back? Well then call this return of the Webmaster Jedi. As a blogger and domain owner, I am sick of waking up to fifty new comments, all of which are spam for something of dubious legality. The fine folks at Kalsey are angry too. And they declared war. Lots of people stood up and took notice. What can you do to help stop this infestation? Blacklists and Bayesian filtering come to mind... (Via Smart Mobs)

Break the House

Break the House 01/02/2004 06:15 PM
Break the House game details

A hypocrite in the House?

A hypocrite in the House? 03/28/2005 09:58 AM
Tom DeLay says that withholding life support from Terri Schiavo is "murder." But DeLay "went along" in 1988 when life support was withheld from his own father.

Privacy Is in the House

Privacy Is in the House 02/11/2004 05:44 AM
The House is considering a bill that would require government agencies to explain how citizens' privacy might be affected by new regulations. After years of erosion, privacy may again be in fashion in D.C. By Ryan Singel.

Get Your Tax House in Order

Get Your Tax House in Order 05/14/2004 12:26 AM
Now that tax season has passed, it's time to do some financial spring cleaning.

The Mushroom House

The Mushroom House 12/09/2003 02:32 PM
The Mushroom House in Whistler, Canada, is the result of 22 years of work by artist/creator Zube. "The interior design is based on the anatomy of a tree. All aspects of the décor reflect this motif, from the womblike hues of the Jacuzzi room in the 'roots' to the vivid leaf greens on the walls in the 'canopy'." [Via Boing Boing.]

Happy House

Happy House 01/12/2004 03:02 AM
good geek girlfriends give good geeky presents.

"The Mushroom House"

"The Mushroom House" 12/10/2003 10:15 PM

Gun attack on house

Gun attack on house 01/23/2004 03:55 AM
Three masked men carry out a gun attack on a house outside Dungiven in County Londonderry.

Floating Pod House

Floating Pod House 07/27/2004 01:12 PM

It's just a design concept for now, but perhaps if architect Marcin Panpuch's transparent, spherical houseboats get a warm response at the Royal Institute of British Architects' Future House London exhibit, punting on the Thames will become a lifestyle choice. The idea is to reclaim much of the empty space along the Thames' shores and docks by placing these solar-powered, motile three-story units into the water, slurping up sunshine and heat by day and releasing it throughout by night. It's an attractive design, if dubiously seaworthy, but I wouldn't start pinching your pounds to save quite yet; I'm sure one of the thousands of cheap, modular geodesic homes of the future should be going on sale right about now, right?

Read - In the Pod House [ThisIsLondon via Mobile-Weblog]

Bringing down the House

Bringing down the House 03/31/2005 05:36 PM
Two PACs are running ads attacking Tom DeLay for his actions in the Terri Schiavo case and alleged ethics violations.

Cube House

Cube House 12/23/2003 03:19 PM

House of Ugoff

House of Ugoff 06/24/2004 01:00 PM
The Burger King "House of Ugoff" .. Ugoff's website and commercial .. this hideous campaign .. Whack the PM .. Ugoff

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Next Up: Colonial House

Next Up: Colonial House 01/07/2004 04:54 PM

Colonial House Will Debut in May

"PBS and Thirteen/WNET's next US-produced time capsule reality series will debut in May. Colonial House will air over four nights, May 10 to 14, from 8 to 10 p.m. The colonists are separated into four houses, two of which contain 'indentured servants,' and one of which is designated for three 'Freemen.' They lived as if it was 1628, facing 'the rigid class and gender roles, mandatory religious observance, and the puritanical civil laws of the era, particularly those pertaining to profanity....' " [reality blurred: the reality TV weblog]

I wish I could set my ReplayTV for it now!

The Blue House

The Blue House 04/14/2005 03:33 PM

Koreans are a rowdy lot. They built their presidential palace ABOVE the Imperial palace - looking down on it.

Is there a well run business in the
house?

Is there a well run business in the
house? 02/16/2004 03:55 PM
I was with my parents today in CT.  My father just bought a Sony HDTV and he wanted to buy an HDTV package from his local cable company:  Cablevision (a $7.3 b marketcap company that has 3 m subscribers).  Unfortunately, the information on the Website was disorganized, which made it difficult to understand the options available.  We did find a page  on the site that advertised a number to call for HDTV services.  We assumed, based on the language in the page that this number would provide us with a way to check on HDTV availability and allow us to order the HDTV cable box.  Very simple expectations.  We called the number.  Rather than routing us directly to a sales rep, we were put through two voicemail menu trees and finally were told that the wait for a rep was 9 min.Our conclusion:  let's hang-up and try Direct TV. 

It's amazing to contemplate a company that is worth so much but is so badly run.  It is very easy to provide prospective customers with a phone number that routes them directly to a knowledgeable sales rep.  Too bad these highly paid execs are so out of touch to understand that simple truth.

Should the FCC be Under White House?

Should the FCC be Under White House? 08/27/2004 04:06 PM
Randoph May at the Progress & Freedom Foundation says it should. The agency certainly isn't very accountable in its present form. This might help make it more accountable.

"Allah Is In The House"

"Allah Is In The House" 10/30/2003 11:28 AM

Allah Is In The House

Allah Is In The House 10/29/2003 10:29 PM
Allah has a new house .. changed houses .. Allahpundit .. Allah

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The Shifted DJ Is in the House

The Shifted DJ Is in the House 06/28/2004 10:08 AM

So I finally got a Shoutcast Server working with the WinAmp DSP plug-in on my home PC, and I'm able to stream it to Pocket Tunes on my Treo. How cool is that?!

Of course, now I have to find the time to create playlists for the various scenarious in which I envision myself using this. For example, the first one I want to create is a baseball-themed one for between innings at Brent's games. I plan to wow the other parents with this one! After that, maybe a library-themed one that I can play as people slowly congregate in the room where I am giving a presentation.

Oh, the possibilities!...

Out of Africa, a House Fit for a Kit Bag

Out of Africa, a House Fit for a Kit Bag 06/30/2004 08:59 PM
The Maison Tropicale, an early masterpiece of prefab architecture rescued from the Congo Republic, was revived in France last week.

Tinfoil Your House

Tinfoil Your House 01/04/2005 03:44 PM
Startup Markets Wireless-Security Paint A small startup in Silicon Valley has an anti-intrusion tool that sells for $69 a gallon—you supply the brush. Force Field Wireless makes three products that it says can dramatically reduce the leakage of wireless signals from a room or building. The company’s sales manager, Harold Wray, co-developed DefendAir Radio Shield latex paint, which contains copper filings and an aluminum compound. When spread evenly on a wall, the paint reflects signals…

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When Your House Burns Down

When Your House Burns Down 04/29/2004 07:50 AM
Keep those home fires from burning a hole in your heart and wallet.

"Colonial House"

"Colonial House" 05/25/2004 04:22 PM

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